Online Health and Fitness III Course
Learn to Evaluate Fitness, then Manage it Better A human health risk factor translates as something that increases a person’s chance for developing a disease. Disease can also be looked at dis-ease or stress. Stress occurs as a result of changes in your daily routine. It causes chemical changes in the brain and can have a direct affect on your health.
Learn to Evaluate Fitness, then Manage it Better
A human health risk factor translates as something that increases a person’s chance for developing a disease. Disease can also be looked at dis-ease or stress. Stress occurs as a result of changes in your daily routine. It causes chemical changes in the brain and can have a direct affect on your health.
Consider when you experience times of great happiness in your life. You may feel energetic, active yet calm. The chances are you are producing high levels of the hormones Serotonin and Melatonin. Melatonin acts as an anti-oxidant, mopping up harmful chemicals, also known as free radicals, which can be found in our blood; and it protects essential fatty-acids which make up parts of cells of the brain and nervous system, for example. Melatonin is also involved in the production of cells of the immune system, enabling you to fight infection as soon as you are at risk. So clearly if you feel good, your body produces hormones which lead to physical health and well-being.
If you have low levels of serotonin (serotonin production is lowered as insulin levels rise – often as result of high levels of carbohydrate intake – this can be linked back to healthy nutritional balance) you may suffer from feeling depressed, irritable and even experience periods of insomnia.
People who are usually inactive can improve their health and well-being by becoming even moderately active on a regular basis. Also, physical activity need not be strenuous to achieve health benefits. It is important to also remember that greater health benefits can be achieved by increasing the amount (duration, frequency, or intensity) of physical activity.
Regular physical activity that is performed on most days of the week reduces the risk of developing or dying from some of the leading causes of illness and death.
There are 7 lessons in this course:
- Health Risk factors
- Components of health
- Wellness and quality of life
- Health risk factors
- Risk associated with a dedentary lifestyle
- Hazardous substances
- Alcohol
- Smoking
- Cancer health risks
- The Health Care System
- Defining health care systems
- Health care in Australia, USA, Europe, etc
- The future of health care
- Complimentary therapies
- Acupuncture
- Osteopathy
- Homeopathy
- Chiropractic
- Physiotherapy
- Shiatsu
- Reflexology
- Massage
- Microwave treatments
- Traditional chinese medicine
- Psychological therapies
- Relaxation therapies
- Social Factors
- Health hazards in modern society
- Socioeconomic status and health
- Social factors
- General adaptation syndrome (GAS)
- Managing Health and Fitness
- Health and fitness management
- Programs
- Taking responsibility for your own health
- Consuming a nutritionally balanced diet
- Drinking pure water
- Exercise, relaxation, mental attitude, etc
- Trends, products and services
- Reasons people do not maintain good health
- Fitness Test Comparisons
- Planes of the body
- Directions of the body
- Joints
- Muscular system
- Movement terms
- Fitness testing
- Before testing
- Types of testing
- Guidelines for testing
- Screening people
- Analysis of Fitness Tests
- Results and analysis
- Variables
- Measurement methods
- Data presentation
- Analysis of Sports Skills
- Fitness and sporting skills
- Assessing physical skillTechniques for observing and analyzing
- Evaluation
- Characteristics of an effective coach or trainer
- Coaching styles
Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school's tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.
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