KIN 100 exam #1 JMU Study Guide
What is skill related fitness? Also what are examples of skill related fitness? -
✔✔Fitness that includes speed, agility, balance, coordination, and reaction time. These
are usually use
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KIN 100 exam #1 JMU Study Guide
What is skill related fitness? Also what are examples of skill related fitness? -
✔✔Fitness that includes speed, agility, balance, coordination, and reaction time. These
are usually used for sport related activities like soccer, basketball, etc
What are health related fitness? Examples? - ✔✔Fitness that is done for the purpose of
fitness. An example of this is lunges, running on a treadmill.
What are 3 major health problems in the U.S and what are the causes of them? - ✔✔-
Heart disease (#1 leading cause of death)
-Cancer (#2)
-Respiratory Disease (#3)
What are the 9 dimensions of wellness? - ✔✔1. Emotional wellness
2. Physical wellness
3. Environmental wellness
4. Financial wellness
5. Social wellness
6. Spiritual wellness
7. Cultural wellness
8. Occupational wellness
9. Academic wellness
What is a smart goal and what does a smart goal stand for? - ✔✔A smart goal is what
you make to achieve your wellness goals.
S pecific--> detailed description
M easurable--> able to measure the progress
A ttainable/alernating--> able to make changes
R ealistic--> consider heredity, time, etc
T ime frame--> have a set goal date
What are the 5 components of Fitness? - ✔✔Cardiovascular fitness, Body composition,
muscular strength, muscular endurance, and flexibility.
What is cardiorespiratory fitness? Examples? - ✔✔The ability to perform prolonged,
large muscle, dynamic exercises for at moderate to high intensity. Ex) running, cycling,
etc
What are 3 things that Cardiorespiratory fitness helps? - ✔✔-Helps cool down the body
-Helps lower blood pressure
-Heart pumps more blood per heartbeat
What is Body composition? - ✔✔The proportion of free-fat mass (bone, muscle, water)
to fat mass in the body.
What are the effects of too much body fat? - ✔✔-Heart disease
-Cardiovascular disease
-Type II Diabetes
-Cancer
What is Muscular Strength? - ✔✔The amount of force a muscle can produce at a single
maximum effort
What is Muscular Endurance? - ✔✔The ability to resist fatigue and sustain a given level
of muscle tension for a given of time.
What are 3 benefits of Muscular fitness? - ✔✔-better metabolism
-improved posture
-increased BMI
Flexibility - ✔✔The ability to move the joints through their full range of motion.
What effects flexibility? (4) - ✔✔-joint structure
-joint length
-elasticity of connective tissue
-nervous system activity
3 benefits of flexibility? - ✔✔-Lowered risk of back injuries
-Better posture
-reduction in age related stiffness
What are skill related components of fitness? (6) - ✔✔speed, power, agility, Balance,
Coordination, Reaction and movement time
Speed - ✔✔The ability to perform a movement in a short amount of time
Power - ✔✔The ability to exert force based on the combination of strength and speed
Agility - ✔✔The ability to change the position of your body quickly and accurately.
Balance - ✔✔The ability to maintain equilibrium while moving or while stationary.
Coordination - ✔✔The ability to perform motor activities accurately and smoothly using
body movements and the senses.
Reaction and Movement time - ✔✔The ability to respond and react quickly to a
stimulus.
What does health refer to? - ✔✔Refers an overall condition of a person's body or mind
and to the presence or absence of illness or injury.
What does wellness refer to? - ✔✔Optimal health and vitality
What does enhanced wellness involve? - ✔✔Making conscious decisions to control
one's risk factors that contribute to illness and injury.
What are effects wellness differences? - ✔✔-Gender
-Race and ethincity
-Income and education
What is physical activity? - ✔✔the movement carried out by the skeletal muscles that
requires energy.
What is exercise? - ✔✔Planned, structured, and repetitive movement intended to
improve or maintain physical improvement.
What is the goal of physical training? - ✔✔The goal is to produce long term changes
and improvements in the body's functioning.
What are 4 principles of physical training? - ✔✔Specificity, Progressive overload,
reversibility, and individual differences.
What is specificity? - ✔✔Performing an exercise for a specific fitness goal or skill
component.
(You need a variety of all components of fitness to be healthy all around)
What is Progressive Overload? - ✔✔When you increase the amount of overload enough
to make change, but not enough to injure yourself.
What are the FITT letters for? - ✔✔Frequency-how often
Intensity- How hard
Type- what exercise
Time- how long
What is reversibility? - ✔✔when the body adjusts to low fitness activity the same way it
does to higher.
50% of fitness can go away in 2 months
Cardiovascular fitness reverses in a matter of days or weeks.
Strength fitness can be maintained as easily as once a week
What are individual differences? - ✔✔Not everyone is created equal and can't do the
same activites, but you can improve on stuff.
What does the cardiorespiratory system consist of? - ✔✔Heart, respiratory system, and
blood vessels.
How does the cardiorespiratory system function? - ✔✔It circulates blood throughout the
body providing oxygen to other parts of the body.
What are the 3 characteristics of the heart? - ✔✔-Size of a fist
-4 chambers
-Located just beneath the sternum
What are the 2 separate circulatory systems? - ✔✔Pulmonary circulation (right side
pumps blood to the lungs)
Systemic circulation (left side pumps blood to the rest of the body)
What are the 3 energy Systems? - ✔✔Immediate Energy System (10 or fewer seconds)
aerobic, Non-oxidative energy system (10-120 seconds) Anaerobic, Oxidative energy
system (aerobic) activity greater than 120 seconds.
VO2 max - ✔✔maximal O2 consumption
This is the best quantitative way to measure cardiorespiratory fitness.
What is essential fat? - ✔✔Fat that is crucial for normal body functioning
3-5% of total body weight in males
8-12% of total body weight in females
What is adipose tissue - ✔✔subcutaneous fat
fat is mostly under the skin (adipose tissue)
Visceral fat - ✔✔fat around the organs
Percent body fat - ✔✔The proportion
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