The document discusses the ten components of physical fitness: flexibility, strength, speed, power, aerobic capacity, muscular endurance, agility, balance, coordination, and body composition. It provides brief definitions and explanations of each component, describing flexibility as the ability of muscles to stretch, strength as the force muscles can generate, and aerobic capacity as the ability of the heart and lungs to deliver oxygen to muscles for extended periods.

1. The
Components
of Fitness

2. PHYSICAL FITNESS
• THE ABILITY OF THE BODY
TO ADAPT TO THE DEMANDS
AND STRESSES OF
PHYSICAL EFFORT.
• Fitness itself can not be
described in a single definition,
but must be looked at in its ten
separate components.

3. Health Related
COMPONENTS OF FITNESS
Flexibility
Strength
Speed
Power
Aerobic Capacity
Muscular Endurance
Agility
Balance
Co-ordination
Body Composition
(Anaerobic Capacity)

4. Flexibility
• Flexibility –
the ability of
your muscles,
ligaments and
tendons to
stretch so that
your joints
allow large
range
movements.

5. Strength
• Muscular strength – the force that a
muscle or group of muscles can generate
against a resistance in a single contraction.

6. Factors Affecting
Strength
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Recruitment of muscle fibres
Cross-sectional area of a muscle
Prestretch
Muscle fibre types
Age
gender

7. Anaerobic Capacity
• Anaerobic Capacity (Speed) - the
ability to get your body moving
quickly.
• Uses anaerobic energy system (I.e.
no oxygen but P-Cr and Lactic acid
Explosive
energy systems). Energy

8. POWER
• Power is the functional application of
both strength and speed. It is the key
component for most athletic
performances.
• Muscular Power – the ability to use a lot
of strength very quickly to produce an
explosive effort.

9. Balance
• Balance – your ability to maintain the
body in equilibrium while you are
moving (dynamic) or stationary
(stationary).

10. Muscular Endurance
• Muscular Endurance – the
ability of your muscles to
produce small efforts that
are repeated over and over
again.

11. Aerobic Capacity
• The ability to keep producing
energy aerobically and using it to
perform tasks involving the
whole body for extended periods
of time
• Aerobic capacity depends on the
ability of your heart and lungs to
deliver oxygen through your
blood to your muscles, to produce
aerobic energy.
• Long duration, low intensity.

12. Agility
• Agility – your ability to
change direction quickly
and precisely and still
retain balance.
• To be agile , you must
be able to accelerate
quickly, turn, dodge and
weave.

13. Co-ordination
• Coordination – the ability
to time your movements
so that you perform skills
smoothly and accurately.

14. Body Composition
• Body composition the ratio of the
different types of tissue
in your body (fat,
muscle, bone).