Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Physical fitness

Physical fitness is use in two close meaning general fitness and specific fitness.

Physical fitness is the ability of the heart, blood vessels, lungs, and muscles to meaning at optimum efficiency. In previous years, fitness was definite as the ability to carry out the day’s behavior without excessive fatigue. Automation enlarged leisure time, and change in lifestyles following the industrial uprising meant this criterion was no longer enough. Optimum efficiency is the solution. Physical fitness is now definite as the body’s ability to function efficiently and successfully in work and leisure behavior, to be fit, to resist hypokinetic disease, and to meet emergency situation. Fitness can also be separated into five categories: aerobic fitness, muscular strength, muscular endurance, flexibility, and body composition.

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