Physical fitness is the ability to function effectively throughout your workday, achieve your usual other activities and still have adequate energy left over to cope any extra stresses or emergencies which may arise.
The components of corporeal fitness are:
* Cardiorespiratory (Cr) endurance - the efficiency with which the body delivers oxygen and nutrients needed for muscular operation and transports waste products from the cells.
* Muscular force - the many whole of force a muscle or muscle group can exert in a single effort.
* Muscular endurance - the ability of a muscle or muscle group to achieve repeated movements with a sub-maximal force for extended periods of times.
* Flexibility - the ability to move the joints or any group of joints straight through an entire, normal range of motion.
* Body composition - the percentage of body fat a man has in comparison to his or her total body mass.
Improving the first three components of fitness listed above will have a obvious impact on body composition and will corollary in less fat. Excessive body fat detracts from the other fitness components, reduces performance, detracts from appearance, and negatively affects your health.
Factors such as speed, agility, muscle power, eye-hand coordination, and eye-foot coordination are classified as components of "motor" fitness. These factors most influence your athletic ability. Proper training can heighten these factors within the limits of your potential. A sensible weight loss and fitness agenda seeks to heighten or maintain all the components of corporeal and motor fitness straight through sound, progressive, mission exact corporeal training.
Principles of Exercise
Adherence to obvious basic practice principles is prominent for developing an efficient program. The same principles of practice apply to every person at all levels of corporeal training, from the Olympic-caliber athlete to the weekend jogger.
These basic principles of practice must be followed.
Regularity
To achieve a training effect, you must practice often. You should practice each of the first four fitness components at least three times a week. Infrequent practice can do more harm than good. Regularity is also prominent in resting, sleeping, and following a sensible diet.
Progression
The intensity (how hard) and/or duration (how long) of practice must slowly increase to heighten the level of fitness.
Balance
To be effective, a agenda should contain activities that address all the fitness components, since overemphasizing any one of them may hurt the others.
Variety
Providing a variety of activities reduces boredom and increases motivation and progress.
Specificity
Training must be geared toward exact goals. For example, habitancy become good runners if their training emphasizes running. Although swimming is great exercise, it does not heighten a 2-mile-run time as much as a running agenda does.
Recovery
A hard day of training for a given component of fitness should be followed by an easier training day or rest day for that component and/or muscle group(s) to help permit recovery. Someone else way to allow saving is to alternate the muscle groups exercised every other day, especially when training for force and/or muscle endurance.
Overload
The work load of each practice session must exceed the normal demands located on the body in order to bring about a training effect.