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Components Of Fitness Flashcards

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What is Muscular endurance?

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The ability of a group of muscles to repeatedly contract without tiring.

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What is Speed?

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The ability to move the whole body or parts of the body quickly

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Cardiovascular endurance

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The ability to continuously exercise without tiring

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What is Flexibility?

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The range of movement around a joint

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What is agility?

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The ability to change direction under control whilst maintaining balance and speed

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What is balance?

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The ability to keep a body’s centre of mass over its base of support.

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What is Coordination?

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The ability of repeating a pattern or movement with fluency and accuracy, involving two or more body parts.

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What is power?

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The combination of speed x strength

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What is reaction time?

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The time taken to respond to a stimulus

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What is strength?

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The ability of a muscle to exert force for a short period of time.

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What are the 10 components of fitness?

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  • Muscular endurance
  • Speed
  • Flexibility
  • Cardiovascular endurance
  • Agility
  • Balance
  • Coordination
  • Power
  • Reaction time
  • Strength
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How can you test your cardiovascular endurance? (2)

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  • multi stage fitness test
  • 12 minute cooper run
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How can you test your agility and what are the distances between cones?

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  • Illinois agility test
  • 10m between the first two cones
  • 3.3m between the middle cones
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How can you test your balance?

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  • standing stork test
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How can you test your muscular endurance?

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  • Sit up test
  • Press up test
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How can you test your speed and how far is it between each cone? Why is this?

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  • 30m sprint test
  • 10m between the first and second
  • 30m from the second to last
    This is so that we are testing speed and not reaction
17
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How can you test flexibility?

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  • sit and reach test
18
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How can you test Reaction time?

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  • rule drop test
19
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How can you test power? How are these tests carried out?

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  • Vertical jump test
    Two feet flat on the floor reach up as high as you can and make a mark. Then you jump as high as you can and make a second mark. Finally you take away the jump result from the original.
  • Standing broad jump
    Two footed jump as far as you can and you must mark the closest point to the start as your score.
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How do you test Coordination? What are the measurements?

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  • Wall throw test
    You must stand 2m from the wall
21
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How do you test strength?

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Grip strength dynamometer

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