Chapter 3 Lesson 1

 Your ability to maintain high levels of performance on the playing field  Aka: Performance Fitness  Influenced by heredity and practice  6 components / measures  Agility, balance, coordination, speed, power, and reaction time

 Can be improved with practice  Skills that make people good at a particular sport or game  Improvement in one skill does not equal improvement in another skill  One can have a high level of health related fitness and have a low level in skill related components (and vice versa)  Even if a skill level is high, one still needs to practice that skill

 The ability to change and control the direction and position of the body while maintaining a constant rapid motion  Sports requiring high levels of agility:  Football, basketball, soccer, baseball, softball

 The ability to control or stabilize the body while standing or moving  Sports requiring high levels of balance:  Gymnastics, golf, ice skating

 The ability to use the senses to determine and direct the movement of your limbs and head  Requires using a combination of different muscle groups at once  Sports requiring high levels: gymnastics, cheerleading, juggling, basketball, baseball

 The ability to move your body, or parts of it, swiftly  Usually measured over short and straight distances  Largely determined by heredity, can be increased though  Sports: boxing, sprinters, basketball

 The ability to move the body parts swiftly while simultaneously applying the maximum force or your muscles  Function of both speed and muscular strength  Sports: long jump, power lifting, swimming

 The ability to react or respond quickly to what you hear, see, or feel  Can be slowed by decreased motivation and increased fatigue  Important to sprinters, swimmers, boxers, goalies, tennis players