Three Dimensions of Health
Fitness Components
Movement Skills
Healthy Behaviors
Real-World Wellness
100

This dimension of health involves your relationships with family, friends, and community.

What is Social Health

100

The shuttle run station tests this fitness component, which measures how well your heart and lungs supply oxygen during continuous activity.

What is Cardiovascular Endurance

100

Running, hopping, galloping, skipping, and jumping are all examples of this category of movement.

What are locomotor movements?

100

The lesson mentions these are obstacles that prevent people from practicing healthy behaviors, such as lack of time or cost.

What are barriers?

100

The fitness portfolio activity mirrors these real-world tools, like MyFitnessPal or Apple Health.

What are fitness apps (or health-tracking apps)?

200

Getting enough sleep affects all three dimensions of health, but it most directly impacts this dimension by allowing your body to repair and recahrge

What is physical health?


200

The sit-and-reach test measures this fitness component.

What is flexibility 

200

Throwing, catching, dribbling, kicking, and striking are examples of this movement category.

What are manipulative skills?

200

In the Healthy-Life Wheel activity, students rate their wellness and identify one of these to work on.

What is a growth area (or area for improvement)?

200

Understanding body composition and fitness helps reduce the risk of these long-term illnesses.

What are chronic diseases?

300

Feeling stressed about a test is an example of this dimension of health 

What is mental/emotional health?


300

Holding a plank for one minute tests this component, which is your muscles' ability to perform repeated contractions over time.

What is muscular endurance

300

Bending, twisting, balancing, stretching, and turning are examples of this movement category.

What are non-locomotor movements?

300

A realistic health goal should include these three elements: specific actions, this time element, and a way to track progress.

What is a timeline (or deadline)?

300

The lesson explores careers including counselor, nurse, nutritionist, physical therapist, and this type of health professional who works with communities.

What is a public health educator

400

When Jordan doesn't get enough sleep, he feels irritable with friends, struggles to focus in class, and feels tired during P.E. This shows how the three dimensions are this.

What is interconnected (or interrelated)?

400

This fitness component refers to the ratio of fat mass to lean mass in your body.

What is body composition 

400

Before physical activity, you should perform this routine to prepare your muscles and gradually increase your heart rate.

What is a warm-up?

400

Community resources, cultural perspectives, and social determinants are factors that affect health, which students explore when making this type of connection.

What is a community connection?

400

Students track baseline data and compare it to future assessments, which teaches this type of decision-making used in healthcare.

What is data-driven decision making?

500

According to the lesson, health is more than just being "not sick"—it's a state of complete physical, mental/emotional, and social wellbeing called this.

What is wellness?

500

Name all five components of health-related fitness.

What are cardiovascular endurance, muscular strength, muscular endurance, flexibility, and body composition?

500

After physical activity, you should perform this routine that includes stretches for your calves, quadriceps, shoulders, and hamstrings.

What is a cool-down?

500

When creating an action plan, students set goals for all three of these types of health.

What are physical, mental/emotional, and social health?

500

 Cost, access, transportation, and safety are examples of factors that affect health choices in this setting outside of school.

What is the community

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