Personal Fitness for You

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Personal Fitness for You

• By
• Roberta Stokes Sandy Schultz
• Hunter Textbooks, Inc.

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Chapter Eighteen

• Lifetime Personal Fitness

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Evaluating Your Progress

• Retake the health-related fitness tests.
• Compare your results to those at the beginning of
  the course.
• Identify changes which may be needed in your
  exercise program and/or lifestyle.
• As your lifestyle and activity preferences
  change, continue to reexamine your choices and
  make necessary modifications.

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Your Changing Body

• Skeletal muscles may lose some of their strength.
• The circulatory system may become less efficient.
• The skin may become wrinkled.
• Hair turns gray.

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Special Health Problems

• Alcohol
• Tobacco Use
• Anabolic Steroids
• Stimulants and Supplements
• Asthma
• Osteoporosis
• Cancer
• Lower Back Pain

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Your Lifestyle Choices

• You have a choice - the physically active life
  which has documented benefits or the inactive
  life with all the problems associated with it.
• The Decision is Yours!