What is recreation?

Recreation consists of freely selected activities, leisure pursuits, and experiences. They

create feelings of well-being, contentment, enjoyment, relaxation, and satisfaction and are

frequently done in leisure time. These are opportunities for people to express their creativity,

accomplish and acquire new skills while feeling good about themselves, and they are performed

on special occasions.

What are the benefits of recreational activities?

 It relaxes the mind and body after a long day at work.

 Boredom is reduced, and a person becomes more alert.

 It creates an opportunity for sociability, interaction, and muscle development, as well as

increased strength and confidence.

Type of Recreational Activities

1. Active Recreational Activities

 Active recreation is any physical activity done during free time that is not part of
a structured, competitive sport. It's a collection of activities that fall under the
broad category of physical activity, which also includes active living, physical
movement, and sport. It refers to a structured individual or team activity that
requires the use of special facilities, courses, fields, or equipment.

Examples of Active Recreational Activities

1. Hip-hop Dancing
 It's a collection of street dance forms
that are largely danced to hip hop
music or have developed as a result
of hip hop culture. It is shaped by a
diverse spectrum of genres
developed in the 1970s and
popularized by American dance
crews.

Benefits
 It is beneficial both to the aerobic and anaerobic health. A typical class lasts
60 minutes and consists of moderate to vigorous activity. Increasing your
heart rate is good for your cardiovascular health. Hip-hop dancing
techniques can help promote bone and joint health by improving flexibility
in your arms, legs, and core.
2. Cycling
 The use of bikes for transportation,
recreation, exercise, or sport is
known as bicycling or biking. It is a
healthy, low-impact exercise that can
be enjoyed by people of all ages,
from young children to older adults.
It is also fun, cheap and good for the
environment.

Benefits
 It's a fantastic technique to shed pounds. It is indeed efficient, enjoyable, and
simple to fit into a busy day, and it provides emotional and mental benefits in
addition to physical ones like improved cardiovascular fitness, muscular
strength and flexibility, managed to improve joint mobility, lessened stress
levels, improved posture and coordination, strengthened bones, and so on.

3. Gym Workouts
 It is a method of testing or improving
one's fitness in preparation for an
athletic competition, aptitude, or
performance. It's also a test of one's
aptitude, capacity, endurance, or
suitability.

Benefits
 It can lift our spirits and alleviate worry and depression. Important for
maintaining a healthy metabolism and burning more calories throughout the
day. It also aids in the preservation of muscle mass and weight loss. It aids in
the development of muscles and strong bones. It may also aid in the
prevention of osteoporosis. This can help you feel more energized. This is
true for persons who suffer from chronic fatigue, as well as those who suffer
from catastrophic illnesses and a variety of other ailments.

4. Swimming
 It is the movement of the body through
water using a combination of arm and
leg actions, as well as the body's
natural buoyancy. Swimming is a
popular all-around body builder that is
very beneficial in treatment and
exercise for physically handicapped
people.

Benefits
 It improves cardiovascular fitness, muscular strength, and endurance. It aids
in the maintenance of a healthy weight, a healthy heart and lungs, as well as
 the toning and strengthening of muscles. Swimming gives you an all-over
body workout because it engages nearly all your muscles.

5. Jogging
 It is a slow or leisurely trotting or
running movement. The major goal
is to improve physical fitness while
putting less stress on the body than
faster running but more than
walking, or by maintaining a
constant speed for longer periods of
time.

Benefits
 It aids in losing weight, bone strength, muscular development, mental health,
heart health, respiratory health, infection and infectious illness prevention,
and so on.
 2. Passive Recreational Activities
 Passive recreation area is generally an undeveloped space or environmentally
sensitive area that requires minimal development. It refers to recreational
activities that do not require prepared facilities like sports fields or pavilions.
Passive recreational activities place minimal stress on a site’s resources; as a
result, they can provide ecosystem service benefits and are highly compatible
with natural resource protection.

Examples of Passive Recreational Activities

1. Listening to Music
 It refers to listening to music while
paying attention to sound.

Benefits
 It boosts our mood, lowers stress,
reduces anxiety, improves memory,
relieves pain, provides comfort, and
boosts cognition. Furthermore,
when music is performed, blood
flows more freely. It can also lower blood pressure, diminish cortisol (the
stress hormone), and raise serotonin and endorphin levels in the
bloodstream.

2. Playing Mobile or Video Games

 It serves mobile games for fun and
entertainment rather than for a
serious or utilitarian purpose.

Benefits
 It boosts our mood, lowers
stress, reduces anxiety,
improves memory, relieves pain,
provides comfort, and boosts cognition. Furthermore, it enhances problem-
 solving abilities, increases creative production, and promotes morale and
teamwork.

3. Fishing
 It's the act of attempting to catch
fish. Fish are commonly captured
in the wild, but they can also be
caught in stocked water bodies.
Hand collection, spearing, netting,
angling, and trapping are all
methods for catching fish.

Benefits
 Fishing keeps you fit by working out your primary core muscles, heart, and
lungs, as well as increasing your vitamin D consumption, improving your
attention, improving your self-esteem, and allowing us to disconnect.

4. Reading
 It's the process of deciphering a set of
written symbols and determining their
meaning. As we read, our eyes acquire
written symbols (letters, punctuation marks,
and spaces), which we then turn into words,
sentences, and paragraphs that communicate
with us.

Benefits
 Listening and understanding are both important aspects of learning to read,
as is figuring out what's written on the page. Children are exposed to a wide
range of vocabulary by listening to stories. This helps children expand their
vocabulary and increase their listening comprehension, as well as improve
our communication abilities.

5. Watching Movie/Television
 It refers to watching at something for a long
time, especially if it's changing or moving.

Benefits
 A fantastic source of amusement,
information, and conversation. It can
help us learn more and become more
aware of the world around us, as well as
connect us to the rest of the world. It also aids in the treatment of depression
and other mental illnesses. While at home or on the road, this is one method
to enjoy, relax, and pass the time.
 PE & Health 12 – 3rd Quarter

ACTIVE AND PASSIVE

RECREATIONAL
ACTIVITIES

Submitted by: Nicole A. Forrosuelo Grade 12 – STEM

Submitted to: Edward Calising