Components of fitness

• Cardiovascular Endurance

  1. Your heart and lungs work together to keep your muscles supplied with oxygen

  2. Your muscles can then get energy from aerobic respiration

  3.The harder you work your muscles, the more oxygen they need
• Cardiovascular Endurance


  The ability to continue physical activity while getting energy for muscular movement from aerobic respiration
• If you have high level of cardiovascular endurance, your body is able to supply the oxygen that your muscles need to do moderately intense aerobic, whole-body exercise for a long time
• Sports requiring good cardiovascular endurance

  • Squash
  • Tennis
• A high level of cardiovascular endurance is particularly important for endurance sports like long-distance running, or cycling
• Muscular Endurance


  The ability to repeatedly use your muscles without getting tired (fatigued)
• Muscular endurance is really important in any physical activity where you're using the same muscles over and over again - e.g. racquet sports like tennis or squash where you have to repeatedly swing your arms
• Muscular endurance is also dead important towards the end of any long-distance race - rowers and cyclists need muscle endurance for a strong sprint finish
• Strength


  The maximum amount of force that a muscle or muscle group can apply against a resistance
• Sports needing a lot of strength

  • Weightlifting
  • Judo
• Sports needing strength to hold own body weight

  • Gymnastics (parallel bars and rings)
• Maximal Strength


  The most amount of force a muscle group can create in a single movement
• Explosive Strength

  A muscle's strength in a short, fast burst - similar to power
• Speed


  rate at which someone is able to move, or cover a distance in a given amount of time
• Examples of speed used in sport

  • Important in many activities, from sprinting to hockey
• Power


  Ability to exert as much strength as possible in the shortest possible time
• Power


  • Combination of speed and strength
  • Important for throwing, hitting, sprinting, and jumping
• Flexibility


  Range of movement possible in your joints
• Flexibility


  • Fewer injuries
  • Better performance
  • Better posture
• Flexibility makes you more efficient in other sports so you use less energy
• 10 components of fitness


  Cardiovascular endurance

  muscular endurance

  strength

  power

  speed

  flexibility

  agility

  balance

  coordination

  reaction time
• Agility


  • Important in activities where you have to run about and change direction quickly, like football or hockey
  • Jumping and intercepting passes in netball or basketball requires a high level of agility
• Agility


  The ability to change body position, direction, and velocity with speed and accuracy
• Balance


  The ability to stay upright and in control of any movement
• Balance

  • Requires keeping the body's centre of mass over the base of support
  • Crucial for nearly every physical activity, especially those involving changing direction quickly like football or basketball
  • Performing actions with balance is more efficient
• Coordination


  The ability to use two or more parts of the body together, efficiently and accurately
• Coordination

  • Hand-eye coordination is important in sports requiring precision, like hitting a ball in tennis or shooting in archery
  • Limb coordination allows you to walk, run, dance, kick, swim, etc.
  • Coordinated movements are smooth and efficient, allowing faster performance
  • Limb coordination is very important in sports like gymnastics or platform diving where performance is judged on coordination
• Reaction time


  The time taken to move in response to a stimulus
• Reaction time


  • Important in many sports and activities where you need to respond quickly to a stimulus like a starter gun, pass, or serve
  • Having fast reactions can give you an effective head start or allow you to get away from opponents in team sports