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Improving your fitness - Coggle Diagram
Improving your fitness
elements of fitness
Cardiorespiratory Endurance
The ability of your heart lungs and blood vessels to send fuel and oxygen during extended periods of exercise
Good cardiorespiratory health lowers chances for heart disease
Muscular Strength
Ammount of force your muscles can exert
Muscular Endurance
The ability of your muscles to perform physical tasks over a period of time without tiring
Flexibility
The ability to move your body parts through their full range of motion
Body Composition
The ratio of fat to lean tissue in your body
evaluating your fitness
measuring muscular strength and endurance
particular curl-ups
1) lie down with knees bent
2) raise head and upper body
3) return to original position
4) continue at a rate of one every 3 secs
right-angle push-ups
1) lie facedown in push-up position
2) push up
repeat one every 3 secs
measuring cardiorespiratory endurance
1) step on a bench with right foot
2) continue steeping up and back down
3) take pulse
measuring flexibility
1) sit on the floor and bend knees
2) extend arms and put on top of the other
3) reach forward four times
4) switch legs and repeat
getting fit
anearboic exercise
short bursts of activity, make muscle produce energy with out oxygen
improve muscular strength and endurance
isometric exercise
improve strength with little or no movement of the body part
isotonic exercise
combine the movement of the joints with contraction of the muscles
isokinetic exercises
exert resistance against a muscle as it moves through a range of motion at a steady rate of speed
improve cardiorespiratory endurance
Aerboic exerice
rhythmic activities that use large muscle group