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Fitness components

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  • Name a purpose of learning the 5 fitness components.
    1) To incorporate into our exercise routines. 2) To learn how to maintain our health and fitness.
  • What is cardiovascular endurance?
    Your body's ability to deliver oxygen to working muscles during exercise. And/or: The ability of your heart & lungs to work efficiently during exercise.
  • Name an exercise that tests our cardiovascular endurance
    Running, swimming, biking
  • Name a way to improve our body composition.
    Pushups, squats, burpees, cardio (running, biking), yoga, strength training. EXERCISING!
  • Push-ups, sit-ups, and squats are examples of which of the following fitness components? Cardiovascular endurance, muscular strength, or flexibility
    Muscular strength
  • True or false. Muscular endurance is your muscles' ability to exert force repeatedly for an EXTENDED period of time.
    True
  • Name one or more ways we can improve flexibility.
    Yoga, stretching, pilates
  • Name the fitness component: Your body's ratio of lean muscle to stored fat. Is it body composition, muscular endurance, or cardiovascular endurance?
    Body composition
  • Muscular strength refers to the amount of force a muscle can produce with a SINGLE maximal effort. Name an example of an exercise that works muscular strength.
    Lifting weights, working with resistance bands, heavy gardening, such as digging and shoveling, climbing stairs, push-ups, sit-ups
  • True or False. Fat weighs more than muscle.
    False
  • True or False. Flexibility is your muscles and joints' ability to move through their full range of motion.
    True