Saturday 13 June 2015

Back and Back to Basics #1

Welcome to 5.14 Fitness,




 I have to apologise for the absence of posts recently, I think it has been over two weeks since the last one, however I am sure you can appreciate that both myself and Will have both just finished our exams for the year so we have been busy revising. So we apologise but we will try to get things back to routinely fashion as soon as possible.

This post will be the first in what is going to start as a four part series that will recap the basics of fitness and physical activity.

Definitions:

Heath is the complete state of physical, mental and social wellbeing not merely the absence of sickness or infirmity 

Fitness is the ability to meet the demands of your environment 

Exercise is a form of physical activity that maintains or improves fitness 

Performance is how well an activity is completed 


Categories of benefits of exercise:

Physical, eg increased health
Mental, eg relieves stress 
Social, eg new friends are found 


Purposes of iniatiatives: 

Get people involved 
Keep people involved 
Provide a path to the elite level 


3 sporting agencies:

Sport England 
Youth Sport Trust
Governing Bodies ( eg FIFA, NBA, PGA, RFU, ECB)


Roles for people to remain involved in sport:

Performer who needs to be fit, motovated and have knowledge of the sport

Coach who needs to have good knowledge of the sport, the ability to analyse and to be a good motivator

Official who needs to be calm, have good knowledge of the sport and be confident 

Volunteer who needs to be enthusiastic, organised and committed 

To be continued.....

Thanks for reading, please come back against well as plus one the blog and the post, comment, follow the blog and follow me- work hard and peace!

Jason


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