6 Major Components to Overall Physical Health and Fitness
1. Body Composition 1
2. Cardiovascular endurance 2
3. Muscular strength balance 3
4. Muscular endurance 4
5. Flexibility 5
6. Muscle Integrity
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3. Why do we need Balanced Muscular Strength? Because imbalances mean that overall health and fitness is being compromised. And the further the imbalance the more unhealthy the individual. Muscle tightness, weakness, strains, sprains, adhesions, fascia tightness and pains all increase when muscle strength is imbalanced!!
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Definitions for this page:
1. Body Composition is used to describe the percentage of fat, bones and muscle in our bodies. Of the weight in your body, how much of it is good weight and how much is bad?
2. Cardiovascular Endurance is the ability of the heart, blood vessels, and lungs to supply oxygen to working muscles. Simply put, can you walk up an average hilly street without getting out of breathe?
3. Balanced muscular strength is your ability to equally and properly distribute force through your body on a physical object with your muscles. The ability your muscles have to exert force on an object in it's correct proportions.
The ability your muscles have to proportionable exert force on an object.
Imbalanced muscular strength increases pressure at the joints, overloads some soft tissues and lessens it on others and eventually can cause injury.
4. Muscular Endurance is the body's ability to exert itself over a given period of time.
5. Flexibility is how far you can bend or move in a certain direction. Flexibility is the normal extensibility of all soft tissues that allow the full range of motion of a joint. (NASM manual) Flexibility is the ability of the neuromuscular system to allow optimum extensibility of the appropriate tissues in the right range of motion, while providing optimum neuromuscular control throughout that range of motion.