Lesson 1: The Healthiest and Fittest Me Flashcards
a combination of health fitness and body fitness
Physical Fitness
refers to your body’s ability to fight off diseases
Health Fitness
refers to the ability
to do strenuous physical or sports activities without getting tired easily
Body Fitness
This is primarily associated with disease prevention and functional health; helps you control your weight, prevents
diseases and illness, improves mood, boosts energy and promotes better sleep.
Health Related Fitness
Health Related Fitness Components
Body composition, cardiovascular endurance, flexibility, muscular endurance, muscular strength
The combination of all the tissues that make up the body
such as bones, muscles, organs and body fat.
Body Composition
The ability of the heart, lungs, blood vessels, and
blood to work efficiently and to supply the body with oxygen.
Cardiovascular Endurance
The ability to use your joints fully through a wide range of motion.
Flexibility
The ability to use muscles for a long period of time without
tiring
Muscular Endurance
The ability of the muscles to lift a heavy weight or exert a lot
of force one time.
Muscular Strength
Skill Related Fitness Components
Agility, balance, coordination, power, reaction time, speed
The ability to change body positions quickly and keep the body under
control when moving
Agility
The ability to keep the body in a steady position while standing and
moving.
Balance
The ability of the body parts to work together when you perform an
activity
Coordination
The ability to combine strength with speed while moving.
Power
The ability to move quickly once a signal to start moving is
received.
Reaction Time
The ability to move all or a part of the body quickly.
Speed
Specific Components of Physical Fitness
Agility, balance, coordination, endurance, flexibility, organic vigor, power, speed, strength
The ability of the individual to change direction or position in space with
quickness and lightness of movement while maintaining dynamic balance.
Agility
The ability to control organic equipment neuro-muscularly; a state of
equilibrium.
Balance
The ability to integrate the body parts to produce smooth motion.
Coordination
The ability to sustain long continued contractions where a number
of muscle groups are used; the capacity to bear or last long in a certain task
without undue fatigue.
Endurance
The quality of plasticity, which gives the ability to do a wide range of
movement.
Flexibility
It refers to the soundness of the heart and lungs which contributes
to the ability to resist disease
Organic Vigor
The ability of the muscles to release maximum force in the shortest period
of time.
Power
The ability to make successive movements of the same kind in the shortest
period of time.
Speed
The capacity to sustain the application of force without yielding or
breaking; the ability of the muscles to exert efforts against resistance.
Strength
Activities done by the skeletal muscles that utilize energy
Physical Activity
Four domains of physical activity
Occupational, domestic, transportation, leisure time
These are the activities you do at your work place. Lifting
computers and books, going your friend’s desk or preparing lunch at the pantry.
occupational
These are the activities you do at home. Washing clothes and dishes,
gardening, carpentry, baking or cleaning the house
domestic
These are the activities that involves travelling. Riding a jeepney,
tricycle, motorcycle, or bikes.
transportation
These are the activities you do during recreational activities.
Playing, swimming, hiking or craft making.
leisure time