Assignment: Weight Management and Personal Fitness

Managing a healthy weight and maintaining a healthy fitness level takes effort and commitment. Personal fitness is the combination of eating healthfully, exercising, and adopting behaviors that lead to improved personal health and wellness.

For this Assignment, consider your level of personal fitness and any real or perceived barriers that may prevent you from achieving your optimal fitness goals.

To prepare for this Assignment:

Review Chapter 11 in Health: The Basics, 13th Edition. Think about the necessity of personal fitness in disease prevention and overall health and wellness.

Complete the following Personal Health Assessments in Health: The basics, 12th edition:

• Chapter 10, “How Healthy Are Your Eating Habits?”
• Chapter 11, “Are You Ready to Start a Weight-Loss Program?”
• Chapter 12, “How Physically Fit Are You?”

Assignment (3-4 pages):

• Summarize any insights you gained as a result of taking this assessments.
• Explain two benefits of physical fitness as a vital means of disease prevention and explain why they are beneficial.
• Describe two ways in which you might increase your personal fitness.
• Describe two barriers that might inhibit your physical fitness and describe one strategy you might use to overcome one of those barriers.

Support your work with specific citations from this week’s Learning Resources and additional scholarly sources as appropriate. Refer to the Essential Guide to APA Style for Students to ensure that your in-text citations and reference list are correct.

Sources:

Donatelle, R. J. (2019). Health: The basics (13th ed.). San Francisco, CA: Pearson.

• Chapter 10, “Nutrition: Eating for a Healthier You”
• Chapter 11, “Reaching and Maintaining a Healthy Weight”
• Chapter 12, “Improving Your Personal Fitness”

Carraça, E. V., Silva, M. N., Markland, D., Vieira, P. N., Minderico, C. S., Sardinha, L. B., & Teixeira, P. J. (2011). Body image change and improved eating self-regulation in a weight management intervention in women. The International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 8(75).
Body image change and improved eating self-regulation in a weight management intervention in women by Carraça, E., Silva, M., Markland, D., Vieira, P., Minderico, C., Sardinha, L., & Teixeira, P., in The International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition And Physical Activity, Vol. 87/Issue 5. Copyright 2011 by Biomed Central, Ltd. Reprinted by permission of Biomed Central, Ltd. via the Copyright Clearance Center.

REQUIRED MEDIA

Laureate Education, Inc. (Executive Producer). (2012). Personal Health and Wellness: Dimensions of Health Wheel [Multimedia], Baltimore, MD: Author.

• Dimension of Health: Week 4

OPTIONAL RESOURCES

Vocks, S., Hechler, T., Rohrig, S., & Legenbauer, T. (2009). Effects of a physical exercise session on state body image: The influence of pre-experimental body dissatisfaction and concerns about weight and shape. Psychology & Health, 24(6), 713–728.
Note: Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.