About Fitness
Exercise:
- Activity has health benefits with improvement in function and wellbeing
- Maintaining a healthy lifestyle by incorporating regular exercise improve cardiorespiratory performance with muscular strength and endurance
- Specific exercises cause specific adaptations in the cardiorespiratory and muscular systems
- Assessing fitness and strength adaptation ensures ongoing improvement or deterioration of function levels
- Routine fitness testing is conducted in sports to assess athletic performance progression or deterioration
- A baseline assessment provides a way in which an individual can maintain or improve function