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Foundations of Fitness

Read the scenario and use it to explore fitness components, hauora and safe goal-setting. Fitness is personal: focus on abilities and healthy habits, not appearance or comparison.

Scenario: preparing for the community fun day

A group is planning a fun day with a short fun run, a team carry challenge and a movement station. They want activities that build different aspects of fitness and support hauora. The worksheet explores several health-related aspects of fitness, including the body's ability to sustain activity, produce force, move through a range of motion, and its proportions of fat, muscle, bone and other tissues. Body composition is not a measure of a person's worth or overall health on its own.

1.During the fun run, Hana keeps moving at a steady pace for several minutes. Which fitness component is most directly challenged?

Flexibility
Cardiovascular endurance
Muscular strength
Body composition

2.At the team carry station, participants lift and carry a safe, manageable load. Which component is most directly used?

Muscular strength
Flexibility
Cardiovascular endurance
Body composition

3.Match each activity or description to the fitness component it most directly relates to. Use each component once.

Steady cycling for 20 minutes
Controlled resistance exercises
A gentle mobility routine
The proportions of fat, muscle, bone and other tissues in the body

Flexibility
Cardiovascular endurance
Muscular strength
Body composition

4.True or false: Te Whare Tapa Whā describes hauora through taha tinana (physical), taha hinengaro (mental and emotional), taha whānau (social) and taha wairua (spiritual) wellbeing.

TrueFalse

5.A weekly walk with whānau could support more than one dimension of hauora. Give one possible benefit for taha tinana and one for taha whānau.

6.Explain why the fun-day planners should include a mix of activities rather than focusing only on strength.

7.One participant wants to improve flexibility. Write one realistic, safe activity they could include in a weekly routine, and explain one way to do it safely.

8.Physical wellbeing is taha .

9.Mental and emotional wellbeing is taha .

10.Social wellbeing is taha .

11.Spiritual wellbeing is taha .

12.A student sets this goal: “I will become fit soon.” Rewrite it as a specific, realistic activity goal for the next week. Include what they will do and how often. The goal may be adapted to ability and circumstances.

13.Explain why body composition should not be used by itself to judge a person's fitness or hauora.