Week #8 Questions

1.What’s the point of doing a warm up? 

The point of warming up is to gently prepare your body for exercises by gradually increasing your heart rate and circulation. The point of warming up is to make sure your joints and increase blood flow to the muscles.

2. What constitutes a successful warm up?

What constitutes as a successful warm up is a warm up of 10-15 minutes. A warm up should consist of static stretching should include all major muscle groups. Lastly, you want to make sure to do some dynamic stretching movements which involves a controlled, soft bounce or swinging motion to force a particular body part past its range of movement as well as a slow walk or jog.

3. What’s the point of doing a cool down?

The point of doing a cool down is to help your heart rate and breathing to return towards resting levels gradually. Which helps avoid fainting or dizziness.

4. When is the best time to stretch and why? 

The best time to stretch is at the end of your training exercise. It is recommenced to stretch at the end of your exercise because your muscles are already warm and flexible.

5. Why is stretching important? 

Stretching is the very important because it keeps the muscles flexible, strong, and healthy. Without stretching the muscles will shorten and become tight, this may cause joint injures because your muscles may not be string enough to support the joints.

6. How much sleep should you be getting every night? 

You should be getting between 7-9 hours of sleep every night.

7. Are you getting that much? If not, what could you do to ensure that you do get enough sleep? 

Yes, I am getting 8 hours of sleep every night which is in between the amount that we should be getting.

8. What are the serious health effects related to insufficient sleep?

The health effects related to insufficient sleep are that fatigue, short temper and lack of focus. If you are getting insufficient sleep, you may be too tired to work, to exercise and to eat healthy. With the continuous lack of sleep this may cause a number of chronic health problems like diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity and heart disease. This just goes to show how important it is to get enough sleep. We should all make sure to get at least 7 hours of sleep if not more.

9.  Give two examples of healthy snacks that you can munch on while studying.

Two healthy snacks you can munch on while studying are mixed nuts and greek yogurt with mixed berries. I find these snacks very good to munch on while you are studying because they are nutritious and contain healthy fat, protein, calcium, potassium and fibre.