The document discusses the five main components of physical fitness: cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular strength, muscular endurance, body composition, and flexibility. It defines each component and provides examples of activities that improve each one. Maintaining fitness in all five areas is important for overall health and requires training specific muscle groups based on individual weaknesses.

1. Components of Physical fitness
By: Tammy droge, Susie cho, abby tunby, and Alix kern

2. What is physical fitness?
• General state of health and well-being or specifically the ability to perform
aspects of sports. It’s achieved through correct nutrition, exercise,
hygiene, and rest.
• It is More than being able to run a long distance or lift a lot of weight at the
gym. Being fit is not defined only by what kind of activity you do, how long
you do it, or at what level of intensity.
• Fitness overall is broken down into 5 main components

3. 5 main components
• Cardiorespiratory endurance
• Muscular strength
• Muscular endurance
• Body composition
• flexibility

4. Cardiorespiratory endurance
• Keeping your heart rate at a increased level
for a length of time
• Examples:
• Walking, swimming, biking, running
• The activity you choose doesn’t have to be
tireless in order to improve your
cardiorespiratory endurance

5. Muscular strength
• The ability of the muscle to apply force during an activity. The key to
making your muscles stronger is making them fight against another force.
• Examples:
• Lifting weights and taking the stairs

6. Muscle endurance
• The ability of the muscle to continue to
perform without tiring.
• To improve your muscular endurance
try walking, jogging, bicycling, dancing,
or sit-ups.

7. Body composition
• Refers to the quantity of muscle, fat, bone,
and other vital parts of the body.
• Body composition is important to consider
for health and managing your weight.

8. flexibility
• Range of motion around a joint. In other words how far each joint can move.
• Examples:
• Lunges, stretching, Pilates, and yoga
• Following good exercise practices can also increase your range of flexibility

9. ACTIVITY TIME!!!
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10. Importance of these components
• An effective fitness program includes all five components of physical
components, of which we went over. Once you’ve had all five of these physical
components measured you can make a list of the things you need to improve.
• For example:
• If you are weak in cardiovascular endurance you’ll need more aerobic training such
as jogging.
• These components are used in schools, gyms, and health clubs to measure your
level of physical fitness in order to determine how your body performs.

11. Works Cited
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• Information sources
http://www.education.com/reference/article/Ref_Physical_everyone/
http://www.fitday.com/fitness/body-building/the-5-components-of-physical-fitness.html#b