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PCS PE Fitness-May

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Physical Fitness   Capacity of your body’s systems to work together to allow you to be healthy and effectively perform activities of daily living.  
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Muscular Endurance   Muscular endurance is the ability of a muscle or muscle group to repeat a movement many times or to hold a particular position for an extended period of time.  
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Circuit Training   Performance of different exercises one after another, separated only by brief breaks, with the goal of keeping your heart rate up  
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Curl-up Test   Used to test Muscular Endurance  
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Hypertrophy   Increase in Muscle Fiber Size  
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Absolute Strength   Strength measured by how much weight or resistance you can overcome regardless of body size  
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Relative Strength   Strength adjusted to your body size  
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Plyometrics   The type of training designed to increase athletic performance using jumping and hopping causing length of muscle flowed by shortening  
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Intrinsic Motivation   Reason for doing something that comes from within. Ex) Desire to be more fit.  
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Power   Capacity to use strength quickly, involves both speed and strength.  
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Strength   Maximum amount of force that your muscles can produce.  
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Range of Motion   The amount of movement in a specific joint that is safe and productive.  
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Principle of Overload   The most basic law of physical activity, which states that the only way to produce fitness and health benefits through physical activity is to require your body to do more than it does.  
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Flexibility   Ability to use your joints thru a wide range of motion without injury  
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Interval Training   Type of training that uses bouts of high intensity exercises followed by periods of rest.  
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