1. Fitness for Life
Jennie Toronto
Topic: Fitness for Life
Grade Level: 10
Objective: Gain a basic understanding of how to stay fit and healthy throughout your life
time by broadening your views as to what physical activities we can do that fit into our life
styles and what opportunities are out there for us to get fit and stay healthy.
“Healthy eating is not about strict nutrition philosophies, staying unrealistically thin, or
depriving yourself of the foods you love. Rather, it’s about feeling great, having more energy,
and keeping yourself as healthy as possible– all of which can be achieved by learning some
nutrition basics and using them in a way that works for you.”
A healthy lifestyle all begins healthy eating; it is the most important part. Treat your body with
respect and give it what it needs and stay away from things that would harm it.
http://www.helpguide.org/life/healthy_eating_diet.htm
1- There are 10 eating tips and 2-5 bullet points under each. There is also extra
reading pertaining to the healthy eating tips so read through this web page and
create a list of 10 things that you could do to improve or change your eating
habits in order start living a healthier life style.
“Sleep is essential for energy, health, productivity, and emotional balance. And most people
don’t get nearly enough. Learning about sleep and healthy sleep habits can help you put a stop
to nighttime problems and improve the quality of your rest and with it, the quality of your life.”
Sleep is essential to your body to recover from the stress put on it through out the day. You
study until you brain hurts, you walk until your feet are swollen, you talk so much your jaw
aches and you over stimulate you eyes by looking at cell phone, computers and bright lights all
day. Your mind and your body needs the rest it can receive with a good 8 hours of sleep each
night.
http://www.helpguide.org/topics/sleep.htm
2- You are going to navigate through this sight to answer the follow questions. All
of the answers you will need can be found under the sub topics as the question
will direct.
• “How to sleep better”,
• What are the 3 things that can contribute in an enormous way to
how you are sleeping?
• “How much sleep do you need”,

2. • List how much sleep you need as a teenager and then pick one
other family member and list the amount of sleep that is
recommended for them.
• “Sleep Disorders”
• Pick one sleep disorder and give a brief (2-4 sentence) description
of what it is.
• Print off the sleep diary and keep a log of your sleep habits for one
week.
“…many people take their mental and emotional health for granted – focusing on it only when
they develop problems. But just as it requires effort to build or maintain physical health, so it is
with mental and emotional health. The more time and energy you invest in your emotional
health, the stronger it will be.”
Part of living a healthy life style and maintain fitness for life is focusing on all of the elements of
our make up. If we feel happy and optimistic we have more of a desire to take care of our selves
by eating right and exercising. Managing our mental health is just as important to keep our
whole self healthy and strong.
http://www.helpguide.org/mental/mental_emotional_health.htm
3- As you navigate through this web site you are going to make a few lists from the
information provided on the site and apply them to you personally and how each
can help you feel healthier.
• What are 5 characteristics of people who are mentally healthy? Next
write a short paragraph (4-6 sentences) on the characteristics that you
feel you have already or that you would like to see your self obtain.
• List 3 tips for improving your mental and emotional health by taking
care of your self and include why you think this is important and your
plan for accomplish it.
“Physical activity need not be strenuous to achieve health benefits.”
Staying physically fit is often interpreted as running a marathon or playing competitively on
sports team, but you can stay fit by walking, taking stairs, doing work around the house, etc. It is
just a matter of staying active in whatever aspect of life you enjoy.
1- http://www.emptynestmoms.com/pages/he5.html
2- http://ezinearticles.com/?Burn-Calories-With-Everyday-Activities&id=281841

3. 4- There are 2 sites for this question. As we explore what other options there are to
stay healthy create a list of activities you do on an everyday basis and how you
improve yourself by planning your day.
• In the first website, supposing you are an 150 pound person, I want you
to create a days’ work that you would accomplish on a normal Saturday
or Sunday, when you don’t have 8 hours of school, including the amounts
of calories you would burn, and make sure to consider the time you
would take doing them. Then add them all up and give me a total of the
amount of calories you can burn without even incorporating a traditional
exercise plan into that day.
• In the second website listed I want you to consider your everyday life of
school, after school activities, parties, hanging out with friends, etc, and
considering the suggestions from this web site brainstorm and write down
3 ways you can improve your activity level above and beyond what you
are trying to accomplish now.
“The benefits of being active are huge! It helps you to relax and sleep better, builds up your
stamina and improves your concentration. Participating in physical active can also help you
make new friends or, catch up with old ones. Get more play into your day.”
High impact physical activities aren’t for everyone, but can offer a great variety of fun ways to
get your heart rate up and improve your wellbeing. Living in Utah we are lucky enough to have
ample space to do a number of outdoor activities as well. If you are really interested in
increasing your physical fitness, but not into sports this is a very beneficial way of doing so.
http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/sgr/ataglan.htm
5- In this article they list physical activity ranging from least intense to most
intense. Using this list and ideas from what we have learned what are some
more rigorous or high impact activities that you could incorporate into your
weekly schedule list 6-10. And include the statistics of how many male and
female teens are and aren’t accomplishing this goal at age 12 compared to age
18.

4. “Adolescence and adulthood is a time of growth, new experiences, risk, and increasing
responsibilities. It is a time of emergence, of "coming of age," and of becoming a part of the
greater community.”
If you are feeling lost, or don’t know where to start you can always turn to community programs.
Many states, cities and counties offer centers where you can exercise and even classes for cheap
and in some cases at no charge at all. Many of you can enroll in Boys and Girls Club or the
YMCA where you can get guidance and be in an environment where you can begin to feel more
comfortable and even grow to love working out.
http://www.recreation.slco.org/admin/youthSports/youthSports.html
6- There is a list of different sports offered by the parks and recreation division for
Salt Lake City. Pick a click on “List of Salt Lake County Recreation Facilities”
find a recreation center closest to you (you can use your resources such as map
quest and other local sites) and pick one activity they offer and list the recreation
center that you are choosing to explore, what activity interests you, when this
activity begins and how much it will cost.
“I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual,
is the ultimate champion.”
As we have discussed there are a great deal of ways that we can stay healthy and fit ranging from
moderate everyday activity to getting involved in the community to stay active. There are also a
number of ways that school provides ways to stay active. There are classes like this one and
other physical education classes. There are also a variety of sports teams and clubs that exist.
You may find that you love team sports for all they have to offer, which is much more than just a
chance to shine as a sports star. You build friend ships, self confidence and can develop the
skills to have over all well being and of course stay fit.
http://pbskids.org/itsmylife/body/teamsports/index.html
7- Read through this first page to gain an understanding of all that team sports can
be. Team sports do indeed offer a great way to become physically fit and stay in
shape, but they can also provide many more benefits to overall health. We also
limit our view of team sports to what the media shows team sports are, but there
are so many more varieties that could be appealing a great many more of us.

5. • Under “Topics on Team Sports” click on “Part of a Team” and read
through the quotes and the lists provided on how team sports can be
beneficial and create and 2-4 sentence personal statement on your view of
how being a part of a team sport can be beneficial to you.
• Next pick a sport from the list under “Topics on Team Sports” and
provide a brief description (3-5 sentences) of what that sport is and at
least 2 fun facts about it.
Is there anything else out there?
If team sports aren’t your thing than don’t you worry because there are plenty of sports that are
competed on a more individualistic level. Like we discovered in the article about team sports we
often limit our view of sports in general to football, basketball or baseball, but there are just so
many more sports. We can look at the Olympics and see all the different sports that don’t
involve team strategy, but involve the physical and mental ability of an individual who may or
may not be a part of a greater team. We are going to explore what some of these individual
sports may be.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual_sport
8- After looking at the list provided on individual sports please list 2 sports that
you didn’t have any previous knowledge about. Now pick one of those sports
and look up more information on it and write a description on it that would be
understandable to a person who may have lived in a country and time period
where they were never introduced to the idea of sport, competition or getting
physical activity in any other way than the manual labor of everyday life. There
is no length on this question.
“Extreme Sports are nontraditional sports and activities that require participants to combine
athletic skill with pronounced risk.”
We aren’t quite done exploring the world of sports and the benefits of participating in them.
There are team sports for those of us who enjoy working with a group of people and competing
in that realm of athletics, there is individual sports for those of us who enjoy competing with our
selves better then with others. But what about those of us who need a trill, who need an
adrenalin rush or need to be taking great risks in order to feel like we are getting something out
of the activity we choose to stay physically fit.
1-http://extremefreestyle.wordpress.com/2008/05/24/list-of-extreme-sports/
2-http://www.catalogs.com/info/sports/history-of-extreme-sports.html

6. 9- In these webpage’s you will be able to look through pictures, videos, list and
definitions of what extreme sports are, where they came from and how they are
done. Familiarize you self with extreme sports and start to consider if this is
type of sport that you would enjoy.
• In the first webpage there is a list of all the different sports that fall under
extreme sports. Look over the list, watch a few videos and even surf
around this website to educate yourself as to what extreme sports are and
more importantly what extreme sports appeal to you. Mentally fuss on
the different extreme sports and list 3-5 that you would be more
interested in. Provide, along with this list, other resources you used to
look up more information about this sport.
• Upon reading the second article please provide answers to the following;
• When did extreme sports became popular and what reason does
author of this article believe that this style of sport became
popular?
“Socrates stated the unexamined life is not really worth living and this concept can be a great
tool to obtain higher productivity of the health and fitness routine.”
Now that we have explored many different ways to stay fit for life and we have educated
ourselves in the different fields of personal fitness activities and sports lets create a means to
accomplish a fitness for life lifestyle. There are many ways of doing this other than the way that
I am going to recommend, just as there are more sports and activities than I had you cover. But
for the purpose of this assignment I want you to create a schedule for yourself to include all of
the aspects of staying fit for life that we have just looked at and researched.
http://www.helpguide.org/life/exercise.htm
10- I want you to create a health a fitness log template that you could use in the
future. I want it to include a spot to record how you are going to measure your
sleeping, mental health and physical health. Also space to just write about how
you are feeling or how you are doing on your continual goals to stay physically
fit and over healthy. Remember this is only a rough draft template of what a
health and fitness journal/log might look like that you can use in the future.
• From the website listed I want you find the section that helps understand
how to get started by scheduling time for physical activity and become
familiar with and write down how you could help someone who is
struggling getting started, you might include in your explanation the
importance of keeping a record of your progress!!
Congrats…you are now ready to become FIT FOR LIFE!