Physical Activity Essay

Introduction

Background of the study

“Time and health are two precious assets that we don’t recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted”. Denis Waitley once said. It is indeed a need to have a healthy body and with that one must be physically active. Mostly, people think of physical activity as an exercise. Physical activity in physical education terms is explained as any bodily movement that requires energy expenditure which may be from low to high and it comes in wide range of activities such as purposive exercise, leisure-time physical activity, transportation-related activity and house-hold related activity. According to the Department of Health in the Philippines (2004), a regular physical activity was recognized as early

These activities increase the level of physical activity of a person and may lessen such results of physical inactivity. DOH (2009) said that “Increasing levels of physical activity would contribute in achieving reductions in coronary heart disease and obesity, hypertension, depression and anxiety.” WHO mentioned that physical inactivity is considered as the fourth leading risk factor in death globally and approximately 3.2 million deaths each year are attributable to insufficient physical activity. This shows that there is a widespread dilemma in the physical activity of person. In line with this is also the emerging presence of media which comes in many forms such us social networking sites,

Certain parts of the media content may be a help to influence the level of the physical activity if the person. Some nutrition and health promoters used the advantages of media to disseminate information about the importance of Physical activity yet still the increasing rate of physical inactivity and diseases caused by sedentary lifestyle shows that there is no enough application and implementation of these programs. People engagement to media as a part of their daily routine may lessen their time in other activities most especially in physical activities. The lack of application of information’s from media about physical activity has been a serious concern. According to Plato, a great philosopher, that lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it. Living in 21st century wherein technology and media forms is highly used; physical activity should not be at stake. It is very important to have a balance between the level of physical activity of a person to the used of media and its content. This study seeks to know which of the following media content were able to influence the level of physical of the person, is it agenda, message, symbols or the formats and style. The result of this study will help future