Health and fitness

• • Health - complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease
  • Fitness - ability to cope with demands of environment
  • Wellbeing - mix of social, physical and mental wellbeing that gives a sense of comfortability, health and happiness
• PHYSICAL HEALTH BENEFITS

  • Improves heart function
  • Reduces risk of illness
• MENTAL HEALTH BENEFITS

  • Reduces stress
  • Release of feel good hormones e.g serotonin
  • Improves confidence
• SOCIAL HEALTH BENEFITS

  • Opportunities to socialise, make friends
  • Encourages co-operation
  • Encourages teamwork
• Relationship between health and fitness:

  • Ill health can negatively affect fitness as individual may be too unwell to train
  • Increase in fitness can positively impact health and wellbeing: less likely to get ill, content feeling, enchanced social wellbeing