The Importance Of Physical Activity

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2.1 Assessment
What does physical activity mean to you?
To me physical activity is doing anything that involves moving the body eg. walking, jumping ,playing sports.I feel that it is very important to be physically active as it helps with your health and stress levels,looks and many more benefits.

What is physical activity defined as?
According to the World health organization “physical act is defined as any bodily movement produced by skeletal muscles that requires energy expenditure. Physical inactivity has been identified as the fourth leading risk factor for global mortality causing an estimated 3.2 million deaths globally.” ( http://www.who.int/topics/physical_activity/en/ 2018)

Competition
As a role competition is described as a major
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But when our new coach came in we started to improve because he made personal profiles of all the players and we all set weekly challenges that we had to complete and he pushed us to complete them and it improved the way we played because it was the challenge that motivated us to be more active in trying to achieve our goals.I could only get hold of 5 members of the team and they all said that the new coach and his new way of teaching with the use of challenges was really helpful and pushed them to be more physically active. In the physical education class a challenge pushed some students in the fitness lesson because some students made it a challenge for themselves to keep going until they couldn't do anymore which i believe pushed them to be more physically