Physical Activity and Fitness

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Physical Activity and Fitness

• Chapter 9

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• Physical Activity any kind of movement that
  uses up energy.
• Physical Fitness the ability to handle the
  physical demands of everyday life without
  becoming overly tired.
• Exercise a specifically planned and organized
  session of physical activity that you can do to
  improve/maintain your physical fitness

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The 5 Areas of Physical Fitness

• Muscular Strength How much weight your muscles
  can lift at one time
• Muscular Endurance Using your muscle over an
  extended period of time
• Flexibility The ability of your joints to move
  through a full range of motion
• Cardiovascular Endurance Aerobic Exercise
  exercising your heart and lung muscles
• Body Composition The ratio of fat to muscle

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Types of Exercise to Develop Physical Fitness

• Anaerobic exercise
• increase muscular strength/endurance
• promote flexibility
• Aerobic exercise
• improve cardiovascular endurance
• increase muscular strength/endurance
• promote flexibility

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What makes an exercise AEROBIC?

• Continuous
• Use large muscles
• Target heart range for at least 20 minutes
• The level at which your heart and lungs receive
  the most benefit
• 140 to 170 beats per minute

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Why is AEROBIC exercise important?

• It makes your heart stronger
• It gets more oxygen to all parts of your body

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3 Types of Heart Rates

• Resting How hard your heart works at rest
• Take when you wake up on the morning or when you
  have been seated for at least 10 minutes
• Working Taken during or right after exercise
• Recovery How ling it takes your heart rate to
  go back to normal after exercise

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Skills Related to Fitness

• Agility
• Coordination
• Speed
• Power
• Reaction Time

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Warming up/ Cooling down

• Overhead!

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Anabolic Steroids

• Drugs that cause muscle tissue to develop at an
  abnormally fast rate.
• Liver/brain cancer
• Weakening of tendons
• Cardiovascular damage
• Mood swings, anxiety
• Severs acne
• Bone damage