Physical Preparation, Health and Lifestyle for the Public Services Assignment 1

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Assignment 1 Physical Preparation, Health and Lifestyle for the Public Services (Unit 5) Task 1: The Components of Fitness The components of fitness are divided into two groups which are the skill related and the health related. Health related means how much you can exceed with your body in terms of health. For example cardio vascular depends how much your body can do and it also aids to prevent any disease like cardio vascular disease which it's good for your own health. In the other hand skill related skills help you be better in a certain sport, for example speed and agility is needed to be a good player in football. Overall health and skill make the components of fitness which makes you exercise or succeed in sports. Difference Methods of Fitness Testing: A variety of tests are put in place to test the fitness components. They can be field based fitness tests which is simple because all you need is the comfort of your house, a field or an empty space and inexpensive field tests equipment or lab based fitness test which is more complicated because you would need scientific resources to conduct the test appropriate. These sorts of tests provide the trainers, coaches and athletes with meaningful information about what's going fine or what area needs progress. Testing Components of Fitness Flexibility what it is: is the measure of free movement in person's joints .This is especially needed for gymnast? However the range depends on the ligaments and muscles surrounding the joint, shape of the articulating surfaces and contact between tissue masses of adjacent segments. Flexibility can change, the change occurs when muscle and connective tissue adapt to range of motion frequently used and if full ranged is not used often then muscle and connective tissues tend to shorten. We can also decline in flexibility when inactivity takes place and
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