What are the basic elements of healthy physical fitness?

For many people, healthy physical fitness is a very unfamiliar term. In fact, it is easy to understand. It is a comprehensive assessment of a person's physical fitness. In daily life and work, some people easily feel tired. This is the reason why their healthy physical fitness is low. Therefore, through a comprehensive assessment of healthy physical fitness, we can know a person's physical health level. So what elements does this assessment include?

The basic elements of healthy physical fitness:

The basic elements of healthy physical fitness: such as body composition, flexibility, muscle endurance and strength, aerobic fitness, etc., and developing aerobic fitness and improving cardiopulmonary function are the core of promoting health!

1. Body composition:

Refers to the proportion of muscle, fat, bone and other body tissues in the human body. A proper body fat percentage is an important factor in maintaining health.

2. Flexibility:

Refers to the ability of human joints to move to the maximum extent within an appropriate range. Good flexibility and high body coordination can prevent muscle strain and reduce sports injuries during exercise.

3. Muscle endurance and strength:

Endurance refers to the ability of the human body's muscles to sustain continuous contraction movement.

Strength refers to the body's ability to resist external forces or lift heavy objects.

4. Aerobic fitness:

The human body's ability to absorb, transport and utilize oxygen usually refers to cardiopulmonary function.

Developing aerobic fitness and improving cardiopulmonary function are the core of promoting health!

You can go without food for seven or eight days, or without water for one or two days, and you will not die. But try it, you definitely can’t hold your breath for five minutes. Many people can’t even hold their breath for one minute. People need oxygen all the time when they are alive, even in the resting metabolic state when they are sleeping.

Detection Methods

1. Body mass index: (BMI) = weight ÷ height squared. (Weight is in KG, height is in M.)

2. Seated forward bend: Test flexibility, assess the range of motion of joints and the elasticity of tendons and ligaments.

3. One-minute sit-ups with bent knees: assess the strength and endurance of the abdominal muscles.

4. Standing long jump: tests instantaneous force.

5. Three-minute step test (suitable for people over 35 years old, people under 35 years old use 1500 meters running for men and 800 meters running for women): measure cardiopulmonary function or aerobic fitness.