Health & Fitness (Edexcel GCSE Physical Education): Revision Notes

Health & Fitness

🏋🏽 Fitness Definition: The ability to meet the demands of the environment

Explanation: Are you fit enough to do your everyday tasks in your everyday life? e.g. the fitness needed to be a window cleaner to that of an office worker

🩺 Health: A state of complete emotional, physical, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity

Explanation: Not only are you free from disease and infirmity you are also socially active, physically fit and have no emotional problems such as stress

The Relationship Between Health And Fitness:

• Exercise improves fitness, and an increase in fitness will improve performance
• Exercise improves all aspects of health (physical, social, emotional)
• If you are not healthy enough to take part in regular exercise your fitness will deteriorate causing your performance to drop.
• Health benefits will not be gained