Self-Assessment of Body Composition and Cardiovascular Endurance Flashcards
This helps to measure various aspects of your body and its abilities. It identifies the current fitness levels and serves as a baseline or starting point of physical fitness.
Fitness Assessment
____________ is a set of measures designed to determine one’s level of physical fitness. Each component comprises several tests and specific testing protocols.
a. What are its two components?
Physical Fitness Test
a. Health-Related and Skill-Related Fitness
Component. Fitness. This involves exercise activities that you do in order to improve your physical health and stay healthy
Particularly in the categories of cardiovascular endurance, muscular strength, flexibility, muscular endurance, and body composition.
Health-Related Fitness
This type of assessment is a series of exercises that help evaluate your over-all fitness level and physical status.
Health-Related Fitness (HRF) Assessment
This is the ability of the heart, lungs, and blood vessels
to deliver oxygen to the body tissues.
If you have a strong heart and lungs you can, exercise your entire body for a long period of time without getting tired.
Cardiovascular Endurance
___________ is the amount of fat cells compared with lean cells in the body mass.
Body Composition
___________ is the non-fat tissue of muscles, bones, ligaments, and tendons.
Lean body mass
Body Composition / Lean Body Mass is measured in…
skinfold thickness
The ______ is one way to tell whether you are at a normal weight, overweight, or obese. It measures your weight in relation to your height.
Body Mass Index (BMI)
BMI Formula:
Weight (Kg) / Height^2 (m)
This measures stored body fat percentage by the relative measurement of waist and hip.
Waist to Hip Ratio (WHR)
WHR Formula:
Waist Circum (cm) / Hip Circum (cm)
Related to Cardiovascular Endurance or Body Composition:
1. 3-minute step test
2. Fats, muscles and tissues
3. Pulse rate
4. Heart and lungs
5. BMI
- Cardiovascular Endurance
- Body Composition
- Cardiovascular Endurance
- Cardiovascular Endurance
- Body Composition
Your classmate has been advised by her doctor to improve her cardiovascular endurance. Which of the following would you suggest to her?
A. Engage in weight training at least twice a week
B. Enroll in Gymnastics class
C. Participate in a bowling tournament every weekend
D. Play soccer 2-3 times a week
D. Play soccer 2-3 times a week
It helps to assess cardiovascular endurance.
A. 3-minute step test
B. Anthropometric measurement
C. Hipline measurement
D. Waist and Hip Ratio
A. 3-minute step test
