Year 10 - Physical education
Health, fitness and components of fitness
Physical training: health and fitness
Study Hub
Study Guides
This pupil-friendly study guide includes a unit summary, clear notes, common mistakes, and quick questions with answers.
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 health and fitness, understand the relationship between them and know how they impact sports.
Key Notes
- Health involves physical, mental and social well–being.
- Fitness is the ability to meet the demands of the environment.
- Being fit does not automatically mean you are healthy. Conversely, a person can be healthy without being considered fit.
Vocabulary To Learn
- health: a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity
- fitness: the ability to meet/cope with the demands of the environment
- physical health: all body systems working well, free from illness and injury and ability to carry out everyday tasks
- emotional (mental) health: can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to her or his community
- social health: basic human needs are being met (food, shelter and clothing) and the individual has friendship and support, some value in society, is socially active and has little stress in social circumstances
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Thinking that being physically fit means someone is automatically healthy.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Health involves physical, mental and social well–being. Fitness is the ability to meet the demands of the environment.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'health'
a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Thinking that being physically fit means someone is automatically healthy. Correction: Explain that just because someone appears physically fit, it doesn't mean they have good emotional or social health.
More Lessons In This Unit
- A practical exploration of balance, co-ordination, agility and reaction time fitness tests Study Guide
- A practical exploration of endurance fitness testing Study Guide
- A practical exploration of fitness testing - endurance Study Guide
- A practical exploration of fitness testing and normative data for endurance Study Guide
- A practical exploration of fitness tests: balance, coordination, agility and reaction time Study Guide
- 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
- A practical exploration of speed, power, strength and flexibility fitness tests Study Guide
- A practical exploration of the fitness tests that measure agility and flexibility Study Guide
- Agility, balance and co-ordination Study Guide
- Agility, balance, co-ordination, flexibility and reaction time Study Guide
- Agility, flexibility and power Study Guide
- 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
- Cardiovascular endurance, muscular endurance, speed and strength Study Guide
- Cardiovascular fitness, muscular endurance, strength & speed Study Guide
- Components of fitness and the relative importance to physical activity and sport 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
- The relationship between health, fitness, exercise and performance Study Guide
- Types of strength Study Guide
Browse all guides in the Year 10 Physical education guide library.