PHYSICAL FITNESS Flashcards
Is the ability to perform one’s daily task efficiently without undue fatigue but with extra “reserve” in case of emergency
Physical Fitness
What are the aspects of physical fitness?
- Perform daily task
- Leisure or recreational activities
- Meeting emergency errands
a. Waking up in the morning
b. Going to school or office on time
c. Attending class regularly
d. Doing assignments in the library
e. Meeting other individual, classmates, and peer groups
Perform daily task
a. Watching tv or movies
b. Talking to friends over the phone
c. Reading books and magazine articles
d. Doing arts and crafts
e. Listening to radio
f. Playing sports
Leisure/Recreational activities
Amount of time that is left after the daily routine activities
Leisure time
Any activity participated in by an individual during leisure time on a voluntary basis
Recreation
•doing important errands
•performing social obligations
•attending to visitors
•attending to household problems
Meeting emergency errands
What are the concepts of Physical Fitness?
organic vigor, endurance, strength, power, flexibility ,agility, balance speed
Refers to the soundness of the heart and the lungs which contributes to the ability to resist diseases
Organic vigor
Physical strength and good health
Vigor
Is 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
“time”
Endurance
Capacity to apply a force against a resistance
Strength
maximum force in a shortest period of time
Power
It is a quality of plasticity,which gives the ability to do a wide range of movement
Flexibility
Is the ability of an individual to change direction or position in space without the quickness and lightness of movement
Agility
It is the ability to control organic equipment neuromuscularly ; a state of equilibrium
Balance
Is the ability to make successive movements of the same kind in the shortest period of time
Speed
