Health Related Fitness

Cardiovascular endurance is how efficiently your heart, blood vessels, and lungs to supply
oxygen rich blood to working muscles during physical activity (aerobic activity like walking,
running, cycling or playing a sport) for a prolonged period of time or for more than 90 seconds.

Muscular strength refers to the amount of force a muscle can produce with a single maximal
effort. The size of your muscle fibers and the ability of nerves to activate muscle fibers are
related to muscle strength. It is measured during muscular contraction.

Muscular endurance is the ability of a muscle or group of muscles to sustain repeated

contractions against a resistance for an extended period of time. It is one of the components
of muscular fitness, along with muscular strength and power.

Flexibility refers to the range of motion for a given joint. The degree of flexibility that a person
has is influenced by muscles and connective tissues, like ligaments and tendons. Stretching is a
form of exercise that can lead to an increase in flexibility.

Skill Related Fitness

Agility or nimbleness is the ability to change the body's position efficiently, and requires the
integration of isolated movement skills using a combination
of balance, coordination, speed, reflexes, strength, and endurance. Agility is the ability to change the
direction of the body in an efficient and effective manner.

Balance is an ability to maintain the line of gravity (vertical line from centre of mass) of a body within
the base of support with minimal postural sway.[1] Sway is the horizontal movement of the centre of
gravity even when a person is standing still. A certain amount of sway is essential and inevitable due
to small perturbations within the body (e.g., breathing, shifting body weight from one foot to the other
or from forefoot to rearfoot) or from external triggers (e.g., visual distortions, floor translations). An
increase in sway is not necessarily an indicator of dysfunctional balance so much as it is an indicator
of decreased sensorimotor control.

Speed is the distance traveled per unit of time. It is how fast an object is moving. Speed is the
scalar quantity that is the magnitude of the velocity vector. It doesn't have a direction.
Higher speed means an object is moving faster.
Reaction time is the amount of time it takes to respond to a stimulus. An example of reaction
time is when a bug stings within 1 second of being approached.

Coordination is the ability to move two or more body parts under control, smoothly and
efficiently. There are two types of balance: static and dynamic.

Power the ability to exert a maximal force in as short a time as possible, as in accelerating,
jumping and throwing implements. While strength is the maximal force you can apply against a
load, power is proportional to the speed at which you can apply this maximal force.