UNIT 2
PHYSICAL FITNESS
DEFINITION AND MEANING
Fitness incorporates physical & mental health as well as
emotional satisfaction & self-awareness.
Physical fitness is to the human body what fine tuning is to
an engine. It enables us to perform up to our potential.
Fitness can be described as a condition that helps us look,
feel and do our best.
More specifically, it is: "The ability to perform daily tasks
vigorously and alertly, with energy left over for enjoying leisuretime activities and meeting emergency demands. It is the ability
to endure, to bear up, to withstand stress, to carry on in
circumstances where an unfit person could not continue, and is a
major basis for good health and well-being."
Individual activity
As you undertake your fitness program, it's
important to remember that fitness is an
individual quality that varies from person
to person. It is influenced by age, sex,
heredity, personal habits, exercise and
eating practices. You can't do anything
about the first three factors. However, it is
within your power to change and improve
the others where needed
Holistic benefits
Physical fitness involves the performance of the
heart and lungs, and the muscles of the body. And,
since what we do with our bodies also affects what
we can do with our minds, fitness influences to some
degree qualities such as mental alertness and
emotional stability.
It is the ability to carry out daily routine physical
activity without being unduly tired and have ample
energy to face emergency tasks as and when arise.
Visit following sites for more information
http://www.healthierus.gov/exercise.html
http://www.hoptechno.com/book11.htm
Components of Physical Fitness
Cardio-respiratory Endurance
Muscular Endurance
Strength
Speed
Power
Agility
Flexibility
Visit following sites for more information
http://www.cyberparent.com/fitness/five.htm
CARDIO-RESPIRATORY ENDURANCE
STRENGTH
MUSCULAR ENDURANCE
PHYSICAL
FITNESSS
POWER
SPEED
AGILITY
FLEXIBILITY
Cardio-respiratory endurance
The ability to do moderately
strenuous activity over a
period of time. It reflects
how well your heart and lungs
work together to
supply oxygen to your body
during exertion and exercise.
Also Known as aerobic fitness.
•Visit following sites for more
information
•http://www.hoptechno.com/book11.htm
•http://www.hoptechno.com/book11.htm
MUSCULAR ENDURANCE
This is the quality that enables a
person to sustain localized muscle
group activities for the extended
period of time.
AGILITY
It is the ability of the human body to
change direction quickly and effectively
STRENGTH
It is the amount of muscular
force one is capable of exerting
in a single muscular contraction.
SPEED
It is the ability to make rapid movement
of the same type in the shortest possible
time.
FLEXIBILITY
It is the ability of a muscle to perform
movement with large amplitude.
POWER
It is the quality of a muscle to
contract forcefully in the quickest
possible time.
What is Health?
What Is Physical Fitness?
Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social
well-being and not merely the absence of disease or
infirmity.
The definition of
You don't have to build
physical fitness might
muscles to this point to
vary by individual but
be physically fit.
most experts agree
Physical fitness is
that there are five basic
much more than muscle
components
building and involves
of physical fitness
everything from cardio
which involve your
respiratory fitness to
heart, lungs, strength,
being more flexible.
endurance, and agility
or flexibility.