Fitness components
What are the four components of physical fitness(name 2)?
Cardiorespiratory fitness, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, and body composition.
What are the five food groups represented by MyPlate?
Fruits, vegetables, grains, protein foods, and dairy.
How long is the Personal Fitness exercise and nutrition program?
12 weeks.
This is an important part of personal fitness that allows your body and mind to recover.
Sleep.
What merit badge focuses on developing a healthier lifestyle through exercise, nutrition, and a 12-week program?
The Personal Fitness Merit Badge.
This type of fitness involves the heart and lungs supplying oxygen during activity.
Cardiorespiratory fitness.
According to MyPlate, about half of your plate should be made up of these two food groups.
Fruits and vegetables.
This should be done before each more rigorous workout.
A warm-up.
Good nutrition is related to these other parts of personal fitness because your body needs nutrients to support activity and health.
Exercise and overall fitness.
This aerobic fitness assessment requires completing a mile walk or run as fast as you can.
The mile walk/run.
Push-ups and pull-ups can be used to measure this component of fitness.
Muscular strength and endurance.
Rice, bread, oatmeal, and pasta belong to this MyPlate food group.
Grains.
The aerobic part of the program should raise your heart and breathing rate for this many minutes, at least three times per week.
15 to 30 minutes.
Regular physical activity can help reduce the risk of these long-term health problems.
Cardiovascular disease and other chronic diseases.
Name one of the muscular strength and endurance tests used in the current requirements.
Sit-ups, plank, push-ups, or pull-ups.
A sit-and-reach test can measure this component of fitness.
Flexibility.
This MyPlate group includes foods such as meat, poultry, seafood, beans, peas, eggs, nuts, and seeds.
Protein foods.
This should be done after exercising using low-intensity movement or gentle stretching.
A cool-down.
Personal fitness includes more than just physical health. Name three other areas.
Mental, emotional, social, and spiritual fitness. (Any three.)
Before starting the program, Scouts identify their strongest and weakest areas and choose an area to improve. What is this called?
A pre-assessment of physical fitness.
The Personal Fitness merit badge has Scouts complete fitness assessments before, during, and after their program. What is the purpose?
To measure progress and show improvement.
For Personal Fitness, Scouts keep a three-day food and drink log and use it to identify at least two nutrition improvement goals.
Nutrition and diet goals.
Name all five major parts that the current program requires(at least 3).
Warm-up, cardiorespiratory exercise, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, and cool-down.
Personal Fitness asks Scouts to discuss whether they spend quality time with these people through social and recreational activities.
Friends and Family.
After completing the program, Scouts discuss their results, improvements, insights, and experiences with this person.
Their merit badge counselor.