Physical Fitness and Your Health

Physical Fitness and Your Health Group #2 Matt Colman Mike Dee Sean Phelan Patty Riddle

What is Physical Fitness? • The ability to carry out daily tasks easily and have enough reserve energy to respond to unexpected demands • Defined by participant’s level

Components of Physical Fitness • Body Composition • Flexibility • Muscular Strength • Muscular Endurance • Cardiorespiratory Endurance

Body Composition • The ratio of body fat to lean body tissue, including muscle, bone, water, and connective tissue such as ligaments, cartilage, and tendons

Flexibility • The ability to move a body part through a full range of motion • Flexibility is important because it reduces muscular strains and lower back problems

Muscular Strength • The amount of force a muscle can exert • Vital to activities that involve lifting, pushing, or jumping • Helps performs daily activities more efficiently

Muscular Endurance • The ability of muscles to do difficult physical tasks over a period of time without causing fatigue • People with good muscular endurance generally have better posture and fewer lower back problems

Cardiorespiratory Endurance • The ability of the heart, lungs, and blood vessels to send fuel and oxygen to the body’s tissues during long periods of vigorous activity

Measuring Body Composition • Easiest way to measure body composition is with an instrument called a caliper • Increased risk level of cardiovascular problems develop at: • Males: 25% body fat or higher • Females: 30% body fat or higher

Measuring Flexibility • Two basic tests to generalize flexibility level: • The backsaver sit and stretch test • The knees to chest test • Both tests measure the flexibility of the lower back and hamstrings

Measuring Muscular Strength • Easy way to test upper body strength: • Push-ups • Easy way to measure abdominal strength: • Curl ups

Measuring Muscular Endurance • An exercise that tests muscular endurance is leg lifts • A person in the healthy range should be able to complete eight or more leg lifts • Seven or fewer leg lifts shows that a person is in the unhealthy range

Measuring Cardiorepiratory Endurance • Use a step test to measure cardiorespiratory endurance • After the test, find your pulse to see where you rate

Benefits of Physical Fitness • Improves physical health • Promotes mental and emotional health • Enhances social health

Physical Health • Improves body’s defense against diseases, especially ones linked to inactivity • Increases energy level • Promotes an active lifestyle

Mental/Emotional Health • Serves as a stress reliever • Stimulates intellectual thinking • Fights symptoms of depression • Leads to positive self-esteem and self-worth

Social Health • Helps to promote healthy relationships • Builds self-confidence in social interactions • Increases opportunity to interrelate with others

Benefits of Exercise • Exercise makes your muscles, bones, and other moving parts stronger • Exercise also improves the body’s defense against disease

Fun Ways to Exercise • Ways to exercise in a fun atmosphere • Yoga, Aerobics, Bicycling, Swimming, Running, Lifting Weights, Karate

Getting Physical This graph shows the amount of kids participating in their high school PE programs

Physical Fitness and Your Health