PE Flashcards
is bodily movement produced by skeletal muscles. It requires energy expenditure and produces progressive
health benefits. It requires only a low to moderate intensity of effort. By contrast, it implies a level of activity that is lower than required to maintain good health.
Physical Activity
a type of physical activity that requires planned, structured, and repetitive body movement to improve or maintain one or more components of physical fitness. It is usually viewed as an activity that requires a vigorous-intensity effort.
Exercise
are practical skills that a child need for living and being which are sometimes considered basic or functional. The
designation of fundamental skill is preferable to other labels because the skills are simple. Characteristics and
attributes are necessary to function in the environment
Fundamental skills
are movements that allow us to move from one point in space to another.
“Locos” means “place” “motor” means “movement”
Locomotor skill
A series of steps
executed by both of
your feet alternately in
any direction.
Walk
Series of walk executed
quickly in any direction
wherein only one-foot stays
on the ground while the other
is off the ground.
Run
Spring from one foot and
land at the other foot in any
direction.
Leap
having both feet loose
contact with the ground.
Jump
These are movement that are performed in one point in space without transferring the weight to another point.
Non locomotor skill
the act of decreasing the angle of a joint. Another term for this is to bend.
Flexion
This is the opposite of flexion. You are extending if you are increasing the angle of a joint. Stretching is another word for it.
Extension
is a muscle movement done when it shortens, narrows, and tightens using a sufficient amount of energy in the execution.
Contraction
is the opposite of contraction wherein the muscle movement is done when it let goes or let loses of
being held into a shortening movement.
Release
To deliberately drop the exertion of energy into a body segment
Collapse
The opposite of collapse. This
is to regain the energy into a
body segment.
Recover
