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Physical Activity | Any kind of movement that causes your body to use energy |
Fitness | The ability to handle the physical work and play of everyday life without becoming tired. |
Exercise | Physical activity that is planned, structured, and repetitive, and that improves or maintains personal fitness. |
Strength | The ability of your muscles to exert a force. |
Endurance | The ability to perform vigorous activity without getting overly tired. |
Heart and Lung Endurance | The measure of how affectively your heart and lungs work during moderate to vigorous physical activity or exercise. |
Muscle Endurance | The ability of the muscle to repeatedly exert a force over a prolonged period of time. |
Aerobic Exercise | Rhythmic non-stop moderate to vigorous activity that requires large amounts of oxygen and works the heart |
Anaerobic Exercise | Intense physical activity that requires little oxygen but involves short burst of energy. |
Flexibility | The ability to move joints fully and easily. |
Body Composition | The proportions of fat, bones, muscle, and fluid that make up body weight. |
Warm-up | Gentle exercise you do to prepare your muscles for moderate to vigorous activity. |
Cool-down | Gentle exercises that let your body adjust to ending a workout |
Frequency | The number of days you work out each week. |
Intensity | How much energy you use when you work out. |
Target Heart Rate | The number of heart beats per minute that you should aim for during moderate to vigorous activity |
Individual Sports | Physical activity that you can take part in by yourself or with another person without being part of a team. |
Team Sports | Organized physical activities with specific rules played by opposing groups of people. |
Dehydration | Excessive loss of water from the body. |
Conditioning | Training to get into shape. |