Contents of Chapter 1: Physical Activity and Health Connection

Lecture Notes

In this chapter we're going to talk about the relationship between physical activity and health. For some people, physical activity is important, it's meaningful, it's part of their everyday life, but for others, physical activity and exercise are behaviors that they want to avoid or that take up time that they would rather spend doing other things. But regardless of how we feel about physical activity, there are many important benefits that can be achieved through living a physically active lifestyle. We're going to talk about those in this chapter.