Physical Education
Agility
Definition: The ability to start (or accelerate), stop (or decelerate and stabilize), and change
direction quickly, while maintaining posture.
Agility is a skill-related component of physical fitness.
Active Recreational Activities
Definition: Activities that require large body movements, such as dancing, vigorous running,
throwing, or jumping, or those that are sports-specific.
Body Mass Index (BMI)
Definition: A rough measure of body composition that is useful for classifying the health risks
of body weight. It is based on the concept that a person's weight should be proportional to
height.
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Cardiovascular Endurance
Definition: The ability of an individual to perform prolonged work continuously, where the
work involves large muscle groups.
Cardiovascular endurance is a health-related component of physical fitness.
Coordination
Definition: The ability to perform complex motor skills with a smooth, flow of motion.
Coordination is a skill-related component of physical fitness.
Eating Habits
Definition: Patterns of behavior with regards to eating, like choosing available food, preparing
it, deciding where to eat, which rules to follow, and who to dine with.
FITT Formula
Definition: Stands for Frequency, Intensity, Time, and Type.
Frequency: The number of training sessions performed during a given period (usually one
week).
Intensity: An individual's level of effort, compared with their maximal effort, which is usually
expressed as a percentage.
Time: The timeframe of a workout (including warm-up and cool-down) or the length of time
spent in training.
Type: Mode of physical activity.
Health-Related Components of Physical Fitness
Definition: Those components that contribute to the development of health and functional
capacity of the body.
Components:
Cardiovascular endurance
Muscular strength
Muscular endurance
Flexibility
Body composition
Lifestyle
Definition: The way in which an individual lives; includes the typical patterns of an individual's
behavior like everyday routine at home, in school, or at work; eating, sleeping, and exercise
habits, and many others; are related to elevated or reduced health risk.
Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs)
Definition: Diseases that are not passed from person to person, also known as chronic
diseases.
Examples:
Cardiovascular diseases (like enlargement of the heart and hypertension)
Cancer
Chronic respiratory diseases (such as chronic obstructed pulmonary disease and asthma)
Diabetes
Physical Fitness Tests
Definition: Tests that gauge your fitness level; may be health-related and skill-related.
Rate of Perceived Exertion (RPE)
Definition: An assessment of the intensity of exercise based on how the participant feels;
basically a subjective assessment of effort which ranges from 6 (very, very light) to 20 (very,
very hard) with 1 point increments in between.
Recreation Activities
Definition: Activities done during one's leisure time both for relaxation and enjoyment; may
require large body movements such as running, throwing, or jumping or small body
movements such as playing board games, doing arts and crafts, and many others.
Regular Moderate Physical Activity
Definition: Being active for 30 minutes to 1 hour, doing physical activities that elevate your
heart rate more than you are used to; being active in most, if not all, days of the week, about
3-4 times per week or more.
Risk Factors
Definition: Variables in your lifestyle and genetics that may lead to certain diseases; include
age, gender, nutrition, body weight, physical activity, and health habits, etc (i.e. stress,
unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, exposure to tobacco smoke or the effects of the harmful
use of alcohol).
Skill-Related Components of Physical Fitness
Definition: Components that contribute to the development of skills.
Components:
Agility
Balance
Coordination
Power
Reaction time
Speed
Warm-Up
Definition: Preliminary activity done to prepare the body for actual physical activity; can be
general or sports-specific.
Weight Management
Weight Gain: Energy consumed is greater than energy expended (i.e. more food intake but
less physical exertion).
Weight Loss: Energy consumed is less than energy expended (i.e. more physical exertion but
less food intake).
Weight Maintenance: Energy consumed equals energy expended (i.e. physical exertion is the
same with food intake).
