Physical education promotes physical fitness through selected activities. Physical fitness is a measure of the body's ability to function efficiently through work, leisure, and emergencies while resisting disease. It includes daily healthy habits and physical fitness components. The components include health-related aspects like body composition, cardiovascular endurance, flexibility, muscular strength and endurance. They also include skill-related aspects like agility, balance, coordination, power, reaction time and speed.

1. Concept of
Physical Fitness

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Definition of Physical Education and Physical Fitness
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OUTLINE
2 Healthy Habits
3 Physical Fitness Components

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Relate the connection of the three main concepts: Physical Education,
Physical Fitness and Fitness Components
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OBJECTIVES
2 Identify daily healthy habits
3 Differentiate physical fitness components
4 Recognize the importance of physical fitness for himself/herself

4. Physical Education
Physical Fitness
Physical Fitness Component
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5. ● Physical Education is an integral part of the general
education designed to promote the desired level of fitness
through participation in well selected activities
Physical Education
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6. ● It is considered as a measure of the body’s ability to
function efficiently and effectively in work and leisure
activities, to be healthy, to resist hypo kinetic diseases, and
to respond to emergency situations.
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7. Healthy Habits
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● Intake of proper nutrition
● Adequate sleep
● Proper exercise
● Personal hygiene
● Medical and dental check-up
● Recreational activities

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● Health-related
● Skill-related
Physical Fitness Components

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● Health-related
○ To improve the overall health of an individual
● Skill-related
○ It helps develop the performance in sports and motor skills
Physical Fitness Components

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BODY COMPOSITION
◘ It refers to the amount of the body’s fat-free mass as compared to the
amount of body fat.
◘ The fat-free mass includes bone, water, muscle and tissue while the body
fat literally refers to the fat within the body.
Health-related Components

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CARDIOVASCULAR ENDURANCE
◘ It is the ability of the heart, lungs and blood vessels to deliver oxygen to
working muscles and tissues, as well as the ability of those muscles and
tissues to utilize that oxygen
FLEXIBILITY
◘ It is the ability of the joints to move through its full range of motion.
Health-related Components

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MUSCULAR STRENGTH
◘ It is the ability of the muscle to exert or produce force.
MUSCULAR ENDURANCE
◘ It is the ability of the muscle group to maintain a continuous contraction or
repetition over a period of time.
Health-related Components

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AGILITY
◘ It is the ability of the body to change position and directions quickly and
efficiently
BALANCE
◘ It is the ability to maintain stability while in a stationary or moving position
Skill-related Components

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COORDINATION
◘ It is the ability to use the senses with the body parts to perform motor
tasks smoothly and accurately.
POWER
◘ It is the ability to produce a maximum force in the shortest possible time
Skill-related Components

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REACTION TIME
◘ It is the time elapsed between stimulation and the beginning of the
reaction to the stimulus.
SPEED
◘ It is the ability to perform a movement within a short period of time.
Skill-related Components

16. TRIVIA
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• The oldest known living woman is Kane Tanaka of
Japan, aged 117 years
• The oldest known living man is Dumitru
Comănescu, of Romania, aged 111 years.

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Physical Fitness
Prepared by:
ANGELA MAE C. ALBA
Instructor