PE definitions

• Health-A state of physical, emotional and social well being with merely the absence of disease and infirmity
• What is fitness ?

  The ability to meet the demands of your environment
• What is exercise?

  A form of physical activity done to improve or maintain your fitness/health in a non competitive way
• what is performance?

  How well a task is completed
• What does optimum mean ?

  The best situation for growth
• What is fartlek training ?

  A method of training that varies terrain and speed
• What is interval training?

  High-intensity exercise alternated with periods of rest or low-intensity exercise.
• what is flexibility ?

  The range of movement at a joint
• What is muscular strength ?

  The amount of force a muscle can exert against a resistance
• What is muscular endurance?

  The ability to use voluntary muscles many times without getting tired
• What is power ?

  The ability to undertake strength performances quickly
• What is coordination ?

  The ability to use two or more body parts together
• What is reaction time ?

  The time it takes to respond to a stimulus.
• What is agility?


  The ability to control the movement of the whole body and change direction quickly
• What is balance?

  Being able to keep the body stable, whilst at rest or in motion
• What is speed ?

  The rate at which a distance is covered
• What is body composition?

  The percentage of body weight that is muscle, fat and bone
• What is cardiovascular fitness?

  The ability to exercise your whole body for long periods of time
• frequency- how often you train should be 3-4 times a week
• intensity-how hard you train
• progressive overload- increasing the distance or weight of a task slowly over a long period of time
• overtraining- training the same muscles or body part without resting resulting in injury
• individual needs- what a person needs to train or how hard the session is depending on age and gender
• specificity- training specific to a sport e.g a swimmer would train in a pool rather than on a bike
• reversability- when injured or not training progress will be lost twice as fast as it was gained
• thresholds of training- training within 60-80% of your max heart rate to improve cardiovascular fitness