...Nutrition and Fitness Veronica L. Powell University of Phoenix SCI/100 Terry Gatchell April 20, 2010 Nutrition and Fitness In July 1996 I was at Fort Jackson, South Carolina entering Basic Training for the United States Army. The training was rigorous to say the least. Every morning we were up at 0500 (military time) to do physical training (PT), which involved running two or three miles, doing sit-ups, push-ups, and side straddle hops (jumping jacks). The Army gave three basic meals a day: breakfast, lunch, dinner. Although we were allowed a variety of meats, starches, and vegetables to choose from, these meals provided the daily nutritional value recommended for the human body and served using the correct portion size. Prior to going to the military I personally had no idea about nutrition and fitness and how it was important to the human body. Upon examining nutrition and fitness, the focus of this paper will be my current fitness and nutritional habits, health risks associated with obesity, identify and describe three new fitness habits, identify and describe three new nutritional habits, find how new habits promote healthy weight, and how new habits benefit my health. Current Nutritional and Fitness Habits During the past couple of years my nutritional and fitness habits have changed dramatically. Before I found that I was pregnant with a set of twins, the focus was to lose weight. The nutritionist had mapped out a 1200 calorie...
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...being the greatest fighting force in the world. It has upheld this status by maintaining the physical fitness and appearance of its soldiers. Every soldier is individually responsible for his or her overall fitness and body fat percentage. In addition to this, every unit appoints a Weight Control Non-commissioned Officer (NCO) to ensure that established weight and body fat standards are adhered to and followed. It is the sole responsibility of the Weight Control NCO to identify soldiers not meeting the standards and develop a program in order to assists those soldiers in meeting the standards. If a unit’s Weight Control NCO successfully develops and implements an effective program, the unit will have a high percentage of physically fit soldiers, who can be mission ready at all times. Background Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment, currently has 25 soldiers, who are overweight and do not meet the body fat standards. In light of this problem, First Sergeant (1SG) Jeffery Clark quickly appoints Staff Sergeant (SSG) David Upton as the company’s new Weight Control NCO and charges SSG Upton with the task of developing a program to solve the overweight problem in the company. To accomplish his task, SSG Upton will have to develop a program that incorporates periodic weigh-ins, body fat percentage tests (also known as tape tests), extra physical fitness training, counseling, and nutrition advice for the 25 overweight soldiers. Key Problems When he begins...
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...Nutrition and Fitness By Yvette Hampton University of Phoenix Online SCI/100 April 21, 2012 Laura Trail Nutrition and Fitness Nutrition and fitness are very important in a person’s life. As one will notice that the government of each state are trying to incorporat healther programs to help kids and the adults become healthier in their life styles. It is so hard for people to eat right and be motivated to exercise because there either is not enough time in the day or the people need foods that are fast. Eatting fast food can ultimately cause him or her to become more obese and be very expensive. With in this paper one will address the current fitness and nutritional habbits that I have aquired and one will address some of the health risk associated with obesity. Furthermore, one will identify and describe three new fitness habits that can reasonably be incorporated into my already present lifestyle. In addition, one will find out how these new habits could improve my health. Next, one will identify the there new nutritional habits that I can incorporate into my lifestyle while address the new habits to improve my health. Furthermore, I will discuss how each new promote healthy-weight management and benefit my health in general. Fitness and nutritional habits. To be perfectly honest my fitness level is simi poor. I find that I only exercise once or twice a week if not that. It usually not more than 15 minutes at a time when I do find...
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...Nutrition and Fitness Paper To remain healthy it is imperative that I consume a well balanced diet, and incorporate physical activity into my current lifestyle. Through assessing my current level of fitness and nutritional status, I identified new habits that could assist me in becoming healthier. By integrating these new habits into my current lifestyle, I will be able to maintain a healthy body weight, and furthermore improve my general health. Obesity is a leading health concern in the United States, placing individuals at risk to other serious diseases. Discussing some of these associated risks emphasizes the importance of personal nutrition and fitness. Personal Fitness and Nutritional Habits I believe I am an active individual and eat healthy most of the time but recognize that there is always room for improvement. My lifestyle both personal and professional is hectic not leaving me much free personal time. Therefore, it is imperative that I develop new habits to improve my current fitness level and nutritional status. I try to work out a couple of times a week at a local gym but find that I often skip scheduled sessions because of other commitments. Concerning nutritional habits, I am guilty of missing breakfast and lunch resulting in me consuming junk foods until dinner in the evening. My diet at this time is lacking the recommended amounts of dietary fiber, and I need to modify my intake of dietary fat. Health Risks Associated with Obesity According to Lazarou...
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...Nutrition and Fitness Christhanis J. Stallworth University of Phoenix Paradigms of Health SCI/100 Heather Mayer, MPH, CHES September 23, 2013 Nutrition and Fitness Nutrition and fitness are important to living a healthy, well-balanced life. Healthy fitness and nutritional habits improve health by promoting healthy body weight, reducing risk for chronic diseases, and foster optimal wellness. Evaluation of my current fitness and nutritional habits helped me to identify areas for improvement to my physical health. I will choose three healthy fitness and nutritional habits that I can incorporate into my lifestyle. My eating habits can be described as meal skipping, lacking fruits and vegetables, and nutrient and vitamin deficit. In addition to this, my water intake is almost nonexistent. My current fitness routine is minimal. I do not have a regular exercise plan. I drive to most places I go to. The only physical activity I get occurs when I’m doing household chores and light gardening. I go dancing with a group of friends once a week. This course has empowered me to “take charge” of my health. Using resources available to me to collaborate with, educate, and support me, I will become an active participant in my health. Lifestyles changes can lead to long-term changes that encourage better health and weight loss. “Lifestyle changes in diet and levels of physical activity improve the health of entire communities” (Riemer, 2009, p. 1). I must set goals...
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...Fitness and Nutrition Paper SCI/100 Fitness and Nutrition Paper Fitness and nutritional habits should be more regulated in the United States. American’s are becoming less healthy each year causing more obesity across the country. People are not as active, making poor eating choices, staying indoors more often and always on the run resulting in an unhealthy and less active society. Simply by changing our daily habits by encompassing healthy meal plans and exercise we can change this ongoing issue making for a longer healthier life for generations to come. As for my current fitness and nutritional habits, they have suffered in the past six to nine months. My health and wellness has been a roller coaster for many years. I have been eating on the go, never working-out and essentially doing whatever was quick, easy, and convenient. I have had some personal life changes which have made all this change in the past month or so. I have known I’ve had high blood pressure for over 20 years as it is hereditary in my family. Most recently I have had spells where I would almost pass out, dizzy and become very light headed. After visiting the Doctor he recommended performing a stress test and EKG which showed at some point I had had a mini-stroke. I feel this was a wakeup call to get my life back on track and to stay on track for the duration of my life. My wife and I have begun to plan out my weekly meals with the consultation of a certified trainer and we have been exercising...
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...phUniversity of Phoenix Material Physical Fitness and Nutrition Worksheet To obtain optimal health, it is critical to be physically fit and eat a healthy and balanced diet. Becoming knowledgeable about what it means to be physically fit and learning how to evaluate the nutritional value of what you eat may greatly increase your ability to improve your health and wellness. In this three-part worksheet, you identify the five components of health-related fitness, critique a recipe for nutritional value, and respond to two short answer questions about nutrition. Completing this assignment is a step towards gaining the knowledge needed to better manage your physical fitness and nutrition. Part 1: Five Components of Health Related Fitness Table Complete the table below. The first row has been filled in as an example. Components of Physical Fitness | Description | How to Incorporate in Your Life | Benefit(s) | Cardiorespiratory Fitness | Being able to exercise at a moderate to high intensity for a long period of time | Walk 2 miles at a brisk pace every day. | Reduced the risk of heart disease, hypertension, and high cholesterol. | Muscular Strength | Maximum force able to be exerted by a single contraction of a muscle or muscle group | Lift weights for 30 mins 5 times a week | Increase in energy levels, physical strength, enhanced posture, reduce risk of diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease. | Muscular Endurance | Ability to perform high intensity muscle...
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...University of Phoenix Material Physical Fitness and Nutrition Worksheet To obtain optimal health it is critical to be physically fit and eat a healthy and balanced diet. Becoming knowledgeable about what it means to be physically fit and learning how to evaluate the nutritional value of what you eat may greatly increase your ability to improve your health and wellness. In this 3part worksheet, you identify the five components of health-related fitness, critique a recipe for nutritional value, and respond to two short answer questions about nutrition. Completing this assignment is a step towards gaining the knowledge needed to better manage your physical fitness and nutrition. Part 1: Five Components of Health Related Fitness Table Complete the table below. The first row has been filled in as an example. |Components of Physical Fitness |Description |How to Incorporate in Your |Benefit(s) | | | |Life | | |Cardiorespiratory Fitness |Being able to exercise at a |Walk 2 miles at a brisk |Reduced the risk of heart | | |moderate to high intensity for a|pace every day. |disease, hypertension, and high | | |long period of time | |cholesterol. ...
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...Associate Level Material Physical Fitness and Nutrition Worksheet In order to obtain optimal health, it is critical to be physically fit and eat a healthy and balanced diet. Becoming knowledgeable about what it means to be physically fit and learning how to evaluate the nutritional value of what you eat may greatly increase your ability to improve your health and wellness. In this three-part worksheet, you identify the five components of health related fitness, critique a recipe for nutritional value, and respond to two short answer questions about nutrition. Completing this assignment is a step towards gaining the knowledge needed to better manage your physical fitness and nutrition. Part 1: Five Components of Health Related Fitness Table Complete the table below. The first row has been filled in for you as an example. Components of Physical Fitness Description How to Incorporate in Your Life Benefit(s) Cardiorespiratory Fitness Being able to exercise at a moderate to high intensity for a long period of time Walk 2 miles at a brisk pace every day. Reduced the risk of heart disease, hypertension, and high cholesterol. Muscular Strength The maximum amount of force that a muscle can exert against some form of resistance in a single effort. Lift weights at least 3x a week starting with a low weight and slow pace. Increase bone density, reduce injuries, improved quality of life, decreases stress on joints thus relieving pain Muscular Endurance ...
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...Physical Fitness and Nutrition Worksheet Week Two Danielle Church SCI/163 October 2, 2013 Professor Sean Gary Physical Fitness and Nutrition Worksheet Week Two Part 1: Five Components of Health Related Fitness Table Components of Physical Fitness | Description | How to Incorporate in Your Life | Benefit(s) | Cardio respiratory Fitness | Being able to exercise at a moderate to high intensity for a long period of time. | Walk two miles at a brisk pace every day. | Reduced the risk of heart disease, hypertension, and high cholesterol. | Muscular Strength | Maximum force able to exert by single contraction of a muscle or muscle group. | Start out with crunches, lunges, and squats. | The ability to carry out tasks easier like yard work. | Muscular Endurance | Ability to perform high-intensity muscle contractions repeatedly without fatiguing. | Doing push-ups to build up muscular endurance. | Increased metabolism, Reduced fatigue, fewer injuries, and fewer back problems. | Flexibility | Ability to move joints freely through their full range of motion. | Start with stretching or yoga to help with flexibility. | Being able to keep joints flexible and ability to reach or move. | Body Composition | The amount and relative proportions and distribution of fat mass and fat-free mass in the body. | By exercising, correctly eating, and managing time. | Living longer and living a healthy life. | Part 2: Critique a Meal 1. What is...
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...My company Change Your Life Fitness is a non-typical gym. Our goal at Change Your Life Fitness is to put fun back into fitness. Change Your Life Fitness has been formed to meet a specific need in an ever increasing competitive market. How is Change Your Life Fitness different? We offer a plethora of services, but you only pay a small fee for the services that you want to take advantage of. Our fitness center has no sign up fee(s) and only a ten dollar a month membership fee, which can be cancelled at any time. We offer nutritional assistance for the people that want to lose weight, we offer professional trainers for people that wish to increase muscle mass, we offer yogi for people that want to learn proper stretching and relaxation techniques, we offer different types of Jazzercise as well as Zumba. We offer child care services for single and working parents. Regardless of your fitness level you can find something at Change Your Life Fitness that will appeal to you. Our mission statement at Change Your Life Fitness is- “Change Your Life Fitness- We will help you achieve results that will change your life”. I want to make our fitness center someplace that has something for everyone. Fitness is such an important part in all of our lives, and I want Change Your Life Fitness to be part of that. I am aware that a mere ten dollar a month fee is not enough to get rich with. I plan on selling nutritional supplements, sports drinks, snacks as well as calorie correct prepared meals...
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...Associate Level Material Physical Fitness and Nutrition Worksheet In order to obtain optimal health, it is critical to be physically fit and eat a healthy and balanced diet. Becoming knowledgeable about what it means to be physically fit and learning how to evaluate the nutritional value of what you eat may greatly increase your ability to improve your health and wellness. In this three-part worksheet, you identify the five components of health related fitness, critique a recipe for nutritional value, and respond to two short answer questions about nutrition. Completing this assignment is a step towards gaining the knowledge needed to better manage your physical fitness and nutrition. Part 1: Five Components of Health Related Fitness Table Complete the table below. The first row has been filled in for you as an example. Components of Physical Fitness Description How to Incorporate in Your Life Benefit(s) Cardiorespiratory Fitness Being able to exercise at a moderate to high intensity for a long period of time Walk 2 miles at a brisk pace every day. Reduced the risk of heart disease, hypertension, and high cholesterol. Muscular Strength Maximum force able to be exerted by a single contraction by a muscle or muscle group 3 days per week high intensity weight training with maximum resistance Sufficient resistance to enhance strength Muscular Endurance Ability to perform high-intensity muscle contractions repeatedly without fatiguing 8 – 10 different exercises...
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...BACKGROUND AND OVERVIEW Bally Total Fitness was created in 1996 with Lee Hillman as its first CEO. Bally traces its existence to the Health and Tennis Corporation, run by Dave Wildman. Wildman had begun to purchase ailing gyms and aggressively expanded and acquired several other brands as well. In the 1990s, as part of a diversification move, Bally Manufacturing, a gambling equipment company, decided to purchase Wildman’s collection of gyms and other brands. This diversification of brands created what was known as Bally Entertainment. Bally Total Fitness was then created in 1996 as the health club portion of Bally Entertainment. Lee Hillman started the company off in an unusual path, Mr. Hillman used a retrenchment strategy by selling off outlets, rationalizing Bally’s brand portfolio, and closing several clubs, which then returned the business to profitability. During Hillman’s course of leadership, Bally developed a very broad range of products and services, which increased revenues out of the company’s existing membership base and added profit to the bottom line. The company faced a triggering event when Bally’s CEO Lee Hillman stepped down suddenly in December of 2002. Bally’s chief operation officer at the time, Paul Toback, replaced Mr. Hillman and moved to the top of the company. Toback’s started as CEO explaining that he expected changes to the company to be “more evolutionary than revolutionary”. Under Hillman’s lead, Bally was operating essentially as two different...
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...in Gyms.................................................................2 5. The Nutritional Supplements..........................................................................8 6. The Gym Trend..................................................................................................13 7. The Fitness Trainers........................................................................................15 7.1 Gym Index..................................................................................................................16 8. Interesting information gathered from the survey...............................19 9. Estimates of Sampling Errors.......................................................................19 10. References........................................................................................................20 Exhibits....................................................................................................................21 Gym Survey Report - Bangalore 2010 ii Appendix Appendix 1: Institutes In India Providing Fitness Certifications........................1 Appendix 2: Fitness Equipment Manufacturers in India.....................................10 Appendix 3: Major Fitness Equipments Brands In India (Imported)............14 Appendix 4: Nutritional Supplement Manufacturers in India...........................16 Appendix 5: International Nutritional...
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...Business-Lifestyle Fitness University of Phoenix-BUS/475 May 30, 2011 Susan Horvat Conceptualizing a Business-Lifestyle Fitness Throughout the history of human life, life expectancy averages have dramatically increased as we become more educated and aware of how to live longer. In the early 20th century, life expectancy has increased from 47.3 years of age to nearly 77 years of age in 2009 (Polan & Taylor, 2007). As we look at today’s awareness on health, most people are aware of early childhood vaccinations, government spending and debate on health care reform, and the growing debate on childhood obesity. The more we become concerned with the quality of life and prevention of many health diseases, life expectancy will continue to gradually increase. One popular approach to increasing awareness about healthy lifestyles includes the focus on maintaining a healthy eating lifestyle and living actively to ensure the human body is strong in every sense. More companies and businesses have started offering healthy alternatives to their product lines to remain competitive with the growing health awareness trends of most consumers. However, one aspect of healthy living which is just as important as healthy eating or awareness is the personal one-on-one guidance when concerning making the right food choices and fitness activities that individuals need. This industry has not been widely accepted or positively viewed as affordable and necessary. Lifestyle Fitness-Who We Are...
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