Chapter 11 - Exercise for Health and Fitness Flashcards
Exercise
Planned, structured, repetitive body movement intended to improve or maintain physical fitness.
Physical Fitness
The body’s ability to respond or adapt to the demands and stress of physical effort.
Health-Related Fitness
Physical capabilities that contribute to health, including cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular strength, muscular endurance, flexibility, and body composition.
Cardiorespritory Endurance
The ability of the body to perform prolonged, large-muscle, dynamic exercise at moderate to high levels of intensity.
Cardiorespritory Endurance Training
Exercise intended to improve cardiorespiratory endurance.
Muscular Strength
The force a muscle can produce with a single maximum effort.
Muscular Endurance
The ability of a muscle or group of muscles to remain contracted or to contract repeatedly for an extended period.
Flexibility
The joints’ ability to move through their full range of motion.
Body Composition
The proportion of fat and fat-free mass (muscle, bone, and water) in the body.
Fat-free mass
The nonfat components of the human body, consisting of skeletal muscle, bone, and water.
Skill-Related Fitness
Physical abilities that contribute to performance in a sport or activity, including speed, power, agility, balance, coordination, and reaction time.
Speed
The ability to perform a movement quickly.
Power
The ability to exert a force rapidly, based on strength and speed
Agility
The ability to change the body’s position quickly and accurately.
Balance
The ability to maintain equilibrium while either moving or stationary.
Coordination
The ability to perform motor tasks accurately and smoothly using body movements and the senses
Reaction and Movement Time
The ability to respond quickly to a stimulus.
Physical Activity Guidelines of Adults
- For substantial health benefits, adults should do at least 150 minutes a week of moderate intensity aerobic physical activity, or 75 minutes of vigorous aerobic activity or a combination of both.
- 1 minute of vigorous is equal to 2 minutes of moderate. For addition benefits they should double that
- Adults should do muscle strengthening activities involving all muscle groups on two or more days a week
- Everyone should avoid inactivity
- Physical activity benefits everyone and the benefits outweigh the dangers.