What is the ability of the body to work together efficiently to allow oneself to be healthy?

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Health

Health is freedom from disease and debilitating conditions as well as optimal wellness in all five components (physical, emotional, social, intellectual and spiritual.

Wellness

Wellness is the positive component of health that includes having a good quality of life and a good sense of well-being exhibited by a positive outlook on life.

Physical Fitness

Physical Fitness is the ability of your body systems to work together efficiently to allow you to be healthy and perform activities of daily living.

What are the 6 Health-Related Components of Fitness?

Cardiorespiratory Endurance
Strength
Muscular Endurance
Flexibility
Body Composition
Power

Cardiorespiratory Endurance

A health related component of fitness.

The ability to exercise your entire body for a long time without stopping. It requires a strong heart, healthy lungs, and clear blood vessels to supply your large muscles with oxygen.

Examples of exercises that require good cardiorespiratory endurance are distance running, swimming, and cross-country skiing.

Strength

A health related component of fitness.

Strength is the amount of force your muscles can produce. It is often measured by how much weight you can lift or how much resistance you can overcome.

Examples of activities that require good strength are lifting a heavy weight and pushing a heavy box.

Muscular Endurance

A health related component of fitness.

The ability to use your muscles many times without tiring - for example, doing many push ups or curl up (crunches) or climbing on a rock wall.

Flexibility

A health related component of fitness.

The ability to use your joints fully through a wide range of motion without injury. You are flexible when your muscles are long enough and your joints are free enough to allow adequate movement.

Examples of people with good flexibility include dancers and gymnasts.

Body Composition

A health related component of fitness.

Body composition refers to the different types of tissues that make up your body, including fat, muscle, bone, and organ.

Power

A health related component of fitness.

Power is the ability to use strength quickly; thus it involves both strength and speed. It is sometimes referred to as explosive strength.

People with good power can, for example, jump far or high, put the shot, and speed-swim.

What are the 5 Skill-Related Parts of Physical Fitness?

Balance
Coordination
Speed
Reaction Time
Agility

Balance

A skill related component of fitness.

The ability to keep an upright posture while standing still or moving.
People with good balance are likely to be good at gymnastics and ice skating.

Coordination

A skill related component of fitness.

Is the ability to use your senses together with your body parts or to use two or more body parts together.
People with good eye-hand or eye-foot coordination are good at juggling and at hitting and kicking games, such as soccer, baseball, volleyball, tennis, and golf.

Speed

A skill related component of fitness.

Is the ability to perform a movement or cover a distance in a short time.
For example, people with good leg speed can run fast, and people with good arm speed can throw fast or hit a ball that is thrown fast.

Reaction Time

A skill related component of fitness.

Is the amount of time it takes you to move once you recognize the need to act.

People with good reaction time can make fast starts in track and swimming and can dodge fast attacks in fencing and karate.

Agility

A skill related component of fitness.

The ability to change the position of your body quickly and control your body's movements. People with good agility are likely to be good at wrestling, diving, soccer, and ice skating.

Self Assessments

Self-assessments are one type of self-management skill. Self-management skills are skills that help you to adopt and maintain a healthy lifestyle now and throughout life.

What are the six self assessment guidelines?

1. Try a wide variety of tests
2. Choose Self Assessments that work best for you
Practice
3. Use self assessments for personal improvement
4. Use Health Standards rather than comparing yourself with others
5. Information from self-Assessments is personal

Define Health-Related components of Physical Fitness

Health-Related Parts of Physical Fitness help a person stay healthy. Have shown that they can reduce your risk of chronic disease and promote good health and wellness

Define Skill-Related components of Physical Fitness

Skill-Related Parts of Physical Fitness help a person perform well in sports and activities.

Hypokinetic condition

A hypokinetic condition is a health problem caused partly by lack of physical activity--such as heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, osteoporosis, colon cancer, or a high body fat level.

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What is the ability of the body system to work together efficiently to allow you to be healthy and perform daily activities?

Physical fitness refers to the ability of your body systems to work together efficiently to allow you to be healthy and perform activities of daily living. Being efficient means doing daily activities with the least effort possible.

What is the ability of the body to function efficiently and effectively in work and play?

In earlier classes, physical fitness has been defined as the capacity of a person to carry out the daily activities without undue fatigue. Physical fitness is considered as a measure of the body's ability to function efficiently and effectively during work and leisure activities.

What do you call the ability of the body to effectively and efficiently function work without undue fatigue 1 point?

Physical fitness can be defined as the “ability to carry out daily tasks with vigor and alertness, without undue fatigue, and with ample energy to enjoy leisure-time pursuits and to meet unforeseen emergencies” (Park 1989).

What do you call the ability of our body to move effectively and efficiently?

Flexibility: the ability to move at the joints through a full range of motion. The range of. motion through which the body's joints are able to move. Flexibility is evaluated with a.