Exercise and fitness as part of your healthy active lifestyle.

Exercise and fitness as part of your healthy active lifestyle.

1. Health, Exercise, Fitness and Performance

   • Health: a positive state of complete social, physical and mental wellbeing.
     • improved with exercise and fitness
     • exercise prevents illness and allows you to get through a day easily, improving health
   • Exercise: physical activity to improve health and fitness
     • health problems caused by not enough exercise have increased
       • hypokinetic diseases
         • heart disease, high blood pressure and back pain.
     • Relieves stress and tension
     • Distracting
   • Fitness: ability to meet demands of the environment
     • Able to cope with everyday activities such as school
     • Lead an active life without strain
     • Enhances performance
   • Performance: how well a task in completed
     • Exercise to keep fit and therefore enhance performance
     • Needs to be good in everything

2. Health Related Exercise

   • To improve fitness and performance
   • Cardiovascular Fitness: the ability to exercise the entire body for long periods of time
     • Efficiency of heart, lungs and blood vessels to deliver oxygen to muscles
     • Most important because it allows people to partake in sport and live without fatigue.
     • Improved by any type of training, and crucial to develop other fitness types
   • Muscular Strength: the amount of force a muscle can exert against a resistance
     • enables the lifting of heavy weights
     • associated with steroids.
   • Muscular Endurance: use voluntary muscles many times without getting tired
     • in both daily life and sport
   • Flexibility: the range of movement at a joint.
     • often neglected until needed
     • in both sport and daily life
     • yoga helps improve it
   • Body composition: percentage of fat muscle and bone
     • influenced by genetics, exercise and diet
     • can be calculated using BMI although this is not always a good method.

3. Skill Related Fitness (ABCPRS)

   • Helps to become good at physical activity
   • Agility: the ability to change the position of the body quickly
     • some things don't need it.
   • Balance: ability to retain center of mass above base support
     • at rest or on the move
     • Static - balance when not moving
     • Dynamic - stable position whilst moving
   • Coordination: The ability to use more than one body part
     • Many types: hand eye, foot eye, head eye, etc
     • better on one side of the body than the other
   • Power: undertake strength (power = strength x speed)
     • Can be used to project an object or oneself
   • Reaction Time: time between a stimulus and movement
     • Can be any form of stimulus, eg. gun fire and movement of legs in a race
   • Speed: how fast one can cover a distance or make a movement
     • eg. leg speed, hand speed, overall speed