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Agility: The ability to change body position quickly and to control one’s physicalmovements.

Balance is the ability to control or stabilize the body when a person is standing still or moving.

The combination of strength and speed is commonly referred to as power. Power, the ability to combine strength with speed while moving, allows you to do explosive movements such as jumping high, putting a shot, or swinging a softball or baseball bat to hit a ball a great distance (page 17).

10 Components of Fitness

• Cardiorespiratory Endurance.
• Stamina.
• Strength.
• Flexibility.
• Power.
• Speed.
• Coordination.
• Accuracy.

Power The ability to perform a movement with strength at speed. Power is the combination of speed and strength but needs to be trained regularly to get the best coordination between these two attributes.

Physical fitness

Physical fitness has two components: general fitness (a state of health and well-being) and specific fitness (the ability to perform specific aspects of sports or occupations).

Regular exercise and physical activity promotes strong muscles and bones. It improves respiratory, cardiovascular health, and overall health. Staying active can also help you maintain a healthy weight, reduce your risk for type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and reduce your risk for some cancers.

Fitness is very important for good health. Besides feeling better mentally, exercising can help protect you from heart disease, stroke, obesity, diabetes, and high blood pressure; and it can make you look younger, increase and maintain bone density, improve the quality of your life, and may keep you from getting sick.

Wellness is especially important as we age because regular exercise and proper nutrition can help prevent a variety of ailments including cardiovascular disease, obesity, and fall risk behaviors. Additionally, the need for vitamins and minerals increases after age 50, so it’s ever important to have a healthy diet.

Fitness specifically refers to physical health, and is the ability to complete a physical task, or the lack of a physical ailment. Wellness, on the other hand, refers to the balance of a spectrum of health-related elements in one’s life.

5 Components of Physical Fitness

• Cardiovascular Endurance.
• Muscular Strength.
• Muscular endurance.
• Flexibility.
• Body Composition.

Based on past research, the top reasons why people drop out of exercise programs are the following (in no particular order): 1) lack of time, 2) exercise intensity too high, 3) orthopedic injury, and 4) lack of enjoyment.

There are three basic elements to fitness: aerobic activity, strength training and flexibility.

Well, you need three main types of activity. They are aerobic (sometimes called “cardio”), muscle-strengthening, and bone-strengthening. Check out the tool below to learn about each type, how it helps your body, how much of it you need, and great ways to do it. Some of the exercises even count in all three categories!