HOPE

• Physical Fitness


  Ability of your body systems to work together efficiently to allow you to be healthy and perform activities of daily living
• Efficient


  Doing daily activities with the least effort possible
• Health Related Fitness


  Primarily associated with disease prevention and functional health
• Participating in regular health-related fitness helps you control your weight, prevents diseases and illness, improves mood, boosts energy, and promotes better sleep
• Body Composition


  Also known as body fat percent, refers to the lean body mass and fat body mass, a method of describing what the body is made of
• Muscular Endurance


  Ability of a muscle or group of muscles to perform repetitive contractions against a force for an extended period of time
• The greater your muscular endurance the higher number of repetitions you could complete
• Cardio-respiratory Endurance


  Level at which your heart, lungs, and muscles work together when you're exercising for an extended period of time
• Muscular Strength


  Refers to the greatest amount of force that can be generated from a single maximal effort
• Flexibility


  The ability to use joints fully through a wide range of motion
• Skills Related Fitness


  Enhances one's performance in athletic or sports events
• Skills Related Fitness Components

  • Agility
  • Balance
  • Coordination
  • Power
  • Reaction Time
  • Speed
• Agility


  Ability to change and control the direction and position of your body while maintaining a constant rapid motion
• Balance


  Ability to control or stabilize your equilibrium while staying still
• Coordination


  Ability to use ears and eyes to determine and direct the smooth movement of your body
• Power


  Ability to move your body parts quickly while applying the maximum force of your power
• Reaction Time


  Ability to react or respond quickly to what you hear, see, or feel
• Speed


  Ability to move your body or parts of your body quickly
• FITT Principle

  • Frequency
  • Intensity
  • Time
  • Type
• Frequency


  How often you exercise
• Intensity


  Level of effort during exercise, how hard your exercise is (Low-Moderate-Vigorous)
• Time


  Refers to the time of day you exercise and how long each session lasts
• Type


  Kind of exercise you should do to reach your fitness goals
• Principles of Exercise

  • Principle of Specificity
  • Specificity Recovery
  • Principle of Progression
  • Principle of Overload
• Principle of Specificity


  Doing exercises that match what you want to improve, like running to get better at running
• Specificity Recovery


  Taking breaks after exercise that match how hard you worked, so your body can rest and get stronger
• Principle of Progression


  Slowly making exercises harder over time, like running a bit further each week
• Principle of Overload


  Doing exercises that are a bit harder than what you're used to, so your body gets stronger
• Exercise Risks

  • Overexertion
  • Dehydration
  • Hyperthermia
  • Hypothermia
• Overexertion


  Injury is caused by repetitive motion or moving in awkward position
• Dehydration


  Caused by excessive loss of body fluids due to heat and lack of water
• Hyperthermia


  Condition characterized by abnormally high body temperature
• Hypothermia


  Condition of having an abnormally low body temperature
• Kayak


  "kayak" means "man-boat" in Eskimo, the Inuits used kayaks made from animal skins stretched over wooden or whale-bone frames for transportation, hunting, and fishing, a fun activity that involves moving through water in a small water vessel with the aid of a double-bladed paddle
• Canoe


  The word 'canoe' comes from the Carib kenu (dugout), from the Spanish canoa, a recreational boating activity or paddle sport in which you kneel or sit facing forward in an open or closed-decked canoe, and propel yourself with a single-bladed paddle, under your own power

  
• Activities for Kayaks or Canoes

  • Flatwater fun
  • Sailing
  • Surf kayaking
  • Marathon Running
• Scuba Diving


  An underwater swimming activity involving the used of self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (SCUBA), the beginning of diving can be traced from using the hollow reeds as a way of staying longer underwater; from the simple reed, more effective ways of breathing underwater were invented

  
• Scuba Diving Timeline

  • 1300s - Simple cauldron in the shape of a bell used to trap air for divers
  • 1690 - Improved bell developed by Edmund Halley
  • 1715 - Englishman John Lethbridge built the "diving engine"
  • 1823 - Charles Anthony Deane invented the "smoke mask"
  • 1825 - William James invented the first workable, full-time SCUBA
  • 1837 - German-born inventor Augustus Siebe innovated closed diving suits
  • 1843 - First diving school established by the Royal Navy
  • 1876 - Henry A. Fleuss developed the first self contained diving gear
  • 1943 - Jacques Cousteau and Emile Gagnan redesigned a car regulator which gave compressed air to divers
• Scuba Diving Equipment

  • Dive Mask
  • Snorkel
  • Scuba Tank
  • Regulator
  • SPG or Submersible Pressure Gauge
  • Fins
  • Scuba or Wet Suit

  
• Underwater Communication Hand Signals for SCUBA Diving


  Underwater signals used by divers to communicate