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Fitness Assessment

This document discusses health-related fitness and its importance. It defines the components of health-related fitness as cardiovascular fitness, muscular endurance, muscular strength, flexibility, and body composition. It explains that physical fitness is important for health as it helps perform daily activities and reduces illness risks. The document then provides more details on each component of health-related fitness and the benefits of maintaining health-related fitness such as reduced disease risks and improved well-being. It emphasizes that proper nutrition, exercise, and lifestyle all contribute to achieving and maintaining physical health.

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Fitness Assessment

This document discusses health-related fitness and its importance. It defines the components of health-related fitness as cardiovascular fitness, muscular endurance, muscular strength, flexibility, and body composition. It explains that physical fitness is important for health as it helps perform daily activities and reduces illness risks. The document then provides more details on each component of health-related fitness and the benefits of maintaining health-related fitness such as reduced disease risks and improved well-being. It emphasizes that proper nutrition, exercise, and lifestyle all contribute to achieving and maintaining physical health.

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Fitness and

Nutrition
What is health
related fitness?
Health related fitness refers to those
components of fitness associated with
good health. These components are
cardiovascular fitness, muscular
endurance, muscular strength, flexibility,
and body composition
Why is physical
fitness important in
relation to health?
Physical fitness is relevant because it can
help in doing one’s physical activities
effectively. More importantly, it also
reduces the risk of health-related
illnesses.
HEALTH-RELATED COMPONENTS
Cardiovascular
fitness
Cardiovascular fitness is the capacity of
the heart and the lungs to sustain oxygen
to the muscles for a prolonged period of
time. This is also called cardio-respiratory
fitness
Muscular endurance
Refers to the availability of the muscle to
work over a prolonged period without
fatigue. Push-ups, sit-ups or crunches are
usually used in testing muscular
endurance.
Muscular strength
Refers to the maximum amount of force a
muscle can exert against an opposing
force. Muscular strength testing is usually
done with a one-time maximum lift using
weights (bench press, leg press, etc.)
flexibility
Is the ability to move a body part through
a full range of motion at a joint. The sit-
and-reach is commonly used to determine
flexibility
Body composition
Is the ratio of body fat to lean body mass.
Having too much fat tissues is a risk
factor for cardiovascular diseases,
diabetes, cancer, and arthritis.
What are the benefits of health-
related fitness?
•Reduces risk of cancer, diabetes,
stroke, and heart diseases;

•Increases natural defense against


illnesses such as cold and flu

•Improves self-esteem by relieving


depression; and

•Prevents physical and cognitive


problems associated with aging.
How do we achieve health-
related fitness?
• Proper nutrition is an essential factor in achieving
better health. But proper nutrition alone cannot result
in a physically fit body.

• You should not forget that regular exercise and a


healthful lifestyle also contribute to achieving a
physically healthy body
What is proper nutrition?
•Proper nutrition means eating a balanced diet from various
sources. It is a kind of nutrition necessary for the cells in the
body to stay alive. It also gives attention to how an illness or
health problem can be prevented and lessened through a
healthful diet .

•It is true that many fitness goals fail without considering


proper nutrition.
What is the
relationship In providing your body with
between sufficient fuel through proper
nutrition with regular exercise you
nutrition and improve your capacity to perform.

exercise?
Healthful food intake will provide
you with consistent energy, while
proper protein intake will help
support muscle development and
repair cells and tissues.

Exercise and nutrition work hand in


hand for improved physical
performance.
Principles
of Planning
a Training
Program
What are the principles of
planning a training
program?
•When planning for your physical training, you need to
consider the principles of training. The training
principles are rules that you need to adhere to when
performing physical activities and programs.

•These serve as a guide in meeting you individual


needs based on age, gender, fitness level and the sport
for which you are training. This will improve your
performance, skill, game ability, and physical fitness.
FITT
PRINCIPLE Frequency
refers to how often you do a physical activity
• The FITT (Frequency, Intensity, Time,
Intensity
and Type) principle is just like a set of
rules to guide you in order to benefit from refers to how hard or intense you do a physical activity
your fitness training program. This Time
principle can be used for
refers to how long you do a physical activity
cardiorespiratory , strength, resistance,
and endurance training. Type

• The FITT acronym helps you remember refers to the kind of activity you perform or method of
training to use
the things you need to consider when
planning for a training program.
Fitness
Assessment
What are the things
Follow the procedures in taking a
that we need to physical test
remember before
Wear appropriate attire or the
engaging into
Physical Education uniform
physical test or
physical activity? Do warm-up exercises. They are a
must

Observe safety in performing the


activities

Do cool-down activities
Body We need to determine the body mass

Composition
composition in order to know the
risk level of having cardiovascular

Management
diseases.

To determine our risk level, we


need to measure the amount of fat
and muscle mass in our body
composition

This way, we can determine the risk


level of having cardiovascular
diseases
How do we determine
our risk level?

Body mass index identification

Waist Circumference
Body mass index
identification
It is a person’s weight in kilograms divided
by the square of height in meters.

Compute the BMI using either of the


following:

BMI = Weight (kg) / Height (m)2


Example of
BMI
computation
Identifying the risk level from BMI result
Waist Circumference
This is a good way of determining the
visceral fat which contributes more risk of
cardiovascular diseases and diabetes

Using a tape measure, measure your waist


circumference either in centimeters or in
inches
Identifying the risk level from waist
circumference
Physical
Cardiovascular
Endurance

Fitness Strength
Assessment
There are some team sports
that require endurance,
strength, and a certain level
of physical fitness

Some of these are basketball, Flexibility


futsal, and baseball, among
many others.

With proper training and


exercise, one may enjoy
performing the different
skills and fitness associated
with them.

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