1. Skill Related Fitness

2. What is skill related fitness?
Your ability to maintain high levels of performance on the playing field
Aka: Performance Fitness
Influenced by heredity and practice
6 components / measures
Agility, balance, coordination, speed, power, and reaction time

3. Skill related fitness Can be improved with practice
Skills that make people good at a particular sport or game
Improvement in one skill does not equal improvement in another skill
One can have a high level of health related fitness and have a low level in skill related components (and vice versa)
Even if a skill level is high, one still needs to practice that skill

4. Agility
The ability to change and control the direction and position of the body while maintaining a constant rapid motion
Sports requiring high levels of agility:
Football, basketball, soccer, baseball, softball

5. Balance
The ability to control or stabilize the body while standing or moving
Sports requiring high levels of balance:
Gymnastics, golf, ice skating

6. Coordination
The ability to use the senses to determine and direct the movement of your limbs and head
Requires using a combination of different muscle groups at once
Sports requiring high levels: gymnastics, cheerleading, juggling, basketball, baseball

7. Speed The ability to move your body, or parts of it, swiftly
Usually measured over short and straight distances
Largely determined by heredity, can be increased though
Sports: boxing, sprinters, basketball

8. Power
The ability to move the body parts swiftly while simultaneously applying the maximum force or your muscles
Function of both speed and muscular strength
Sports: long jump, power lifting, swimming

9. Reaction Time
The ability to react or respond quickly to what you hear, see, or feel
Can be slowed by decreased motivation and increased fatigue
Important to sprinters, swimmers, boxers, goalies, tennis players