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Lecture Notes

In the popular media, we often hear physical fitness used as a simultaneous term for either physical activity or exercise, but they are not the same thing, so we want to be sure in this class that we highlight the differences and that we are all on the same page relative to the differences between physical fitness, physical activity and exercise, because we want to have meaningful conversations about each of these terms; we want to be very how we use them in this class. So physical fitness is not a behavior, let me say that again, it's not a behavior, it's a set of attributes or characteristics of a person, that a person has or achieves, and relates to the person's ability or capacity to perform specific types of physical activity efficiently and effectively. So again, physical fitness is not a behavior, but is a set of characteristics, and we'll talk about two different types, both health-related and skill-related components of physical fitness.