Physical Fitness NCERT Solutions | Physical Education for Grade 9 PDF Download

Answer the following Questions

Q.1. What is meant by physical fitness?

Physical fitness is defined the state of health and being in good health to do or perform work, play sports and daily activities.

Q.2. What are the major components of physical fitness?

Physical fitness can be classified into health related fitness and skill-related fitness.
The health-related components are:
(i) Cardiovascular Fitness,
(ii) Muscular Strength,
(iii) Muscular Endurance,
(iv) Body Composition and
(v) Flexibility.
The skill-Related Fitness Components are:
(i) Agility,
(ii) Balance,
(iii) Neuro Muscular Adaptations and Coordinative abilities,
(iv) Speed,
(v) Strength, and
(vi) Reaction Time.

Q.3. What is the difference between speed and strength?

Speed is the ability to move your body or parts of your body swiftly. Strength is the state or quality or property of being strong.

Q.4. Why well-being cannot be achieved without physical fitness?
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We all know that being active is vital to physical health. It low blood pressure, increase energy levels, helps with relaxation and improves human health in general. Staying active is also very helpful with our mental well being. Even though we know staying active is important but sometimes busy life can hamper on being healthy. There are so many people nowadays are inactive and this could be even more harder with the people with serious mental health problems, which may mean they could have more physical health problems such as diabetes, hypertension or many more.

Q.5. What happens if an individual ignores warming up and cooling down for the workout?
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It can increase the risk of getting injury, pain and fatigue. Aim of warm-up is to prepare the mentally and physical fit student.

Fill in the blanks

(i) Ability to exert maximum force of contraction in minimum possible time..................
(ii) Greatest amount of force a muscle or muscle group can exert in a single effort.......................
(iii) Performance of repeated movements with a sub-maximal force for an extended period of time….........

(i) Ability to exert maximum force of contraction in minimum possible time Muscular Endurance. 
(ii) Greatest amount of force a muscle or muscle group can exert in a single effort Muscular Strength.
(iii) Performance of repeated movements with a sub maximal force for an extended period of time Power.

Tick (✓) mark either Yes or No

(i) Health and physical fitness are synonymous. (Yes/No)
(ii) A physically fit person can carry out physical tasks for longer duration without fatigue. (Yes/No)
(iii) Body composition is a health related physical fitness component. (Yes/No)
(iv) Agility and coordination are skills related to physical fitness components. (Yes/No)
(v) Vertical jump helps to measure flexibility. (Yes/No)

(i) No
(ii) Yes
(iii) Yes
(iv) Yes
(v) No