Components of Fitness

Guiding Question

What is the difference health-related and skill-related physical fitness?

Health-related is your current health and your future wealth and well-being,Skill-related is your ability to perform certain skills and and how you do so.

What are the health-related components of physical fitness?

Cardiovascular fitness, muscular strength, muscular endurance, body composition, flexibility.

What are the skill-related components of physical fitness?

Speed, power, coordination, reaction time, balance, agility.

Why does a person not have to be a good athelete to be physically fit?

Because physical fitness does not come from your skill level and not all atheletes are physically fit.