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COMPONENTS OF FITNESS

lyeomans — 2016-09-22 15:56:26 UTC

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Muscular strength 💪🏻

2023-01-17 10:55:16 UTC

Definition….
Muscular strength is the amount of force you can put out or the amount of weight you can lift.
Sports exercises …

lifting weights.🏋🏼
working with resistance bands.
cycling.🚴🏼‍♀️
push-ups, sit-ups and squats
Plank⏱️
Power lunges🏋️‍♀️

why is it important….
Strength training may enhance your quality of life and improve your ability to do everyday activities. Strength training can also protect your joints from injury. Building muscle also can contribute to better balance and may reduce your risk of fall🤕

Agility

2023-01-17 10:58:11 UTC

Agility is the capacity to change course, controlling the direction and position of one's body while maintaining momentum.

It is important in sports like badminton as they need to get around the court to allow them to play the shots.
It is also important in all sports like basketball for foot changing, or sports like boxing for staying on their toes.

Body composition

2023-01-17 10:58:16 UTC

With respect to health and fitness, body composition is used to describe the percentages of fat, bone and muscle in human bodies.

Body composition plays an important role in understanding your health and wellness, measuring the differences between leanness and too much fat. This allows you to accurately assess your health and plan your lifestyle and diet accordingly.

In body building having a low body fat percentage is important as it shows the most about of muscle and all the different muscle types. 🏋🏼‍♀️🏋🏼‍♀️🏋🏼‍♀️🏋🏼‍♀️🏋🏼‍♀️🏋🏼‍♀️

Coordination

2023-01-17 10:58:25 UTC

The ability to use your body together efficiently and smoothly
Coordination helps to minimize the conflicts, rivalries, wastages, delays and other organizational problems. It ensures smooth working of the organization
Someone with good hand-eye coordination is going to be more successful at throwing, catching and hitting. This enables them to be more successful in sports such as basketball, boxing and cricket.
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Cardiovascular endurance

2023-01-17 11:00:10 UTC

Cardiovascular endurance is a type of exercise that involves aerobic presence meaning involved the presence of oxygen it can be performed from a low to high intensity depending on the demand of energy during exercise.
Cardiovascular endurance is important as it keeps the heart, lungs and circulatory system healthy and helps to improve an individuals overall fitness performing types of cardiovascular exercises can help reduce things such as diabetes, heart disease and stroke.

Types of cardiovascular exercises can involve: running, rowing, swimming, hiking, dancing

Flexibility

2023-01-17 11:00:18 UTC

Flexibility is the ability of a joint or series of joints to move through an unrestricted, pain free range of motion.

Gymnastics is a sporting example of flexibility gymnastics requires some serious flexibility, particularly in the hips and shoulders.

It allows participants to perform complex moves efficiently and improves the aesthetic quality of the performance.

5 Examples Of Flexibility Exercises

Bend and Twist. Stand with your arms crossed, hands on opposite shoulders, knees bent slightly, and feet shoulder width apart. ...
Lower Leg Stretch. Stand facing a wall with your feet about shoulder width apart. ...
Standing Hip Bend. ...
Achilles Tendon Stretch. ...
Sitting Stretch.

Balance (Dynamic&Static)

2023-01-17 11:00:43 UTC

: balance is the ability to stay. upright or stay in control of body movement, and. coordination is the ability to move two or more body. parts under control, smoothly and efficiently. - There are two types of balance: static and dynamic.
Improved balance and muscle group coordination will naturally increase your body's ability to control itself during challenging tasks.
Gymnastics needs good balance because they need to stay on their feet and be able to hold themselves up right.

Muscular endurance

2023-01-17 11:06:13 UTC

Muscular endurance is how many times you can move that weight without getting exhausted.

Examples :
Swimming
Cycling
Running

It will increase your athletic performance in endurance-based sports and enable you to perform at a higher capacity for longer and you'll experience less fatigue during exertion.

2023-01-19 11:13:21 UTC