Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Five Essential Components Of Physical Fitness

Optimal fitness is a person's ability to lead daily life actively and fit individuals will develop a resistance to diseases like obesity, heart failure and diabetes that are associated with inactivity and idle lifestyles. Five Essential components of physical fitness are:

Cardiorespiratory endurance
Cardiorespiratory endurance is very essential for complete health and the fitness. It is the ability of the heart to supply oxygen rich blood to the essential working muscles. The standard example of the physical activity and sports which are related to cardio and vascular endurance are jogging, swimming, cycling, walking and aerobics.

Muscular strength
It is the weight that a muscle or muscle group can lift and strain in a single effort. Weight training or strength training are the methods of boosting muscle mass which provides raw strength to the body resulting in fitness and weigh loss. If muscle mass is increased, then the capacity of body to burn calories is also increased and body fat ratio is reduced. They also help in maintaining bone structure and prevent decalcification.

Muscular Endurance
Muscular endurance must not be confused with muscular strength, as the benefits they provide are different. It is the ability to repeat considerable level of muscular effort like shovelling snow. In order to expand the maximum range of muscle potential, muscle strength should also be increased.

Physical flexibility
Flexibility is the ability to move body joints through full range of motion. Stretching is associated with flexibility making the range of motion to be maintained or increased through physical activity. Tendons and joints become tight and hard and flexibility levels of body parts become weakened without regular stretching.

Body composition
The body composition deals with the ratio of fat in the body. The rate of adding pounds of fat is associated with the lack of physical exercise. The high fat content ratio is an indication of higher tendency to develop coronary heart disease, diabetes, joint and back pains, arthritis and also higher risk of tendon-muscular accidents and injuries caused due to lack of exercising.


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