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Intro to Fitness Components

Physical fitness refers to the ability of the body systems to work efficiently and perform daily activities with minimal effort. There are two types of physical fitness: health-related fitness and skill-related fitness. Health-related fitness includes components like body composition, flexibility, cardiovascular endurance, muscular endurance, and muscular strength that contribute to overall health and reducing disease risk. Skill-related fitness includes components like agility, balance, coordination, speed, reaction time, and power that contribute to success in sports and physical activities.

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Intro to Fitness Components

Physical fitness refers to the ability of the body systems to work efficiently and perform daily activities with minimal effort. There are two types of physical fitness: health-related fitness and skill-related fitness. Health-related fitness includes components like body composition, flexibility, cardiovascular endurance, muscular endurance, and muscular strength that contribute to overall health and reducing disease risk. Skill-related fitness includes components like agility, balance, coordination, speed, reaction time, and power that contribute to success in sports and physical activities.

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PHED112 Health – Related Fitness is the ability of an

individual to perform the physical demands of


daily activity.
WEEK 1 & 2

FITNESS COMPONENTS Body Composition

- Relates to the ratio between the amount


Physical Education is a study, practice, and of lean tissue (bone, muscle, organs) and
appreciation of the art and science of human body fat that a person carries on his or
movement. her body. High percentages of body fat
have been linked to metabolic diseases,
Fitness is an ability to live a full and balanced in low energy, and compromised emotional
life. health.

Physical Fitness refers to the ability of your


body systems to work together efficiently to
allow you to be healthy and to perform activities Flexibility
of daily living. - Defined as the range of motion around
specific joints. Flexibility depends on
many variables: age, gender, body
• Being efficient means doing daily composition, behavioral habits are just a
activities with the least effort possible. few. Inadequate flexibility can lead to
loss of power and potential injury.
• A fit person is able to perform
schoolwork, meet home responsibilities,
and still have enough energy to enjoy
sport and other leisure activities.
Cardiovascular Endurance

Two Types of Physical Fitness - Cardiorespiratory is defined as the


health and function of the heart, lungs,
HEALTH- SKILL-RELATED and circulatory system.
RELATED
• Body • Agility - Cardiovascular Endurance is the ability
Composition
of the body to sustain prolonged
• Flexibility • Balance
activity.
• Cardio- • Coordination
Vascular
Endurance
• Muscular • Speed
Endurance
• Muscular • Reaction-time
Strength
• Power
B-F-C-M-M A-B-C-S-R-P
Muscular Endurance Speed

- The ability of the body to produce low - Refers to a person’s ability to move fast.
levels of force and maintain them for Speed combined with strength will
extended periods of time. provide power and force. This is a skill-
related component of physical fitness
that relates to the ability to perform a
Muscular Strength movement within a short period of time.

- Characterized by the maximal force


muscles can generate without a time Reaction-Time
limit of a specified movement.
- Skill-related component of physical
fitness that relates to the time between
Skill-Related Fitness one of your senses recognizing a
stimulus and your body moving in
- Contribute to the ability to successfully response.
participate in sports.

Power
Agility
- Defined as an amount of work done in a
- Will influence movement efficiency, as particular time. Work is the product of a
the ability to change the body position in force on an object, and remembers,
any direction & changing direction. muscular strength is the maximal
amount of force muscles can exert on an
object.
Balance
- This means that muscular power is
- Balance as a component of physical directly affected by muscular strength.
fitness refers to the athlete’s ability to
stay in controls of their body’s position.
SAFETY PRECAUTIONS

Coordination

- Refers to a person’s ability to perform


complex movements due to the working
together of the nervous system and the
muscles of the body. This is also
referred to as a person’s ability to do
two things at the same time.

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