| A | B |
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| Physical Activity | Any form of movement that causes your body to use energy |
| Physical Fitness | The ability to carry out daily tasks easily and have enough reserved energy to respond to unexpected demands |
| Metabolism | The process by which the body breaks down substances and gets energy from food |
| Osteoporosis | A condition in which there is the progressive loss of bone tissue |
| Sedentary Lifestyle | A way of life that involves little physical activity |
| Body Composition | The ratio of body fat to lean body tissue, including muscle, bone, water, and connective tissue such as ligaments, cartilage, and tendons |
| Exercise | Purposeful physical activity that is planned, stuctured, and repetitive; improves or maintains personal fitness |
| Flexibility | The ability to move a body part through a full range of motion |
| Muscular Endurance | The ability of the muscles to perform physical tasks over a period of time without becoming fatigued |
| Cardiorespiratory Endurance | The ability of the heart, lungs, and blood vessels to use and send fuel and oxygen to the body's tissues during long periods of moderate-to-vigorous activity |
| Muscular Strength | The amount of force a muscle can exert |
| Aerobic Exercise | Any activity that uses large muscle groups, is rhythmic in nature, and can be maintained continously for at least 10 minutes three times a day or for 20 to 30 minutes at one time |
| Anaerobic Exercise | Intense short bursts of activity in which the muscles work so hard that they produce energy without using oxygen |
| Overload | Working the body harder than it is normally worked |
| Progression | The gradual increase in overload necessary to achieve higher levels of fitness |
| Specificity | Particular exercises and activities that improve particular areas of health-related fitness |
| Warm-Up | An activity that prepares the muscles for work |
| Workout | The part of an exercise program when the activity is performed at its highest peak |
| Cool-Down | An activity that prepares the muscles to return to a resting state |
| F.I.T.T. | Frequency, Intensity, Time/Duration, and Type of activity |
| Resting Heart Rate | The number of times your heart beats in one minute when you are not active |
| Health Screening | A search or check for diseases or disorders that an individual would otherwise not have knowledge of or seek help for |
| Training Program | A program of formalized physical preparation or involvement in a sport or another physical activity |
| Hydration | Taking in fluids so that the body functions properly |
| Anabolic Steroids | Synthetic substances similar to the male hormone testosterone |
| Overexertion | Overworking the body |
| Heatstroke | A condition in which the body looses the ability to rid itself of excessive heat through persipation |
| Heat Cramps | Muscle spasms that result from a loss of large amounts of salt and water through perspiration |
| Frostbite | A condition that results when body tissues become frozen |
| Hypothermia | A condition in which body temperature becomes dangerously low |
| Muscle Cramp | A spasm or sudden tightening of a muscle |
| Strain | A condition resulting from damaging a muscle or tendon |
| Sprain | An injury to the ligament surrounding a joint |
