COMPONENTS OF FITNESS:
FLEXIBILITY
CARDIOVASCULAR ENDURANCE
MUSCULAR STRENGTH
MUSCULAR ENDURANCE
BODY MASS INDEX (BMI)
Component:
Flexibility
The ability to move a joint through its full range of motion.
Benefit:
- Greater ease of movement (bending and moving)
- Flexible and pliable joints allowing fluent movement
- Improved coordination
- Increased range of motion and posture
- Decreased muscle tension and stiffness and increased relaxation
- Reduced injury risk
- Better postural alignment
- Increased circulation
- allows blood and oxygen to travel through the body especially when it coincides with deep breathing
Exercise used to strengthen this component:
Quad Stretch
Tricep Stretch
Hamstring Stretch
Component:
Cardiovascular Endurance
The ability to do moderately strenuous activity over a period of time. Reflects how well your heart and lungs work together to supply oxygen to your body during exertion and exercise.
Benefit:
- Improves metabolic rate
- Promotes healthful aging
- Improves immune system
- Improves psychological well-being
- Helps heart and lungs function more efficiently
Exercise used to strengthen this component:
Running
Biking
Swimming
Component:
Muscular Strength
Amount of force that your muscles can exert against resistance.
Benefit:
- Improved mental health
- Increased strength and power
- Prevention of musculoskeletal injury
- Improved sport performance
- Reduced risk of fractures
- Enhanced bone development
- Bone strength and bone growth
- Improved body composition
Exercise used to strengthen this component:
push-ups
weightlifting
resistance training
Component:
Muscular Endurance
The ability of the muscles to work for long periods of time without getting fatigued.
Benefit:
- Improved body composition
- Improved mental health
- Prevention of musculoskeletal injury
- Improved sport performance
- Reduced risk of fractures
- Enhanced bone development
- Bone strength and bone growth
Exercise used to strengthen this component:
Running
Biking
Swimming
HIIT training
Supersets
Component:
Body Mass Index
The proportion of fat in your body compared to your bone and muscle.
Benefit: helps prevent illnesses, move with ease, physically fit, active longer, enjoy a variety of lifetime fitness activities
Name one way to measure your BMI:
- Underwater weighing
- BMI chart
- Skinfold/Calipers