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Download Personal Fitness Merit Badge: Scout's Guide to Maintaining Optimal Health and more Lecture notes Law in PDF only on Docsity! Positional P/U from logos folder PERSONAL FITNESS PERSONAL FITNESS BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA MERIT BADGE SERIES “Enhancing our youths’ competitive edge through merit badges” 5. Explain the following: (a) The importance of good nutrition (b) What good nutrition means to you (c) How good nutrition is related to the other components of personal fitness (d) How to maintain a healthy weight 6. Before doing requirements 7 and 8, do the following: (a) Complete the aerobic fitness, flexibility, and muscular strength tests, as described in the Personal Fitness merit badge pamphlet. Record your results and identify those areas where you feel you need to improve. (b) Keep track of what you eat and drink for three days. Identify three healthy eating goals you want to work on. 7. Outline a comprehensive 12-week physical fitness program using the results of your fitness tests. Be sure your program incorporates the endurance, intensity, and warm-up guidelines discussed in the Personal Fitness merit badge pam- phlet. Before beginning your exercises, have the program approved by your counselor and parents. 8. Complete the physical fitness program you outlined in requirement 7. Keep a log of your fitness program activity (how long you exercised; how far you ran, swam, or biked; how many exercise repetitions you completed; your exercise heart rate; etc.). Keep a log of your weekly healthy eating goals. Repeat the aero- bic fitness, muscular strength, and flexibility tests every four weeks and record your results. After the 12th week, repeat all of the required activities in each of the three test categories, record your results, and show improvement in each one. Discuss how well you met your healthy eating goals over these 12 weeks. Discuss the meaning and benefit of your experience, and describe your long-term plans regarding your personal fitness. 9. Find out about three career opportunities in personal fitness. Pick one and find out the education, training, and experience required for this profession. Discuss what you learned with your counselor, and explain why this profession might interest you. 94 PERSONAL FITNESS Personal Fitness Resources. Personal Fitness Resources Scouting Literature Boy Scout Journal; Athletics, Backpacking, Canoeing, Cycling, Dentistry, Disabilities Awareness, Family Life, Hiking, Kayaking, Public Health, Rowing, Scuba Diving, Skating, Small-Boat Sailing, Snow Sports, Sports, Swimming, Water Sports, and Whitewater merit badge pamphlets; Boy Scout Handbook; Fieldbook Books American College of Sports Medicine, ed. ACSM’s Complete Guide to Fitness & Health. Human Kinetics, 2011. Branner, Toni. Care and Feeding of an Athlete: What You Need to Know to Rise to the Top of Your Game. Blue Water Press, 2007. Chryssicas, Mary Kaye. Breathe: Yoga for Teens. DK Children, 2007. Covey, Sean. The 6 Most Important Decisions You’ll Ever Make: A Guide for Teens. Touchstone, 2006. Dunham, Kelli. The Boy’s Body Book: Everything You Need to Know for Growing Up YOU, 3rd revised ed. Applesauce Press, 2015. Faigenbaum, Avery, and Wayne Westcott. Youth Strength Training: Programs for Health, Fitness, and Sport. Human Kinetics, 2009. Green, Larry, and Russ Pate. Training for Young Distance Runners, 3rd ed. Human Kinetics, 2014. Hawkins, Frank C. The Boy’s Fitness Guide: Expert Coaching for the Young Man Who Wants to Look and Feel His Best. Big Book Press, 2008 Hutchinson, Alex. Which Comes First, Cardio or Weights? HarperCollins, 2011. Jones, William. Performance Eating: The High Performance High School Athlete Nutrition Guide. iUniverse Inc., 2006. KidsPeace. I’ve Got This Friend Who: Advice for Teens and Their Friends on Alcohol, Drugs, Eating Disorders, Risky Behavior, and More. Hazelden, 2007. Visit the Boy Scouts of America’s official retail website at http://www. scoutstuff.org for a complete listing of all merit badge pamphlets and other helpful Scouting materials and supplies. PERSONAL FITNESS 95 .Personal Fitness Resources Kovacs, Mark. Dynamic Stretching: The Revolutionary New Warm-Up Method to Improve Power, Performance, and Range of Motion. Ulysses Press, 2009. Kraemer, William J., and Steven J. Fleck. Strength Training for Young Athletes, 2nd ed. Human Kinetics, 2004. Lobster Press, ed. Let’s Clear the Air: 10 Reasons Not to Start Smoking. Lobster Press, 2007. Orcutt, Georgia. How to Feed a Teenage Boy: Recipes and Strategies. Celestial Arts, 2007. Paley, Rebecca, and Grace Norwich. The Body Book for Boys. Scholastic Paperbacks, 2010. Ratey, John J. Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain. Little, Brown and Co., 2013. Shanley, Ellen, and Colleen Thompson. Fueling the Teen Machine. Bull Publishing Co., 2010. Smolen, Jamie. Hooked. Casa de Snapdragon Publishing, 2011. Organizations and Websites Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics 120 S. Riverside Plaza, Suite 2000 Chicago, IL 60606-6995 Toll-free telephone: 800-877-1600 Website: http://www.eatright.org American College of Sports Medicine 401 West Michigan St. Indianapolis, IN 46202-3233 Telephone: 317-637-9200 Website: http://www.acsm.org Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Toll-free telephone: 800-232-4636 Website: http://www.cdc.gov/physicalactivity Fitness for Kids 9100 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 250 W Beverly Hills, CA 90212 Telephone: 310-275-4141 Website: http://www.fitnessforkids.org International Food Information Council Foundation 1100 Connecticut Ave. NW, Suite 430 Washington, DC 20036 Telephone: 202-296-6540 Website: http://foodinsight.org KidsHealth Website: http://kidshealth.org President’s Council on Physical Fitness, Sports & Nutrition 1101 Wootton Parkway, Suite 560 Rockville, MD 20852 Telephone: 240-276-9567 Website: http://www.fitness.gov U.S. Department of Agriculture Website: http://www.choosemyplate.gov