Chapter 1: Textbook On Exercise

Vocabulary flashcards covering key concepts from Chapter 1 notes on exercise as medicine and mental health concepts.

Exercise is medicine

The concept that regular physical activity has therapeutic health benefits and is a milestone in medicine; exercise is recognized for its positive impact on health and can aid patients and physician practice.

Galen

Ancient Greek physician who wrote a comprehensive treatise on exercise as medicine and discussed how both external factors and internal motivation influence health.

External factors

Determinants of health outside the body, such as environment and social conditions.

Internal factors

Personal motivation, mindset, and internal states that influence health.

Health

A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease.

Health continuum

A view of health as a spectrum from illness to optimal health, rather than a simple present/absent of disease.

Optimal mental health

Mental health at the high end of the continuum, representing an ideal level of functioning.

Galvani

Italian scientist who proposed a theory about how muscles contract via electrical signals (animal electricity).

Cross-bridges

Molecular mechanism of muscle contraction involving actin-myosin cross-bridge cycling.