Fitness Training Terms

Skill Related Fitness

Six components: agility, balance, coordination, power, reaction time and speed, all related to athletic performance.

Progression Principle

A gradual increase in one if the FITT variables to create an overload once the person's fitness level increases.

Specificity Principle

A workout must be specific to the component of fitness you are trying to improve.

Type

Activity you performed.

Health Related Fitness

Five components that measured your general health and can be achieved without being "athletic." Cardio respiratory endurance, muscle strength and endurance, flexibility and body composition.

Intensity

How hard you work out.

Time (Duration)

How long you work at a given activity (minutes or repetitions)

Frequency

How often you perform a workout or exercise.

Overload Principle

Placing a greater-than-normal stress on the body's systems you are trying to train. Increase the intensity of one of the FITT variables to produce the overload.

Muscle Strength

The ability of a muscle or muscles to push or pull a given weight, produce a force, or resist a force regardless of time. The maximum amount of force a muscle can produce one time.

Cardiorespiratory Endurance

The ability of the heart, blood, blood vessels and lungs to supply oxygen to the muscles during long periods of physical activity.

Muscle Endurance

The ability of the muscles to repeat a movement many times or hold a position without stopping to rest.

Flexibility

The ability to move a joint through a full range of motion.

Body Composition

The combination of fat mass and fat-free mass, including fat, bones, muscles, organs, and water.

FITT

The variables of frequency, intensity, time and type.