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Week 1- Assignment

Week 1- Assignment

Q Prior to beginning work on this assignment, read this week’s assigned chapters from your course text and view the Lifelong Physical Activity (Links to an external site.) video. Imagine the following: Since you are a senior, you are interning as a health and wellness coach at YouFit, a large wellness center in New York City, over the summer. Joe, a potential new client at YouFit, approaches you and asks several questions regarding fitness and wellness, as well as exercise and injury prevention. Click on this video (Links to an external site.) to hear Joe’s introduction and questions. Transcript Download Transcript In order to help Joe, address the following as if you were directly speaking to Joe (direct voice): In your own words, differentiate between physical activity, exercise, and physical fitness. Assess the benefits of regular exercise. Summarize the results of one scholarly research study Download Summarize the results of one scholarly research study(choose any one study from your Ashford University Library, examining the relationship between exercise and one of the benefits mentioned in your text) to further underscore the benefits of exercise. Support your research summary with one scholarly resource. Assess the five major components of health-related physical fitness and briefly explain why it is important to integrate all five components. After reviewing the principles of exercise training, examine three principles that would be important for a novice, such as Joe. Appraise two special considerations, pertaining to exercise and injury prevention that would be applicable for Joe. Submit your assignment for grading using the Assignment Submission Button.

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• Physical activity refers to the movement of muscles that require energy. It can be any movement a person performs. Exercise can be definied as a planned, intentional and repetitive movement, to improve or maintain physical fitness.