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Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. The definition was updated in the 1986 WHO Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion to say health is a resource for everyday life, not the objective of living, and health is a positive concept emphasizing social and personal resources, as well as physical capacities.

Fitness describes the capability of an individual of certain genotype to reproduce, and usually is equal to the proportion of the individuals genes in all the genes of the next generation. If differences in individual genotypes affect fitness, then the frequencies of the genotypes will change over generations;...

Physical fitness is now more or less a matter of National concern. The strength of democracy is the collective well being of you people. We live in a labour-saving and mechanized society, which is eliminating more and more physical exertion from our day-to-day life. The industrial development is responsible...

Teaching is considered as an art which encompasses not only the good classroom sittings and lengthy and tidy discussion but it is consisted of all those situations in which the educator comes into contact with the students any where across the world. In the field of physical education, a teacher or instructor has to perform multifarious responsibilities viz.,

This collection of games is mainly meant for the undergraduate students of physical education. It can also be of use to students pursuing teacher training courses. It can be an integral part of leadership training camps, National Service Scheme Camps or for any family get together. The book is conveniently...

Environmental studies is the academic field which systematically studies human interaction with the environment. It is a broad interdisciplinary field of study that includes the natural environment, built environment, and the sets of relationships between them. While distinct from ecology and environmental...

The present book entitled Principles of Educational System discusses all the aspects of education. The text are arranged in a lucid from and written in a simple colloquial English language.

There are very few principles of physical education administration that have been less adequately applied than have those that deal with the planning and construction of buildings to house the program. The large number of inadequate physical education buildings, even an university campuses, is material...

Managing has been essential to assure the coordination of individual efforts. As we have come to rely increasingly on group efforts and as many as organized groups have become large, the task of management has risen in mportance. The NPE and PDA has emphasized the importance of decentralizing planning...

Education is a social process. It has a social function and above all, it originates in response to social needs and problems. The two-fold relationship between education and society education being both the product and the producer of the social environment, is quite evident. The School, it has been...

The key to quality and effective Achievement-Based Curriculum in physical education is assessment. Valid placement and instructional decisions cannot be made or evaluated without appropriate assessment data, that is, you must know what a student can and cannot do on a task before you can begin to make a decision. These same procedures apply to both small and large decisions.

Yoga has a long history. It is an integral subjective science. Its spiritual, mental or physical import cannot be separated from each other. According to Panini, the Grammarian, the word Yoga is derived from two roots, viz. Yujir and Yuja one referring to Yoking (Yujvir Yoga), and the other referring...

There are very few principles of physical education administration that have been less adequately applied than have those that deal with the planning and construction of buildings to house the program. The large number of inadequate physical education buildings, even on university campuses, is material evidence of this fact. Several factors have contributed to this condition.