Enhancing Health, Study, Work, and Play Through Physical Fitness

1. Enhancing Health, Study, Work, and Play Through Physical Fitness Chapter 11 Sport Books Publisher

2. Objectives • To identify the various components of fitness • To understand the contribution of physical fitness to overall health • To examine your own physical fitness level and to develop an awareness of personal fitness requirements • To develop a personal fitness and lifestyle program Sport Books Publisher

3. Introduction What is Fitness? Sport Books Publisher

4. Introduction: What is Fitness? • Fitness… • Is multidimensional: physical, emotional, social, and intellectual components • Is the ability to adapt to the demands and stresses of physical efforts • Represents one’s functional readiness and level of effectiveness Sport Books Publisher

5. Introduction: What is Fitness? • Fitness includes… • Cardiorespiratory endurance • Flexibility • Body composition • Muscular strength • Muscular power • Muscular endurance Sport Books Publisher

6. Introduction • A high level of fitness is important to competitive athletes • General fitness is a prerequisite for the optimal development of sport-specific fitness Sport Books Publisher

7. Definition of Physical Fitness • The ability of the body to adjust to the demands and stresses of physical effort • Physical fitness is thought to be a measure of one’s physical health Sport Books Publisher

8. Definition of Physical Activity • Any movement carried out by the skeletal muscles • Requires the use of energy Sport Books Publisher

9. Definition of Exercise • Physical activity that is planned, structured, and usually involves repetitive bodily movements • Designed to improve or maintain physical fitness Sport Books Publisher

10. Physical Activity Versus Physical Fitness • Physical activity and physical fitness are related measures • Physical fitness is an achieved condition that limits the amount of physical activity that can be performed • A physical activity-exercise continuum exists, so that what may be considered physical activity to a fit person may be considered exercise to an unfit person Sport Books Publisher

11. Components of Physical Fitness

12. Components of Physical Fitness • Muscular Strength • Power • Muscular Endurance • Cardiorespiratory Endurance • Flexibility • Psychomotor Ability • Body Composition Sport Books Publisher

13. Muscular Strength Sport Books Publisher

14. Muscular Strength • The ability of a muscle or muscle group to exert force against a resistance • Commonly measured as a maximal value • Force and strength are synonymous (greater muscle mass results in greater strength) Force = Mass x Acceleration Sport Books Publisher

15. Power Sport Books Publisher

16. Power • The ability to overcome external resistance at a high rate of muscular contraction • The ability to exert force is dependent on muscular strength • Therefore, power is a derivative of muscular strength Sport Books Publisher