The Body in Motion: Physical Fitness

This website includes: power, speed, agility, coordination, balance and reaction time - with examples of activities that use these fitness components of fitness.

This website by Workout Australia outlines the FITT principle of training to both Cardiorespiratory training and Resistance training.

Fitness components in sport, examples include athletics, swimming and rugby.

Includes: Activity patterns of Australians, Physical activity and organised sports, Popular sports and activities for adults,
Popular sports and activities for children,
Physical inactivity,
The benefits of regular physical activity.
Before starting a new exercise program.

This website includes: cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular strength, muscular endurance, flexibility and body composition - with examples of activities that use these fitness components of fitness.

To compare health and skill related physical fitness profiles between healthy, male, basketball and football players of Sri Lankan national teams.

...Physical fitness is a set of attributes that are either health- or skill-related. The degree to which people have these attributes can be measured with specific tests. These definitions are offered as an interpretational framework for comparing studies that relate physical activity, exercise, and physical fitness to health.

Recommendations for using and implementing fitness tests have been extensively researched and teachers' attitudes toward fitness tests are beginning to be studied. Less understood is how high school teachers use fitness tests and the role their attitudes toward fitness tests affect students' attitudes toward physical activity. The purpose of this study was to understand how fitness tests are used in secondary physical education classes and how the attitudes of physical education teachers toward fitness testing relate to their use of fitness tests. High school physical education teachers (N = 149) from 47 school districts completed the Physical Education Teacher Attitudes toward Fitness Tests Scale (PETAFTS), a 16-item survey on their attitudes toward fitness tests, with additional items on how they used fitness tests. Results indicated that teachers often do not implement fitness tests as recommended. Findings suggest that teachers with positive and negative attitudes toward fitness testing vary in their implementation and use of fitness tests. Teachers with more positive attitudes reported more frequently using fitness concepts, and teachers who thought fitness testing was important indicated they were more likely to send fitness test results home.