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Fitness is not about being better than someone else. It is all about being better than you used to be. Physical
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Physical fitness: concept| Meaning|Importance

we will discuss about the concept of physical fitness.

Concept of physical fitness:

 Physical fitness refers to maximum functional capacity of all system of the body. We are
exercising when ever we move and keeping our body tuned and in a good running order. The
body of human is framed in such a way that it can jump, climb, bend, stretch and do more
tedious work. The human body becomes more stronger as it exerts more and muscles
involvement matters a lot in shaping it. Exercise helps in improving our health and builds up our
energy and stamina.
Meaning of physical fitness:

Meaning and importance of Physical Fitness is broad topic.  fitness meaning to perform very well in physical
activities.

 Physical fitness is the capacity to do work effectively with joy and pleasure. After the work is over,
he still has sufficient capacity to do more work without any exertion. Moreover, his recovery
must be faster and quicker.
 Physical fitness is related to work or task. It is a good physique. It is proper functioning of
physiological system. Physical fitness adallah, the term physical fitness has wide meaning. It is
more than the possession of strength, speed, endurance. The person who remains energetic,
cheerful, and enthusiastic in doing his work is said to be physically fit.
 It’s level vary from person to person depending upon the nature of work, size, shape, structure,
sex and age of an individual.

Importance of physical fitness:

Following are the importance of physical fitness:

1. Harmonious Growth and development:

Physical fitness is a good factor for growth and development of body. It keeps our body stretch and active.
2. Personality development:

Physical fitness is helpful in making the look of a person more attractive. It can fill energy and healthy body.

3. Development of health:

It also be a cause of development of health also. If a person is physically fit he has more ability to perform
activities, if a person is not a physically good he is not able to do work efficiently.

4. Boosts energy:

Physical fitness also facilitate to boosting up energy of a body.

5. Increases stamina:

If a person is physically fit, stamina also increases in a body.

6. Mental strength increase:

It is also a cause of increasing mental capabilities to do work easily.

There are four types of fitness that are important to incorporate into your physical activity routine:

 Cardiovascular/aerobic exercise.
 Anaerobic exercise.
 Joint flexibility.
 Muscular endurance and strength.
Exercise Types
1. Cardiovascular/aerobic exercise
 It is the exercise to availability of oxygen due to the physical activity in other words
Cardiovascular exercise involves fitness relates to the ability of the circulatory and respiratory
systems (the heart, the blood vessels and lungs) to supply oxygen during sustained physical
activity. It is also referred to as cardiovascular endurance, aerobic fitness and cardio-respiratory
fitness.
  This Aerobic means “involving oxygen.” It means your muscles are working in an oxygen-rich
environment. You get more oxygen by breathing deeply. It has a time duration in minutes of
aerobic exercise causes your body to produce fat-burning enzymes. An aerobic exercise is one
that fits the following four requirements:
 Is steady, nonstop
 Lasts 12 minutes minimum
 Has a comfortable pace
 Uses the muscles of the lower body
Benefits
 This exercise also have to be doing some work to get the benefit. Your heart rate and your
breathing need to be elevated. It is hardly to don’t want to push too hard. One way to measure if
your activity is too hard or fast is a simple talk test. This test is essential and Try talking to a friend
 while you’re exercising. If you can’t carry on a conversation without huffing and puffing for
breath, then you need to slow down.
 Aerobic exercise plays an important part in life and due to this exercise ,the every little bit counts,
so start slowly and work your way up.
2. Anaerobic exercise
 This exercise means to meet up the requirements. This Anaerobic means “lack of oxygen.” Your
muscles are working in an oxygen-deprived state. This causes your body to produce sugar-
burning enzymes. Anaerobic exercise is huge concept and these exercise is expending energy
faster than your body can replace it by metabolizing oxygen.
 This type of exercise is any activity that fails to meet the above four requirements and this type of
activity can become anaerobic if the heart rate is elevated above the training zone for a long
period of time. Any start/stop activities would qualify. Some eg are :tennis, football, sprinting,
skiing and weight training.
Other Exercise
3. Joint flexibility
  Flexibility  is the components of physical fitness and this joint Flexibility is a health-related
component of physical fitness that refers to the range of motion available at a joint, such as your
knees or shoulders. Most of the scientists specify that flexibility requires range of motion without
discomfort or pain (Howley and Franks, 1997).
4. Muscular endurance and strength
 This is also a component of physical fitness and Muscular endurance is a health-related
component of physical fitness that refers to the muscle’s ability to continue to perform without
fatigue.
 Like flexibility, muscular endurance is specific in nature.
Lou ferringo
Louis Jude Ferrigno

November 9, 1951(age 68)
Born Brooklyn, New York, U.S.

Bodybuilder, actor, personal
Occupation trainer

Years active 1971–present

Susan Groff
(m. 1978; div. 1979)

Spouse(s) Carla Green (m. 1980)

Children 3, including Lou Ferrigno, Jr.

Bolt Records
Sport
 Sport Track and field

Event(s) Sprints

Club Racers Track Club

Coached by Glen Mills[4]

Retired 2017[5]

Achievements and titles

 40 yd: 4.22 (Atlanta,

2019)[6][note 1]
 100 m:
9.58 WR(Berlin 2009
)[7]
 150 m straight:
14.35 WB[note 2]
(Manchester 2009)[8]
 200 m:
19.19 WR(Berlin 200
9)[9]
 300 m:
30.97 NR(Ostrava 20
10)[10]
 400 m: 45.28
(Kingston 2007)[10]
Personal best(s  800 m:
) 2:07h(Kingston 2016)
[11]

Medal record

Men’s athletics

Representing   Jamaica

Event 1st 2nd 3rd

Olympic Games 8 0 0

World
Championships 11 2 1
 World Relays 0 1 0

CAC Championships 1 0 0

Commonwealth
Games 1 0 0

World Junior
Championships 1 2 0

World Youth
Championships 1 0 0

Total 23 5 1

Athlete Record
Sport

Sport Track and field

Medal record

Men’s Athletics

Representing   India

British Empire and Commonwealth Games

1958 Cardiff 440 yards

Asian Games

1958 Tokyo 200 m

1958 Tokyo 400 m

1962 Jakarta 400 m

1962 Jakarta 4 x 400 m relay

 National Games of India

1958 Cuttack 200m

1958 Cuttack 400m

1964 Calcutta 400 m

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Introduction to Physical Fitness
In simple terms, “physical fitness”refers to the ability of the body to adapt to external environment
and cope with daily activities. Good physical fitness not only enables a person to carry out daily
works, but also gives him / her extra energy to enjoy leisure, ensuring the body can adapt to
unexpected environmental changes and daily pressures. There are two kinds of physical fitness,
namely Health-related Physical Fitness and Sports-related Physical Fitness.

Health-related Physical Fitness

Purpose: Healthy body, quality life

Elements  Cardiorespiratory endurance

:  Muscular strength and endurance
 Flexibility
 Body Composition
 Neuromuscular relaxation
 

Sports-related Physical Fitness

Purpose: Winning trophies and honors in competition

Elements  Cardiorespiratory endurance

:  Muscular strength and endurance
 Flexibility
 Body Composition
 Neuromuscular relaxation
 Agility
 Balance
 Speed
 Power
 Coordination
 

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CONCEPTS OF PHYSICAL FITNESS AND THEIR IMPORTANCE

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Probably the importance of physical fitness to having a healthy lifestyle is not a new concept to you.
However, a high number of cases of physical inactivity among youths and its relation to childhood
obesity are of much concern. Regular physical exercises provide a wealth of benefits. It includes
improved mental health, adiposity, and musculoskeletal health. Furthermore, educational and health
professionals have intuitively believed that students that are physically active and fit show better
performances in school. Therefore, inactivity in students sometimes leads them to search online for the
best essay writing service help for their assignment needs.

What Is Physical Fitness?

Sometimes we tend to confuse exercise with physical activity and physical fitness. These terms, in
reality, define different concepts. Physical activity involves body movements initiated by skeletal
muscles that result in loss or use of energy. It can also be by taking part in sporting activities. Exercise is
a subsection of physical activity that entails a deliberate, organized, and repetitive action with a
predefined end goal. On the other hand, how efficient or effective body functions is known as physical
fitness. Furthermore, the fitness aspects are often skill-related and health-related.

Essential Components of Physical Fitness

The health-related components are essential in maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Other than promoting
good health, they also help to reduce susceptibility to diseases. Nevertheless, high levels of particular
health-related fitness components such as strength signify better body performance rather than health
benefits.

The Skill-related components are more predesigned to performance rather than health benefits. People
with these skills tend to quickly achieve high levels of performance in motor skills, i.e., in sports.

Take a look at the following essential components of physical fitness:

1. Body Preparation
More than anything else, proper preparation is crucial in physical fitness. You don’t want ending up
having an injury because of lack of preparation. So, how do you prepare your body for a fitness routine?

Eat Right: While you like to lose weight, it’s crucial to eat a variety of foods, even carbohydrates, to
obtain the energy you need to perform your workouts.

Warm Up: One of the most important body preparations is performing warm up exercises. It helps
loosen tight joints and muscles.

Ask For Professional Advice: Seek the help of one of the best professional physiotherapists to better
prepare your body for intense training and avoid injuries.

2. Psychological Preparation

It’s essential to become mentally and emotionally prepared to get ready for physical fitness.
Psychological preparation involves temporarily leaving stress behind. This way, you’ll have 100% focus
on your workouts and avoid cutting them short.

3. Right Workout Equipment

Whether you want to exercise in a gym or at home, it’s vital to use the right equipment based on your
fitness needs. Are you planning to perform strength, resistance, or endurance training? For a home
gym, here are the basic equipment you’ll need for your workouts:

A Set Of Dumbbells: Varying sizes of dumbbells allow you to exercise your biceps and triceps in various
techniques to attain the muscle shape and size you desire.

Jumping Rope: It’s an inexpensive gym tool to help with your cardio exercise.

Barbells: A set of barbells with adjustable weight is a great investment for a home gym to perform your
strength exercises.

Stability Ball: This home gym must-have helps maintain your balance and flatten your abs during
workout.

Kettlebells: They help improve your overall strength, balance, flexibility, coordination, and core power.
Use kettlebells to perform various exercises that can help melt fat and sculpt your body to attain lean
muscles.

Why Should You Engage in Regular Exercise Activities?

The world has undergone a significant evolution since its foundation. People have shifted from hunting
and gathering to agriculture, and now industrialization is the backbone of our everyday lives. All these
changes have significantly affected human physical activity patterns, and modern society has the lowest
levels of activity in human history. In the future, levels of physical activity are projected to decrease even
further. The non-communicable diseases currently affecting the society can be attributed to the existing
state of physical inactivity in society.

If you are accustomed to ignorance of the importance of workout, it is time to begin your workout
routine by hitting the gym right away. Maintaining good health has no age restriction. Old or young, it’s
high time you start engaging in regular exercises and reap the benefits.

Working out helps to manage your weight. Engaging in exercise activities help you burn calories, which
assists in losing pounds quickly.

Doing exercise enhances your mood and relieves stress. Physical activity such as boxing or running will
help relieve stress, burn calories, and release more endorphins, which are the feel-good chemicals inside
the brain.

Engaging in regular exercise activities gives you a chance to get to know new people, either in the gym
or run in the park. You have the chance to connect and interact with persons with common interests.
You get to achieve both social connections and good health.

The risk of getting diseases like Type 2 Diabetes and heart attack can be reduced through engagement in
regular exercises. Regular workouts help you keep track of your weight as extra weight is often related
to the susceptibility of acquiring a disease.

Workouts boost your self-esteem, enhance your self-confidence, and enable you to accomplish your
goals. As you begin achieving your fitness goals, such as weight loss, it gives you the confidence to
accomplish even greater things in your life. As you see yourself progress in the exercise routine little by
little, it gives you the confidence and desire to achieve your dreams.

Workouts make you feel more energetic and alive. It relaxes your muscles, mind, and spirit, giving you a
deep night’s sleep.

Deciding to maintain good health requires no season or calendar. There is no better time than now. Kick
start your daily exercise routine depending on your preference. It might be a gym workout, a walk, or
run; the choice is yours. Take control of your life now. Begin with simple exercises every day of
moderate-intensity, lasting at least 30 minutes. Also, include at least twice a week resistant training
exercises that seek to build up muscle strength.
Remember, regular exercises do not come without its challenges, the greatest being sticking to a
particular schedule. Things like self-confidence, boredom, injuries, and time can be barriers to holding to
your timetable. However, these barriers should not stand on your way. Look for practical ways of
overcoming these hindrances to your fitness.

Furthermore, avoid some fitness myths like including more protein in your diet is mandatory or that
exercising in the morning does wonder for your metabolism. Be careful since some of these myths might
even damage your health or subject you to a higher risk of injuries.

No doubt that working out has plenty of benefits. Begin your physical fitness routine today. You got the
knowledge, tools, and drive to turn your life around and achieve better health.

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