Ability to exercise the whole body without tiring
What is cardiovascular fitness?
The amount of force a muscle can exert against a resistance
What is muscular strength?
The ability to use voluntary muscles repeatedly without getting tired
What is of muscular endurance?
The range of movement possible at a joint.
What is flexibility?
The relative ratio of fat to fat-free mass in the body
What is body composition?
The heart, blood and blood vessels
What is the cardiovascular system made up of?
The grip strength dynamometer
What test is used to measure strength?
One minute press-up and sit-up tests
What tests are we using to measure muscular endurance?
Sit and reach test
What test measure flexibility?
Obesity, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular heart disease.
What condition can be developed if your body fat percentage is too high?
What tests can measure cardiovascular fitness?
The 12-minute run, beep test, yo-yo running test, vo2max.
Resistance training
How is strength developed?
What is the difference between muscular and cardiovascular endurance?
Muscular endurance is the ability of a muscle to sustain repeated contractions against a resistance for an extended period of time.
cardiovascular endurance is how efficiently your heart, blood vessels, and lungs to supply oxygen-rich blood to working muscles during physical activity
Dynamic (before) and static (after)
Appropriate for your sport!
What kinds of stretches help to improve flexibility?
Regular exercise, diet, sleep, balanced lifestyle
What can you help maintain a healthy body?
Interval, continuous and fartlek
What training methods are used to develop CV fitness?
What weight/rep ratio is needed to develop strength?
High weight: Low repetitions
To perform 45 jump shots and run up and down the court
Why is muscular endurance important to a shooting guard in basketball?
Flexibility helps prevent injuries by allowing the body to correctly move the way it was intended.
Why is flexibility important to all athletes?
What sport would benefit from a person who could activate 85-90% of their muscle mass?
Sprinting
A marathon runner and a boxer.
What athletes needs good CV fitness?
To lift heavy weights
Why is strength important to a weightlifter?
The lungs, heart and blood vessels
What supplies the voluntary muscles with oxygen?
Why does a high jumper need good flexibility?
To arch their back as the jump over the bar
Body Mass Index is a measure of body fat based on your weight in relation to your height.
What is BMI?