Wiki Page, Child Development : Health-Related Fitness and Skill-Related Fitness

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There are two basic types of physical fitness. Health-related fitness involves activities that promote total well-being, allowing you to easily perform your day-to-day activities. Health-related fitness will also help you prevent and reduce diseases and disorders. Skill-related fitness focuses on skills for sports such as golf or volleyball.

The following table shows the components of the two types of physical fitness.

Table 1.1 Components of Physical Fitness

Components of Health-Related Fitness | Components of Skill-Related Fitness
Cardiorespiratory fitness (or cardiorespiratory endurance): the ability of the circulatory and respiratory systems to supply oxygen to muscles | Speed: The ability to move your body quickly from one point to another
Muscular strength: The ability of a muscle to maintain force against resistance | Agility: The ability to move your body quickly and in different directions
Muscular endurance: The ability of a muscle to work continuously for a period of time | Balance: The ability to maintain control of your body while stationary or in movement
Flexibility: The ability to move muscles and joints through a range of motion | Coordination: The ability to move parts of your body while maintaining balance
Body composition: The percentage of fat, muscle, bone, and other tissues in the body | Power: The ability to combine strength and speed in movement
| Reaction time: The time required to start a movement after being signaled to move

Health-related fitness involves activities that promote total well-being ... help[ing] you prevent and reduce diseases and disorders.

While skill-related components of fitness are important, we will focus on health-related fitness for our purpose of creating personal fitness plans. We will take a closer look at each of the health-related fitness components in future lessons. Each of these will become a part of your personal fitness program.

The podcasts for this lesson will explain in more detail the two types of physical fitness. Each is about ten minutes long. The first podcast, "Welcome to Health-Related Fitness," will introduce you to Dr. Jeff Cherubini, his credentials, and his target audience. His main audience is college students planning to study fitness; however, he uses his podcasts to promote a physically active lifestyle to anyone and everyone, as he will mention. You may want to listen to the second podcast, "Components of Health-Related Fitness," a couple of times. Take notes as you listen, particularly to all definitions, because these will appear on the progress evaluation at the end of this lesson. After listening, you can review your knowledge by answering the review questions in the practice quiz.

Please listen to Dr. Jeff Cherubini's podcasts on the following two subjects:

Welcome to Health-Related Fitness
HRF01WelcometoHealthRelatedFit.mp3

Components of Health-Related Fitness
HRF02ComponentsofHealthRelated.mp3