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Health (Chapter 3)
Lessons 1, 2, 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Physical Fitness | ability to carry out daily tasks easily and have enough reserve energy to respond to unexpected demands |
| Body Composition | The ratio of body fat to lean body tissue, including muscle, bone, water, and consecutive tissue such as a ligament, cartilage, and tendons. |
| Flexibility | The ability to move a body part through a full range of motion. |
| Muscular Strength | the amount of force a muscle can exert |
| Muscular Endurance: | The ability of muscles to do difficult physical tasks over a long period of time without causing fatigue. |
| Cardiorespiratory Endurance | The ability of the heart, lungs, and blood vessels to send oxygen throughout the body to the tissues during long periods of vigorous activities |
| Sedentary Lifestyle | A lifestyle that requires little movement or exercise |
| Metabolism | The process by which your body gets energy from food |
| Basal metabolism | The minimum amount of energy needed to maintain the life processes inside a body |
| Calories | Units of heat |
| Aerobic Exercise | Vigorous activity in which Oxygen is continuously taken for at least 20 minutes |
| Anaerobic Exercise | Intense bursts of activity in which your body produces energy without Oxygen |
| Isometric exercise | Activity that uses muscle tension to improve muscular strength with little or no movement of the body part |
| Isotonic Exercise | Activity that combines muscle contraction with repeated movement |
| Isokinetic Exercise | Activity that involves resistance through an entire range of motion |
| Overload | Working the body harder than its normally worked |
| Progression | Is a gradual increase in overload necessary for achieving higher levels of fitness. |
| Specificity | A principle that states that particular exercise's and activities improve particular areas of health related fitness. |
| Asthma | Is a disease of the lungs that can be aggravated by physical activity, will need to take his/her condition into account in designing a fitness program. |
| Warm-up | engaging in activity that prepares the muscles for the work that is to come |
| Cool-Down | Engaging in activity to gradually decrease activity |
| Resting Heart Rate | Number of times your heart beats in one minute when you are not active |