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• Heart Disease
• Stroke Died
Young
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• Cancer
Never
Exercised
• Respiratory system
Risk factors for Heart
Disease & Stroke
•Things you can’t change
• Age
• Gender
• Heredity
•Things you can change
• Smoking
• High Blood Cholesterol
• High Blood pressure
• Obesity
• Diabetes
• Stress
• Physical inactivity
Physical Activity and Well
Being
• Decreased physical activity is linked to the
development of obesity.
• Obesity can place individuals at risk of
coronary heart disease, hypertension, diabetes
and cerebrovascular disease.
• Increasing levels of childhood obesity are,
therefore, putting future generations at greater
risk of developing these diseases.
What is BMI?
• BMI = Body Mass Index
• “A measure of the relationship between
weight and height that is associated with body
fat and health risk”
• BMI Ranges:
BMI Less than 18 — Under Weight
BMI 18-25 — Normal Weight
BMI 25-30 — Over Weight
BMI 30-40 — Obese
BMI Over 40 — Severely Obese
Calculating your BMI
Use it or Lose it
• Muscles not used regularly become “de-conditioned” &
unfit.
• They become:
• - smaller - feel heavy
• - shorter - tire quickly during normal activities
• - stiffer
• - weaker “getting old” syndrome
Benefits of Exercise
•Physical
•Increased Muscle strength
•Endurance
•Cardiovascular fitness
•Flexibility
•Balance
•Stability
•Coordination
Impact of Caregiving
Physical Fitness
Four components of physical fitness:
• strength,
• endurance,
• co-ordination
• and flexibility
How much should I aim
for?
• “FITT” principle:
•Frequency (how many days per week)
•Intensity (how hard)
•Time (how long)
•Type (what kind of exercise)
•
13 somewhat hard
14 closely related to heart
15 hard (heavy) rate (x by 10) e.g. fairly
16
17 very hard
light is10 x 100 = 110bpm
18
19 extremely hard
20 maximal exertion
S M A R T Goals
• Don’t overdo it
Weblinks
• Calculate your BMI ( http://tinyurl.com/ywk95j )
• Calculate your Target Heart Rate ( http://tinyurl.com/2laq8j )
• Dublin City Council Leisure Services. ( www.dublincity.ie )
• Evening & night courses, Dublin ( www.nightcourses.com )
• Exercises (animated older adults) to do at home ( http://tinyurl.com/mqlnu )
• This presentation ( http://tinyurl.com/2gwr45 )