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Vocab.
Term | Definition |
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Physical fitness | A general state of health and well being and the ability to perform sports and everyday activities. |
Body Composition | The percentage of fat, bone, water, and muscle in human bodies. |
Flexibility | The quality of bending easily without breaking. |
Muscular Strength | The maximum amount of force that a muscle can put against some form of resistance in a single effort. |
Muscular Endurance | The ability of muscle or a group of muscles to sustain repeated contractions against a resistance over an extended period of time |
Cardiorespiratory Endurance | A measurement of how well your heart, lungs, and muscles work together to keep your body active over a long period of time |
Sedentary Lifestyle | A lifestyle with either no or not a lot of excerise |
Metabolism | The chemical processes that occurs in a living organism to maintain life. |
Aerobic Exercise | Is something that requires pumping of oxygenated blood by the heart to deliver oxygen to working muscles. |
Anaerobic Excerise | A short-lasting, high-intensity workout or activity, where your body's demand for oxygen increases the oxygen supply available. |
Calories | A unit of measurement used in the body to tell how much energy your body could get from eating or drinking it |
Isokinetic Excerise | A type of strength training in which specialized machines, or dynamometers, that maintains a constant speed of movement. |
Isotonic Excerise | A method of muscular exercise. |
Isometric Excerise | A type of strength training in which the joint angle and muscle length do not change during contraction. |
Basal Metabolism | The minimum amount of energy required to maintain vital functions in an organism at complete rest. |