Components of Health related fitness Flashcards

- Cardiovascular System - Aerobic Endurance - Muscular Endurance - Flexibility - Muscular Strength - Body Composition

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Aerobic Endurance?

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  • How efficiently you are able to keep your muscles supplied with nutrients and oxygen while you are exercising?
  • Also known as cardiorespiratory endurance
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What is involved in the Cardiovascular system? What is it responsible for?

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  • Transporting oxygen and nutrients to all the tissues in the body and removing waste products (carbon dioxide)
  • Heart, Blood and Blood vessels
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Muscular Endurance?

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  • Muscles continuously exert force for a long period of time.
  • contract multiple types (running a marathon)
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Flexibility?

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  • The ability to move your joints through their full range of movements smoothly.
  • how elastic the ligaments and tendons are at a joint
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Muscular Strength?

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  • The amount of force, measured in kilograms or Newtons that can be generated by a muscle when contracting
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Body Composition?

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  • The measure of how much of your body is made up of fat-free mass, of vital organs and how much is made up of fat.
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