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physical fitness
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| my resting heart rate | 68 |
| my exercise heart rate | 198 |
| my recovery heart rate | 92 |
| things that can increase your resting heart rate | caffeine, nicotine, stress, illness, not recovered from a hard workout |
| something that can decrease resting heart rate | Alcohol |
| what happens to a persons resting heart rate when they become more cardiovascularly fit? | it goes down |
| what is an average resting heart rate | 60-80 beats per minute |
| your heart is a muscle that will become __________ as you grow more cardiovascularly fit | stronger |
| why isn't the thumb used to count pulse | it has a pulse of its own |
| When is the best time to take your resting heart rate? | when you first wake up |
| heart rate is the same thing as _____ | pulse |
| what are the two most common places to take your pulse | wrist and neck |
| what does FITT stand for? | Frequency, Intensity, Time, and Type |
| Frequency | how often you exercise per week. you must workout at least 3 to 4 days per week. |
| Intensity | how hard you workout. Your heart rate should be in your target heart rate zone for best cardiovascular results |
| Time | how long you perform on your exercise session. |
| How longs should you workout in order to get cardiovascular benefits? | 15 minutes in your target heart rate zone |
| Type | the kind of exercise used to maintain or modify fitness |
| examples of cardiovascular exercise | running, bicycling, jumping rope, soccer, basketball, skating, or swimming |
| Name the five components of physical fitness | Cardiovascular Function, Body Composition, Muscular Strength, Muscular Endurance, and Flexibility. |
| Cardiovascular Function | deals with the condition of your heart and lungs |
| Body Composition | percentage of body fat. |
| Average percentage of fat for women | 23% |
| Average percentage of fat for men | 15% |
| high levels of body fat can cause.... | heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, kidney disease, and arthritis |
| exercises which can decrease body fat | same as cardio exercises |
| method for evaluating % of body fat | skin caliper test |
| Muscular Strength | ability of a muscle to exert force |
| Muscular Endurance | doing something over and over without tiring |
| Flexibility | the range of motion of a specific joint or a group of joints *sit and reach test |
| benefits of flexibility | prevents muscles from shortening, increases capacity of joint movement, reduces chance of injury, relieves muscle soreness |
| cardiovascular benefits | less heart disease, less likely to die from heart attacks, develop extra coronary arteries in the heart, heart gets stringer, concentration and ability to cope with stress are improved. |
| benefits of exercise | heart rate decreases, number of blood vessels increase, bone strength increases, muscular endurance increases, and muscular strength increases. |