Bicycling is a type of workout for your cardiovascular health, more simply known as a cardio workout. Cardio workouts help your body burn calories and strengthen your heart and lungs.
This lesson incorporates visual materials from the Against the Odds exhibition to engage visual learners and to encourage students to apply a successful public health program to their own lives. Students learn about Brazilian students who adopt an active, healthy lifestyle through the Agita São Paulo program. Students connect with students in Brazil through their photos and drawings promoting various physical activities. Students also develop their own ideas on how to adopt an active, healthy lifestyle for themselves. Finally, students create materials to inform others about and persuade them to improve their health with 30 minutes of daily physical activity.
These videos help explain physical activity guidelines, give you tips on how to meet them and show you how to do muscle strengthening exercises properly.
This site helps us strive toward energy balance. Lessons and activities reveal what energy is, how our bodies use it, how we spend our time, how serving sizes on food labels compare with the amounts of food we eat, and how many calories are associated with various foods. Students analyze data and design experiments to learn how genetics, food availability, and exercise affect weight changes in mice.
Weight lifting is beneficial because it builds muscle. Muscles aid in burning fat and calories. Toning your muscles helps you move more efficiently.
