Your Physical Activity Objectives

• Identify health benefits of being physically active.
• Identify new physical activity ideas that have personal interest.
• Identify physical fitness components and their meanings.
• Identify physical activities that contribute to increased fitness in selected components.
• Recall that the national recommendation for the duration of physical activity that teens should participate in daily is 60 minutes.
• Identify activities that are moderate to vigorous in intensity levels.
• Identify characteristics of the different levels of intensity of exercise.
• Associate physical activity and caloric intake as the key factors in maintaining energy balance
• Recognize that personal goal setting is important in helping an individual make changes in lifestyle habits.

In other parts of the module – Physical Activity

• Set at least two personal goals to improve physical activity or diet intake.
• Complete daily logs on physical activity participation.
• Articulate the need for physical activity in maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
• Identify environmental influences (home, school, community) on physical activity opportunities and physical activity participation and formulate a plan to hypothetically make changes.
• Evaluate media influences on healthy behaviors.

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