Physical fitness refers to the ability to perform daily activities without fatigue and is comprised of five main components: muscular strength, muscular endurance, cardiorespiratory endurance, flexibility, and body composition. Exercise is key to maintaining physical fitness as it provides physical, mental/emotional, and social benefits such as stronger muscles, better heart and lung function, stress relief, and social connections.

1. Physical Fitness
• Physical Fitness: Ability to do daily activities
without becoming tired, short of breath, or
sore.

2. Components
of
Fitness
Muscular Endurance Muscular Strength
Flexibility
Body
Composition
Cardiorespiratory
Endurance
ACTUAL

3. Muscular Strength
• Amount of Force muscles apply
EXAMPLES:
PULL-UPS
CURL-UPS

4. Muscular Endurance
• Ability to use a group of muscles over and
over without tiring

5. Cardiorespiratory Endurance
• Ability of your heart and lungs to work
efficiently during physical activity
EXAMPLES:
RUNNING
WALKING
BIKING
SWIMMING

6. Flexibility
• Ability to use joints easily (involves muscles,
tendons, and ligaments)
EXAMPLES:
SIT AND REACH TEST

7. Body Composition
• Ratio of weight of fat to the
weight of bones in your body

8. How do we
maintain physical
fitness???

9. Exercise!!!
• What is exercise???
– Any activity that maintains or
improves your physical fitness
• Ask yourselves now….
Why do we exercise?
What are the benefits??

10. BENEFITS OF EXERCISE
•PHYSICAL
•MENTAL/EMOTIONAL
•SOCIAL

11. • PHYSICAL BENEFITS
– Stronger
– More flexible
– Better working heart and lungs
– Burn fat
– Better coordination
– Prevents diseases (heart disease,
obesity, diabetes)
• SOCIAL BENEFITS
– Meet people
– Make friends
– Teamwork
– Surrounded by people who
influence you in a good way
– Support system in your team
– People cheer for you, rely on you
• MENTAL – EMOTIONAL BENEFITS
– Releases endorphins (chemical that makes you feel calm, happy, awake)
– Improves blood flow to your brain
– Think more clearly
– Feel more awake
– Improves self esteem
– Reduces stress
– Relieves tension