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Study Stack Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Physical Fitness | Ability to carry out tasks without fatigue. |
| Body Composition | Measures the percentage of fat, muscle, water and bone found in the human body. |
| Flexiblilty | The range of motion of your joints. |
| Muscular Strength | Max amount of force that a muscle can exert against some form of resistance in a single effort. |
| Muscular Endurance | The ability of muscles to exert force against resistance. |
| Cardio-respiratory Endurance | Ability of the circulatory/respiratory systems to supply "fuel" during physical activity and to eliminate fatigue after supplying "fuel". |
| Sedentary Lifestyle | Little to no physical activity. |
| Metabolism | The chemical reactions involved in maintain the living state of cells and the organism. |
| Aerobic Exercise | The pumping of oxygenated blood by the heart to deliver oxygen to the muscles. |
| Anaerobic Exercise | Short, high-intensity workout; body needs more oxygen because it has exceeded the supply. |
| Calories | Units of energy. |
| Isokinetic Exercise | Strength training in which specialized machines maintain a constant speed of movement. |
| Isotonic Exercise | Exercises that increase muscular strength, power, and endurance based on lifting a constant amount of weight through a range of motion. |
| Isometric Exercise | Strength training in which the joint angle and muscle length do not change during contraction. |
| Basal Metabolism | The amount of energy expended while at rest. |