With these five components one will have a good guide to help them organize and come up with a customized fitness routine to achieve physical fitness.
The five physical fitness components you need to consider include:
- Muscular Strength
Muscular strength refers to one’s ability to lift and carry heavy items. Someone who does not have the right muscular strength will be unable to lift objects and will be weak.
Muscular strength is all about the force a certain muscle group can exert. Without enough muscle strength, one is not able to be relied on during certain activities.
- Muscular Endurance
When you look at muscle endurance, it describes one’s muscle capability of performing contractions for a certain period of time.
In simple terms, muscle endurance is the process of one doing a particular activity without getting tired. Good examples include cycling or step machines.
Apart from strength. One looks at the duration at which the muscles can be used.
- Cardiovascular Endurance
Cardiovascular endurance means the ability of someone to keep up with certain activities, such as cycling, swimming or running. It refers to how long one can fuel their body to do certain workloads, whereby the heart and lungs work together to provide enough oxygen throughout the body.
- Flexibility
For those new to physical fitness, flexibility plays a key role but many people usually overlook this component of fitness.
Flexibility plays a key role in ensuring one’s muscles and joints are flexible and will not grow stiff.
For one to be flexible their joints will need to move through the available range of motions with ease.
- Body Composition
Also known as body fat composition, this looks at one’s amount of fat within the body.
Normally, the male gender should have a body fat composition of 17% and female should have a body fat composition of 24%.
Someone with high fat composition will have negative health outcomes.
With these five components in mind, one will be able to achieve the necessary physical fitness.
A health program that does not entail all components, will mean that you will not get the necessary fitness outcome, especially in the long run.