The document discusses the components of health-related fitness, which include muscular strength, endurance, flexibility, cardiovascular endurance and body composition, and skill-related fitness, which includes agility, balance, coordination, reaction time, speed and power. It also provides examples of activities that can help improve each component of fitness, including weight training, running, yoga, and sports. Regular fitness testing is important to assess strengths and weaknesses and track improvements over time.

1. Fitness:
•Health related
•Skill related

2. Physical fitness results from regular
physical activity.
Being physically fit means
you have the energy and
ability to perform
everyday task and
responsibilities.
Health related fitness is the
ability of the heart, lungs,
muscles and joints to work
well together.
Skill related fitness is the
ability to perform well in
sports and physical
activities.

3. Health related fitness includes
five components.
• Muscular strength
• Muscular endurance
• Flexibility
• Cardiovascular endurance
• Body composition

4. Muscular strength is the amount of
force muscles can exert against
resistance.
Muscular strength:
• Prevents fatigue
• Helps with standing,
sitting and walking
• Helps prevent injury or
sore muscles
• Improves performance
in sports

5. Some activities can help develop
muscle strength.
• Weight training
• Pull-ups
• Sit-ups
• Push-ups
• Sports specific
activities such as
kicking a soccer ball
or throwing a baseball

6. Muscular endurance is the ability to use
the muscles for a long period of time.
Muscular endurance:
• Is required to perform repeated
tasks for a long period of time
without becoming tired.
• Is necessary to do many daily
tasks as well as participate in
sports.
• Helps to maintain correct posture.
• Keeps muscles from becoming
tired when hiking, working or
playing.

7. Activities that improve muscular
endurance include:
• Riding a bike for a mile or
more
• Holding something heavy
for long periods of time
• Running, swimming or
rollerblading for long
period of time
• Repeating an exercise or
activity for long periods of
time

8. Flexibility is the ability to move the
joints through the full range of motion.
Flexibility:
• Keeps the body from
getting stiff during the
day
• Helps to prevent injuries
• Prevents the muscles
from shortening due to
inactivity
• Is important in many
sports, games or
activities.

9. Flexibility can be improved by:
• Stretching 20 minutes
each day
• Yoga
• Dance, ballet
• Pilates or another
fitness program
• Gymnastics

10. Cardiovascular endurance is the ability of the heart
and lungs to provide the body with enough oxygen
during extended periods of physical activity.
Gaining or improving
cardiovascular endurance
when frequency, intensity
or amount of time spent in
exercise is increased.
Cardiovascular endurance is
also affected by heredity
and the condition of the
body.

11. Cardiovascular endurance is
improved by:
• Running a mile or more
• Swimming for long
periods of time
• Riding a bike for extended
time periods
• Aerobic exercises, dance
routines, etc.
• Walking at a pace that
increases the heart rate

12. Body composition is the ratio of body fat
to lean body tissue.
The percent of body fat and lean
tissue changes as a person
improves his/her physical
fitness.
As physical fitness improves the
percentage of fat tissue
decreases and lean tissue or
muscle increases.
When a person is healthy and
physically fit, his/her body
composition has a higher level
of lean body tissue.

13. Body composition is improved
by:
• Aerobic exercises
• A healthy diet and
enough exercise
A healthy percentage of
body fat is around
16%-19% for males
and 22%-25% for
females.

14. Skill related fitness includes skills that can
be used in physical activities, sports and
games including:
• Agility
• Balance
• Coordination
• Reaction time
• Speed
• Power

15. Agility is:
• The ability to move quickly and easily
• To change directions quickly when moving
• Used in games and sports as well as daily
activities

16. Balance is:
• The ability to keep
from falling when
standing or moving
• Needed for walking,
running, jumping and
other locomotor and
nonlocomotor
movements

17. Coordination is:
• Using the body parts and senses when you move
• The body and sense work together successfully to allow a
person to successfully perform the activities they are doing
• Hand-eye coordination is one specific type of coordination
used when hitting a ball, catching something or even typing.

18. Reaction time is:
• The amount of time it takes
to move after a person hears,
sees, feels or touches a
stimulus
• The less time it takes a
person to react, the better the
reaction time
• Reaction time is used in
sports, games and races, but
it is also used in driving a car
or using other motorized
machines.

19. Speed is measured by how fast a
person moves.
• Moving quickly is important in sports and games
• Speed is also important in many daily activities
such as typing on a computer, dialing the phones,
etc.

20. Power is the combination of two
skills.
• Power is the combination
of strength and speed.
• Many activities are
performed better when a
person has developed the
ability to use their strength
and speed (or power)
together.
• For example: throwing a
baseball from the third to
first for an out requires
power.

21. Determining your fitness level is
very important!
How do you determine your fitness level?
Test!!!!
More Testing!!!!!
Continual assessment
or continual TESTING!

22. Fitness tests include the following!
Muscle strength and endurance can Cardiovascular endurance
be tested by: can be tested by:
• Standing broad jump • The one mile run/walk
• Curl-ups • A step test
• Push-ups • Swimming for distances
• Pull-ups • Performing an activity for
• Trunk lift a long period of time
• Shuttle run

23. Fitness tests also include!
Flexibility can be tested Body composition can be
by: tested using:
• The V-Sit reach • Body fat calibers
• Sit and Reach test • Body Mass Index
• Other tests used by (BMI) scale
physical therapists and
athletic trainers

24. Please get out your journal sheet!
• Respond to the open response question on
the next slide.
• Place the completed journal entry (answer
to the open response question) in your
journal or notebook.

25. Sam wants to have total fitness, but
he’s not sure what that means.
• Identify and explain 3 components of
health related fitness. Use specific
details.
• Identify and explain 3 components of skill
related fitness. Use specific details.
• Identify 4 activities that would improve
either health or skill related fitness.