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Presentation Package for Concepts of Fitness & Wellness 9e. Concept 24 Toward Optimal Health & Wellness: Planning for Healthy Lifestyle Change. Inspirational Wellness Quotes. If you refuse to accept anything but the very best you often get it. Somerset Maugham. Inspirational Wellness Quotes.
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Presentation Package for Concepts of Fitness & Wellness 9e Concept 24 Toward Optimal Health & Wellness: Planning for Healthy Lifestyle Change
Inspirational Wellness Quotes If you refuse to accept anything but the very best you often get it. Somerset Maugham
Inspirational Wellness Quotes The difference between a life of greatness and a life of mediocrity is that the great move ahead with their limitations while the mediocre stay stuck in them. John Travis
Inspirational Wellness Quotes The development of each person’s capacities to their full extent is a primary life goal. John Dewey
Inspirational Wellness Quotes If the body is feeble the mind will not be strong. Thomas Jefferson
Online Learning Center Presentation Overview • Review (model) • Healthy Lifestyles • Additional Strategies for Action • Achieving Wellness • Steps in Program Planning • Lifestyle Activity • New Way of Thinking! Discussion Activity
Healthy Lifestyles • Exercise regularly • Eat properly • Manage stress • Avoid destructive habits • Practice safe sex • Adopt good safety habits Photos: Creative Commons Flickr
Healthy Lifestyles (cont.) • Learn first aid • Adopt good personal health habits (e.g., brush teeth, sleep, etc.) • Seek and comply with medical advice • Be an informed consumer • Protect the environment • Manage time effectively
Exercising regularly Eating properly Managing stress Focus on the Priority Lifestyles • They affect the lives of all people • Many can make improvements • Small changes can have a major impact on individual andpublic health Photos: Creative Commons Flickr
Additional Strategies for Changing Lifestyle Behaviors Click for Lab 24a info • Take advantage of your heredity • Use the health-care system effectively • Consider strategies for improving your environment • Consider strategies for adopting healthy lifestyles (6 program-planning steps, use self-management skills, etc.)
Additional Strategies for Changing Lifestyle Behaviors • Consider your cognitions, emotions, and beliefs when planning strategies for action • Fear, anger, love • Consider strategies for taking action and benefiting from interactions • Plan • Honor your beliefs and relationships
Achieving Wellness Wellness is the product of healthy lifestyles just like fitness is the product of regular exercise.
Adopt a Process Approach for Total Wellness • Physical • Pursue behaviors that are conducive to physical health • Social • Be supportive of family and friends • Emotional • Balance work and leisure and respond proactively to stress • Intellectual • Challenge yourself to learn and improve • Spiritual • Pray, meditate and reflect on life • Total Wellness • Accept responsibility for your own health and happiness
Steps in Program Planning Click for Lab 24c info Click for Lab 24b info • Establish reasons for behavior change • Determine needs • Set goals • Select lifestyles or patterns to change • Make a written plan • Keep records to monitor progress
An Active Lifestyle for Long-Term Wellness • Lifestyle physical activity: • provides health benefits • promotes weight control and self esteem • promotes social interaction • promote relaxation If you aren’t currently active, it is NEVER too late to start!
New Way of Thinking! • Clarify your personal philosophy • Consider a new way of thinking • Believe you can make a difference! End of presentation
Online Learning Center SupplementalInformation Lab Information Discussion Activity
Lab 24a InformationAssessing Factors that Influence Health, Wellness, & Fitness Return to presentation • Assess the factors the relate to health, wellness, and fitness • Sum your scores and discuss areas that need attention and actions you could take to make changes
Return to presentation Lab 24b InformationPlanning for Improved Health, Wellness & Fitness • Plan to make changes in areas that can most contribute to improved health, wellness, and fitness • Select two areas in which you would like to make changes • Choose one from the list related to environments and health care and one related to lifestyle change
Lab 24c InformationPlanning Your Personal Physical Activity Program Return to presentation • Establish a comprehensive plan of lifestyle physical activity and self-monitor progress in your plan • Follow the program planning steps and track your progress • Discuss what you learned from monitoring your behavior
Discussion Activity Return to presentation How can you set up your environment for success in adopting a wellness approach to healthy living? Consider each dimension of your wellness.