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Physical Fitness Worksheet
Being physically fit is an important aspect of obtaining optimal health. Becoming knowledgeable about what it means to be physically fit may greatly increase your ability to improve your health and wellness.
In this worksheet, you identify the five components of health related fitness. Completing this assignment is a step towards gaining the knowledge needed to better manage your physical fitness.
Five Components of Health Related Fitness Table
Complete the table below. The first row has been filled in for you as an example.
Components of Physical Fitness
Description
How to Incorporate in Your Life
Benefit(s)
Cardiorespiratory Fitness
Being able to exercise at a moderate to high intensity for a long period of time
Walk 2 miles at a brisk pace every day.
Reduced the risk of heart disease, hypertension, and high cholesterol.
Muscular Strength
Building muscle strength helps with body alignment, makes performing everyday actions easier, increases metabolism and stress.
My lifting weights or using body weights. Like squats,push ups, pull ups.
Helps with the body alignment and weight control .
Muscular Endurance
Muscular endurance is the ability of a muscle or group of muscles to sustain repeated contractions against a resistance for an extended period of time.
When you have a small errand to run such as picking up a few items from a local store or going to visit a nearby friend, leave the car at home and walk. Start out slowly and gradually build up if you .
The benefits of muscular endurance is that you will have hard muscles and a ripped body. Another benefit is the ability to press through and keeping it up. An intense workout is made easy with muscular endurance. It also increases ones metabolism. With muscular endurance there are fewer injuries.
Flexibility
Flexibility is the degree of range of motion you have at each of your joints, which is also
Physical Fitness Worksheet
Being physically fit is an important aspect of obtaining optimal health. Becoming knowledgeable about what it means to be physically fit may greatly increase your ability to improve your health and wellness.
In this worksheet, you identify the five components of health related fitness. Completing this assignment is a step towards gaining the knowledge needed to better manage your physical fitness.
Five Components of Health Related Fitness Table
Complete the table below. The first row has been filled in for you as an example.
Components of Physical Fitness
Description
How to Incorporate in Your Life
Benefit(s)
Cardiorespiratory Fitness
Being able to exercise at a moderate to high intensity for a long period of time
Walk 2 miles at a brisk pace every day.
Reduced the risk of heart disease, hypertension, and high cholesterol.
Muscular Strength
Building muscle strength helps with body alignment, makes performing everyday actions easier, increases metabolism and stress.
My lifting weights or using body weights. Like squats,push ups, pull ups.
Helps with the body alignment and weight control .
Muscular Endurance
Muscular endurance is the ability of a muscle or group of muscles to sustain repeated contractions against a resistance for an extended period of time.
When you have a small errand to run such as picking up a few items from a local store or going to visit a nearby friend, leave the car at home and walk. Start out slowly and gradually build up if you .
The benefits of muscular endurance is that you will have hard muscles and a ripped body. Another benefit is the ability to press through and keeping it up. An intense workout is made easy with muscular endurance. It also increases ones metabolism. With muscular endurance there are fewer injuries.
Flexibility
Flexibility is the degree of range of motion you have at each of your joints, which is also