ACTIVE

RECREATION
(FITNESS)
 ARE YOU INTO? YES NO

Walking

Jogging

Hip-Hop Dancing

Playing Badminton

Playing volleyball

Swimming

Strength training

Aerobics exercise

Ballroom Dancing

Hiking

Yoga Exercises

Zumba
1. How do you feel about the different activities you are
engaged in?
2. What influences your choice of physical activity?
3. What challenges do you encounter in performing the
activities?
4. How these activities affect you and you lifestyle?
5. How do you benefit from engaging in these activities?
An effective warm-up exercise should:

 Increase blood flow to the muscles

 Increase muscle elasticity
 Gently raise heart rate
 Increase mental alertness; and
 Increase core body temperature
 Perform the warm-up exercise
a. Neck Stretch
b. Shoulder rolls
c. Side Arm Stretch
d. Triceps stretch
e. Hamstring Stretch
f. Quadriceps Stretch
g. Outer Thigh Stretch
h. Inner thigh Stretch
i. Calf Stretch
j. Knee bend
k. Chest stretch
l. Shoulder Hyperextension Stretch
m. Body Rotation
n. Arm Circles
o. Jog in Place
p. Jumping Jacks
There is no quick and easy way to take off excess
body fat and keep it off for good. Weight
management is accomplished by making a lifetime
commitment to be physically active and have proper
selection.
 Weight Loss Strategies:
 Make a commitment to change.
 Incorporate exercise into the program.
 Avoid automatic eating.
 Stay busy
 Try “Junior size” instead of “supersize.”
 Eat slowly and at the table only.
 Cut unnecessary items for your diet.
 Do not serve more than food you should eat.
 Think positive.
What do you think is the key to
weight management?
 Health Consequences of Excessive Body Weight

 High Blood Pressure

 Diabetes
 Congestive Heart Failure
 Obstructive sleep and respiratory problems
 Poor female reproductive health
 Psychological Disorders
 Shortened life expectancy
 Decrease Quality of life
 Gallbladder diseases
 Stroke
Eating Disorders
Are illnesses that involve crucial disturbances in
eating behaviors though to stem from some
environmental pressures. These disorders are
characterized by an intense fear of becoming fat.
■ Anorexia nervosa- an eating disorder
characterized by self-impose starvation to lose and
maintain a very low body weight due to a
false/distorted perception of being fat.

■ Bulimia Nervosa- an eating disorder characterized

by a pattern of binge eating and purging in an
attempt to lose weight/and or maintain low body
weight.
• Binge eating- an eating disorder characterized by
uncontrollable episodes of eating excessive amounts
of food within a relatively short period of time.
• Emotional eating- the consumption of large
quantities of food to suppress negative emotions.
 Definitions of Leisure, Play and Recreation

■ Leisure as time- is time free from obligations, work,

and tasks required for existing.

■ Leisure as activity- is a set of activities that people

engage in during free time- activities that are not work-
oriented or that do not involve life maintenance tasks
such as housecleaning or sleeping.
■ Play- is an imaginative, intrinsically motivated, non-
serious, freely chosen, and actively engaging.

■ Recreation- is an activity that people engage in during

their free time, that people enjoy, and that people
recognize as having socially redeeming values and
generates a general sense of well-being.
Benefits of Recreational Activities

■ Enhances personal renewal and personal

growth
■ Helps build self-esteem and confidence
■ Reduces tension and anxiety
■ Encourages spiritual growth
■ Increases mental relaxation
 The Good Dose of Exercise
■ Frequency refers to how often you involve yourself in
regular physical activity
■ Intensity refers to how hard you should you se or the
level of difficulty on your physical activity
■ Time refers to how long you should engage in a specific
physical activity.
■ Type refers to the kind of exercise or physical activity
you should engage in.
Perform a dance exercise applying the different
warm-up exercise being demonstrate. A group of 8
members with a minimum of 3 minutes and a
maximum of five.