What is Fitness?
Fitness evaluates our efforts against a full range of general physical adaptations, performance, and energy systems.
Fitness deliberately develops broad, general, and inclusive exercises to improve all aspects of health.
Fitness is preparing the human body to excel in everyday life.
Nearly every measurable value of health can be placed on a sliding scale that ranges from sickness to wellness to fitness.
Everything measurable about health will conform to this sliding scale, it seems that sickness, wellness, and fitness are different measures of a single quality: HEALTH!
Fitness deliberately develops broad, general, and inclusive exercises to improve all aspects of health.
Fitness is preparing the human body to excel in everyday life.
Nearly every measurable value of health can be placed on a sliding scale that ranges from sickness to wellness to fitness.
Everything measurable about health will conform to this sliding scale, it seems that sickness, wellness, and fitness are different measures of a single quality: HEALTH!
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Fitness provides a great margin of protection against the ravages of time and disease through ten General Physical Skills:
- Cardiovascular/respiratory endurance - The ability of body systems to gather, process, and deliver oxygen.
- Stamina - The ability of body systems to process, deliver, store, and utilize energy.
- Strength - The ability of a muscular unit, or combination of muscular units, to apply force.
- Flexibility - The ability to maximize the range of motion at a given joint.
- Power - The ability of a muscular unit, or combination of muscular units, to apply maximum force in minimum time.
- Speed - The ability to minimize the time cycle of a repeated movement.
- Coordination - The ability to combine several distinct movement patterns into a singular distinct movement.
- Agility - The ability to minimize transition time from one movement pattern to another.
- Balance - The ability to control the placement of the bodies center of gravity in relation to its support base.
- Accuracy - The ability to control movement in a given direction or at a given intensity.