Download 5 Health Components of Fitness - Mr. Meyer`s Physical Education

5 Health Components
of Fitness
There are 5 areas a person needs
to be competent in to be
considered physically fit.
 1. Body Composition
 2. Flexibility
 3. Muscular Strength
 4. Muscular Endurance
 5. Cardiorespiratory Fitness
Body Composition
 The amount of fat mass in the body
compared to the amount of fat free mass
(muscle, bone, vital organs, tissues).

The test used to measure body composition:

BMI (Body Mass Index).

Uses a person’s height and weight to
estimate the appropriateness of their body
shape.
Flexibility
 Flexibility is the range of motion (how far you can
move)

at a particular joint (knee, elbow, hip, etc.)
The tests used to measure flexibility are the sit
and reach test and trunk lift test.

Sit and reach measures hamstring flexibility

Trunk lift measures lower back flexibility
Muscular Strength
 The amount of force a muscle can produce
in a single effort (One time).


Tests used to measure muscular strength:

Push-Ups

Curl-ups
If you can perform multiple push-ups or curlups then you are testing muscular endurance.
Muscular Endurance
 The ability of a muscle group to contract
numerous times without tiring OR to hold
one contraction for an extended period of
time

Tests used to measure muscular endurance:

Push-ups

Sit-ups
Cardiorespiratory Fitness
 How well the heart and lungs to supply
oxygen to muscles during exercise.

Tests used to measure cardiorespiratory
fitness:

Mile Run

PACER

Cooper Test