Physical fitness refers to overall health and well-being achieved through proper diet, exercise, and rest. It allows one to perform daily tasks vigorously and have energy to spare. The document outlines the importance of physical fitness and its components. Physical fitness has health, skill, and cardiovascular components that benefit the body. Maintaining flexibility, muscle strength, endurance, and a healthy body composition reduces health risks and improves quality of life.

1. Physical
Fitness
T. Richard B. Casanos
Are You Fit?

2. What is Physical Fitness?
A general state of good
physical health
A result of physical activity,
proper diet and nutrition
and proper rest for physical
recovery

3. Physical Fitness Trainers
The ability to perform
daily task vigorously
and alertly,
With left over
energy to enjoy
leisure-time
activities and meet
emergency
demands

4. For Senior Citizens
The ability to
endure, bear up,
withstand stress
and carry on in
circumstances
where an unfit
person could not
continue

5. What is the IMPORTANCE of
Physical Fitness?
 A condition that helps
individual look, feel and
do their best
 Enables people to
perform up to their
potential

6. What Humans do with
their bodies directly
affects the state of
mind, fitness influences
to some degree
qualities such as
Mental Alertness
and
Emotional Expression.

7. Components of Physical
Fitness
1. Skill-Related
Components
- Form the basis for
successful sport activity
participation
2. Health-Related
Component
- How well the systems of
your body work

8. Health-Related Component
a. Cardiovascular
Fitness(Aerobic Fitness)
b. Body Composition
c. Flexibility
d. Muscular Strength
e. Muscular Endurance

9. Skill-Related Component
a. Speed
b. Agility
c. Balance
d. Coordination
e. Reaction Time
f. Power

10. Cardiovascular Fitness
 the ability of the heart
and lungs to work
together to provide
the needed oxygen
and fuel to the body
during sustained
workloads

11. Benefits of Cardiovascular
Fitness
 Helps;
 Fat metabolism
 Improved delivery of Oxygen
 Faster removal of waste products
 Decreased levels of stress

12. Body Composition
 The relative percentage
of body fat compared
to lean body mass
(muscle, bone,
water,etc)
 can be measured using
underwater weighing,
Skinfold readings, and
bioelectrical
impedance.

13. Importance to maintain a
healthy percentage of body
fat
 Excess body fat can contribute to
developing a number of health problems
such as heart disease and diabetes
 Places strains on the joints, muscles and
bones, increasing the risk of injury

14. Flexibility
The range of
movement
possible at various
joints

15. Helps
 Prevent injuries
 Improve posture
 Reduce low back pains
 Maintain healthy joints
 Imporve balance during movement

16. Muscle Strength
 The amount of force
that can be
produced by a single
contraction of a
muscle

17. Muscle Endurance
 The ability of a muscle
group to continue
muscle movement
over a length of time

18. Speed
 The ability to move
quickly from one
point to another in a
straight line

19. Agility
 The ability of the body to
change direction quickly
 Sports coach Brian Mac
as the ability to perform a
successive series of
powerful explosive
movements quickly in
opposing directions

20. Balance
 The ability to maintain an
upright posture while still
or moving
 Important in sports such
as dance, gymnastics,
ice hockey, figure skating
and other sports requiring
extreme control.

21. Coordination
 Integration with hand
and/or foot movements
with the input of the
senses
 juggling, hitting a baseball
with a bat and dribbling a
basketball are all
coordination skills.
 Hand-eye coordination
tests or foot-eye
coordination tests are
often used to assess
coordination.

22. Reaction Time
 a subcomponent of
speed and refers to
the time it takes for
the neuromuscular
system to produce
movement from
stimulus to reaction

23. Power
 A combination of
strength and speed,
power is the ability to
exert maximum force in
a quick, explosive burst
 a function of the amount
of work performed per
unit of time

24. Physical fitness is not only
one of the most important
keys to a healthy body, it is
the basis of dynamic and
creative intellectual
activity.
John F. Kennedy