O you think you're fit? More importantly, do you think you are more fit now than you were a month ago? How about a year ago? It's important to not only monitor your fitness today but to set goals, and try to improve your fitness in the future. How can you do that? Well, you can use fitness assessments<span> to measure various aspects of your body and its abilities. A fitness assessment identifies your current fitness levels and serves as a baseline, or starting point of your body's fitness. You can use this fitness assessment to figure out your training needs and goals. You then compare your progress over time to the initial fitness assessment.</span>
Regular physical activity promotes growth and development and has multiple benefits for physical, mental, and psychosocial health that undoubtedly contribute to learning.
• Specifically, physical activity reduces the risk for heart disease, diabetes mellitus, osteoporosis, high blood pressure, obesity, and metabolic syndrome; improves various other aspects of health and fitness, including aerobic capacity, muscle and bone strength, flexibility, insulin sensitivity, and lipid profiles; and reduces stress, anxiety, and depression.
• Physical activity can improve mental health by decreasing and preventing conditions such as anxiety and depression, as well as improving mood and other aspects of well-being.
• Physical activity programming specifically designed to do so can improve psychosocial outcomes such as self-concept, social behaviors, goal orientation, and most notably self-efficacy. These attributes in turn are important determinants of current and future participation in physical activity.
That is False the adult human body only has 206. :) -BlackCanary
The stage of physical development during adolescence is called puberty!
