Year 11 Healthy Lifestyle Key Word list

 Health: Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely
the absence of disease or infirmity
 Mental Health: a person’s condition with regard to their psychological and emotional well-
being.
 Physical Health: A person’s condition with regard to their physical well-being.
 Social Health: refers to a person's ability to interact, and form appropriate relationships with
other individuals.
 Personal Health : Individual factors that determine health are factors identified within an
individual
 Community Health: Environmental factors that influence the health of population groups
and communities.
 Barrier: A circumstance or obstacle that keeps people or things apart or prevents
communication or progress.
 Influence: the capacity to have an effect on the character, development, or behaviour of
someone or something, or the effect itself.
 Good health Knowledge:
 Health related skills:
 Well-being: the state of being comfortable, healthy, or happy.
 Social determinants of health:
 Nutrition: the process of providing or obtaining the food necessary for health and growth.
 Nutritional intake: a set of guidelines for the daily intake of nutrients (as vitamins, protein,
and fats) and other food components (as fiber) that include recommended daily allowances.
 Nutritional choice: food choices that an individual makes
 Stress: a state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse or demanding
circumstances.
 Sustainability: avoidance of the depletion of natural resources in order to maintain an
ecological balance.
 Spiritual health: health related to an individuals personal beliefs and values
 Healthy habits: A healthy habit is any behaviour that benefits your physical, mental, and
emotional health. These habits improve your overall well-being and make you feel good.
Healthy habits are hard to develop and often require changing your mindset.
 Speed: The ability to perform a movement or cover a distance in a short period of time
 Skill-related Fitness Components: The ability to perform successfully during games and
sports. Skill related fitness has six components: agility, balance, coordination, power, speed,
and reaction time
 Resting Heart Rate: The number of heart beats during a period of inactivity
 Protein: Energy supplying nutrient that is found in food sources such as meat, fish, eggs and
milk. It is used primarily used for growth and repair
 Plyometric Training: Type of training designed to improve both power and strength.
Commonly takes the form of bounding and jumping
 Health-Related Fitness Factors: Physical fitness primarily associated with disease prevention
and functional health. Five factors contribute to health related fitness: cardiorespiratory
fitness, body composition, flexibility, muscular strength, and muscular endurance
 Flexibility: The ability of joints to move throughout their full range of motion
 Fat: Secondary source of energy within the body. Found in food sources
 Fine Motor Skills: The coordination of small muscles during in movements
 Coordination: The ability to combine movements of various body parts at the same time
 Circuit Training: a combination of aerobic exercise and resistance training stations to target
fat loss, muscle building, and heart-lung fitness
 Cardiovascular Endurance: the ability of the heart and lungs to supply oxygen through the
blood to fuel muscles at a moderate intensity for an extended period of time
 Balance: the ability to control or stabilize your equilibrium while moving or staying still
 Agility: the ability to change direction of movement quickly while staying in control of your
body
 Acceleration: the rate at which velocity (speed) changes
 Balance: the ability to control or stabilize your equilibrium while moving or staying still
 Body Composition: the percentage of body fat relative to muscle, bone, and other body
tissue
 Body Mass Index (BMI): A ratio of height to weight that correlates with body fat

 Carbohydrate: A biochemical compound composed of one or more simple sugars bonded

together that are used as a source of energy for the body
 Circuit Training: a combination of aerobic exercise and resistance training stations to target
fat loss, muscle building, and heart-lung fitness
 Fartlek Training: Continuous training with interval training
 Interval Training: Training that involves high intensity exercise alternated with periods of
low intensity/rest exercise
 Lactic Acid: A by-product of anaerobic respiration that can cause discomfort by increasing
the acidity in the body
 Max Heart Rate: Maximum times the heart can beat per minute 220-age
 Heart Rate Zones: a range that defines the upper and lower limits of training intensities
 Muscular Strength: The maximal force that you can exert when you contract your muscles
 Sedentary Behaviour: Activities that do not increase energy expenditure substantially above
the resting level
 Stability: This involves the equilibrium or balance of the bod