PE Key words

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Aerobic
'With oxygen' if exercise is not too fast and steady, the heart can supply all the oxygen muscles need.
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Agility
The ability to change the position of the body quickly and to contol the movement of the whole body
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Anabolic Steroids
Drugs that mimic testerone promoting bone and muscle strength
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Anaerobic
'Without Oxygen'. If exercise is done in short, fast bursts, the heart cannot supply blood and oxygen to muscles as fast as the cells use them
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Anorexia
A prolonged eating disorder due to loss of appetite
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Balance
The ability to retain the body's centre of mass about the bass of support with reference to static or dynamic, conditions of movement, shape and orientation
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Balanced Diet
A diet which contains an optimal ratio of nutrients
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Beta Blockers
Drugs that are used to control heart rate and that have a calming and relaxing effect
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Blood Pressure
Is the force exerted by the heart as it pumps bloods out of the heart and into the arteries (systolic) and it is low when it is low when it releases between beats (diastolic)
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Body Composition
The Percentage of ejected body weight which is fat muscle and bone
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Cardic Output
The amount of blood ejected from the heart in 1 minute
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Cardiovascular Fitness
The ability to exercise the entire body for long periods of time
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Competence
Relationship between skills, tactics and strategies to mke an effective performance
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Co-ordination
The ability to use two or more body parts together
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Diuretics
Drugs that elevate the rate of bodily urine excretion
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Ectomorph
A somatotype, individuals with narrow shoulders and narrow hips, characterised by thinness
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Endomorph
A somatotype, individuals with wide hips and narrow shoulders, characterised by fatness
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Erythroprotein
A type of peptide hormone that increase red blood cells
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Exercise
A form of physical activity done to maintain or improve health and fitness. Not competitive
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Fitness
The ability to meet the demands of the environment
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FITT
Frequency, Intensity, Type,Time, used to increase the amount of work the body does in order to achieve overload
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Flexibility
The range of movement at a joint
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Health
A state of complete mental, physical, social welbeing, and merely the absence of disease and infirmity
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Healthy Active Lifestyle
A lifestyle that contibutes postivitely to physical, mental, social welbeing, and which includes regular exercise and physical activity
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Heart Rate
The speed at which the heart beats
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Individual Needs
Matching your sporting targets to an individual person
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Isometric Contraction
Are a type of strength training in which the joint angle and muscle length do not change during contraction
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Joint
The area where two bones are attached for the purpose of permitting body parts to move
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Mesomorph
A person whose build is compact and muscular. Based on muscles
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Methods of training
Fartlek, Interval, Cross, Continous, Circuit
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Muscular Endurance
The ability to use voluntary muscles many times with getting tired
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Muscular Strength
The amount of force a muscle can exert against a resistance
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Narcotic Analgesics
effective for the relief of severe pain
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Obese
Grossly fat BMI between 30 & 39.9
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Overfat
A condition of having more than a healthy amount of body fat.
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Overload
In order to improve, continually working harder.
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Overweight
Eating too much without doing exercise
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Oxygen Debt
A temporary oxygen shotage in the body tissues arising from exercise
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PAR-Q
Physical activity readiness questionnaire
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PEP
Personal Exercise Programme
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Peptide Hormones
Produce more red blood cells meaning more energy
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Performance
How well a task is completed
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PESSCL
PE and School Sport Club Links
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Physical Activity
Any form of exercise or movement; physical activity may be planned and structured or unplanned and unstructured - PE = planned and structured
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Power
The ability to do strength performances quickly (power = strength x speed)
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Progressive Overload
Requires a gradual increase in FITT in order to achieve the targeted goal.
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Reaction Time
The time between the performances of a stimulus and the onset of a movement
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Reversibility
Detraining effects can be reversed when athletes resume training
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Recovery
Adequate time to recuperate from training and competition
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Rest
To repair muscles
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RICE
Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevate. When you are injuried during sport
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Self - Esteem
Mental benefit to increase a sense of welbeing
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SMART
Specific, Measureable, Achieveable, Realistic, Time bound. When setting targets
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Somatotypes
Ectomorph, Endomorph and Mesomorph
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Specificity
To become better at a particular game or sport you must have to practise a specific skill to improve
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Speed
The differential rate at which an individual is able to perform a movement or cover a distance in a period of time
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Stimulants
Reduce fatigue, supress appetite and increase aggressiveness
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Stroke Volume
The amount of blood pumoed by the left ventricle of the heart in one contraction
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Target Zone
Target zone of your pulse rate after exercise. 220- age = MHR
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Training
designed to improve your fitness and level of purpose of improing your ability to perform a given sport
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Training Thresholds
A safe yet effective level that an individual should train at
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Underweight
body weight is considered too low to be healthy
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