PE and Health 11 (HOPE 1) Quarter 1 (Week 2)

Module

2 Set Fitness Goal

Activity 1. FITNESS QUEST

Direction: Identify what HRF components do the following physical activities in

column A belong to. Then, determine whether they are Cardiovascular Activity,
Flexibility Muscular or Strength Activity and Endurance Activity. Write your
answer on a separate sheet.
A B
1. Jogging
2. Walking
3. Sit-ups
4. Lunges
5. Dynamic Stretching
6. Body-weight Exercises
7. Swimming
8. Yoga
9. Brisk Walking
10. Stretching
11.Squats
12.Planks

Effective training takes time and patience. If one adheres to the proper
principles of training result will definitely be seen. The performance will be improved
and physiological changes will occur as well. A proper program of exercise considers
three principles of training: the principle of overload, the principle of progressive, and
principle of specificity.

Principles of Physical Activity

Overload Principle

This principle pertains to doing “more than normal” for improvement to happen. It
means to boost our fitness, strength, or endurance. Workload is extended accordingly.
Applying these training principles will cause long-term adaptations, enable the body to
figure more efficiently to deal with higher level of performance.

Overloading will be achieved by following the acronym FITT:

Frequency: Increasing the number of times you train per week

Intensity: Increasing the problem of the exercise, for instance, running at 12 km/h
rather than 10 or increasing the load you're squatting with.
Time: Increasing the length of your training time for every session for instance,
cycling for 45 minutes rather than 30.
Type: Increase the intensity of the training. For instance, progress from walking to
running

Principle of Progression

To ensure that the results will still improve over time, the adapted workload
should be continually increased. A gradual and systematic increase within the
workload over a period of time will lead to improvement in fitness without risk of
injury. If overload occurs and increase rapidly, it may lead to injury or muscle
damage. If increased slowly, improvement is unlikely. For instance, the athlete who
exercises vigorously only on weekends violates the principle of progression and may
not see obvious fitness gains.

The Principle of Progression also stresses the requirement for correct rest and
recovery. Continual stress on the body and constant overload will lead to exhaustion
and injury. You ought not to train hard all the time, as you'll risk overtraining and a
decrease in fitness.

Principle of Specificity

We have all heard the phrase, "Practice makes perfect." Well, this is often the
principle of specificity in action. This principle simply states that exercising a specific
piece or component of the body primarily develops that part. The principle of
specificity implies that to become better at a selected exercise or skill, you need to
perform that exercise or skill. For example, a cyclist should be trained in cycling and a
runner should be trained in running. Use the acceptable sort of exercise that directly
improves your target muscles.

Principle of Reversibility

Development of muscles will happen if regular movement and execution are

completed. If activity ceases, it will be reversed. This shows that benefits and changes
achieved from overload will last as long as training is continuous. On the flip side, this
also implies that the detraining effect will be reversed once training is resumed.
Extended rest periods reduce fitness and therefore the physiological effects diminish
over time which throws the body back to its pre-training condition.

Note: The effect of training will be lost if the training is discontinued.

The F.I.T.T Principle of Physical Activity
Understanding the F.I.T.T. principle helps you create a workout plan which will
be beneficial in reaching your fitness goals. F.I.T.T. stands for frequency, intensity,
time, and type of exercise. These are the four elements you would like to believe to
make workouts that suit your goals and fitness level. Learn how the F.I.T.T. principle
works.

Table 1. F.I.T.T Principles

Factor Definition
Frequency Number of meeting in a week
Intensity Effort level of the exercise
Time Period covered in an exercise session
Type Kind of activity

Frequency

The first thing to identify in the workout plan is frequency—how often you
exercise. Your frequency often depends on a spread of things including the sort of
workout you're doing, how hard you're working, your fitness level, and your exercise
goals. Three to five times a week is a safe frequency for each component of health-
related physical fitness.

American College of Sports Medicine sets exercise guidelines to provide a place to start
figuring out how often to work-out:

For cardio: Include your goal, guidelines recommend moderate exercise five or more days
every week or intense cardio three days every week to improve your health. If your goal is
to lose weight, you'll need to work often up to six or more days a week.

For strength training: The suggested frequency is two to three non-consecutive days
a week, it should be one to two days between sessions. If you are doing a split routine,
like upper body at some point and lower body subsequent, your workouts are going to
be more frequent than total body workouts.

Intensity
Intensity refers to how hard you work during the physical activity period.
Intensity is often measured in several ways, counting on the health-related
component. For instance, monitoring pulse rate is a technique to measure intensity
during aerobic endurance activities but gives no indication of intensity during
flexibility activities.
For cardio: For cardio, you will usually monitor intensity by heart rate or pulse rate.
The recommendation for steady-state workouts is at a moderate intensity and for
interval training it should be done at a high intensity for a shorter period of time.
For strength training: Monitoring the intensity of strength training involves a special
set of parameters. The intensity depends on the workload you are doing, the amount
of weight you lift, and the number of repetitions and sets. You can change the
intensity based on your goals. For a beginner use a lighter weight and do fewer sets
with high repetitions (two or three sets of 12 to 20 repetitions). If your goal is to
develop muscle, do a higher number of sets with a moderate amount of repetitions
(four sets of 10 to 12 reps each). If you want to create strength, use heavyweights to
try to do more sets with fewer repetitions for example, five sets of three repetitions
each.

How to get your Target Heart Rate

1. Get the Maximum Heart Rate.
MHR = 220 - ________ (your age) MHR =____________
2. Determine the Heart Rate Reserve.
HRR = MHR – ______________ (Resting Heart Rate) HRR= _____________
1. Take 60% and 80% of the HRR
60% x HRR = _________ b. 80% x HRR = _________

2. Add each HRR to Resting Heart Rate (RHR) to obtain the Target Heart Rate (THR)
range.
60% HRR ___ + ______ = ______ beats per minute (RHR)
80% HRR ___ + ______ = ______ beats per minute (RHR)

Note: Your resting pulse rate is the number of times your heart beats per minute after
you are at rest

Health Trivia

When it comes to resting heart rate, lower is healthier.

It means your heart muscle is in good condition and it does not need to work
strongly to maintain a steady beat. Studies found out that a greater resting pulse
rate is connected with poor physical fitness and high blood pressure and body
weight.

Time

Time is the length of the physical activity. Considering the other aspects of the
F.I.T.T principle, time differs depending on the health-related fitness component
targeted.

For cardio: The suggested cardio exercise is 30 to 60 minutes but the duration of
your workout depends on the type of exercise. For a beginner, you might start with a
workout of 15 to 20 minutes. If you're doing steady-state cardio, like going for a run,
you may exercise for 30 minutes to an hour. If you're doing interval training and
working at a high intensity, your workout should be shorter, around 20 minutes to
half-hour.

For strength training: How long you lift weights depends on the type of workout
you're doing and on your schedule. For total body workout, you may take up to an
hour, but a split routine may take less time because you're working for fewer muscle
groups.

Type

Type refers to the definite physical activity selected to improve a component of

health-related fitness. For example, a person who wants to improve the arm strength
should exercise the triceps and biceps, while an individual who wants to improve
aerobic endurance needs to execute some other aerobically challenging activities such
as jogging, running, swimming.
For Cardio: Cardio is changeable since any activity that makes your heart rate up
counts. Dancing, running, walking, jogging, and cycling are some of the wide variety of
activities you may choose. Having more than one cardio activity helps reduce
boredom.

For strength training: Strength training workouts can also offer a variety of
exercises. It includes any exercise using resistance like dumbbells, barbells,
machines, and many others to work your muscles. You may also use your body as
resistance tool. You may change the type of your strength workout depending on your
goal.

How to Use the F.I.T.T Principle in Your Workout

 The F.I.T.T. principle provide guides on how to control your program and get
favorable results. To avoid boredom, injuries, and weight loss plateaus, this principle will
help you figure out how to alter workout types, time, intensity and activities.

For example, walking three times a week for 30 minutes at a moderate pace
might be a great help for a beginner. Your body adjusts to these workouts and several
things may happen after a few weeks such as:

1. Burn fewer calories

2. Weight loss
3. Boredom sets in

You may also utilize one or more of the F.I.T.T. principles, such as:

1. Changing the frequency by adding day of jogging or walking

2. Changing the intensity by adding some running intervals or walking faster
3. Changing the time spent jogging each workout day
4. Changing the type of workout by dancing, cycling, or running.

Changing one of the elements will create a big difference in the workout plan and
in how your body reacts to exercise. It's significant to alter things up on a regular
basis to keep your body and mind healthy.

Muscle develops once the body is trained to do more than what it used to. The
Principles of Training implies that overloading helps develop targeted muscle areas.
Benefits of this can be achieved through continuous overloading, or else, if stopped, it
will go back to its original form.

FITT principle acknowledges the importance of optimum fitness development. It

stands for Frequency, Intensity, Time and Type. The physical activity program is used
as a guideline for fitness routine to achieve results. Execution of exercise is also
related to its intensity. The more the activity is repeated, the more chances of
developing fitness.

Intensity is defined as how easy or hard the designed task is accomplished or

the magnitude of work done. The body’s response by the number of times the heart
pumps measured in beats per minute determines the intensity. Workable heart rate’s
capacity will help in getting ideal Targeted Heart Rate (THR) range.

Proper choosing of activities helps achieving goals set by specifying the target
muscles to develop. To keep activities exciting and interesting, setting up variations in
exercises or routines may help.

Part of an Exercise Program

An exercise workout has three components: warm-up, exercise load and cool-down. The
exercise load or workout load is the program activity that would stimulate beneficial
adaptation when performed regularly. A warm-up is essential prior to actual workload as
it prepares the body for more strenuous activity. It increases the blood flow to the working
muscles without an abrupt increase in lactic acid accumulation. According to research,
the warmer the body and muscle, the higher the muscular output. A good warm-up also
prepares the heart, muscles, and joints for the next activity by decreasing joint
stiffness and increasing the nerve impulses. Cool-down is essential after a workout as
it permits the pre-exercise heart rate and blood pressure for a gradual recovery.
Cooling down may be most vital for competitive endurance athletes, like marathoners,
because it helps regulate blood flow.

Warm-up - At least 5 to 10 minutes of low to moderate intensity aerobic exercise or

resistance exercise with lighter weights.

Conditioning -15 to 60 minutes of aerobic, resistance, neuromuscular, and/or sport

activities
Cool-down - At least 5 to 10 minutes of low to moderate intensity aerobic exercise or
resistance exercise with lighter weights
Stretching - At least 10 minutes of stretching exercises performed after the warm-up
or cool-down phase

Note: For a beginner at least 15 to 30-minute exercise load

Methods for Assessing Aerobic Intensity

Metabolic equivalents (METs) express aerobic intensity as mL per kg per min of oxygen
being consumed.

1. The energy expenditure while sitting at rest is equal to 1MET. It is taken by

convention to be an oxygen uptake of 3.5 mL per kg of body weight per min.

2. Light-intensity aerobic activity is an activity done at 1.1 to 2.9 METs, moderate-

intensity activity is an activity done at 3 to 5.9 METs while vigorous activity is an
activity done at ≥ 6 METs.

The intensity of aerobic activities is sometimes measured as the speed of the

activity (for example, walking at 5 km/h, jogging at 10 km/h).

Table 2. MET Equivalents of Common Aerobic Activities

Types of Light <3METS Moderate 3 to Vigorous ≥ 6
Activity <6METS METs
Walking Walking slowly • Walking ~5 km/h = • Walking at very
around home, store or 3.3 brisk pace (~7 km/h)
office = 2.0 • Brisk walking at ~6 = 6.3
km/h = 5.0 • Jogging at 8 km/h =
8.0
• Jogging at 10 km/h
= 10.0
• Running at 11
km/h = 11.5
Household • Sitting — using • Cleaning — heavy: Shoveling, digging
Chore and computer work at washing windows or ditches = 8.5
Occupation desk using light hand car = 3.0 • Carrying heavy
tools = 1.5 • Sweeping floors or loads such as bricks =
• Standing performing carpet, vacuuming, 7.5
light work such as mopping = 3.0–3.5
making bed, washing
dishes or preparing
food = 2.0–2.5
Leisure and • Arts & crafts, playing
• Badminton — • Basketball game =
Sports cards = 1.5 recreational = 4.5 8.0
• Playing most musical
• Cycling — on flat: • Cycling — on flat:
instruments = 2.0–2.5
light effort (16–19 moderate effort (20–
km/h) = 6.0 22 mph) = 8.0; fast
• Golf — walking (23–26 mph) = 10
pulling clubs = 4.3 • Football — casual =
• Table tennis = 4.0 7.0; competitive =
• Tennis doubles = 5.0 10.0
• Volleyball — non- • Swimming —
competitive = 3.0–4.0 • moderate/hard = 8–
Swimming leisurely = 11
6.0 • Tennis singles = 8.0
https://www.chp.gov.hk/archive/epp/files/DoctorsHanbook_ch4.pdf

Here are some examples of physical activities and exercises that you may
integrate in your own fitness plan. Remember that the intensity of exercise as well as
the type of activity to be done will vary for each person, as it is based on the fitness
level results during self-testing.

FLEXIBILITY EXERCISES
MUSCULAR STRENGTH and ENDURANCE

Activity 2: LET’S DO THIS

Direction: Perform each activity at a time and fill out the table below with the
required information.

Describe the 5-minute walking 4- minute 3- minute

activity based on around home sweeping floors jumping jacks
the following:
How did you feel?

How was your

breathing?

How much did you

 sweat?

Did you have

difficulty
speaking?

Reflection:

● Which among the three (walking around, sweeping floor, 3-minute jumping jacks) is
considered:
2. Light activity: _________________________________________________________________
Justify your answer: ____________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
3. Moderate activity: _____________________________________________________________
Justify your answer: _____________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________
4. Vigorous Activity: _____________________________________________________________
Justify your answer: _____________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________

Activity 3: MY FITNESS PROGRAM

Directions: Create your own fitness program using the F.I.T.T principle. Ask your
family members to participate in performing the exercise. Before you start, make sure
that your cellular phone is ready to record your video.

FITT Goals Frequency Intensity Type Time

Parts of the (Indicate Light, Kind of exercises, (Total fitness

Fitness Plan days of the Moderate – selected physical plan not less
week) Vigorous activities than 60
minutes)
Warm-up

Workout

1. 1.

2. 2.

3 3.

4 4.

5. 5.

Cool down