Fitness Components

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Fitness Components

• BTEC Unit 1

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General Fitness

• This is the ability of your body to carry out
  everyday activities without excessive tiredness
  and still have enough energy to cope with
  emergencies

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FITNESS

• Total fitness social, spiritual and physical
  wellbeing.
• Physical fitness health related tested to set
  scores.
• Skill related ability to perform an activity,
  task or sport (motor fitness).

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COMPONENTS OF PHYSICAL FITNESS

• Aerobic endurance
• Muscular Endurance
• Flexibility
• Speed
• Strength
• Body composition

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AEROBIC ENDURANCE

• Aerobic endurance the ability of the
  cardiovascular system to supply working muscles
  with oxygen to maintain exercise for a long
  period of time.

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MUSCULAR ENDURANCE

• Muscular Endurance ability to maintain high
  level of muscle contractions repeatedly.

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FLEXIBILITY

• Flexibility ability of a specific joint to move
  through a full range of movement (full extent of
  movement).

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SPEED

• Speed ability to cover a specific distance in
  the shortest possible time.

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STRENGTH

• Strength ability of a specific muscle or muscle
  group to exert a force in a single maximal
  contraction to overcome a form of resistance.

Static The strength you need to push or pull a
heavy object, or hold up a heavy weight.
Dynamic This is the strength needed to move a
heavy load.
Explosive This is the strength you need for a
single explosive act.
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BODY COMPOSITION

• Body composition percentage of fat-free mass
  compared to fat within the body (Somatotype).

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Skill-Related Fitness

• This is the ability of the body to carry out
  tasks effectively and efficiently. It usually
  requires some sort of learning.

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COMPONENTS OF SKILL-RELATED FITNESS

• Agility
• Balance
• Co-ordination
• Power
• Reaction time

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POWER

• Power ability to generate and use muscular
  strength quickly over a short period of time.

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Agility

• This is the ability to change the position of the
  body quickly whilst keeping control of it.

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Balance

• Balance is the ability to retain the centre of
  mass above the base of support.
• Maintaining equilibrium when moving or still.

Static This is a still balance. Examples are
handstand or headstand. The smaller the base the
more difficult the balance.
Dynamic balances are moving balances. Examples
are gym sequences on the beam.
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Power

• This is the ability to do strength performances
  quickly.
• Power strength speed.

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Co-ordination

• This is the ability to move two or more body
  parts smoothly and accurately.

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Reaction Time

• This is the time taken to respond to a stimulus.
• A stimulus is something that causes us to act in
  some way. E.g. The gun at the start of the 100m.
• The quicker we can move in response to a
  stimulus, the quicker our reactions are.

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Champs points task!

• Look at each of the 9 slides
• What is the main component of physical and skill
  related fitness. Use the most obvious, although
  there may be more than one.

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