Five components of a well-rounded physical activity/exercise program are muscular strength, muscular endurance, cardiovascular endurance, flexibility, and body composition. Each component has specific FITT principles: Frequency – how often?, Intensity – How hard of what level, Time (Duration), and Type. For cardiovascular endurance, the ACSM-FITT recommendations are: type – large muscle groups/rhythmic/continuous, intensity – 60-90% of maximum heart rate (MHR), time – 20-60 minutes for each bout, and frequency – about 3-5 days per week. In order to maintain or improve this component, one must perform exercises such as running, brisk walking, and jumping rope using these recommendations. For muscular endurance, the ASCM-FITT recommendations
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Cardiovascular endurance is the most important. People work on during daily activities such as gardening or house cleaning are using their heart and in order to gain strength and endurance one has to improve heart health. Muscular endurance is a branch off of cardiovascular endurance because if there is not muscular strength then it deters the length of time a person can perform a certain activity. Muscular strength is important because in day to day activities such as getting out the bed, would be hard if we did not try to improve our muscular strength. I think it goes hand in hand with physical therapy because when a person breaks a leg or arm if they are older, muscular strength is important to get the body back to “normal.” I disagree with the components such as flexibility and body composition. Flexibility should be more of a warm up component because stretching is an important part, but I think that warming up and stretching together would be a better format of that component. Body composition is the ultimate goal of a person working out majority of the time to improve or maintain a certain part of the body. I just think that is the overall goal of fitness so it should not be an individual component. This should be taken out or used as an optional component when a person is focusing on a specific part of the body while still using the other 4
Cardiovascular endurance is the most important. People work on during daily activities such as gardening or house cleaning are using their heart and in order to gain strength and endurance one has to improve heart health. Muscular endurance is a branch off of cardiovascular endurance because if there is not muscular strength then it deters the length of time a person can perform a certain activity. Muscular strength is important because in day to day activities such as getting out the bed, would be hard if we did not try to improve our muscular strength. I think it goes hand in hand with physical therapy because when a person breaks a leg or arm if they are older, muscular strength is important to get the body back to “normal.” I disagree with the components such as flexibility and body composition. Flexibility should be more of a warm up component because stretching is an important part, but I think that warming up and stretching together would be a better format of that component. Body composition is the ultimate goal of a person working out majority of the time to improve or maintain a certain part of the body. I just think that is the overall goal of fitness so it should not be an individual component. This should be taken out or used as an optional component when a person is focusing on a specific part of the body while still using the other 4