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HEALTH AND FITNESS Health is a state of being free from any disease, stress, injury, pain, or illness. It’s a combination of fitness and wellness—a truly healthy person not only feels good on the outside but also on the inside. According to the World Health Organization social well-being, and not just the absence of disease or infirmity .” Although physical fitness and good health influence each other, they are not the same. Healthy people could also be physically unfit because of a lack of exercise. Physically fit people are able to perform their everyday tasks with ease. (WHO), “Health is a state of absolute physical, mental, and

MEASURE OF FITNESS The level of physical fitness determines the kind of physical activity a person can perform, including the length of time and the level of intensity of that activity.

There are five overall measures of fitness:

• Cardiorespiratory endurance : the heart’s ability to pump strongly and efficiently, and of muscles to use oxygen more efficiently for longer periods of physical activity. To check your cardiorespiratory endurance, you can do a running test on a treadmill or any other flat surface. • Muscular strength: the ability of muscles to exert force for a brief period. One can increase muscle strength by lifting weights and other such exercises.

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