PHYSICAL FITNESS Flashcards
Is the measure of the body’s ability to function efficiently and effectively in work, to be healthy, to resist hypokinetic diseases and to meet emergency situations?
Physical Fitness
Is a state of health and wellbeing?
General fitness
A task oriented, based on the ability to perform specific aspects of sports or occupations?
Specific fitness
What are the components of Fitness?
Muscular Strength
Body composition
Flexibility or Suppleness
Speed or Velocity
Muscular Endurance. Cardiovascular Endurance
Factors affecting fitness
Gender
Build
Diet
Exercise
Physical Disability
Illness and Fatigue
Drug taking
Stress
Environment
Age
Ability to exercise your entire body for long periods of time
Cardiovascular fitness
The amount of force you muscles can produce
strength
The ability to use your muscles many times without tiring
Muscular endurance
the ability to use your joints fully through a wide range of motion
Flexibility
The percentage of weight that is made up of fat when compared to other body tissue, such as. one and muscle
Body fatness-composition
The ability to change the position of your body quickly and to control body’s movement
Agility
The ability to keep an upright posture while standing still or moving
Balance
The ability to use strength and speed
Power
the amount of time it takes to move once you realize the need to act
reaction time
the ability to perform a movement or cover a distance in a short period of time
speed
