Welcome to York High Freshman Health Fitness page

Benefits of Regular Exercise
Healthy Hearts
Web MD Fitness
Bones and Muscles
Blood Vessels
The Circulation System
Tubluar Circulation
Heart and Lungs
How the Body Works
The Heart
Heart, How it Works
Weight Managemant
Water Helps Keep Fat Away
Smart Kids (cyberdiet)
Sleep and Rest
To Sleep, Perchance to Dream

National sleepfoundation.org
Physical Fitness
Physical fitness is the condition of your body as a result of a regular exercise program. Stress Management
Stress Management
Stress Management
The Five Areas of Physical Fitness
Home of Fitness Testing
Shape Up Across Colorado
Wellness
Muscular strength is the ability to do a task (ex. lift a weight), you also need some endurance in your muscles so they can contract over and over again through the day.
Flexibility is defined as the range of motion around a joint.
Stretching and Flexibility
FLEXIBILITY
Cardiovascular Endurance is the most important component. The heart and lungs like external muscles on our body, responds to exercise by getting healthier
Healthful body composition is the tissue breakdown of your body. It usually differentiates between fat and all other body tissue. It is normally expressed in percent of body fat.
Lifetime Sports
Lifetime sports are physical activities in which you can participate as you grow older.
Make Exercise a Habit
Weight Training
Types of Exercise
Isotonic exercise in which there is a muscle contraction that causes movement.
Strength Training Exercises
Isometric exercise in which there is a muscle contraction that causes no movement.
Isokinetic exercise in which a weight is moved through an entire range of motion.
Anaerobic exercise in which the body's demand for oxygen is greater than the supply
Aerobic exercise that requires a continuous use of oxygen.

Target Heart Rate is a heart rate of varying degrees depending on your desired results
Kinds of Exercise
Training Principles
Training Principles are guidelines to apply to all activities to gain physical fitness.
Warming up
cooling down
specificity
overload
progression
frequency

Fitness skills are skills that can be used when participating in sports and games.
Agility is the ability to change direction rapidly
Balance we must always remain in a state of balance or risk falling over all sports need some amount of balance.
Coordination is the ability to perform motor skills with grace in your sport.
Reaction time is the amount of time it takes you to react to a stimulus (ex.tennis serve)
Speed is how fast your cover a distance.
Power is the ability to exert force quickly
Why Exercise
10 thing that make you look younger
11 Steps healthy athletes should do