What is Fitness? Flashcards
Define Fitness
Work capacity across broad times and modal domains
Define Health
Health is work capacity across broad time and modal domains throughout your life
Define the four supporting models of fitness
10 General Physical Skills; The Hopper; Metabolic Pathways; and Sickness-Wellness-Fitness Continuum
What are the 10 General Physical Skills?
Flexibility
Speed
Coordination
Agility
Balance
Stamina
Cardiovascular/respiratoryenduranceccuracy
Accuracy
Power
Strength
F-SCABS & CAPS
Differentiate training from practice and explain the adaptions developed under both
Training: endurance, stamina, strength & flexibility
Practice: coordination, agility, balance & accuracy
both: power & speed
Identify the three metabolic pathways
Phosphagen, Glycolytic, Oxidative
Define Aerobic
Energy is derived aerobically when oxygen is utilized to metabolize substrates derived from food and liberates energy. Activities are usually greater than 90 seconds in duration and involved low to moderate power output or intensity. Ex: running on the treadmill for 20 mins, swimming a mile and watching tv.
Define Anaerobic
tEnergy is derived anaerobically when energy is liberated from substrates in the absense of oxygen. These activities are less than two minutes in duration and involve moderate to high-power output or intensity. Ex: running a 100m sprint, squatting and doing pull-ups.
Identify how each model could be used to assess fitness and to determine the fittest individual
To be considered fit is to be good at all 4 modals of fitness
The Hopper
Fitness is about performing well at any and every task imaginable - Your fitness can be measured by your capacity to perform well at these tasks in relation to other individuals
Phosphagen Pathway
10 seconds or less. I.e., 100m sprint or 1RM DL
(Anaerobic activity)
Identify and interpret the power curve
Fitness can be graphed in two-dimensions with duration of effort on the x-axis and power on the y-axis. By graphing your average power capacity across a variety of domains (skills & drills) you create a power curve that represents your ‘fitness’. By adding age as the z-axis, the power curve takes three dimensional shape and defines your health or sustained fitness.
Define work capacity
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How is work capacity illustrated by the power curve
Duration of effort is graphed on the x-axis and power is graphed on the y-axis (power/time)
Explain the goal of CrossFit in relation to the power curve
CrossFit can accurately predict improvements in work capacity, expanding the individuals power curve. This is a mathematical representation of increased ‘fitness
