OUR LADY OF FATIMA UNIVERSITY

COLLEGE OF MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENCE

PHED 213

NAME: ANNABELLE LIM

SECTION: MEDTECH 2-Y1-2S

THE 11 COMPONENTS OF PHYSICAL FITNESS

1. AGILITY- it’s define as change direction to change direction of the entire body
with speed and accuracy. This component can use to sport like basketball. Agility
can improve our flexibility, balance and help our body to maintain proper
alignment and posture.
2. BALANCE- is ability to stay in body’s composition. Like athlete that can well
balance on the floor. This components help us to reduce the risk of falls mostly
older adults face this problems. It can also help to improves posture of a stroke.
3. BODY COMPOSITION- this component is for distribution of muscle and fat in
the body. It also includes body size because of the fat and muscle mass. Body
composition reduce risk of hypertension, heart disease and lastly will help us to
move freely and to exercise more.
4. CARDIOVASCULAR ENDURANCE- this component is important to sports to
prolong their exercise, this also supply energy to your working muscles to sustain
what we are doing. It can lower our resting heart rate, lower risk of cancer, heart
disease, stroke, and body weight etc.
5. COORDINATION- is to perform our body smooth and easy movements. It is
also the ability to select the right muscle at the right time.
6. FLEXIBILITY- this is the ability of our joint to move pain free range of motion.
Stretching our body helps us to become more flexible and to do many more
physical benefits. It can also improve our balance just like the component of
balance.
7. MUSCULAR ENDURANCE- this is for muscle group to sustain our repeated
contractions, it gives us also power and strength. It improves our activities and
reduce risk of injury.
8. MUSCULAR STRENGTH- it is for our muscle to exert force, muscle also exert
muscle force repeatedly overtime. It is also to keep our body weight.
9. POWER- this is for our defined of amount of work we do and also it can measure
our fastest speed that we exert it. Mostly athletes always seek for this to develop
their strength and speed. It is also improve our heart health.
10. REACTION TIME- it is refer to our speed that respond to our stimulus. Mostly
this components always happen in emergency situation. It is the measurement of
our nerve to respond in the brain called hemeostasis.
11. SPEED- this applied t sports like swimming, running and many more. It is the
speed of our muscle to move in full range of motion, it’s improve also our
flexibility. It train our muscle balance and exercise for the injury prone muscles.