PATHfit

• Physical Fitness


  The capacity of the body to perform properly and efficiently
• Components of physical fitness

  • Health-related
  • Skill-related
• Health-related fitness


  • Capacity to work efficiently
  • Have fun
  • Stay well
  • Fend off illnesses or disorders that cause hypokineticity
  • Respond to emergencies
• Unique characteristics that contribute to a person's overall degree of fitness came about when the idea of fitness evolved in the 20th century
• Components of health-related fitness

  • Body composition
  • Muscular strength
  • Muscular endurance
  • Flexibility
  • Cardiorespiratory fitness
• Body composition


  The proportions of fat, muscle, bone, and other vital body parts
• Flexibility


  The joint's movement range
• Cardiorespiratory fitness


  The body's capacity to maintain an adequate supply of oxygen throughout prolonged physical exertion
• Muscular strength


  The capacity of a muscle to produce force
• Muscular endurance


  The muscle's capacity to work continuously without getting exhausted
• Components of skill-related fitness

  • Agility
  • Speed
  • Balance
  • Power
  • Coordination
  • Reaction time
• Agility


  The ability to change the position of the body in space quickly and accurately
• Speed


  The capacity to execute moves in a small amount of time
• Balance


  The ability to maintain stability, whether stationary or while moving
• Power


  The ability to apply the greatest amount of force in the shortest amount of time
• Coordination


  The capacity to perform many motor actions simultaneously with precision and fluidity
• Reaction time


  The interval between a stimulus and the corresponding reaction
• Low levels of health-related fitness are linked to diabetes and cardiovascular disease
• The World Health Organization has proclaimed obesity to be a worldwide pandemic in 2000
• Exercise prescription


  A method of developing a program that is personalized, safe, and effective
• Phases of an exercise program

  • Warm-up
  • Work-out or Conditioning
  • Cool down
• Warm-up


  Gets the body ready for exercise or other forms of physical activity, particularly the cardiorespiratory fitness
• Work-out or Conditioning


  The most important aspect of an exercise regimen or the activity you have chosen to engage in for physical activity
• Cool down


  Helps to promote an efficient and gradual recovery from the physical exercise
• Basic principles of exercise

  • Overload
  • Progression
  • Specificity
  • Reversibility
  • Rest and Recovery
  • Individuality
• Principle of Overload


  Doing "more than normal" could result in improved physical fitness or other health benefits
• Principle of Progression


  Working gradually rather than in big bursts of activity, at various intensities ranging from basic to intermediate to advanced
• Principle of Specificity


  To build particular body parts or fitness components and achieve the optimum results, specific training types should be carried out
• Principle of Reversibility


  The benefits of overload are lost as a result of inactivity
• Principle of Rest and Recovery

  The amount of rest that the body needs to adapt to and recover from physical exertion
• Principle of Individuality


  Everyone reacts to exercise and training differently as a result of individual differences
• Fundamental Movement Skills (FMS) serve as the foundation for athletic ability
• Types of Fundamental Skills

  • Non-Locomotor Movements
  • Linear Movements
• Non-Locomotor Movements


  Motions made with either a portion of the body or the entire body when in a stationary position
• Bracing the Core


  A non-locomotor movement that helps to gradually strengthen the muscles in your core group and is necessary for stabilizing your spine
• Walking


  To move with a series of steps by transferring weight from one foot to another foot to any direction
• Running


  To move at a speed faster than walking with one foot momentarily suspended from the ground using longer strides of the legs
• Jumping


  Pushing yourself upward and suspending the air temporarily by using the leg muscles on both feet and landing on both feet
• Leaping


  To take off with one foot, cover a large distance, and land on the other foot
• Sliding


  A combination of a walk and a leap that occurs in an uneven rhythm, traveling diagonally forward with no crossing of the feet