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PE Basics

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Cardiovascular Endurance   Ability of the heart, lungs, and blood vessels to function efficiently when a person is exercising the body.  
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Muscular Strength   The amount of force the muscles can produce.  
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Flexibility   The ability to move the joints through a full range of motion; a part of fitness that requires long muscles.  
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Body Composition   The makeup of the body's tissues, including muscle, bone, body fat, and all other body tissues.  
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Muscular Endurance   The ability to contract the muscles many times without tiring or to hold on contraction for a long time.  
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Exercise   Physical activity that is done to help increase your physical fitness.  
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Type   The activity you choose to build your fitness; part of the FITT formula.  
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Heart Rate   The number of times the heart beats each minute.  
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Intensity   How hard a person performs physical activity; part of the FITT formula.  
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Frequency   How often physical activity is performed; part of the FITT formula.  
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Time   How long a person performs an activity; part of the FITT formula.  
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F.I.T.T.   Frequency, Intensity, Time, and Type.  
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Rest   The point where your body recuperates from energy expended.  
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Specificity   The principle of specificity states that sports training should be relevant and appropriate to the sport for which the individual is training in order to produce the desired effect.  
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Overload Principle   It means that in order to improve, athletes must continually work harder as they their bodies adjust to existing workouts.  
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Regularity   Set up a regular schedule for exercising.  
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Progression   As your fitness level improves, your training should become more difficult and the workload greater.  
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Force   Strength or energy as an attribute of physical action or movement.  
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Motion   The action or process of moving or being moved.  
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Rotation   Using or relating to a circular movement above an axis or center.  
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