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Health, Fitness and Wellness Assessment Task

Grade 8- What is Health? What is fitness? What are the components of Health Related Fitness?How can and why should you test your fitness? What types of fitness test have you used? How can we compare our results with other people? ?How did you do these tests?What are some of the problems of using the BMI as a standard test?

Health can mean multiple meanings. It can mean being healthy in a physical, mental, and social way. As you can probably tell, being physically healthy means to be ?not too fat not too skinny? ? Geva Marcus. It is also important to not suggest that deciding that they?re not healthy just by looking at their appearance. For example, they might look a bit overweight but in their lifestyle they might be healthy enough to live life. Being mentally healthy is important too. Mental health is associated to not be too stressed out and also have a balanced life such as to not stay too much in the house all the time and sometimes spend outside of the house running around and taking fresh air. Social healthiness is important to you too. Socialising and playing with your friends is also vital of being healthy. Not interacting with your friends on the weekends for example isn?t being socially healthy. Social and Mental healthiness also connects as well since going outside is socialising and being mentally healthy since you can relax and enjoy the outdoors while playing and talking to friends too.

Fitness is the condition of being physically fit and healthy. Being physically fit and healthy means working out often and thinks about what and how much they eat. You have to make sure that you work often because at some stage you can easily become unhealthy since you haven?t worked out for a while.

There are a few components of Health Related Fitness,

• Cardiovascular Endurance ? is the ability of your heart vessels to supply oxygen to your muscles while exercising

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• Muscular Strength ? is the ability to generate force against an object

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• Muscular Endurance ? is how long your muscle can keep on working while exercising

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• Flexibility -? How far your joints can move and the movement of your joints

• Body Compostion ? is the amount of muscle, bone density and fat you have

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You should test your fitness because it is really good to know where you are at among other people, maybe not just to your self but to think about if you are in a good position or that you have to think about becoming more healthy. There are a lot of ways to test your fitness but I think the most common way is to perhaps run for how ever long you want to and measure the times and then search the web for an average time for that distance and look at where you are just by comparing the times. You can of course improve your times by just running more often and motivate yourself too such as self-talking and other strategies are out there. I used this technique to test my fitness.

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We can compare results with other people by comparing results and you can also check the web to see the average of what you?ve done for that age category as I said above. But you shouldn?t think that you have to be the best since some people are more fit than you and you should know that. Some people might be good at muscular strength but they might be not that good at flexibility. You always have a something that your good at and something that you need to work on so just focus on improving on what you need to improve.

There are some problems using the online BMI test. The main problem pf the BMI test is that it basically measures your height and weight and it calculates where you are at among the people. The problem here is that muscle is nearly as heavy as fat but it will still say that you are overweight because of your muscles. So it is quite inaccurate and you should take in mind that it does record muscles as well for weight.

Overall, I learned a lot about fitness and how it is and will be important to us in the future.

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Smart Goals

1. To work on my muscular?strength. Perhaps to weigh weights more often and try to my best

2. To go out and run more often since I hardly do that

3. To also work on my?flexibility?by stretching daily

Source: http://blogs.yis.ac.jp/17macleodk/2012/10/12/health-fitness-and-wellness-assessment-task/

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