‘Hansraj College’

“Physical Education”
Assignment -1
[ Sem – II]

Ques: - Explain various components

of health related and skill related
physical fitness.

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Mr. M.P. Sharma Shubham

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 What is Physical fitness ?

Physical fitness can be defined as a set of characteristics that
are either health-related or skill-related. It refers to your
ability to perform physical tasks efficiently as it relates to a
particular sport or your day-to-day activities. In addition to
physical health, being physically fit helps improve your
mental, emotional, and social health.

Types of Physical Fitness

Health related skill related

 Health related fitness:-Health-related

physical fitness is primarily associated with disease
prevention and functional health. Participating in
regular health-related fitness helps you control your
weight, prevents diseases and illness, improves your
mood, boosts energy, and promotes better sleep.
 It consists of following components :-

1. Cardiovascular Endurance: It is the ability of our

heart, blood cells, and lungs to work continuously for
extended periods of time. This is how efficiently your
body takes in, transports, and uses oxygen while
exercising. Having efficient heart and lungs leads to
increased energy throughout the day.
2. Muscular Strength: It is the maximum amount of
force a muscle can produce in a single effort or how
much one can lift in one attempt. Performing exercises
that use our own body weight, free weights, or weights
on a machine are excellent ways to develop muscle
strength. Having muscular strength will ensure that we
have the strength needed to lift a heavy object.

3. Muscular Endurance: It is our ability to contract

our muscles several times without excessive fatigue.
Another way to think about it is the length of time our
muscles can continue to work before tiring. What this
means is once we have picked up that heavy box of
books, we can then carry that box for a long period of
time before a need to take a break.

4. Flexibility: It is the range of motion that our joints

have during movement. Maintaining flexibility can
improve our performance in physical activities in
addition to decreasing our risk of injuries by helping
our joints move through their full range of motion,
therefore, allowing our muscles to work most
effectively. Stretching and yoga can be done to help
improve our flexibility.
5. Body composition: It is the ratio of water, bone,
muscle, and fat in the body. A healthy body
composition indicates that we may have less risk of
developing obesity-related diseases, such as diabetes,
high blood pressure, and even some cancers.

 Skill related fitness:-Skill related fitness is

defined as working out with a goal of improving a
specific skill. Skill- or performance-related fitness
involves skills that will enhance one's performance in
athletic or sports events. There are various components
of the skill related physical fitness which are described
below:

1. Power: Power combines speed and strength. In

essence, it's how fast you can generate a maximal force.
In sports, "power athletes" are those who exert brute
strength in short, all-out efforts, such as Olympic
weightlifters, football players, and gymnasts. But
athletes in other sports, like basketball, volleyball, and
tennis, can also benefit from developing greater power.
Jumping to get a rebound requires leg power, while
forcefully spiking a volley-ball requires a combination of
upper- and lower-body power.
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2. Speed This skill-related component is linked to agility
and refers to the ability to move upper and lower limbs
on the ground fast, like grabbing, pulling, or throwing
objects. Speed training is important not just for
athletes, but also for those whose jobs involve handling
heavy objects.
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3. Agility Agility is the ability to move quickly and to
easily change direction. Basketball players, for instance,
are incredibly agile. They have to move in every
direction, jumping, sliding, twisting, and backpedaling
in quick response to the movement of the ball and other
players. Their bodies have to be trained to respond and
change course at the drop of a hat. Agility drills
commonly involve exercises that develop foot speed and
direction change.
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4. Balance Gymnasts, yogis, skaters, and surfers all
need highly refined balance skills to be able to
participate in their sports. But these aren't the only
athletes who benefit from balance training. Balance
itself refers to your ability to adjust your body position
to remain upright. It deals with proprioception, or
knowing where your body is in space, and being able to
make adjustments to your position as your center of
gravity changes during movement.
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5. Reaction Time Reaction time refers to how quickly
you can respond to an external stimulus. Think about a
tennis match for a moment: The best competitors react
almost instantaneously when the ball comes off their
opponent's racquet, sprinting toward the location where
they expect the ball to bounce. Reaction time hinges
heavily on your mind-body connection. Your eyes see a
stimulus, your mind interprets the stimulus, and your
body reacts in accordance with that interpretation.
Hence, reaction-time training tends to be sport-specific.
6. Accuracy: This component is the body’s ability to
direct itself and it’s a force towards a particular point.
Accuracy, along with agility, comes into play in sports
like javelin throw, long jump, high jump, etc. Accuracy
can be increased with concentration, meditation, and
practice.
Conclusion: "Regular workouts or any physical
activity promotes strong muscles and bones. It
improves cardiovascular health, respiratory health
and overall health. It also helps maintain a healthy
weight, reduces risk for heart diseases, obesity and
reduces the risk for some cancers. There are lots of
benefits if you prioritize physical fitness. It’s
important to understand what fitness is, and how a
person can go about getting fit. It’s important to
focus on all components of physical fitness as it
helps you in organizing and executing your own
well-balanced workout routine."

Health is a fundamental and key pre-requisite for

our Life to Live. Fitness is an inclusive element of
Health. Health is like a car and the Life is like a
journey in it. To start the car and move ahead the
car must be in a good condition. Likewise, to start
the Life and Live it to the fullest possibility, Health
is inevitable. Otherwise, we can't have the joyful
journey of Life and 100% living is not possible.
When we say Health-it is both physical as well as
mental Health. Without Health, do whatever, get
whatever, acquire whatever, living to the highest
joy is not possible.
“You shall gain, but you shall pay with sweat,
blood, and vomit.”