PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND

ACTIVE RECREATION
RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY
Passive – recreational activities
that you do without exerting
much effort.
Active -recreational activities
that requires you to use so
much effort.
Active recreational activities not
just an opportunity for you to
enjoy life but an avenue to enhance
your fitness.
Children and adolescents should
do one hour(60 minutes) or more
physical activity everyday.
 COMMON INJURIES INVOLVED IN
RECREATION
 Sprains
 Strains
 Knee Injuries
 Fractures
 Dislocations
SYMPTOMS OF MENTIONED INJURIES
•pain
•swelling
•bruising
•difficult and painful movement deformity
 PRICED METHOD
 PROTECTION
 REST
 ICE
 COMPRESSION
 ELEVATION
 DIAGNOSIS
 DEFINITION OF TERMS:
 Recreation  activities that you voluntarily participate in during your
free time
 Recreational satisfaction needs:
1. Physiological 4. relaxation
2. Educational 5. psychological
3. Social 6. aesthetics
 Indoor recreation when the activity is within the premises of your
comfort zone at home or inside a building
 Outdoor recreation when the activity is undertaken in a natural, rural,
or open space outside the confines of buildings, usually large land area
that is close to nature
 Lifestyle the way you live your life in an everyday basis, it includes
eating habits, physical activity participation and recreational choice
 Lifestyle change the best way of preventing illness and early death
 How to maintain a healthy lifestyle?
1. Engage yourself in a regular physical activity
2. Eat healthy foods
3. Find time to manage stress
4. Follow a good personal healthy habits
 The HELP Philosophy in starting a healthy lifestyle change:
Health -- those who believe in the benefits of healthy lifestyle are
more likely to engage in healthier behaviour
Everyone – healthy lifestyle can be practiced by everyone “health for
all”
Lifetime – the longer healthy lifestyles are practice, the greater the
beneficial benefits
Personal – no two people are exactly the same.Your personal needs is
the basis of your lifestyle change
 Factors which affect weight range:
1. GENES  these are inherited traits from your parents
 the rapid growth which teens undergo causes a natural
healthy weight gain
 girls on their teens have hormonal changes that causes
weight change
2. Environmental factors  this includes behavior and lifestyle
choices
PRINCIPLE:
1. If you eat more than your energy expenditure, you will gain
weight.
2. If you eat the same amount of food that your body needs in your
daily physical activities, you will maintain your weight.
3. If you have more than energy expenditure than the food intake,
you will lose weight.
 To sum it up:
Weight gain (more calories consumed/less calories expended)
Weight loss (more calories consumed/ less calories expended)
Weight management (calories consumed = calories expended)
INDOOR RECREATIONAL:
1. Badminton
2. Volleyball
3. Zumba dance
OUTDOOR RECREATIONAL:
1. Hiking
2. Jogging
3. Biking
4. swimming