Module 1: The Healthiest and Fittest ME Flashcards
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
A person who is free from illnesses and can do physical or sports activities and still has
an extra energy to do more activities is considered to be physically fit. Physical fitness is a
combination of health fitness and body fitness.
Physical Fitness
This is primarily associated with disease prevention and functional health. Participating
in regular health-related fitness helps you control your weight, prevents diseases and illness,
improves mood, boosts energy and promotes better sleep.
Health Related Fitness
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
It refers to the soundness of the heart and lungs which contributes to the ability to resist disease.
Organic Vigor
______ according to a study by Buckworth and Dishman, is the “planned, structured,
repetitive bodily movements that someone engages in for the purpose of improving or
maintaining physical fitness or health.
Exercise
________ activities, also called endurance activities, are physical activities in which people
move their large muscles in a rhythmic manner for a sustained period.
Aerobic
This kind of activity, which includes resistance training and lifting weights, causes the body’s muscles to work or hold against an applied force or weight.
Muscle-Strengthening Activity
This kind of activity (sometimes called weight-bearing or weight-loading activity) produces a force on the bones that promotes bone growth and strength.
Bone-Strengthening Activity