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The Five Components of Health-Related Fitness

The Five Components of Fitness

The Definitions of the 5 Components:

Muscular Strength: Muscular strength is ability of a muscle to exert a maximal force through a given range of motion or at a single given point.

Muscular Endurance: Muscular Endurance refers to the capacity of a muscle to exert a submaximal force through a given range of motion or at a single point over a given time.

Cardiovascular Endurance: Cardiovascular Endurance is the ablity to continue training the cardiovascualr system for a period longer than twenty minutes (on average).

Flexibility: Flexibility is the ability of a joint to move through a full range of motion.

Body Composition: Body Composition is the ratio of lean body mass to fat body mass.

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