Receiving information about your health and fitness status can go a long way.
Leading Causes of Death (2007)
- Heart Disease
- Cancer
- Stroke
- COPD
- Accidents
- Alzheimer’s Disease
- Diabetes
- Influenza/Pneumonia
- Kidney Disease
- Blood Infection
(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC])
Knowing and understanding the results from a fitness assessment may potentially save your life! Being physically active will keep you healthy and may increase your longevity of life!
With Enhanced Physical Activity You Can:
- Decrease rates for overall mortality
- Decrease risk for coronary heart disease
- Prevent and/or delay hypertension (having a high blood pressure)
- Improve your glucose management
- Decrease risk for various cancers
- With resistance training – increase bone mineral density
- Increase your respiratory system
(Frank Rife, Ph. D, University of Massachusetts Amherst)
For Example:
After receiving your fitness assessment, you find out that you can a high resting heart rate, high blood pressure, low cardiovascular fitness, low muscular endurance, or are a little overweight. There is no need to panic if you act on it. Being physically active can turn all of that around!
High Blood Pressure = Hypertension (>120 mmHg/>80 mmHg) = risk of having a stroke
With physical activity, you can decrease that risk.
Also with physical activity you can improve your glucose management, which will decrease your risk for developing diabetes.
Being physically active can take you a long way! So – GET ACTIVE, GET HEALTHY!