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
2
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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.
