Health-related fitness components .

Health-related fitness components

Health-related fitness components

Contents 

 Fitness and Health-1 

 Health-related-2 

Physical Fitness-3 

Cardiorespiratory Fitness_4

 Musculoskeletal Fitness-5 

 Physical fitness and health There is a close relationship between physical and health fitness, whether physical or psychological, it is not possible to imagine a person exercising regularly and continuously suffering at the same time from diseases or health and psychological problems, the relationship between them is direct.  Specialists define the elements of physical fitness related to health as a group of elements that are related to health and affect it, but from the procedural point of view, it is the individual ability to perform and pass tests related to the extent of respiratory cyclic endurance, that is, cardiac fitness, and the strength of skeletal muscles in terms of endurance and degree  Its flexibility, and this is known as skeletal muscular fitness, in addition to the human body composition.

 Health-related fitness elements Cardiorespiratory fitness is the ability of the human cardiac respiratory system to inhale oxygen from the surrounding outside air through the respiratory system, then transport it through the heart and blood vessels, until it is extracted through body cells, specifically muscles, in order to provide energy  That it takes to do the contraction.  This fitness is measured in two ways, namely: the direct method in the laboratory, by exposing the person to a certain physical effort, on the condition that it is gradual until fatigue.  In order to measure respiratory gases and determine the maximum oxygen consumption it has.  The indirect method, which is carried out by means of a set of field tests that include measuring the time required to exceed a certain distance, whether by walking or running, and this distance often ranges between one to three kilometers, depending on the type of test in force, and the 

sample that will be examined  And measure her fitness level, in addition to the time required and the available and existing capabilities.  Musculoskeletal fitness This fitness is represented by all of the following: Muscular strength: It means the maximum force resulting from one muscle or group of body muscles during the voluntary muscle contraction process for one time maximum, and includes the upper muscles of the body.  Abdominal muscle strength: its ability to endure and produce repeatedly in order to maintain muscle contraction for a 

certain period of time.  Joint flexibility: it means the ability of practical joints to perform movement during its full range of motion, and it is measured as follows: Laboratory tests that are performed in laboratories and laboratories.  Field tests, which include a pressure test in the arms by lying flat, an upper tensile test, in order to measure the strength of the muscles of the arms, belt, and chest, which is done using the pulley, a test for extension of the arms in a sitting position using the flexibility box, in addition to a test sitting after lying with bending of the knees for one minute;  In order to measure muscle endurance.