Fitness Unit

1. Fitness Unit Record Scores 12 minute run And Fitness Combine

2. 12 minute runLapsinto miles to calculate Vo2 • ¼ = 100 meters (.013) ½ = 200 meters (.03) • ¾ = 300 meters (. 06) • 3 laps = .75 miles • 4 laps = 1.0 miles • 5 laps = 1.25 miles • 6 laps = 1.5 miles • 7 laps = 1.75 miles • 8 laps = 2.0 miles • **********So if you ran 3.5 laps you would have completed 0.81 of a mile

3. Components of Fitness • Six components of Fitness • Agility: The ability to change and control the direction and position of the body while maintaining a constant, rapid motion. For example, changing directions to hit a tennis ball • Balance: the ability to control or stabilize the body when a person is standing still or moving. For example, in line skating • Coordination: the ability to use the senses together with body parts during movement. For example, dribbling a basketball. Using hands and eyes together is called hand-eye coordination • Speed: the ability to move your body or parts of your body swiftly. Many sports rely on speed to gain advantage over your opponents. For example, a basketball player makes a fast break to perform a lay-up, a tennis player moving forward to get to a drop shot, a football player out running the defense to receive a pass. • Power: the ability to move the body parts swiftly while applying the maximum force of the muscles. Power is a combination f both speed and muscular strength. For example, fullbacks in football muscling their way through another players and speeding to advance the ball, and volleyball players getting up to the net and lifting their bodies high into the air. • Reaction time: the ability to reach or respond quickly to what you hear, see, or feel. ? For example an athlete quickly coming off the blocks early in a swimming or race, or stealing a base in baseball.

4. Heart Lab • Heart • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H04d3rJCLCE&feature=related • Heart Lab – 3 minutes • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eFn8Cgcx8g • Answer questions at the end