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Vocab.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Physical fitness | A general state of health and well being and the ability to perform sports and everyday activities. |
| Body Composition | The percentage of fat, bone, water, and muscle in human bodies. |
| Flexibility | The quality of bending easily without breaking. |
| Muscular Strength | The maximum amount of force that a muscle can put against some form of resistance in a single effort. |
| Muscular Endurance | The ability of muscle or a group of muscles to sustain repeated contractions against a resistance over an extended period of time |
| Cardiorespiratory Endurance | A measurement of how well your heart, lungs, and muscles work together to keep your body active over a long period of time |
| Sedentary Lifestyle | A lifestyle with either no or not a lot of excerise |
| Metabolism | The chemical processes that occurs in a living organism to maintain life. |
| Aerobic Exercise | Is something that requires pumping of oxygenated blood by the heart to deliver oxygen to working muscles. |
| Anaerobic Excerise | A short-lasting, high-intensity workout or activity, where your body's demand for oxygen increases the oxygen supply available. |
| Calories | A unit of measurement used in the body to tell how much energy your body could get from eating or drinking it |
| Isokinetic Excerise | A type of strength training in which specialized machines, or dynamometers, that maintains a constant speed of movement. |
| Isotonic Excerise | A method of muscular exercise. |
| Isometric Excerise | A type of strength training in which the joint angle and muscle length do not change during contraction. |
| Basal Metabolism | The minimum amount of energy required to maintain vital functions in an organism at complete rest. |