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Edexcel - Key Terms
Cycle --- Health Exercise Fitness Performance

Health: A state of complete mental, physical, and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity.

Infirmity - Temporary problems like broken legs, sprained ankles. (Temporary stopped from mobile)

Exercise: A form of physical activity, which maintains or improves health and / or physical fitness.

Fitness: The ability to meet the demands of the environment.

Environment – The environment is the place your sport is taking place in. Ex: Football pitch is the environment; swimming pool is an environment, etc.

Performance: How well a task is completed. (Don’t use perform)

- Healthy Active Lifestyle: A life style that contributes positively to mental, physical and social wellbeing, including regular exercise and physical activity.

Health Related Exercise:
- Cardio Vascular Fitness *Ability to exercise the entire body for long period of time
- Flexibility * Range of movement possible at a joint
- Body Composition * Percentage of body weight that is fat, muscle and bone
- Muscular Endurance * The ability to use voluntary muscle many times without getting tired
- Muscular Strength * The amount of force a muscle can exert against a resistance
(M, C, M, F, B) My Cat Makes Fried Bacon

Components of Skills Related Fitness:
- Power * Ability to undertake strength performances quickly. Power = Strength x Speed
- Coordination * The ability to use two or more body parts together
- Balance * Ability to retain the center of mass (gravity) of the body above base of support, during stationary or changing conditions of movement, shape and orientation
- Agility * To be able to change position of the body quickly and to control the movement of the whole body
- Reaction Time * The time between the presentation of a stimulus (sound of starting gun for running) and the onset of movement.
- Speed * The

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