Lesson video

Hi there, welcome to your lesson.

Today's lesson is on health, fitness, and components of fitness.

My name's Ms. Hacking, and I'm really looking forward to being your teacher today.

By the end of today's lesson, I'm hoping that we can define health and fitness, and understand the relationship between them, and know how they impact upon sports.

Our keywords include health, which is a state of complete physical, mental, or emotional, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

Fitness is the ability to meet or cope with the demands of the environment.

Physical health is that all body systems are working well, free from illness and injury, and the ability to carry out everyday tasks is possible.

Emotional health means that someone is able to cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to her or his community.

And social health means basic human needs are being met, such as food, shelter, and clothing, and the individual has friendship and support, and some value in society, is socially active, and has little stress in social circumstances.

Today's lesson is split into three parts.

In the first part, we're going to explain how good health impacts fitness.

In the second part, we're going to explain how ill health can impact fitness, and in the third part, we're going to identify the different components of fitness.

Let's get started.

So Jun said that, "Being free of disease doesn't necessarily mean a person is truly healthy." Do you agree with Jun? So health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

So Jun's correct, yes.

Just because someone doesn't have a visible disease, doesn't mean that their social health is particularly good, or their mental health, or emotional health is particularly good either, so yes, Jun, you are correct.

Therefore, good health means that a person has positive physical, emotional/mental, social health and is free from disease.

Okay, let's have a go to check, true or false.

? Someone who is free from disease definitely has good health.

Yep, that's false, can you tell me why? Good health refers to a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being.

Being free from disease refers only to physical well-being, so well done if you mentioned that.

So fitness is the ability to cope with the demands of the environment.

So how could having good health affect your fitness? So if someone has good health, then they're more able to take part in exercise, therefore, it improves their health even more, and as a result, improves fitness.

So let's go through that again.

Someone with good health is more able to take part in physical exercise, as a result of taking part in the exercise, their health improves even more, and as does their fitness.

So with an example, Zelda has good health, so she's able to go running every day, and as a result of running every day, she improves her health and her cardiovascular endurance, and running becomes easier and she can run further, which means she's able to run even more every day, which then improves her fitness even more, and her health even more.

So by having good health, you're able to access exercise, and therefore, improve your health, and your fitness even more.

Okay, let's have a go to check.

Identify which is an impact of having good health.

Is it A, increased risk of depression, B, decreased fitness, or C, increased fitness? Yeah, that's right, it's increased fitness.

So having good health increases fitness.

Okay, now it's your turn for a task.

For the first part of the task, I'd like you to fill in the flow chart to identify how good health impacts fitness.

For the second part of the task, Nicola has good health.

Explain how this could impact her fitness.

You may wish to pause the video now, to give yourself time to complete these tasks.

Okay, so for the first part of the task, you were asked to fill in the flow chart to identify how good health impacts fitness.

you may have included: that good health means you're more able to take part in exercise, which therefore, improves your health even more, and improves your fitness, making it even easier to take part in exercise, which therefore, improves your health even more, well done if you filled those in correctly.

For the second part of the task, Nicola has good health.

Explain how this could impact her fitness.

Your answer may have included: that having good health will mean that Nicola is able to take part in exercise.

By taking part in exercise, her health will improve even more.

As a result, her fitness will improve and she will be able to take part in more exercise, which will continue to improve her health and fitness.

So well done if you talked about those.

Okay, we're now moving on to the second part of today's lesson, and we're going to explain how ill health can impact upon fitness.

Ill health refers to being in a state of poor physical, mental, or social well-being.

So, Andeep's asked, "How could ill health impact fitness?" So having ill health means people are unable to take part in exercise or train, and therefore, they're more likely to suffer poor health conditions such as illnesses, disease, and injuries.

And therefore, they remain unable to take part in exercise or train.

So it negatively impacts their fitness, and also continues to negatively impact their health as well.

So if we look at an example, Sami has long COVID, and therefore, he's unable to take part in exercise or train and therefore, his body becomes weaker and he's more likely to suffer poor health, such as illnesses, disease, and injuries, and his fitness doesn't improve because he is not training regularly.

However, if someone exercises with ill health, they can improve fitness.

So can you think of any examples of when someone might exercise despite having ill health? So Andeep mentioned that, "Sometimes, people with poor mental health may be able to exercise still, and therefore will still improve their fitness." So if someone is still able to take part in exercise despite having ill health, then they are able to still improve their fitness.

Let's have a go at a question, true or false? Ill health can have a negative impact on fitness.

That's true, can you tell me why? Having ill health can mean you are unable to take part in exercise, which will negatively impact fitness.

Well done if you got that right.

Okay, let's have a go to task.

Ernie has poor mental health.

He doesn't take part in exercise because he thinks he has a really bad level of fitness.

Explain to Ernie how health can impact fitness.

You may wish to pause the video now, to give yourself time to complete the task.

So Ernie has poor mental health.

He doesn't take part in exercise because he thinks he has a really bad level of fitness.

Explain to Ernie how health can impact fitness.

So you may have said: that Ill health can impact someone's ability to take part in exercise.

If they're unable to take part in exercise, then they're not able to improve their fitness.

However, even if with ill health, someone like Ernie is able to take part in exercise, their fitness will improve.

So it'd be talking to Ernie and saying that, despite him having ill health, if he can still do some kind of exercise, whether that be walking or jogging or doing something, he would still have a chance at improving his fitness.

Well done if you put something along those lines.

Okay, we're now moving on to the third and final part of today's lesson.

We're going to identify the different components of fitness.

So fitness is the ability to meet or cope with the demands of the environment.

Do you think these people have good fitness? So Sam says, "I'm strong, but cannot run very far without getting tired." And Sofia says, "I'm really fast, but I'm not very good at catching a ball." And Alex has said, I'm really flexible and can balance for a long period of time." Would you describe these people as having good fitness? So fitness is made up of 10 different components.

"Can you name any of the components of fitness?" So the 10 components of fitness are: cardiovascular endurance, muscular endurance, speed, strength, power, flexibility, agility, reaction time, balance, and coordination.

So cardiovascular endurance is the ability to continue exertion while getting energy from the aerobic system used to supply the body with energy.

A marathon runner would need good cardiovascular endurance to supply the body with oxygen for the full race.

This can also be called stamina.

So muscular endurance is the ability to move your body and muscles repeatedly without fatiguing.

"Fatigue means tired," thanks Soifa for filling us in with that.

A tennis player would need good muscular endurance, as sometimes matches last for hours, and they need their muscles to keep working with without fatigue.

Strength is a maximum force a muscle, or group of muscles can apply against a resistance.

A rock climber would need muscular strength to pull their body weight up and hold their grip securely without falling off.

Speed is the ability to move quickly across the ground or move limbs rapidly through movements.

So a 100-meter sprinter would require speed to run faster than their opponents and win the race.

But remember, speed doesn't just include running fast, can you think of any other examples where someone would need speed but maybe speed in their arms instead? Okay, let's have a go to check.

Can you identify the correct definition of muscular endurance, is it A, the maximum force a muscle, or group of muscles can apply against the resistance? Is it B, the ability to continue exertion while getting energy from the aerobic system used to supply the body with energy? Or is it C, the ability to move your body and muscles repeatedly without fatiguing? Or D, the ability to move quickly across the ground or move limbs rapidly through movements? Yeah, it's C, the ability to move your body and muscles repeatedly without fatiguing, without your muscles getting tired, moving them for a long period of time.

Okay, power is the ability to exert a maximal force in as short as time as possible.

Sometimes we remember power by thinking strength times speed.

A basketball player would require power to jump for a rebound higher than an opponent so they gain possession of the ball.

Basketball players often need a lot of power because they do explosive movements, explosive jumps, or explosive sprints down the court when they get possession of the ball.

Flexibility is a range of movement around a joint, and a gymnast would require flexibility to perform the splits in a floor routine.

So here we can see that the flexibility in this gymnast's hips is really good because she's able to do a front split really effectively.

Agility is the ability to change direction at speed or nimbleness, and a hockey player would require agility to be able to stop, start, and change direction quickly in response to where the opponent and the ball are.

Let's have a go to check.

Which athlete is likely to need the most agility? Is it A, the cyclist, B, the gymnast or C, the rugby player? It's C, the rugby player, the rugby player would need agility to dodge their opponents and to be able to change direction in relation to if the ball gets intercepted, or if their opponent is running at them to avoid being tackled.

Whereas a cyclist doesn't need agility because they're sat on a bike in the same direction, and the gymnasts may need some agility on the floor routine, but again, not as much as a rugby player, so well done if you got that right.

Balance is the ability to stay upright or stay in control of movement.

And a figure skater needs good balance to perform and land skills, such as spins and jumps to prevent falling or getting injured.

Reaction time is the ability to respond quickly to a stimulus.

And a table tennis player would need good reaction time to enable them to react quickly to where the opponent has hit the ball.

Coordination is the ability to move two or more body parts under control smoothly and efficiently.

So sometimes, we talk about hand-eye coordination, so how well you can use your hands with your eyes in order to do things like catch a ball.

The same with foot-eye coordination, so some people are really effective at kicking a ball because they have really good coordination between their feet and their eyes.

And an example here, would be a netball player would need good hand-eye coordination in order to pass, catch, and shoot effectively in a game.

"The ability to respond quickly to a stimulus" is a definition of which component of fitness? Would it be A, coordination, B, reaction time, C, agility, or D, balance? Yeah, that's right, reaction time is being able to respond quickly to a stimulus, so well done if you got that right.

Okay, for your final task, I would like you to define each of the 10 components of fitness, I have already given you one as an example.

So cardiovascular endurance, is the ability to continue exertion while getting energy from the aerobic system, which is used to supply the body with energy.

So I'd like you to complete that for the other nine components of fitness.

You may wish to pause a video now, to give yourself time to complete the task.

So you may have written: you were asked to define each of the 10 components of fitness, and you may have written: muscular endurance is the ability to continue exertion while getting energy from the aerobic system used to supply the body with energy.

Strength is a maximum force a muscle, or group muscles can apply against a resistance.

Speed is the ability to move quickly across the ground or move limbs rapidly through movements.

Power is the ability to exert a maximal force in as shorter time as possible.

Flexibility is a range of movement around a joint, and agility is the ability to change direction at speed or nimbleness.

Balance is the ability to stay upright or stay in control of body movement, and reaction time is the ability to respond quickly to a stimulus.

Coordination is the ability to move two or more body parts under control, smoothly and efficiently.

Well done if you manage to get all the 10 components of fitness written down with the correct definition.

Okay, we've got just enough time left then, to summarise today's lesson.

So having good health means someone is more able to take part in exercise, and as a result, both their health and fitness improves.

Someone with ill health is less likely to take part in physical activity, and therefore, increases the likelihood of continued poor health and reduced fitness.

However, if someone with ill health is able to train or exercise, then fitness can still improve.

The 10 components of fitness are: cardiovascular endurance, muscular endurance, speed, strength, power, flexibility, agility, reaction time, balance, and coordination.

Well done today, we've related how health and fitness work together, but also we've introduced the 10 components of fitness that I hope you can remember for future lessons.

I'll see you again soon.