A totally fit person can be defined through skill and health related fitness, which is divided into five components such as aerobic or cardiovascular fitness, body composition, muscular strength, muscular endurance, and flexibility.
Aerobic or Cardiovascular Fitness
Cardiovascular fitness, also called as aerobic fitness, refers to the ability of the body to maintain energy throughout the maximum level of exercise. It is also called as stamina. In this case, the respiratory and circulatory systems should effectively work together to provide enough oxygen to working muscles, leading to aerobic metabolism. This fitness helps the body to be active all day long, especially when doing sports and other leisure pursuits. It can also lower stress, remove waste product easily, and improve oxygen delivery.
Body Composition
The body composition is the total amount of bone, cartilage, fat, and muscle, all of which form the entire body. Fat is the most interesting when it comes to health. The rest are referred to as lean body tissue.
A healthy percentage of body fat varies through ages and gender. However, the average amount for men is 15 to 18 percent while it is 20 to 25 percent for women. Maintaining a healthy percentage of fat is very important. Excess fat allows various health problems to exist in our body, including diabetes and heart disease.
Muscular Strength
Strength is essential to daily life. It is the ability of the muscles to exert force and overpower resistance. We will not able to do a task properly if we are physically weak. For instance, carrying heavy baggage requires strength, which enables us to keep a good posture, prevent injuries, and stay independent when we get old.
Muscular Endurance
Endurance is the ability of the muscles to create contractions over a time period. For instance, the mother who is cleaning the house, gardener making garbage pit, or nurse in Landau scrubs going upstairs to check the patient. Muscular endurance is also required in sports like basketball and badminton. The former has repeated running and shooting whereas the latter has repeated arm swings for hitting the shuttlecock.
Flexibility
The movement of body joints is called flexibility that is commonly managed by the muscles. Sometimes it is considered less important compared with cardiovascular fitness and muscular strength. But our movement will decrease and joints will turn rigid if we are not flexible. Therefore, flexibility allows us to perform more efficiently. This is used in gymnastics, dancing, diving, and a lot more activities.
