Component 1: Physical training Flashcards
What is health?
A state of complete emotional, physical, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity.
What is fitness?
The ability to meet the demands of the environment.
What is exercise?
A form of physical activity done to maintain or improve health and/or fitness.
What is performance?
How well a task is completed.
What is meant by the term sedentary?
Lacking in physical activity.
What is a hypokinetic disease?
A disease caused by a lack of physical activity.
How many components of fitness are there?
11
What is cardiovascular fitness?
The ability to work the body for a long period of time without tiring.
What is strength?
The amount of force a muscle can generate when it contracts to overcome a resistance.
What is muscular endurance?
The ability for voluntary muscles to work repeatedly without tiring.
What is flexibility?
The ability of your joints to move your joints through their full range of movement/ the range of movement at a joint.
What is body composition?
The % of body that is muscle, fat and bone.
What is agility?
How quickly you can change the direction of the body at speed whilst under control.
What is balance?
Your ability to keep the body steady when moving and when standing still.
What is coordination?
The ability to move two or more body parts together.
What is reaction time?
The amount of time it takes for your body to react to a stimulus.
What is speed?
The rate at which your body or part of your body is able to perform a movement.
What is power?
The ability to combine strength with speed to perform something.
What is the test for cardiovascular fitness?
12 minute cooper run
What is the test for strength?
Hand grip test.
What is the test for muscular endurance?
1 min press ups or sit ups
What is the test for flexibility?
Sit & reach test
What is the test for speed?
30m sprint
What are the principles of training?
Individual needs, specicfity, progressive overload, over training, rest, recovery, reversibility.
