Lesson 6.2: Health-Related and Skill-Related Fitness Components

Overview

This lesson focuses on learning about the health- and skill-related fitness components and how they contribute to your overall health and wellness. Understanding how the multiple body systems interact and relate to the health- and skill-related components are also discussed.

Learning Targets

  • LO7: Compare and contrast health-related fitness and skill-related fitness.
  • LO8: Explain each of the five health-related fitness components.
  • LO9: Use the target heart rate calculation to determine your cardiorespiratory endurance intensity.
  • LO10: Summarize the benefits of regular muscular strength and muscular endurance exercise.
  • LO11: Describe the benefits of regular flexibility exercises.
  • LO12: Distinguish how at least four of the six skill-related fitness components can be used in sports and everyday life.

Preparation

For the Warm-Up Activity: Write the Journal Question on the board or identify (and copy as needed) the worksheets you plan to use:

For the Content Focus: Open the Lesson 6.2 PowerPoint slides or make copies of the Lesson 6.2 Note-Taking Guide.

For the Lesson Focus: Copy the Lesson 6.2 Skill-Building Challenge Worksheet: Using I Messages and Active Listening.

Warm-Up Activity

Select a warm-up activity to help get your class focused and on task.

  • Journal Question: This lesson discusses in detail the six skill-related fitness components: speed, balance, coordination, agility, power, and reaction time. List one way you think each skill could be used in a sport and one way it could also be used in everyday life.
    • Option: Write or project the question and have students respond in their journal or on their “bell ringer” sheet as they enter class.
    • Option: Have students discuss the question with a partner or in a small group.
  • Vocabulary Review: Have students work individually, in pairs, or in small groups to complete the Lesson 6.2 Vocabulary Review Worksheet
  • Quiz: Have students complete the Lesson 6.2 Quiz to assess their prior knowledge.
    • Option: Collect the quiz and use it alongside a posttest to demonstrate student learning.
    • Option: Have students share their answers with a partner and then go over the answers together as a class.

Lesson Content

Review the content from the textbook lesson.

Lesson Focus: Using I Messages and Active Listening

  1. Provide each student with one copy of the Lesson 6.2 Skill-Building Challenge Worksheet: Using I Messages and Active Listening.
  2. Ask students to complete questions 1 and 2 on the worksheet by themselves.
  3. Prompt students to use the four parts of the I message and the four parts of active listening listed on the worksheet when writing their responses.
  4. When students are finished answering questions 1 and 2, prompt them to pair up to share their responses with and get feedback from a partner on the benefits Megan stated as well as their proper use of I messages and active listening.

Challenge Activity

Have students needing an additional challenge work on the following Thinking Critically task.

Discuss with a classmate how you know you are at a 4 to 5 level or at a 6 to 7 level when using the RPE scale. How do those two levels feel different to you?

Reflection and Summary

Review the critical content from today’s lesson. Review the learning targets and ask students to answer each question posed.

Can you...

  • Compare and contrast health-related fitness and skill-related fitness?

    Health-related fitness and skill-related fitness are similar as they are both important components of maintaining good health. Health-related fitness and skill-related fitness are different in that health-related fitness refers to engaging in regular physical activity, and skill-related fitness components are often viewed as being specific to a sport skill.

  • Explain each of the five health-related fitness components?

    Cardiorespiratory endurance is the ability to exercise your entire body for an extended period of time. Muscular strength is the amount of force a muscle can produce; muscular endurance is the muscles’ ability to perform continuously without tiring. Flexibility is the ability to use your joints fully through a wide range of motion. Body composition is the ratio of lean (muscle) tissue to fat tissue in your body.

  • Use the target heart rate calculation to determine your cardiorespiratory endurance intensity?

    To determine your moderate-intensity target heart rate zone, subtract your age from 220, your maximum heart rate in beats per minute. Multiply your maximum heart rate by the low percentage (60 percent) and the high percentage (75 percent). The two numbers give your moderate-intensity target heart rate zone.

    To determine your vigorous-intensity heart rate zone, multiply your maximum heart rate by the low percentage (75 percent) and the high percentage (90 percent). The two numbers give your vigorous-intensity heart rate zone.

  • Summarize the benefits of regular muscular strength and muscular endurance exercise?

    Participating in consistent muscular strength and endurance exercises will help maintain correct posture and bone strength, increase energy levels and lean body mass, and reduce the risk of injury.

  • Describe the benefits of regular flexibility exercises?

    Participating in consistent flexibility exercises will enhance your performance, increase physical and mental relaxation, provide greater freedom of movement, improve posture, and reduce injury risks.

  • Distinguish how at least four of the six skill-related fitness components can be used in sports and everyday life.

    The following are skill-related fitness components that relate to sports and everyday life:

    • Balance. A sport skill could be walking on a balance beam, and an everyday life skill could be keeping balance while walking up and down stairs.

    Coordination. A sport skill could be catching a ball, and an everyday life skill could be riding a bike.

    Reaction time. A sport skill could be reacting to a starter’s pistol in a race, and an everyday life skill could be reacting to a person stopping suddenly in front of you while you are driving.

    Agility. A sport skill could be moving quickly to avoid getting tackled in football, and an everyday life skill could be moving quickly to avoid stepping on your dog.

    Speed and power. These skill-related fitness components are primarily used only in sports.

Assessment

Complete one or more of the following assessment tasks for this lesson.

Take It Home

Create either a health- or a skill-related fitness program for a family member or family friend that incorporates as many of the components as possible. Talk to the person so you can pick components they like and can successfully do.