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• Fitness

  ability to carry out daily tasks efficiently with enough physical capacity to cope with the physical needs of life (Scully, 1994). 
• Fitness

  is the state of the body that helps develop a more positive and dynamic attitude to life and is likely to affect most phases of human existence.
• Fitness exercise

  Is the physical activity that enhances health and fitness.
• Exercise can lead to injury if it is overdone, or if too much is attempted too quickly, so it's a good idea to discuss taking up exercise with your healthcare provider. 
• Importance of fitness exercise:

  1. Weight control
  2. Physical Fitness
  3. Energy
  4. Mental Health
  5. LONG-TERM HEALTH
• Weight control - Exercise burns calories, which results in shedding pounds. Even simple exercises such as a brisk walk can have a positive

  impact on weight loss.
• Physical Fitness - Regular exercise increases your overall level of fitness, which in turn boosts your immune system and makes you more resilient to illnesses like the common cold.
• Energy - A workout can help oxygen flow more freely throughout the body and give you a much-needed burst of energy to get you through the day. It also increases your overall stamina, which can help you stay energized for longer, to begin with.
• LONG-TERM HEALTH- Regular exercise helps you stave off health conditions such as heart disease and diabetes in the long term. Working out increases your “good” cholesterol and decreases your risk of serious medical issues, especially those pertaining to the heart.
• Mental Health - mood booster, as it releases chemicals into your brain that help you feel happier and can ease the effects of depression, ADHD, and anxiety. It can also allow you to sleep better at night, which is important to maintaining an overall good mood.
• Benefits of Fitness exercise:

  • Increase your life expectancy
  • Reduce your risk of injury
  • Improve your quality of life
  • Stay Active
  • Improve your health
• Physical Fitness

  Regular exercise increases your overall level of fitness, which in turn boosts your immune system and makes you more resilient to illnesses like the common cold.
• Exercise burns calories, which results in shedding pounds. Even simple exercises such as a brisk walk can have a positive

  impact on weight loss.

  Weight control
• Energy

  A workout can help oxygen flow more freely throughout the body and give you a much-needed burst of energy to get you through the day. It also increases your overall stamina, which can help you stay energized for longer, to begin with.
• Mental Health

  mood booster, as it releases chemicals into your brain that help you feel happier and can ease the effects of depression, ADHD, and anxiety. It can also allow you to sleep better at night, which is important to maintaining an overall good mood.
• LONG-TERM HEALTH

  Regular exercise helps you stave off health conditions such as heart disease and diabetes in the long term. Working out increases your “good” cholesterol and decreases your risk of serious medical issues, especially those pertaining to the heart.
• 2 Components of Physical fitness:

  1. Health- related components
  2. Skills-related components
• Health- related components – These are the factors that affect the health and well – being of a person. It is concerned with fitness training programs.
• Skills-related components – These are the factors which are often the focus of sports training programs.
• Health Related components:

  1. Organic vigor
  2. Cardio respiratory endurance
  3. Muscular endurance
  4. Muscular strength
  5. Flexibility
• Cardio respiratory endurance – The ability of the lungs and heart to take in transport adequate amounts of oxygen to the working muscles allowing activities that involve large muscle masses to be performed over a long period of time.
• Muscular endurance – The ability to sustain repeated application of force at low moderate intensities over extended intervals of time. 
• Muscular strength – The ability of the muscles to produce force at high intensities over short intervals of time. Muscular strength is a capacity of muscle to exert maximal force against resistance.
• Organic vigor – The cardiovascular respiratory efficiency contributes to the ability to resist diseases.
• Flexibility – The ability to move muscles and joints through a full range of motion. It is ability to bend, stretch and twist joint easily.
• Health- related components

  These are the factors that affect the health and well – being of a person. It is concerned with fitness training programs.
• Skills-related components

  These are the factors which are often the focus of sports training programs.
• Skills- related components:

  1. Agility
  2. Balance
  3. Coordination
  4. Speed
  5. Power
  6. Reaction time
• Agility – The ability to make sudden changes in direction.
• Balance –  The ability of an individual to control; organic equipment, neuromuscular; It is also a state of equilibrium.
• Coordination – The ability of one of the more parts of the body to move in harmony with other parts of the body; ability to use the senses together with body parts in performing tasks smoothly and accurately.
• Speed – the ability of an individual to make successive movements of the same kind in the shortest possible time.
• Power - the ability to release maximum force in the shortest period of time.
• Reaction time - the length of time an individual initiates a response to specific stimuli.
• Healthy Nutrition - It aims to promote for a healthy lifestyle that every person’s body needs to grow and keep functioning properly.
• Unhealthy diet and lack of physical activity are leading global risks to health.
• A healthy diet helps to protect against malnutrition in all its forms, as well as non communicable diseases (NCDs), including such as diabetes, heart disease, stroke and cancer.
• Healthy dietary practices start early in life – breastfeeding fosters healthy growth and improves cognitive development, and may have longer term health benefits such as reducing the risk of becoming overweight or obese and developing NCDs later in life.
• Importance of Healthy nutrition:

  • Reduce the risk of some diseases, including heart disease, diabetes, stroke, some cancers, and osteoporosis
  • Reduce high blood pressure
  • Lower high cholesterol
  • Improve your well-being
  • Improve your ability to fight off illness
  • Improve your ability to recover from illness or injury
  • Increase your energy level
• Eating a variety of foods and consuming less salt, sugars and saturated and industrially-produced trans-fats are essential for a healthy diet.