| A | B |
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| Exercise | Physical activity done for purpose of getting physically fit. |
| Health | Optimal well-being that contributes to quality of life. |
| Hypokinetic Disease | Condition resulting from too little activity. |
| Illness | Feeling or symptoms associated with disease or circumstances that upset homeostasis |
| Lifestyles | Patterns of behavior or ways an individual typically lives |
| Metabolic fitness | Positive state of the physiological systems commonly associated with reduced risk of chronic diseases |
| Physical fitness | The body's ability to function efficiently and effectively. Includes at least eleven components which contribute to total quality of life |
| Quality of life | Allows a person to enjoyably do the activities of life with little or no limitation |
| Wellness | Integration of many different components that expands one's potential to live and work effectively and to make a significant contribution to society |
| Adherence | Adopting and sticking with healthy behavior such as regular physical activity or sound nutrition as part of your lifestyle |
| Enabling factors | Factors that help you to carry out your healthy lifestyle plan |
| Predisposing factors | Factors that make you more likely to decide that you should make a healthy lifetyle a part of your normal routine |
| Self-efficacy | Confidence that you can perform a specific task |
| Self-management skills | Abilities that you can learn to help you change and adhere to healthy lifesyles such as regular physical activity and good nutrition |
| Bone integrity | Soundness of the bones associated with high density and absence of symptoms of deterioration |
| Physical activity | A broad term used to describe all forms of large muscle movements including sports, dance, games, work, lifestyle activities, and exercise for fitness (and used interchangeably with the word exercise in the textbook) |
| Reinforcing factors | Factors that provide encouragement to maintain a healthy lifestyle, such as physical activity, throughout one's lifetime |
| Stage of change | A level of motivational readiness to adopt a specific health behavior |
