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Physical Fitness: The Components Of Fitness And Fitness

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Task 3
Fitness Components
• Agility
• Reaction Time
• Speed
• Cardiovascular fitness
• Power
• Muscular Endurance
History of Football
Football/soccer, the beautiful game, the world game was first said to be originated and played from 1400bc proved with scientific evidence. However, according to FIFA after the rules were correctly set and implemented the first recordable football game occurred on 19 December 1863 , Limes Field, Mortlake, London, England. Football is a 11 aside team sport which is normally played on a football pitch which can be played by both male and female.
How I became interested with the sport
I have been playing football for 8 years up to date and my fantasy with the sport began ever since I first watched it on television . Seeing the tension and anxiety on the players faces the crowd showing their passion for the sport by chanting and the fast movements of the game. The players made it look so easy that I thought football will be a walk in the park but in my experience it certainly not is. Football requires certain components to excel in it which I will be talking about in detailed later on.

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It is also defined as one muscles ability to do work. Muscular endurance can come as a form of doing multiple repetitions of an exercise if your muscles are contracting the same way muscular endurance is used. Muscular endurance is highly important in football because for example a goalkeeper who needs to contract his arm muscles a lot needs muscular endurance to help him use him arm muscles every time . An outfielder needs muscular endurance because he uses his/her leg muscles every time. When I play football muscular endurance is highly important as it has a lot of quick bursts in the game with very short time periods to recover as it is an anaerobic sport also muscular endurance is important because we need to resist

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