Physical Fitness Flashcards
What is physical fitness
Physical Fitness is the ability to perform physical tasks efficiently and effectively.
What is your goal if you’re doing fitness for health?
To maintain your health a minimum amount of exercise is needed to keep your body systems functioning at their best. This is known as the baseline of exercise or your minimum benchmark. Doing less exercise than this may lead to you having poor health.
What is your goal if you’re doing fitness for performance?
To be physically fit for performance in sport you must go above the baseline so you must do extra training. Ultimately you may want to get your body in the best shape possible to perform so you may want to achieve Peak Physical Fitness.
What is physical health?
to maintain this you need to do appropriate and sufficient exercise to keep your body in reasonable working order. This is your baseline or benchmark.
What does exercise refer to?
Exercise refers to developing physical health/wellbeing.
What does training refer to?
Training refers to developing peak physical fitness
What are 7 components of exercise and physical fitness?
- Aerobic energy production
2.2. Anaerobic energy production
3.3. Muscular power
4.4. Muscular strength
5.5. Muscular speed
6.6. Muscular endurance
7.7. Flexibility
Energy can be produced…
Aerobically and anaerobically
To perform any physical task you need?
Energy
What is Aerboic Energy Production
produced with the use of oxygen
•determined by the ability of the respiratory and circulatory systems to deliver nutrients and oxygen to the working muscles and the ability of the working muscles to use the supply. So oxygen and energy supply meets the oxygen/ energy demand.
What is an example of Aerobic Energy Production?
aerobic fitness is about being able to keep going at activities such as running, cycling, swimming or rowing for long periods of time without getting tired
What is Anaerobic Energy Production?
Produced without oxygen
•determined by the ability of the muscles and liver to store fuel and the ability of the muscles to utilize this fuel
•anaerobic fitness is about being able to perform at very high intensities or maximum effort where the respiratory and circulatory systems cannot meet the demand for oxygen and nutrients quickly enough.
•Generally, the higher the intensity of the activity, the shorter the time that it can be maintained and anaerobic energy production becomes crucial. The lower the intensity of the physical activity the longer it can be maintained and aerobic energy production is more dominant.
What is an example of Anaerobic Energy Production?
400m Sprint, number of press ups in 2min
Muscle require energy to produce force for carrying out physical tasks. The force produced by the muscles can provide what?
Power
Strength
Speed
Endurance
What is muscular power
Being able to produce maximum force with speed in an explosive effort.
What’s an example of muscular power
Weight-lifting, shot putt, hammer throw, boxing.
How is muscular power determined?
The size of the muscle and the ratio of the different types of muscle fibres.
What is muscular strength
The ability of a muscle or group of muscles to produce maximum effort or near maximum force to overcome a resistance.
What are some examples of muscular strength
Tug of war and a rugby scrum
What is muscular speed
Being able to apply a moderate to small force at a high speed
What are some examples of muscular speed?
Playing shot in badminton, tennis, golf
What is muscular endurance?
Muscles or groups of muscles being able to hold or keep repeating a movement that requires less than maximum effort for a long period of time
What are some examples of muscular endurance?
- holding 2 light dumbbells for as long as possible with arms straight
and hands at shoulder height.
- continually playing shots in tennis or badminton requires
muscular endurance in arms, wrists and fingers.
- continually repeating cycling or running movements;
muscular endurance in the legs.
What is flexibility?
Flexibility is range of movement at a joint or joints
