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This document discusses the components of health-related and skill-related physical fitness. It identifies five components of health-related fitness: cardiovascular fitness, muscular strength, muscular endurance, body composition, and flexibility. It then explains each component and provides examples of activities to improve each one. It also identifies six components of skill-related fitness: agility, balance, neuro-muscular adaptations and coordinative abilities, speed, strength, and reaction time.

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40 Health and Physical Education — Class IX

(i) Cardiovascular Fitness, (ii) Muscular Strength, (iii) Muscular


Endurance, (iv) Body Composition and (v) Flexibility. The skill-
Related Fitness Components are: (i) Agility, (ii) Balance, (iii) Neuro
Muscular Adaptations and Coordinative abilities, (iv) Speed,
(v) Strength, and (vi) Reaction Time.
4.4.1 Components of Health Related Fitness
Cardio-respiratory Endurance: Cardio-respiratory
endurance reflects the ability of the body’s circulatory and
respiratory systems to supply fuel during sustained physical
activity. To improve your cardio-respiratory endurance, try
activities that keep your heart rate elevated at a safe level for
a sustained length of time such as walking, running, jogging,
swimming, bicycling etc. The activity you choose need not
Box 4.2 be strenuous enough to improve your cardio-respiratory
endurance. Start slowly with an activity you enjoy, and
Body Mass Index gradually work up increase to a more intense pace.
(BMI)
Muscular Strength is the amount of force applied on
It is an estimate muscle or muscle groups, is able to exert for one maximal
of an individual’s effort (contraction).The key to making your muscles stronger is
relative body fat. working them against resistance, whether that be from weights
It is calculated by or gravity. If you want to gain muscle strength, try excercises
measuring his/her such as lifting weights (under proper supervision).
height and weight
using the formula; Muscular Endurance is the ability of a muscle or muscle
body weight in kgs/ group to exert force against a submaximal load for a given
height in metre length of time (or number of repetition) before fatiguing to the
squared (m)2. point of failure.
Body Composition refers to the proportion of team body
mass to body fat, it includes amount of muscle, fat, bone, and
other vital parts of the body. Body composition is important to
be considered for health and managing the body fat.
Flexibility is the range of motion around a joint. Good
flexibility in the joints can help prevent injuries through all
stages of life. If you want to improve your flexibility, try yoga,
gymnastics and basic stretching exercise programme.
4.4.2 Components of Skill-related Fitness
Agility is the ability to change and control the direction
and position of the body while maintaining a constant, rapid
motion. For example changing directions to hit a tennis ball.
Balance is the ability to control or stabilise the body when
a person is standing still or moving. For example, handstand
in gymnastics.
Coordination is the ability to use the senses together
with body parts during movement. For example, dribbling a
basketball. Using hands and eyes together is called hand-eye
coordination.

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