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Vocabulary #3
Term | Definition |
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Physical Fitness | Your ability to carry out physical activities compared with the amount of fatigue you feel afterwards |
Agility | The ability to move quickly with little to no struggle |
Balance | The even distribution of weight in order to stay positioned in a certain fashion |
Coordination | The ability to use different parts of the body at the same time with little to no struggle |
Speed | Rate of motion, how fast something is going |
Power | The ability to exert maximal force in the shortest period of time |
Reaction Time | The amount of time it takes to respond to a stimulus |
Overload | Applying more pressure to the body than it's used to to get it accustomed to that amount of pressure |
Cross Training | The action of being trained in more than one skill to improve the main skill |
Aerobic | Pertaining to exercise that is intended to improve the efficiency of the body's cardiovascular system |
Anaerobic | Pertaining to exercise that is NOT intended to improve the efficiency of the body's cardiovascular system |
Warm Up | Preforming minor work outs or stretches to prepare your body for a more strenuous workout |
Cool Down | Preforming an easy exercise after a more intense activity to gradually get the body back to a resting state |
Resting Heart Rate | The amount of times your heart beats per minute when doing nothing or very little |
Target Heart Rate | Keeping your heart rate between 50% and 85% of your maximum heart rate after counting your pulse for 10 sec then multiplying by 6 to find beats per minute |
Progression | The process of moving gradually into a more advanced state |
Specificity | The idea that in order to get good or better at a skill, you must preform that skill |
Creative | Relating to/involving the imagination or original ideas |
Anabolic Steroids | A synthetic steroid hormone of testosterone to promote the growth of a muscle |
Cross fit | A high intensity program incorporating elements from different sports and types of exercise |