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refers to the ability of your body systems to work together efficiently to allow you to be healthy and perform activities of daily living. Being efficient means doing daily activities with the least effort possible.

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Physical Fitness

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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.

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Health Related Fitness (HRF)

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(also known as body fat percent) refers to the lean body mass and fat body mass and is a method of describing what the body is made of.

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Body Composition

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Is the ability of a muscle or group of muscles to perform repetitive contractions against a force for an extended period of time. The greater your muscular endurance the higher number of repetitions you could complete. [Exercises: Sit-ups, curl-ups and Bench press]

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Muscular Endurance

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is the level at which your heart, lungs, and muscles work together when you’re exercising for an extended period of time.

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Cardio-Respiratory Endurance

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Refers to the greatest amount of force that can be generated from a single maximal effort. [Exercises: Weightlifting, Push-ups]

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Muscular Strength

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The ability to use joints fully through a wide range of motion.

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Flexibility

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enhances one’s performance in athletic or sports events.

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Skills Related Fitness

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The ability to change and control the direction and position of your body while maintaining constant rapid motion

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Agility

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The ability to control or stabilize your equilibrium while moving and staying still.

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Balance

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The ability to use your eyes and ears to determine and direct the smooth movement of your body.

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Coordination

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The ability to move your body parts quickly while at the same time applying the maximum force of your muscles

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Power

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The ability to react or respond quickly to what you hear, see, or feel.

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Reaction Time

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The ability to move your body or parts of your body quickly

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Speed

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describes how often you exercise

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Frequency

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the level of effort during exercise (low-moderate-vigorous)

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Intensity

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refers to the time of day you exercise and how long each session lasts

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Time

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kind of exercise you should do to reach your fitness goals.

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Type

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The way the body responds to physical activity is very specific to the activity itself.

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Principle of Specificity

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Rest is required for the body to recover from the training and allow adaptation. An inadequate amount of rest may lead to overtraining.

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Recovery

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bodies adapt to the current exercise routine over time

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Principle of Progression

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in order to progress and improve, putting the body under additional stress beyond what is normal is key

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Principle of Overload

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Injury caused by repetitive motion or moving in awkward position

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Overexertion

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Caused by excessive loss of body fluids due to heat and lack of water

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Dehydration

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23
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Condition characterized by abnormally high body temperature

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Hyperthermia

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24
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Condition of having an abnormally low body temperature

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Hypothermia

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is the underwater movement by humans or animals through water, usually without artificial assistance.

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Swimming

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occurs when learning swimming and water safety is the main objective of the activity. Recreational swimming is often less structured than session designed to teach swimming and water safety,

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Recreational swimming

27
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is an activity which involves swimming as its primary mechanism in competing which can either be individual or team based

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Competitive swimming

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Swimming has been known since ______; the earliest recording of swimming dates back to the ______ ____ paintings from around ** years ago.

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pre-historic times, stone age, 7000

29
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Swimming has its origins in _____ as leisure sports around ** BCE. According to Britannica, archeological evidence has shown that ancient Greeks and Romans later used to practice and train soldiers for war to become “part of elementary education for males”.

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Egypt, 2500

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Written references date from ** BC. Some of the earliest references include the Gilgamesh, the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Bible (Ezekiel 27:5, Isaiah 25:11)

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2000

31
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Competitive Swimming in Europe started around **, mostly using breastroke. Swimming was part of the first modern Olympic Games in ** in ______.

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1800, 1896, Athens

31
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In 1902, ______ ______ introduced the front crawl to the Western World

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Frederick Cavill

32
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In **, the world swimming association, FEDERATION INTERNATIONALE de NATATION (FINA) was formed.

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1908

33
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begins with simple exercises such as drawing a breath, submerging, blowing bubbles and then resurfacing for another breath.

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Breath Control

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keeping your body in a horizontal position in the water

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Floating

35
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is what a swimmer can do while in a vertical position to keep their head above the surface of the water, while not providing sufficient directional thrust to overcome inertia and propel the swimmer in any specific direction.

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Water Treading

35
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provides propulsion through the water

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Kicking

36
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the arm movements used to pull the body through the water.

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strokes

37
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typically used for speed, as it allows for a streamlined movement that helps the body glide through the water.

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Freestyle

38
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one of the most well known swimming strokes. Also referred to as the “racing backstroke’’.

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Backstroke

39
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done on the stomach with both arms in the water while the body is pulled backward. The arms then move in an arc shape in the front of the body while the legs do a frog kick. Out of all the swimming strokes, the breastroke may be one of the oldest.

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Breaststroke

40
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another stomach position stroke in which the arms move forward in a circle motion going above the head and directly into the water. Once the arms hit the water, the legs are kicked backwards at the same time in what is known as a dolphin kick. It is known as the hardest swimming stroke to master.

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Butterfly Stroke

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is an underwater swimming activity involving the use of scuba

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Scuba Diving

42
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abbreviation of SCUBA

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Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus

43
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The ______ of diving can be traced from using the hollow underwater reeds from as a way the simple of staying longer reed, more effective ways of breathing underwater were invented.

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beginnings

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** - A simple cauldron in the shape of a ____ was used where the idea was to trap the air inside the container where the diver swims out until he or she runs out of breath then returns to the bell to replenish air.

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1300s, bell

45
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** - The improved bell was developed by _______ _______. Two people inside pulled down the dive glove with trapped air.

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1690, Edmund Halley

46
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** - Englishman _____ ______ built the ______, which was an underwater oak cylinder supplied with compressed air from the surface

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1715, diving engine, John Lethbridge

47
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** Originally for firefighters, ______ ______ ____ invented the _____. The helmet was worn on the head of a man with a fitted shaft, which provided ventilation from the surface.

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1823, smoke mask, Charles Anthony Deane

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** - The first workable, full-time SCUBA was invented by _____ ______. It had a cylindrical strip along the tubing trunk, which was used as a 450 psi air reservoir.

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1825, William James

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** - German-born inventor _____ ______ , innovated closed diving suits to complete the diving helmet of Deane. The lawsuit was connected to an air pump on the surface and became the first standard diving dress.

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1837, Augustus Siebe

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** - The first diving school was established by the Royal Navy.

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1843

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** - In the light of the breath, Jacques Cousteau and Emile Gagnan redesigned a car regulator which gave compressed air to divers. This style has transformed the diving world and is now what we know as the contemporary SCUBA.

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1943

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** - ______ _. ______, an English merchant seaman, developed the first self contained diving gear that used compressed oxygen and not compressed air.

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1876, Henry A. Fleuss

52
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creates the air pocket to have a clearer view of the underwater life.

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Dive Mask

53
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is a breathing tube allowing you to inhale and exhale through your mouth when swimming face down on the water surface.

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Snorkel

54
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contains the pressurized air which allows one to breathe and to stay longer underwater.

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Scuba Tank

55
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lets you breathe underwater. It connects to your tank and delivers air to your mouth when you inhale.

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Regulator

56
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shows how much of the air is left

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Submersible Pressure Gauge (SPG)

57
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provide the propulsion that makes it possible to swim with lesser effort.

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Fins

58
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provides protection from the coldness of the water and other elements

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Scuba or Wet Suit

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  • is a fun activity that involves moving through water in a small water vessel with the aid of a double bladed paddle.
  • The Inuits, you might know as “Eskimos,” lived around Greenland and used kayaks made from animal skins stretched over wooden or whale-bone frames for transportation, hunting, and fishing.
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Kayak

60
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  • “kayak” means “_______” in Eskimo.
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man-boat

61
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recreational boating activity or paddle sport in which you kneel or sit facing forward in an open or closed-decked canoe, and propel yourself with a single bladed paddle, under your own power.

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Canoe

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The word ‘canoe’ comes from the Carib kenu (dugout), from the Spanish “____”.

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canoa

4th (6 decks)

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