https://padlet.com/katesimmons/grtljgp9m6phc9zq Kinesiology 496 en-us 2022-12-17 08:35:22 UTC 2025-10-13 13:11:21 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f9d8-2640.png katesimmons https://padlet.com/katesimmons/grtljgp9m6phc9zq/wish/2425509724 If sitting during the workday is posed as such a health risk and a sure-fire way to gaining weight, why are all kids in schools not seen as being in danger of gaining weight? It must be because they move from class to class, have recess, and usually participate in sports or other active after school activities. Many adult workers also follow a similar schedule: they move from meeting to meeting or from one building to another, they go to the gym, walk the dog, and engage in house cleaning and maintenance activities each day. However, they are still told that their sitting at work is dangerous. Exhaustion would certainly take over if adults had to cover their bases on all their responsibilities and still not sit down during the day. Is it so wrong to accept sitting in work environments when these other habits and responsibilities are present? It certainly seems like we have accepted it for children...]]> 2022-12-20 06:41:49 UTC https://padlet.com/katesimmons/grtljgp9m6phc9zq/wish/2425509724 katesimmons https://padlet.com/katesimmons/grtljgp9m6phc9zq/wish/2425519854 Many people have smart watches or other fitness trackers that include a wrist-based heart rate monitor. A common complaint among these watch-wearers is that they believe that their heart rate readings are inaccurate. This article agrees in a sense: heart rate readings from wrist-based monitors cannot be relied upon to read a perfectly accurate heart rate. However, a quality wrist monitor does offer a "close enough" reading for most common purposes and endeavors. If a person wants to monitor their heart rate with a more sure-fire approach, the two best recommendations are to use a chest-strap monitor during exercise and a self-administered pulse-based reading from your wrist or throat.]]> 2022-12-20 06:58:57 UTC https://padlet.com/katesimmons/grtljgp9m6phc9zq/wish/2425519854 katesimmons https://padlet.com/katesimmons/grtljgp9m6phc9zq/wish/2425525135 The word "lazy" is often thrown around when people think of the lack of exercise and action of those who are overweight and engaging in unhealthy behaviors. This is hurtful and untrue. Behavior modification to find a healthy lifestyle and weight is a very hard process that calls for an examination of environments, habits, relationships, and genetics. People who do not immediately succeed in their weight management goals are not lazy. Often, they relapse because they do not see changes quick enough or they cannot sustain the actions they outlined to achieve a goal. It may be much harder for another person to lose weight because of many factors, both visible and invisible. Physical environments, mental health problems, physical injury, and genetics are all factors that vary across each indisividual. Each of these factors means that a weight-loss journey will look much different and take different lengths of time.]]> 2022-12-20 07:07:26 UTC https://padlet.com/katesimmons/grtljgp9m6phc9zq/wish/2425525135 katesimmons https://padlet.com/katesimmons/grtljgp9m6phc9zq/wish/2425530470 The similarity between added sugar and natural sugar is that they both end up in the body in their final broken down state as glucose. The difference is the time it takes for the body to break down the fuel into glucose and how much it receives at once. Whole foods commonly contain naturally occurring sugars. These will eventually end up being broken down into glucose molecules, but it takes the body a longer and more measured amount of time to break down and process these molecules. This is because whole foods are accompanied by other macronutrients such as fibers and fats. The body needs to process all these, and so the glucose molecules are able to be absorbed over a longer period of time and with extreme waves of over-exposure to immediate glucose energy rushes. Added sugars are already broken down into the basic glucose molecule, so when the body receives this form of fuel, the glucose floods in all at once. This results in blood sugar spikes and energy crashes.]]> 2022-12-20 07:16:42 UTC https://padlet.com/katesimmons/grtljgp9m6phc9zq/wish/2425530470 katesimmons https://padlet.com/katesimmons/grtljgp9m6phc9zq/wish/2425538092 Skinfold testing is referenced heavily in the textbook, especially in Chapter 4 when encouraging readers and the public to monitor and measure their body fat levels. Although I see the scientific importance of this when measuring a part of human health data, it worries me that people undergo this. As a young woman, I know that I would not feel comfortable undergoing this testing at any time of my life, especially when I was on a competitive sports team. However, the above article talks about how elite and competitive athletes went through this process. My worries and misgivings about this form of body testing were confirmed with the first-hand interviews from the article. Athletes would diet, excessively workout, and skip meals to decrease their body folds. They did this out of fear of stigmas and trying to squeeze out any form of competitive advantage. I am glad that teams are moving away from this testing and focusing more on holistic measures of fitness.]]> 2022-12-20 07:28:56 UTC https://padlet.com/katesimmons/grtljgp9m6phc9zq/wish/2425538092 katesimmons https://padlet.com/katesimmons/grtljgp9m6phc9zq/wish/2425545458 I like this infographic because it is created with the intention of teaching English language learners action verbs and words. However, it can also be used to teach average adults who already know enough English verbs about all the different forms of fitness and exercise that encourage a healthy lifestyle. Some of the exercises pictured are more vigorous, such as "kick" and "run." Some are less intensive physically, but still active such as "sit" (mediation) and "bend" (yoga). This serves as a reminder that exercise can vary in intensity. Sometimes mental fitness, as achieved through reflection and control, is just as important to health as more moderate and vigorous physical activity. Stretching is also very important as it reduces injury risk and allows us to keep up with our kicking, kneeling, bouncing, and hopping!]]> 2022-12-20 07:40:11 UTC https://padlet.com/katesimmons/grtljgp9m6phc9zq/wish/2425545458 katesimmons https://padlet.com/katesimmons/grtljgp9m6phc9zq/wish/2428440480 One of the three types of health fitness categories is muscular flexibility and stretching. Yoga immediately comes to mind. I have never tried a yoga class, but I know that there are a lot of different options, so this article sorts through what each type of yoga is and what it focuses on. Hatha yoga is the traditional form of yoga. It, along with all the other forms, offers muscular flexibility, core strengthening, and mindfulness opportunities. The other common name I hear in yoga is Bikram yoga. Bikram is an intense form of hot yoga. It is more cardiovascular centered, more rigorous, and more regimented. Hot yoga can take place in rooms between 80 and 110 degrees and usually lasts between 30 and 60 minutes. Bikram yoga has specific poses and a temperature that remains consistent at 105. Although Bikram and hot yoga seem more intense, it is important to note that all yoga classes aid in the improvement of muscular flexibility and stress-relief.]]> 2022-12-25 03:00:49 UTC https://padlet.com/katesimmons/grtljgp9m6phc9zq/wish/2428440480 katesimmons https://padlet.com/katesimmons/grtljgp9m6phc9zq/wish/2428441412 The single most important sphere of health and fitness is cardiorespiratory endurance. Building our aerobic fitness through workouts in higher heart rate zones allows us to reap amazing benefits. Jogging is the most commonly referenced form of aerobic exercise in the textbook and in my research. However, not everyone can jog happily, healthily, or successfully. This makes aerobic exercise much less appealing. Because of this, I wanted to research other forms of aerobic exercise that activate the benefits of cardiorespiratory endurance. Some of these activities include jump roping, swimming, elliptical-ing, biking, or spin-biking, kickboxing, and Zumba. This helps widen the perspective on how we can use a variety of exercises to maintain our health!]]> 2022-12-25 03:10:13 UTC https://padlet.com/katesimmons/grtljgp9m6phc9zq/wish/2428441412 katesimmons https://padlet.com/katesimmons/grtljgp9m6phc9zq/wish/2428442377 The last sphere of physical fitness to cover is muscular fitness. A lot of times, females tend to avoid lifting weights for fear of stigma, injury, or because of stereotypes that free-weights are for men. As a female who has been trained in a few different types of muscular fitness routines, I am most comfortable with bodyweight exercises. This is also handy and efficient because these exercises can be done anywhere and require little to no cost. HIIT training incorporates a mix of aerobic activities with bodyweight training. This form of exercise grew in popularity during the pandemic because it can be adapted to be done in any location, with any size group. This article talks about how beneficial and complete bodyweight exercises can be for strength and muscular training.]]> 2022-12-25 03:17:38 UTC https://padlet.com/katesimmons/grtljgp9m6phc9zq/wish/2428442377 katesimmons https://padlet.com/katesimmons/grtljgp9m6phc9zq/wish/2428443898 I competed in track and cross country in high school, so we watched the Olympics and other major track events as a team at watch parties. The noticeable differences between sprinters and distance runners were so obvious, it almost felt like they could not both be called "runners" because their events and bodies were so different. Distance runners looked smaller than sprinters. Regardless of gender, it always looked like a sprinter had much more muscle mass than any of the distance runners. As the distances grew longer, the muscle mass of the runners in the race seemed to get smaller and smaller. This article addresses the different muscle fibers that are present in different proportions among sprinters and endurance runners. Fast twitch muscle fibers are simply larger in their size than slow twitch. Although they provide more power and speed, they fatigue quicker than slow-twitch fibers and are more suited to anaerobic activity (sprinting).]]> 2022-12-25 03:28:53 UTC https://padlet.com/katesimmons/grtljgp9m6phc9zq/wish/2428443898 katesimmons https://padlet.com/katesimmons/grtljgp9m6phc9zq/wish/2428445913 One of the focuses of muscular flexibility is correcting posture. Low back pain and neck pain are super common problems. They can truly be resolved with posture corrections. Good posture while sitting, standing, sleeping, and exercising are all important to keep in mind. It is hard to adjust all these at once and can be a little tedious, so it is best to start with small posture adjustments while sitting at work, school, or relaxing. Often, texting makes us slip in our posture and it adds a lot of unnecessary weight to our necks and heads. This is one of the leading causes of neck and back pain that can be resolved without drugs or expensive chiropractic sessions!]]> 2022-12-25 03:43:01 UTC https://padlet.com/katesimmons/grtljgp9m6phc9zq/wish/2428445913 katesimmons https://padlet.com/katesimmons/grtljgp9m6phc9zq/wish/2428447487 My high school running coach had an interesting approach to treating side stitches while running. He would run along with us, and if we had a side stitch, he would have us speed up between 30 and 60 seconds per mile. He maintained this belief that speeding up could improve the pain of the side stitch. I am not sure if this was supposed to be more of a mental or physical fix. Personally, it never worked for me, and I would never tell him I had a side stitch because speeding up made it worse. The textbook talks about how the exact cause of getting a side stitch is unknown. There are preventative precautions to take, but it is still relatively unpredictable for some athletes. My question is: Is there any scientific or anatomical truth to my high school running coach's side stitch fix?]]> 2022-12-25 03:54:50 UTC https://padlet.com/katesimmons/grtljgp9m6phc9zq/wish/2428447487 katesimmons https://padlet.com/katesimmons/grtljgp9m6phc9zq/wish/2429723604 This is an interesting article that recounts a couple of different "medical mystery" stories about people stunningly being cured of their terminal illnesses. A couple of the stories were about the disappearance of tumors. One of the stories talked about a kidney tumor that had disappeared in x-ray scans after 3 weeks from the initial diagnosis. There is a lot of opposition to these types of stories because of how they violate scientific and medical norms. However, not every aspect of medical and scientific wonders has been discovered. The effects of our attitudes, mental health, and personalities on our immune system and health is not fully understood. This leaves room for the possibility of the real presence of spontaneous remission.]]> 2022-12-28 05:24:28 UTC https://padlet.com/katesimmons/grtljgp9m6phc9zq/wish/2429723604 katesimmons https://padlet.com/katesimmons/grtljgp9m6phc9zq/wish/2429726433 This YouTube video walks the viewer through the differences in stress levels and reactions between people with Type A dominant personalities versus Type B. There is stress in all aspects of our lives, but people accumulate stress differently. Type A individuals will subject themselves to more stress because of their high-achieving personal goals. This will lead to a greater risk of heart disease when compared to Type B individuals. One of the main reasons for this is because the stress piles on, and the coping and recovery methods fall short. In these overwhelming situations, stress boils over into anger and frustration, which contribute to that increased heart disease risk. This video explores how personality and coping styles lead to different health outcomes.]]> 2022-12-28 05:32:53 UTC https://padlet.com/katesimmons/grtljgp9m6phc9zq/wish/2429726433 katesimmons https://padlet.com/katesimmons/grtljgp9m6phc9zq/wish/2429731025 Cholesterol levels have a direct correlation to heart disease. However, much of the public knowledge about cholesterol is that it is bad and needs to be decreased. That is true, to an extent. The "bad" cholesterol form is LDL. This means low-density lipoproteins. These molecules can build up in the blood and cause an increase in blood cholesterol. This is what is linked to heart disease. On the other side, HDLs are high-density lipoproteins. A higher concentration of HDLs means that more cholesterol is being cleared from the blood. HDLs are able to effectively transport cholesterol through the blood stream. In order to simplify this when choosing what to eat, it is important to know that saturated and trans fats are the worst offenders of increasing LDL cholesterol. ]]> 2022-12-28 05:47:06 UTC https://padlet.com/katesimmons/grtljgp9m6phc9zq/wish/2429731025 katesimmons https://padlet.com/katesimmons/grtljgp9m6phc9zq/wish/2429734140 This webpage is published by the CDC to educate the general public about how we can do our part to avoid unnecessary cancer risk. It should be caveated that cancer is surprising and devastating. It cannot be guaranteed that a person will avoid it because of lifestyle changes, but the risk can be minimized in a number of ways. Adequate nutrition, exercise, and skin protection are among chief choices that will reduce risk. Another interesting point to make is that a reduction in alcohol consumption lowers the risk of developing cancer. This is because ingested alcohol triggers our bodies to produce acetaldehyde. This chemical damages the body's DNA which can lead to cancer overgrowth. Another point to highlight is the danger of secondhand smoke. A person who inhales a smoker's smoke is damaging their lungs. This is unfair, but cancer is a disease, not a choice, and it may be more important to prioritize personal health and wellness over relationships or environments with active smokers.]]> 2022-12-28 05:56:11 UTC https://padlet.com/katesimmons/grtljgp9m6phc9zq/wish/2429734140 katesimmons https://padlet.com/katesimmons/grtljgp9m6phc9zq/wish/2429737579 Addiction is an attempt to escape human suffering. This is the impactful idea from Dr. Gabor Mate as he attempts to explain addiction behavior to healthy, non-addicts. He rejects the media's portrayal of addicts as desperate. Instead, he views them as needing treatment from their insurmountable trauma. Dr. Gabor Mate works in downtown Vancouver, BC. Vancouver is known for having a high population of drug addicts. Dr. Mate views all these addicts as traumatized victims who turned to drugs to help them escape their suffering. He does not view these individuals with judgement. He listens and analyzes to work to help heal the trauma that the addicts experienced that turned them towards drugs. The breakthrough is that addicts need to be listened to and healed rather than only be symptomatically treated for drug use.]]> 2022-12-28 06:08:36 UTC https://padlet.com/katesimmons/grtljgp9m6phc9zq/wish/2429737579 katesimmons https://padlet.com/katesimmons/grtljgp9m6phc9zq/wish/2429740624 Chapter 13 of the textbook details the negative health effects of inhaling cigarette smoke, whether it be direct or second-hand. Cancers, strokes, heart attacks, and childbirth risks are increased from this exposure. My question is: Will cancer rates be increased due to the environmental hazards of the increased wildfires in much of the western United States? On a personal note, I know Washington experienced a recent bad bout of wildfire smoke in October of 2022. This was also the case in other states such as Oregon, Idaho, California, and Colorado. Wildfire prevalence and scope has been dramatically increasing year-to-year. The health department suggested staying indoors and wearing a mask when outdoors, but the effects of smoke could not possibly have been fully avoided by the whole population. How will the increasing presence of wildfires impact the overall lifetime health of inhabitants of the afflicted regions?]]> 2022-12-28 06:18:58 UTC https://padlet.com/katesimmons/grtljgp9m6phc9zq/wish/2429740624