Health Sciences 1001A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Cardiorespiratory Fitness, Endurance Training, Skeletal Muscle

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 1001A/B
• Professor: Jessica Polzer

Document Summary

Physical fitness: the body"s ability to respond or adapt to the demands and stress of physical effort. Health-related fitness: physical capabilities that contribute to health, including cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular strength, muscular endurance, flexibility, and body composition. Cardiorespiratory endurance: the ability of the body to perform prolonged, large-muscle, dynamic exercise at moderate to high levels of intensity. Endurance training: exercise intended specifically to improve cardiorespiratory endurance; usually involves prolonged, large-muscle, dynamic exercises. Muscular strength: the amount of force a muscle can produce with a single maximum effort. Muscular endurance: the ability of a muscle or group of muscles to remain contracted or to contract repeatedly for a long time. Flexibility: the ability to move joints through their full range of motion. Body composition: the proportion of fat and fat-free mass (muscle, bone, and water) in the body. Fat-free mass: the nonfat component of the human body, consisting of skeletal muscle, bone, and water.