Fitness

6 Skill-Related Fitness Components

• • Agility – The ability to change the position of your body quickly and to control your body’s movements.

  • Balance – The ability to keep an upright posture while standing still or moving.

  • Coordination – The ability to use your senses together with your body parts; or to use two or more body parts together.

  • Power – The ability to move strength quickly.

  • Reaction Time – The ability to react or respond quickly to what you hear, see, or feel.

  • Speed – The ability to perform a movement or cover a distance in a short period of time.

5 Health-Related Fitness Components

• • Cardiorespiratory Endurance – The ability of the heart, lungs, and blood vessels to use and send fuel and oxygen to the body’s tissues during long periods of moderate-to-vigorous activity. Examples may include running/jogging, cycling and swimming. The PACER test is often used to test cardiorespiratory endurance.

  • Muscular Endurance – The ability of the muscles to perform physical tasks over a period of time without becoming fatigued. The curl up test is most often used to test muscular endurance. Examples may include planks, walking lunges, and body weight squats.

  • Muscular Strength – The amount of force a muscle can exert. The push-up test is most often used to test muscular strength. However, the bench press or leg press may be more appropriate for an individual if they are able to perform a high number of push ups.

  • Flexibility – The ability to move the joints through a full range of motion. The Sit & Reach test is most often used to test flexibility.

  • Body Composition – All of the tissues that together make up the body: bone, muscle, skin, fat, body organs.

FITT principles are exercise prescriptions to help participants understand how long and how hard they should exercise. FITT is acronym that stands for Frequency, Intensity, Time, and Type. FITT can be applied to exercise in general or specific components of exercise.

Frequency – How often you do the activity each week.

Intensity – How hard you work at the activity per session.

Time – How long you work out at each session.

Type – Which activities you do to improve your fitness.