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The Role of Sport for Health: Is Focus on the Psychological Aspect Key?
The Role of Physical Activity
Physical Activity:
"any bodily movement produced by skeletal muscles that requires energy expenditure"
(WHO, 2010)
.
Sport:
"focus upon competitiveness and the presence of
structured rules
(Hylton and Bramham, 2001, p.166)
.
All sport includes PA but not all PA includes sport
(Waddington et al., 1997)
.
Impact
Solution to improving
quality of life
.
Figures suggest
£12.2bn
is the total annual economic cost of Brits failing to do enough exercise.
Policy makers push PA.
Both sport and PA have shown to
improve health
by numerous authors
Downard et al., 2015)
.
Multiplier effect
Sports participation increases
health and wellbeing
.
Increased participation and increased benefits.
Benefits of Sport and PA
Better cardiovascular function.
Lower blood pressure = lower chance of cardiac issues.
Fights obesity.
Increased social benefits/interactions.
Anti-depressant.
Improved sleep levels
(Cassidy et al., 2017)
.
What is Obesity?
Obesity:
excess body fat such that health is endangered.
BMI Measurement
+VE
Global measurement tool.
-VE
doesn't differentiate between fat and lean mass.
-VE
inadequate for individual assessment.
Can be caused by an
imbalance between EI and EE
Firm evidence to suggest a significant increase in disease and
all cause mortality
(Hardman net al., 2004)
.
3 in 4 of the most common form of death have strong links to poor diet and lack of PA
(Bouchard et al., 2018)
.
Supports benefits of Sport and PA.
Exercising to eat rather than eating to exercise.
Masks problems.
Advice on PA
Over a week should add up to at least 150 minutes of
moderate exercise
or 75 mins of
vigorous activity
Adults should
build strength
on at least 2 days.
HIIT.
Children and young people: 60 minutes per day.