Year 10 - Physical education
Cardiovascular fitness, muscular endurance, strength & speed
Physical training: health and fitness
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Unit Summary
This unit will explore the relationship between health, fitness, exercise and performance before unpacking the different components of fitness. This understanding will include key definitions, how to test and train each but also which components are most important for different sports.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to define cardiovascular fitness, strength, muscular endurance and speed, and consider the appropriate fitness test for each.
Key Notes
- Muscular endurance is tested through the 1 minute press up test and the 1 minute sit up test
- Cardiovascular endurance is the ability of the heart and lungs to provide oxygen to working muscles for a long time
- Speed is the ability to perform an action or cover a set distance as quickly as possible
- Strength is measured through the hand grip strength dynamometer test
Vocabulary To Learn
- cardiovascular fitness: ability to exercise your whole body for long periods of time, sometimes called stamina or aerobic endurance
- muscular endurance: the ability to use voluntary muscles many times without getting tired
- speed: the rate at which someone can perform a movement or cover a distance
- muscular strength: the amount of force a muscle can exert against a resistance
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Speed is just about running fast.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Muscular endurance is tested through the 1 minute press up test and the 1 minute sit up test. Cardiovascular endurance is the ability of the heart and lungs to provide oxygen to working muscles for a long time.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'cardiovascular fitness'
ability to exercise your whole body for long periods of time, sometimes called stamina or aerobic endurance.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Speed is just about running fast. Correction: An example of speed is moving quickly across the ground but also includes other body parts too, such as, the speed of arms in table tennis.
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- A practical exploration of fitness testing and normative data for endurance Study Guide
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- A practical exploration of fitness tests: speed, strength, power and flexibility Study Guide
- A practical exploration of power, speed and strength fitness tests Study Guide
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- A practical exploration of the fitness tests that measure agility and flexibility Study Guide
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- Benefits and limitations of fitness testing Study Guide
- Body composition, balance, coordination and reaction time Study Guide
- Cardiovascular endurance, muscular endurance, power and speed Study Guide
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- Components of fitness and the relative importance to physical activity and sport Study Guide
- Health, fitness and components of fitness Study Guide
- Linking sports and physical activity to different components of fitness Study Guide
- Power, flexibility and reaction time Study Guide
- Reasons for and limitations of fitness testing Study Guide
- The importance of fitness components in sport Study Guide
- The relationship between health and fitness Study Guide
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