Physical Recreation

- Activity wherein people tend to exert efforts and bodily functions in performing the action
during free time

Examples:
● Playing volleyball
● Basketball
● Golf
● Badminton
● Running
● Dancing
● Surfing
● Cycling
● Swimming
● Yoga

Objectives of Physical Recreation:

● To relax and unwind
● To socialize and meet new people
● To enhance creativeness
● To have self-fulfillment
● To improve health and fitness

Benefits of Physical Recreation:

● Improves fitness
● Promotes health education and healthy lifestyle habits
● Experience a sense of achievement
● Interact socially, either in a team or meeting people with the same interest.
● Enhance self-discipline, perseverance and self-motivation

Mental Recreation
- Activity wherein the kid is doing the functions with less body movement

Examples:
● Playing mobile/computer games
● Reading books
● Listening to music
● Watching a live performance
● Playing an instrument
● Singing
● Playing board games
● Meditating
Objectives of Mental Recreation:
● To nourish and exercise the mind
● To stimulate and improve intellectual abilities
● To manage stress and provide sense of balance and self-esteem, which can directly
reduce anxiety and depression
● To socialize

Benefits of Mental Recreation:

● Mood booster, decreasing symptoms of both depression and anxiety
● Increase self-esteem and self-confidence
● Better sleep and improves appetite
● Decrease stress
● Brain booster

Equitable and Inclusive access of Physical and Mental Recreational Activities:

(1) Activity-friendly routes to everyday destinations
(2) Access to places for physical-mental activity
(3) School and youth programs
(4) Community-wide campaigns
- events and multi-channel messaging
(5) Social supports
- area for activity that can do interacting with other individuals
(6) Individual supports
- example, meditation
(7) Prompts to encourage physical-mental activity
- motivational sign or signals

OUTCOME
To have safe and convenient opportunities for being physically and mentally active so you were
able to be physically and mentally healthy.
Healthy body + Healthy mind = Happy human!

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Indoor Recreational Activities

- close spaces
- limited capacity
- environment (facilities)
- less exposure to hazard
- convenient

Examples of Indoor Recreational Activities:

● Watching
 ● Fitness Dance Activities
● Volleyball
● Basketball
● Badminton

Outdoor Recreational Activities

- open spaces
- extensive
- environment (contact with nature)
- high-risk in danger
- inconvenient

Examples of Outdoor Recreational Activities:

● Camping
● Snorkeling
● Hiking
● Fishing
● Picnic
● Surfing
● Stargazing
● Sky diving
● Parasailing

Skills to be developed if engage in both indoor and outdoor recreational activities:

(1) Communication
- give and receive ideas, listening, speaking, empathizing
(2) Collaboration
- understanding of different perspectives. Requires cooperative mutual respect
(3) Leadership
- influencing and motivating others to act in achieving a goal
(4) Troubleshooting
- there is a specific problem then evaluate and decide the best solution
(5) Strategic thinking
- use of critical thinking
- addressing future problems
- di pa nangyayari
- plan a, b, c, etc

Camping Experience

Camping
 - outdoor activity
- close to nature
- individuals take up temporary residence close to nature
- gives us opportunity great bonding experiences with friends and family

Types of Camping
(1) Tent Camping
- inside the backyard
(2) Survivalist Camping
- you should be self sufficient
- most extreme
Types of Survival Camping:
- Base camp survival camping
- Walk out survival camping
(3) Backpacking or Hiking
- more on walking
- extreme type of camping
(4) Adventure Camping
(5) Re-enactment Camping

Associated Camping Meaning

- interpretation
- subjective (meaning may vary)
- symbolic

Camping Experiences
- emergent qualities of camping participation (qualities you have in participating with the
said activity)

Associated Meaning
(1) Restoration
- E2R (Escape, Rest, Recovery)
(2) Special places
- Family tradition/memories
(3) Family functioning
- Relationship/interaction with family members
(4) Experiencing Nature
- Aesthetic beauty
(5) Self-identity
- Self conception
(6) Social Interaction
- Relationship with friends/other people (participants)
(7) Children's Learning
 - Develop new skills/knowledge
(8) Novelty
- New, unique and unfamiliar

Elements of Camping Experience:

(1) Nature
- Activities and campground settings
(2) Social Interaction
- "who were they with" was important than what were they doing
(3) Comfort/Convenience
- Equipment and tools

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Sports Tourism
- Travel experience individual who either observes as a Spectator or actively participates
in a sporting event generally involving commercial and non-commercial activities of a
competitive nature.

Classifications of Sports Tourism:

(1) Hard Sports Tourism
- Active or passive participation in a competitive sporting event
- For recognition
- NCAA, FIBA, SEA Games, Olympics, World Cup, UAAP

(2) Soft Sports Tourism

- Active recreational participation in a sporting or leisure interests
- For enjoyment or relaxation
- Hiking, Golf, Running, Skiing

Types of Sports Tourism:

(1) Sports Event Tourism
- Tourism that centers around a sporting event
- Olympics or World Cup, District meet, Division meet, city meet, regional meet,
national meet or palarong pambansa

(2) Nostalgia Sports Tourism

- Tourism involves traveling to famous sport-related tourist attractions
- because historic events happened in that place
- people does not need to be actively involved or participate
- visiting because they want to learn or reminisce
 (3) Active Sports Tourism
- Tourism is when a person travels to actively participate in their chosen sport or
travel for other reasons, but taking part in sport is an integral part of their tourism
experience
Classifications :
- Amateur Sports Tourist (taking hobby to next level, willing to learn)
- Hobbyist Sports Tourist (engaged in sports during leisure)
- Professional Sports Tourist (paid)

(4) Passive Sports Tourism

- Tourism that focused more on a person who is not actively participating in the
sport or tourists is just watching sport being played

Benefits of Sports Tourism:

(1) Escalate number of tourists
(2) Economic growth, increase production of goods or services, improve the life of
individuals by getting jobs from it
(3) It helps to reveal the hidden image of place
(4) Induce to visit again, high yield who has a lot of money in traveling
(5) Unites a community

Other Classifications of Recreation:

(1) Arts and Crafts
- Activities permit an individual to express creativity or emotions involving making
things with one's own hands during free time.

(2) Technology-based
- Activities that utilize computers, smartphones, video games, and electronics for
therapeutic benefits.

(3) Sports and Fitness

- Activities where the primary purpose of the activity is participation, with the
related goals of improved physical fitness, fun, and social involvement often
prominent.