DISCUSSION: PHYSICAL FITNESS & IT'S BENEFITS

PHYSICAL FITNESS

I wish to define physical fitness in two (2) ways:
1).Physical fitness is a general state of health and well-being or
2). The ability to perform aspects of sports or occupations.

Physical fitness can be achieved through:
a). Balanced nutrition,
b). Exercise,
c). Hygiene and
d). Rest- Working out can also help people sleep better. To stay healthy it is important to engage in physical activity.
It is a set of attributes or characteristics that people have or achieve that relates to the ability to perform physical activity.

Physical fitness builds and helps in developing the following;
1. The physiological aspect:
- It increase the Metabolism rate,
- Morphological level,
- It helps the bones.

2. The health aspect:
- It helps to regulate body composition,
- For cardiovascular fitness,
- For flexibility,
- For muscular endurance,
- For muscle strength.

3. The skills aspect:
- It increase the agility,
- To maintain balance,
- For coordination,
- For power,
- For speed,
- For reaction time.

Specific or task-oriented fitness is a person's ability to perform in a specific activity with a reasonable efficiency: for example, sports or military service. Specific training prepares athletes to perform well in their sports or positions.
Examples are:
*100m sprint: In a sprint, the athlete must be trained to work anaerobically throughout the race.

*Marathon: The athlete must be trained to work aerobically and their endurance must be built-up to a maximum. Many fire fighters, civil defense, road safety and police officers undergo regular fitness testing to determine if they are capable of the physically demanding tasks required of the job.

*Hill sprints: It requires a level of fitness to begin with, the exercise is particularly good for the leg muscles. The army often trains doing mountain climbing and races.

In order for physical fitness to benefit the health of an individual, an unknown response in the person called a STIMULUS will be triggered by the exertion. When exercise is performed with the correct amount of intensity, duration and frequency, a significant amount of improvement can occur. The person will overall feel better but the physical effects on the human body take weeks, months, or even years to be noticed or fully developed. For training purposes, exercise must provide a stress or demand on either a function or tissue. To continue improvements, this demand must eventually increase little over an extended period of time. This sort of exercise training has three basic principles: overload, specificity, and progression. These principles are related to health but also enhancement of physical working capacity.

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