We explain what physical fitness is and what its components are. Aerobic capacity, flexibility, endurance, strength, speed, and more.
What is physical fitness?
Physical fitness refers to the ability that a person has when carrying out some type of physical activity . It is the natural condition that human beings have to do any activity.
Physical fitness is something that a person develops over time. any quality can be improved through practice and effort .
Each person has a different physical quality for which they perform best, however, whatever that quality is, one must have good physical fitness which, among other components, consists of aerobic capacity and flexibility.
aerobic capacity
Aerobic capacity is ability of the body to be able to do long-term physical activities in addition to being of low or high intensity with an estimated time of three to four minutes.
Aerobic activities do not require great physical effort the most important thing is the duration of each of them. This type of training is mainly responsible for eliminating accumulated fat from the body. Someone who exercises in this way will immediately notice how the circumferences of their body, especially the abdomen, begin to be reduced.
Flexibility
Flexibility is the ability of muscles to stretch without damaging them in any way . Flexibility is dependent on muscle elasticity and joint mobility in the body.
However, there are many factors that also help flexibility, they are genetic inheritance, age, the younger you are in age, the more elasticity your body has. For physiological reasons Women have greater flexibility than men .
Other important factors are the temperature of the environment and muscle temperature, always It is essential to warm up before carrying out any type of activity physical and never demand too much from the muscles, since this would cause great damage to them, in some cases even irreversible.
Other components
In addition to being made up of these two factors, physical fitness is also developed from:
- Muscular resistance Muscular resistance is the number of times it is carried out in each workout, that is, the body itself has resistance in itself, but it must carry out the resistance in the upper part of the body repeatedly.
- Muscle strength It is the ability of a muscle to exert a certain amount of force to achieve better resistance in a single effort.
- Joint mobility Muscles, bone structure, tendons and ligaments are involved in joint mobility. It is necessary that the joints be strengthened through physical activity, in this way if they are not in good condition, other factors, such as muscular resistance, cannot be trained.
- Speed
- Muscle elongation It is the most important thing before doing physical activity. Stretching and relaxing the muscles by elongating them prevents us from future injuries and damage, it is about preparing the body to strengthen it.
- Anaerobic potential These are short-time activities with a high level of intensity.
- Muscle power It refers to the amount of training and work that is done in a certain amount of time. For athletes, it is extremely important to have good muscle power training, since with it they will be able to excel in certain activities.
