Fitness Education: How to Live a Healthier and Cleaner Lifestyle

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According to the Oxford dictionary, fitness is defined as “The quality of being suitable to fulfill a particular role or task” and or “The condition of being physically fit and healthy”. Fitness education could, in the immediate future, play a major role in the reduction of childhood obesity, as well as obesity throughout all age ranges, while simultaneously increasing the overall health of all individuals who are fortunate enough to receive the education. In order for this to happen, fitness education must be incorporated into all levels of learning, and be made more readily available to the adult population who were deprived of it during their school age, adolescent, and young adulthood stages of life. Fitness education is extremely important because it educates a society that is overweight and obese; how to live a healthier and cleaner lifestyle.

Fitness education is extremely important especially in a school setting because it is an integral part of the total education of every child in Kindergarten through Grade 12. Quality physical education programs are needed to increase the physical competence, health-related fitness, self-responsibility and enjoyment of physical activity for all students so that they can be physically. Skill Development develops motor skills, which allow for safe, successful and satisfying participation in physical activities. Self-discipline facilitates development of student responsibility for health and fitness. Improved Judgment quality physical education can influence moral development. Students have the opportunity to assume leadership, cooperate with others; question actions and regulations and accept responsibility for their own behavior.

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