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Page 28 - Physical fitness is one phase of total fitness. It does not include all of the aspects of emotional fitness, mental fitness, or social fitness. In emotional fitness, the feelings are important — love, fear, conflicts, and frustrations. In mental fitness the power of thought is paramount — solving problems, rationalizing, making choices, memorizing, computing, etc. In social fitness adaptability to the group and to particular friends is important — the manners, the morals, etc. Physical fitness...
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Page 66 - Physical training and athletics are of great importance to the welfare of any nation. The War Department places great emphasis on the physical development of officers and soldiers of the Army, and physical training programs have long been established as an important factor in Army training schedules. The athletically trained young men of this country, developed in muscular strength, general health, co-ordination, endurance, and leadership, have acquired the will to win in the face of opposition....
Page 25 - ... levels in some of them. A motor moron is one who learns motor skills with great difficulty and who is definitely retarded in many, far below the average level of performance. His learning "ceiling" is low. Definition of Motor Fitness Motor fitness is a limited phase of motor ability which emphasizes: (1) endurance, (2) power, (3) strength, (4) agility, (5) flexibility, (6) balance. It emphasizes the fundamental or gross big muscle movements that are dominated by muscular energy, kinesthetic sense,...
Page 111 - Physical Fitness in Terms of Physique, Development, and Basal Metabolism.
Page 111 - TUCKER, WB The Varieties of Human Physique. New York: Harper and Bros., 1940.
Page 125 - The Pulse-Ratio Test as a Measure of Athletic Endurance in Sprint Running," Supplement to the Research Quarterly, 6, (October 1935), 50.
Page 26 - ... the efficiency of the levers involved in the act, and the nutritive state of the muscle fibers involved — all to develop coordinated effort against the particular resistance. An important differentiation is that speed and endurance are not primary considerations but only the maximum force capacity is designated as strength. Power emphasizes the capacity to release great explosive force to execute fast or sudden efforts which move the entire body with maximum effort. Physically, power is force...
Page 26 - ... strength. Power emphasizes the capacity to release great explosive force to execute fast or sudden efforts which move the entire body with maximum effort. Physically, power is force x velocity. Both elements of force and speed must be present in high-powered acts.
Page 26 - Strength in its ultimate analysis is a complex human quality involving will power, the number of muscle fibers that can be brought into the act, and the nutritive state of the muscle fibers involved, all developed into coordinated effort against the particular resistance. An important differentiation is that speed and endurance are not primary considerations but only the maximum force capacity is designated as maximum strength.