P.e pt 2

• Physical activity


  Bodily movement produced by skeletal muscles. It requires energy expenditure and produces progressive health benefits. It requires only a low to moderate intensity of effort.
• Physical activity


  • Doing household chores
  • Dancing
  • Gardening
• Exercise


  A type of physical activity that requires planned, structured, and repetitive body movement to improve or maintain one or more components of physical fitness. It is usually viewed as an activity that requires a vigorous-intensity effort.
• Exercise


  • Walking
  • Running
  • Swimming
• Fundamental skill


  Practical skills that a child needs for living and being, which are sometimes considered basic or functional. The designation of fundamental skill is preferable to other labels because the skills are simple. Characteristics and attributes are necessary to function in the environment.
• Locomotor skill


  Movements that allow us to move from one point in space to another.
• Step


  Movements that allow us to move from one point in space to another.
• Step


  • Transfer of weight from one foot to the other
• Walk


  A series of steps executed by both of your feet alternately in any direction.
• Run


  Series of walk executed quickly in any direction wherein only one-foot stays on the ground while the other is off the ground.
• Leap


  Spring from one foot and land at the other foot in any direction.
• Jump


  Having both feet loose contact with the ground. Take off from one foot and land on the same; Take off from one foot and land on the other; Take off from one foot and land on both feet; Take off from both feet and land on one foot; and Take off from both feet and land on both.
• Non-locomotor skill


  Movements that are performed in one point in space without transferring the weight to another point.
• Flexion


  The act of decreasing the angle of a joint. Another term for flexion is to bend.
• Extension


  The opposite of flexion. You are extending if you are increasing the angle of a joint. Stretching is another word for extension.
• Contraction


  A muscle movement done when it shortens, narrows and tightens using sufficient amount of energy in the execution.
• Collapse


  To deliberately drop the exertion of energy into a body segment.
• Recover


  The opposite of collapse. This is to regain the energy into a body segment.
• Rotation


  To rotate is to move a body segment allowing it to complete a circle with its motion. It's not only limited to circumduction which is done in ball and socket joints. Rotation can also be done in wrists, waist, knees and ankles.
• Twist


  To move a body segment from an axis halfway front or back or quarter to the right or left as in the twisting of the neck allowing the head to face right or left and the like.
• Pivot


  To change the position of the feet or any body part that carries the body's weight allowing the body to face in a less than 360° turn.

  
• Turn


  To move in a turning movement with a base of support, usually a pointed foot, the other raised, while equilibrium is maintained until the completion of the turn.