Ch 5Physical Fitness, Wellness and Lifestyle — Class 11 Physical Education, concept-first.

The way we live each day - what we eat, how much we move, how we handle stress, and the habits we keep - quietly decides how healthy and how happy we are over a lifetime.

Wellness, health and physical fitness are three of the most-used - and most-confused - words in Physical Education.

The World Health Organization (WHO) defines health as "a state of physical, mental and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease." Wellness goes further than this.

As noted already, health is not merely the absence of any disease - it is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being.

"Health" is one of those terms that most people find difficult to define even though they are confident of its meaning.

Before defining physical fitness it is essential to separate three terms that are often used interchangeably but do not mean the same thing: exercise, physical activity and physical fitness.

Several authorities have defined physical fitness, and the definitions together build a full picture.

Exercise promotes health, maintains and improves physical appearance, and improves the overall quality of life.

Each of the three big ideas from the previous section is too broad to study as a single lump, so we break it into its parts.

Physical fitness alone is not enough for good health. A person might train hard three times a week yet still eat junk food, smoke and drink alcohol - and so raise their risk of cardiovascular and othe…

Health gives us the strength and energy to enjoy life. To understand it fully, we classify health into four dimensions, each a different sign of a sound life, and each influencing the others.

Physical fitness is conventionally divided into two families of components - health-related fitness and skill-related fitness.

The health-related components relate directly to a person's health and everyday functioning, and they matter to every person, athlete or not. There are five of them.

The skill-related components - also called motor-fitness components - are the parts of fitness that most affect performance in sport. There are six of them.

India has a rich store of traditional and regional games - games handed down through generations, rooted in local culture, and needing little or no costly equipment.

The origin of sports and games dates back to the very inception of society. Some games began from the sheer need for survival - archery, for instance - and some from the need for social interaction, s…

Many kinds of games were invented and played in India. Some survive in their original form and some with minor changes. The textbook groups them into seven types.

Regional and traditional sports have always mattered for the development of the individual and of society.

Physical activity and sport do far more than build fitness - they are one of the finest training grounds for leadership.

Leadership is the art of motivating a group of people to act towards achieving a common goal. A leader is the person in the group who possesses the combination of personality and leadership skills tha…

A good leader is recognised by a set of qualities, each of which sport develops directly. The textbook lists ten.

Leadership is a complex process in which one person helps a group identify and achieve personal and group goals.

In sports and games, minor injuries such as sprains and strains are common, and what is done in the first few minutes after an injury can decide how badly it swells and how quickly it heals.

The term First Aid was officially adopted in England for the first time in 1879 by St John's Ambulance Association.

The traditional protocol for dealing with a sports injury, R.I.C.E., has now been modified to P.R.I.C.E. by adding the word Protection to Rest, Ice, Compression and Elevation.

This unit examined how lifestyle shapes health, and how wellness, health and physical fitness together decide the quality of life. The key ideas, in order: