Fundamentals of Health & Fitness
Reasons to Exercise:
To look good.
Socialization
Health Reasons
Required in P.E. Class 💀
Physical Education — Integral part of the whole educational program to promote the optimum, holistic development of an individual through total body movement in the performance of properly selected physical activities. (Andin, nd.)
Health — State of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease of infirmity. (WHO, nd.)
Wellness — Active process through which people become aware of, and make choices toward a more successful existence. (National Wellness Institute, nd.)
Physical Fitness:
Capacity of people to perform physical activities.
A set of attributes a person needs to carry out daily task with alertness, without undue fatigue and with ample energy to enjoy their own leisure pursuits and respond to emergencies.
Health Related Fitness — Fitness components that aims to improve the overall health and well-being.
Cardio-Respiratory Endurance — The capacity of one to participate in activities without undue fatigue for a long period of time.
Muscular Strength — Ability of the muscle group to produce and exert a certain and amount of force to carry out desired action.
Muscular Endurance — Capacity of a muscle or muscle group to resist fatigue and perform repeated contraction.
Body Composition — Ratio of fat-free mass compared to the amount of body fat it is composed of.
Flexibility
Skill Related Fitness — Components related with learning motor skills quickly and ability to achieve high level of performance in sports.
Coordination — Ability of using body senses in performing certain skills smoothly and accurately.
Reaction Time — Time that lapses between the reaction and the stimuli initiating the response.
Agility — Ability to rapidly and accurately change direction of the movement of the entire body in space.
Speed — Ability to perform a movement in a short period of time.
Balance — Ability to stabilize your body whether in static of dynamic motion.
Ways to Improve Fitness Components:
Physical Activity — Any movement that requires the work of the body’s muscle group and energy expenditure.
Types of Exercise
Aerobic Exercise — Uses arms and legs to move the body.
The muscles are used in continuous (and generally easy-to-perform) rhythmic or repetitive motions, increasing your heart rate and respiration while building your physical endurance.
Anaerobic Exercise — Builds the skeletal muscle, increasing overall levels of power and strength
Done through weight and resistance exercises using gravity and the own body weight using machines.
Locomotor — These are movements where the body travels through space from one location another.
Non-locomotor — Movements that occur in the body parts of the whole body and do not cause the body to travel to another space.