Title: Personal wellness in New York with Martin Thuna
1Personal Wellness in New York with Martin Thuna
2When it involves personal wellness there are
several ways to form sure you're healthy and well
taken care of. According to Martin Thuna, you can
take care of yourself both mentally and
physically are the 2 main areas to specialize
in. If you're not paying enough time and focus
on your emotional and mental needs you'll be able
to then become depressed and develop other mental
and physical ailments as a repercussion.
3Health
- Traditional view absence of disease, pain or
disability - Contemporary view (WHO) achievement of
- Physical well-being
- Mental well-being
- Social well-being
4Wellness
- The constant and deliberate effort to stay
healthy and achieve the highest potential for
well-being. - Living a lifestyle that optimizes all aspects of
health.
5Benefits of a Wellness Lifestyle
- To the Nation
- Reduction in health care costs
- Maintenance of productive work force
- To the individual
- Reduced health care costs
- Increased longevity
- Increased quality of life
6Healthy life 65.4 years
Impaired life 11.5 years
Life expectancy 76.9 years
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7Factors Affecting Health
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9Is Change Necessary?
- In order to adopt a wellness lifestyle, most
individuals have to change a number of behaviors. - Changing behaviors is the most difficult aspect
of living a wellness lifestyle. - The barriers to change must be overcome.
10Common Barriers to Change
- Procrastination
- Preconditioned cultural beliefs
- Gratification
- Risk complacency
- Complexity
- Indifference and Helplessness
- Rationalization
- Invincibility
11Transtheoretical Model of Change
- Pre-contemplation
- Contemplation
- Preparation
- Action
- Maintenance
- Termination
12Model of progression and relapse.
13Goal Setting
- Well planned
- Personalized
- Written
- Realistic
- Short/Long-term
- Measurable
- Time-specific
- Monitored
- Evaluate Modify
14Physical Activity vs Exercise
- Physical Activity bodily movement produced by
skeletal muscles that requires energy expenditure
and produces progressive health benefits - Exercise a type of physical activity that is
planned and structured with the intent of
improving or maintaining physical fitness.
15Surgeons Generals Report on Physical Activity
and Health
- People who are usually inactive can improve their
health and wellness by becoming even moderately
active on a regular basis - Physical activity need not be strenuous to
achieve health benefits - Greater health benefits can be achieved by
increasing the amount of physical activity
16Fitness vs Health
- To produce health benefits, the intensity,
duration, and frequency of activity is less than
that required to produce improved fitness. - Improved fitness is measured by how much exercise
you can do. Improved health is measured by
improved physiologic function of body systems.
17Principles of Physical Training
- Specificity
- Progressive Overload
- Reversibility
- Individual Differences
18THANK YOU