PE Flashcards
any physical activity that makes you sweat, causes you to breathe harder, and gets your heart beating faster compared to when you
are at rest.
Aerobic Exercise
Doing ____________regularly strengthens your heart and lungs and trains your cardiovascular system to manage and deliver oxygen more quickly and efficiently throughout your body.
Aerobic exercise
_________ uses your large muscle groups, is rhythmic in nature, and can be maintained continuously for at least 10 minutes.
Aerobic exercise
4 techniques in getting the heart beat per minute
- Apical site
- Carotid pulse site
- Radial pulse site
- Temporal pulse site
ability of the body’s cardiovascular system to
supply energy during continuous physical activities such as biking and running
Aerobic fitness
Examples of aerobic activities include _________________________
walking at a brisk pace, swimming, jogging, dancing, etc.
the ability of the muscles to exert a force during an
activity such as lifting weights
Muscular strength
_____________ exercises involve using your muscles to work against a resistance such as your body weight, elastic bands or weights.
Muscle strengthening
any weight-bearing activity that produces a force on the bone, is also important to overall health for children and adults.
Bone strengthening exercise
Examples of bone-strengthening activities include
__________________
jumping, walking, jogging, and weight-lifting exercises.
is how many times you can lift a certain amount of weight
Muscular endurance
___________ (also referred to as weight training or strength training) helps increase muscular strength and endurance.
Resistance training
This type of exercise increases lean muscle mass, which is particularly important for weight loss, because lean muscle burns more calories than other types of tissue.
Resistance Training.
when you alternate between
several exercises (usually five to 10)
that target different muscle groups.
Circuit training
exercises that stretch your muscles and may improve your range of motion at your joints.
Flexibility exercises
usually done in warm-up exercise to condition the
muscle and in the Cooling down exercise to allow the body to gradual transition in a resting or near-resting
state.
Flexibility exercises
stretch that is most often recommended for general fitness. With this type, you slowly ease into the position and hold for 10 to 30 seconds before slowly
releasing the stretch.
Static Stretching
should be performed with warm muscles,
such as after a warm-up or at the end of a
workout.
Static stretching
This form of stretching is used in yoga and martial arts. The stretch is held by the strength of agonist
muscles (muscles responsible for the movement).
Hamstring Stretching (Yoga Poses)
During this type of stretching, you hold the limb to perform the stretch without any assistance such as a bar or bands.
Passive Static
stretching with movement. The body transitions gradually into a position and this movement is repeated as you increase your reach and
range of motion
Dynamic Stretching
ideal during the pre-workout phase because it gently warms muscles while also stretching them.
Dynamic Stretching
refers to the rate at which the activity is being performed or the magnitude of the effort required to perform an activity or exercise.
Intensity
how hard a person works to perform the activity.
Intensity
How Do you Assess your Fitness Level
- Start recording your pulse rate.
- Record how many standard or modified pushups you can do at a time
- How far you can reach forward while seated on the floor with your legs in front
of you - Your waist circumference, just above your hipbones
- Your body mass index to obtain your BM
What principle states that because we all are unique individuals, we will all have a slightly different response to an exercise program
Principle of Individual Differences
This principle simply states that exercising a certain body part or component of the body primarily develops that part
Principle of Specificity
The principle of ________ implies that to become better at a particular exercise or skill, you must perform that exercise or skill.
specificity