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    reaching the desired outcome. In this assignment I will be reviewing the Physical Education Content Standards and the data provided by the California Physical fitness report to determinate area of students’ strength and areas they need improvement. 2014-15 California Physical Fitness Report Overall - Summary of Results Grade 7 Physical Fitness Area Total Tested Number Students in HFZ² % Students in HFZ Aerobic Capacity 234 117 50.0 Body Composition 234 113 48.3

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    Introduction Biological fitness is fundamental to the evolution of species. It is defined both by survival and reproductive success, determined by the contribution to the gene pool of the next generation. Accordingly, the individual that lives the longest and produces the most fertile offspring has the highest fitness. Fitness is hereditary, genetically based, and phenotypically expressed. Natural selection acts on the translation of phenotypic trait variation to maximize performance, to improve

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    in relation to students with conflicting fitness and academic goals. Action planning explains when and how goals will be completed. Coping planning is connecting goal striving with responses to coping. It is common for people to want to live an active, healthy life. But it is even more common for fitness or nutrition goals to fade because our focus is on living. Creating a preparation plan can be a useful, strategic move on our parts in increasing fitness activities. The purpose of this article was

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    (Healthy People 2020, 2016). The majority of the adults (81.6%) and adolescents (81.8%) do not reach the recommended amount of physical activity, consequently, increases the incidence of obesity in the country (Healthy People 2020, 2016). “Physical fitness constitutes an integrated measure of all the functions and structures involved in the performance of physical activity” (Mayorga-Vega, Bocanegra-Parrilla, Ornelas, & Viciana, 2016, p. 2). In this paper, I will discuss the role of the physical therapist

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    Muscle Strength

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    There are five health related fitness components: body composition, cardiorespiratory endurance, flexibility, muscle strength, and muscle endurance. Consequently, body composition is the amount of muscle, bone, fat, etc. that makes up our bodies. Cardiorespiratory endurance is the body’s ability to continuously provide enough energy to sustain submaximal levels of exercise. Flexibility is the movement available at the joints, usually controlled by the length of one’s muscles. Additionally, muscle

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    2005). Additional studies are needed to determine if the exercise environment, such as a fitness club, had any influence on the adherence of exercise. Previous studies have shown that the environment within a fitness club is motivating for those who are overweight and obese. Assuming this is true, one can speculate that a fitness club would discourage over-eating and a sedentary lifestyle. Healthy Lifestyle “Lifestyle is a term to describe the way individuals, family circles, and societies live

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    Performance and Health-Related Fitness Phenotypes: The 2006-2007 Update, published and updated by Molly S. Bray, James M. Hagberg, Louis Perusse, Tuomo Rankinen, Stephen M. Roth, Bernd Wolfarth, and Claude Bouchard was an update of the human gene map for physical performance and health-related fitness phenotypes that covers the research advances that were reported during the years of 2006 and 2007. The genes and markers with evidence of association or linkage with a performance or a fitness phenotype in sedentary

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    Health Related Exercise Programme The objective of every training lesson is to improve my performance. Each session needs to be well planned to improve my fitness. The sport, which I have decided to improve for health and fitness, is Netball the position that I play is as Goal-defender. Training must include: warm up and warm down, practicing skills and various fitness activities linked to netball. This training is an example of Interval training, as I have to develop

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    system design process, come up with appropriate solutions, and then design a social media fitness platform. This document will give the system developer an insight view in corresponding client’s needs, it contains all the information needed to develop the system. 1.1 Background Gemma Brown and Todd Smith are the founders of the startup company – FitTrakr, both of them have huge passion over fitness. In fact, fitness is becoming an industry which growing fast in the last decade, this is occurring because

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    A personal trainer is a fitness professional involved in exercise prescription and instruction. They motivate clients by setting goals and providing feedback and accountability to clients. Trainers also measure their client's strengths and weaknesses with fitness assessments. These fitness assessments may also be performed before and after an exercise program to measure their client's improvements in physical fitness. They may also educate their clients in many other aspects of wellness besides exercise

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