Your lifestyle, including the food you eat and physical activities you engage in, greatly affects your overall health. Regular physical activity is especially important for maintaining a healthy weight and body mass index (BMI). Active recreational activities that require more energy expenditure than usual can provide many benefits, such as improved health, stress relief, and social connections. Choosing healthy lifestyle habits through mindful food intake and regular physical activity is vital for overall well-being.

1. ACTIVE RECREATION
(SPORTS)

2. •Your lifestyle is of utmost importance. Everything
you do, whether good or bad, has an effect on
your health. Your lifestyle involves a lot of
aspects like the physical activities you engage in,
the food you eat, the daily habits you observe,
the choices you make as a consumer, and many
others. These different aspects of your lifestyle
affect your overall health. Therefore, it is a must
that you give attention to these factors to
become a healthier individual.

3. •What aspects of your lifestyle do you think
you should be most attentive to? Why do
you think so?

4. •Many aspects of your life are connected to your
weight and lifestyle. Your food choices are only a
part of them. Your age, gender, inherited
characteristics, sleeping habits, and physical
activity are also aspects to be considered.
Remember that they contribute to your overall
well-being as well as your susceptibility to
disease. Giving more consideration and attention
to your present habits and practices are vital to
having a healthy lifestyle.

5. • Your lifestyle includes the nutrition practices you observe. Which
among the practices are considered healthy and which are
unhealthy? Which of these do you do?
Now is a good time to review and change those unhealthy habits for a
healthier lifestyle.

6. • It is very important to be mindful of your food intake
and physical activities because these greatly affect
your overall health. Your food intake and physical
activity affect your weight, which consequently affect
your BMI.
• It is important that your weight is within what is
recommended for your height.
• Conscious healthy food choices and participation in
regular moderate to vigorous physical activities, along
with enough rest would definitely help improve or
maintain your BMI.

7. WEIGHT GAIN = energy consumed is greater than energy expended
= more food intake but less physical exertion
WEIGHT LOSS = energy consumed is less than energy expended
= more physical exertion but less food intake
WEIGHT MAINTENANCE = energy consumed equals energy expended
= physical exertion is the same with food intake

8. •Aside from taking note of your eating habits, you
should also take note of your actual weight as an
indicator of health risk.
•This has to do with getting your BODY MASS
INDEX (BMI).
•BMI – it is a rough measure of body composition
that is useful for classifying the health risks of
body weight. It is also based on the concept that
a person’s weight should be proportional to
height.

9. Formula in getting BMI:
BMI = ___ Weight (in kg) ____
Height (m 2)

10. RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES
are those activities held during one’s leisure time.
Their purpose is to refresh oneself by doing
activities that are considered by an individual as
enjoyable.

11. Active recreational activities are highly
recommended for health promotion. These
activities require more amounts of energy to be
expended than the usual energy expenditure. This
means that you do activities that make you exert
more effort than what you usually do.

12. • To know if the amount of effort exerted during physical activity will be
beneficial to you, the FITT formula should be kept in mind. FITT stands for:
FREQUENCY (how often) – number of training sessions that are
performed during a given period (usually one week)
INTENSITY (how hard) – an individual’s level of effort, compared with their
maximal effort, which is usually expressed as a percentage
TIME (how long) – duration of a workout (including warm-up and cool-down)
or the length of time spent in training
TYPE – mode of physical activity

13. BENEFITS OF ACTIVE PARTICIPATION IN SPORTS
AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES
HEALTH BENEFITS
•road map to good health and longevity
• improved quality of life, lower blood pressure,
reduced arthritis pain, weight loss and lowered
risk of diabetes, certain cancers, osteoporosis
and cardiovascular disease

14. PHYSICAL BENEFITS
•improvement of skills specific to a particular activity
• relaxation, rest, and revitalization
• opportunity to make new friends and acquaintances
• strengthen social networks and community identity

15. MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL BENEFITS
•release of stress from demands of everyday living
• greater personal confidence and self-esteem
• sense of achievement
• reducing risks of depression, anxiety, psychological
distress, and emotional disturbance
• more restraint in avoiding risky behavior

16. SOCIAL BENEFITS
• bonding with family and friends
• opportunity to make new friends and
acquaintances
• strengthen social networks and community
identity

17. ACTIVITY:
Direction:
In 1 Whole Short Band paper, draw an illustration
of your favorite sports. Use Pencil or felt tip pen
and Crayons for your output.