1. Physical Fitness: the condition of the body as a result of participating in exercises that promotes muscular strength, muscular endurance, flexibility, cardiovascular endurance, and a positive body composition. Maintaining physical fitness is a lifelong process and should always be part of your life. As with all healthful actions, starting now helps you enjoy a more healthful life later on.
2. Muscular Strength: the amount of force the muscles can exert against resistance over a short period of time. (Resistance is something working against you such as gravity, weight, or lifting something. By using our muscles regularly they become stronger. Our muscles help us in lifting, jumping, turning, twisting, basically all of our daily activities. Muscular strength can help improve your daily activities and your performance in sports; as well as help maintain correct posture.)
3. Muscular Endurance: (endurance is being able to do something over time) So muscular endurance is the ability to use muscles for an extended period of time. Having good muscular endurance allows us to perform repeated movements without being tired and help maintain correct posture

   What are some activities you do that require muscular endurance? Ans: biking, running, swimming, walking, etc

4. Flexibility: having the ability to bend and move the joints through a range of motion. Does anybody know what range of motion means? ANS: being able to bend or stretch your body to a certain extent. It is different on each person depending on his/her flexibility and body make-up.

• a flexible body gets stiff less easily
• more flexible a muscles less likely it is to get injured (pulls, strains, sprains)
• flexibility is important in many sports and aspects of daily life

5.        Cardiovascular Endurance: the ability to pump blood through your heart and blood vessels efficiently for extended periods of time. Good cardiovascular endurance improves blood circulation throughout your body and strengthens your heart, which will help strengthen the muscles throughout your body (blood going to muscles helps them heal better when working out which in turn makes them stronger)

Why is a healthy heart important? ANS: decreases the chance of heart disease, perform better in all activities (sport, life, better circulation helps strengthen

muscles).

6.        Body Composition: make up of the body, comparing the amount of muscle to fat. In general, you want more muscle than fat. How can we do this? ANS: exercise, watch our diet (refer to the dietary guidelines).