P.E

Living a healthy, active lifestyle involves the individual making choices.

These include:

• Taking part in physical exercise
• Eating a balanced diet
• Avoiding harmful substances
• Sustaining friendships
• Having the ability to concentrate

Health:

'A state of complete mental, physical and social well-being, so simply the absence of disease or infirmity'

• Fulfilment by being part of a team
• Development of teamwork and cooperation
• Mix with people with similar interests
• Chance to meet new people and make friends
• Increase of self-worth
• Challenges as you overcome the opposition as part of a team

• Burns up stored fat
• Look good/feel good
• Body image
• Muscle tone and posture improvement
• Bone strengthening
• Improves flexibility
• Cardiovascular improvement
• Less prone to injury
• Can increase life expectancy

• Satisfaction of own performance
• Promotes the 'feel-good' factor
• Can provide excitement
• Gives enjoyment
• Can relieve aggression
• Develops a sense of being 'part of something'
• Provides opportunity for success
• Life's problems can be forgotten
• Reduces stress and tension
• Personal development
• Increases confidence in stressful situations
• Improves self-esteem

Serotonin - Molecule of Happiness

Controls many different function in the body including:

• Appetite
• Sleep
• Memory
• Mood

Levels increased during exercise

Continues to be produced by the body for several days after activity aswell, improving a person's energy and mood

• Detoxify (remove poison)
• Oppourtunity of introspection (escape from daily pressures)
• Endorphins (relieve pain, produce a feeling of euphoria and give a positive mood)
• Reduction in muscle tension
• Increased awareness (allow them to recognise when they become worried or stressed)
• Decreased boredom
• Anger management
• Better sleep
• Building the immune system
• Moving meditiation

• Cooperation
• Competition
• Physcial challenge
• Aesthetic appreciation
• Development of friendships and social mixing

Used to increase the amount of work the body does, in order to achieve overload

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