Lifetime Fitness

Constant & deliberate effort to stay healthy & achieve highest well-being

Physical, Emotional, Social, Occupational, Mental, Environmental, Spiritual

Increase in job productivity, lowers medical costs, lowers depression

Cardiovascular disease (36%), Others (31.4%), Cancer (22.9%), CLRD (5.2%), Accidents (4.5%)

Tobacco, Poor diet/ inactivity, Alchohol, Microbial Agents

Most accidents stem from poor judgment and confused mental states, which occur when people are upset, are not paying attention to the task at hand, or are abusing alcohol or other drugs

Fitness programs that are prescribed to improve the individual's overall health

Fitness components important for success in skillful activities and athletic events; encompasses agility, balance, coordination, power, reaction time, and speed

Quality & Quantity of healthy lives/ United States Health Care System (#9)

Most of the behaviors we adopt are a product of our encironment - the forces of social influences we encounter and the thought processes we go through. Includes families, friends, peers, homes, schools, work places, television, radio, and movies, as well as our communities, country, and culture in general.

People who believe that they have control over events in their lives

People who believe that what happens to them is a result of chance or the environment and is unrelated to their behavior

The belief in one's own ability to perform a given task

The first step is to recognize that you indeed have a problem. The five general categories of behaviors addressed in the proccess of willful change are: (1) stopping a negative behavior, (2) preventing relapse of a negative behavior, (3) developing a positive behavior, (4) strengthening a positive behavior, (5) maintaining a positive behavior

Behavioral modification model proposing that change is accomplished through a series of progressive stages in keeping with a person's readiness to change