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Chapter12
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Physical Activity | Any form of movement that causes ur body to use energy |
| Physical Fitness | The ability to carry out daily tasks easily and have enough reserve energy to respond to unexpected demands. |
| Exercise | Purposeful physical activity that is planned |
| Sedentary | Involving little physical activity |
| Cardiorespiratory Endurance | The ability of ur heart,lungs,and blood vessels to send fuel and oxygen to ur tissues during long periods of time |
| Muscular Strength | The amount of force ur muscles can exert. |
| Muscular endurance | The ability of ur muscles to perform physical tasks over a period of time without tiring. |
| Flexibility | The ability to move ur body parts through their full range of motion. |
| Aerobic exercise | All rhythmic activites that use large muscle groups for an extended amount of time. |
| Anaerobic exercise | Intense short bursts of activity |
| Specificity | Choosing the right types of activities to improve a given element of fitness. |
| Overload | Means excercisng at a level that's beyond ur daily activities. |
| Progression | Sometimes increasing the demands on ur body. |
| Warm-up | gentle activity that prepares muscles 4 work. |
| Workout | The part of an exercise session when u r exercising at ur highest peak. |
| Cool-down | low level activity that prepares ur body 2 return to a resting state. |
| Resting heart rate | the number of times ur heart beats per minutewhen u r not active. |
| Frostbite | Damage to skin and tissues caused by extreme cold. |
| Hypothermia | Dangerously low body temp |
| Overexertion | Over-working the body. |
| Heat exhaustion | A form of physical stress onn the body caused by overheating |
| heatstroke |