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Health Related Components

The document discusses several topics related to health and fitness. It first defines five components of health-related fitness: cardiovascular endurance, muscular strength, muscular endurance, flexibility, and body composition. It then discusses barriers to physical activity, including personal barriers like a lack of time or motivation, and environmental barriers such as lack of access to parks or sidewalks. Finally, it discusses assessing an individual's fitness level to determine strengths and weaknesses and help them select appropriate fitness activities.

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Health Related Components

The document discusses several topics related to health and fitness. It first defines five components of health-related fitness: cardiovascular endurance, muscular strength, muscular endurance, flexibility, and body composition. It then discusses barriers to physical activity, including personal barriers like a lack of time or motivation, and environmental barriers such as lack of access to parks or sidewalks. Finally, it discusses assessing an individual's fitness level to determine strengths and weaknesses and help them select appropriate fitness activities.

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Health-related fitness components:

 Cardiovascular endurance is the ability of the heart, lungs, and blood vessels to supply oxygen to your body tissues
during sustained physical activity. This allows the body to endure physical movement for a period of time. Also,
efficient delivery of oxygen to its tissues will take place giving the person a lower breathing rate and the ability to
perform the task longer.
 Muscular Strength is the maximum amount of force a muscle can exert in a single effort. Achievement of muscular
strength depends on factors like gender, age, and inherited physical attributes. Having strong muscles is beneficial
to everyday living. The muscles support the skeleton enabling movement to occur and the strength to support
the body while standing up.
 Muscular Endurance is the ability of the muscle to continue to perform without fatigue.
 Flexibility is the ability to bend and move the joints through the full range of motion.
 Body Composition is the percentages of fat, bone, water, and muscle in a human body; it is often the ratio of lean
tissue to fat tissue in the body.

Barriers to Physical Activity:

Getting involved in physical activities can be attributed to personal and environmental factors. A person may
experience a variety of challenges along the way. This hinders the person to be physically active, hence, referred to as
barriers.

a. Personal barriers - With the current trends in technology and development, people’s lives have become
convenient and easier as well as less active. They may also have reasons or own justifications of their inactivity
that forms their attitude towards physical movement, letting them live a sedentary life.

Some common explanations (barriers) that people cite for resistance to exercise are:
insufficient time to exercise
inconvenience of exercise lack of self-motivation
non-enjoyment, boredom of exercise
lack of confidence in their ability to be physically active (low self-efficacy)
fear of being injured or having been injured recently
lack of self-management skills, such as the ability to set personal goals, monitor progress, or reward progress toward
such goals
lack of encouragement, support, or companionship from family and friends
non-availability of parks, sidewalks, bicycle trails, or safe and pleasant walking paths close to home or the workplace

b. Environmental barriers
Some may not notice but the space and the setting where people live greatly influence a person’s
participation to physical activity. The constant exposure and the daily interaction with the people and things
around has a great impact on a person’s preference towards bodily execution and movement.

The environment in which we live has a great influence on our level of physical activity. Many factors in
our environment affect us. Obvious factors include the accessibility of walking paths, cycling trails, and recreation
facilities. Factors such as traffic, availability of public transportation, crime, and pollution may also have an effect.
Other environmental factors include our social environment, such as support from family and friends, and
community spirit. It is possible to make changes in our environment through campaigns to support active
transportation, legislation for safer communities, and the creation of new recreation.

Fitness level assessment determines the current health status of an individual. Assessing one’s health status will
help a person be informed of his or her strengths and weaknesses leading him/her to observe a healthy lifestyle and to
select appropriate activities for improvement.

To maintain general fitness, develop the health-related physical activities that include cardiovascular endurance,
muscular strength, muscular endurance, flexibility and body composition.
Instructions: Fill up necessary information needed. Interpretations will be based on the chart. Complete the column for
analysis/implications in two or three sentences only.

1. Body Composition
Test BMI Result Interpretation Analysis
BMI
Waist to hip
ratio

2. Cardiovascular Endurance

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