🏃‍♀️ Part 1: Understanding Fitness

1. What does fitness mean to you? Write your own definition below:

2. Which of the following best describes the four main components of fitness?

Speed, power, agility, balance

Cardiovascular endurance, muscular strength, flexibility, body composition

Running, jumping, lifting, stretching

Mental, physical, social, spiritual

3. Match each fitness component to its correct description by drawing lines:

Cardiovascular endurance

Muscular strength

Flexibility

Body composition

Range of movement around joints

Heart and lungs working efficiently

Ratio of muscle, fat, and bone

Force muscles can produce

4. Which activities help improve cardiovascular endurance? (Select all that apply)

Walking around Hokianga harbour

Swimming at the beach

Stretching before sports

Playing touch rugby

Cycling to school

🌿 Part 2: Hauora and Physical Activity

5. How does physical activity benefit each aspect of hauora? Fill in the table:

Taha tinana (Physical wellbeing): _________________________________

Taha hinengaro (Mental/emotional wellbeing): _______________________

Taha whānau (Social wellbeing): ___________________________________

Taha wairua (Spiritual wellbeing): _________________________________

6. Give three examples of how fitness helps you in daily activities with your whānau or community:

1. ________________________________________________

2. ________________________________________________

3. ________________________________________________

7. Describe one physical activity you could do in the Hokianga environment that would improve your fitness:

🎯 Part 3: Personal Reflection and Goals

8. Which fitness component do you feel is your strongest? Explain why:

9. Which fitness component would you most like to improve over this unit?

Cardiovascular endurance

Muscular strength

Flexibility

Body composition

10. Write one specific fitness goal you want to achieve by the end of this unit. Include how your whānau could support you:

My goal: ___________________________________________

How whānau can help: ________________________________

Foundations of Fitness

Foundations of Fitness

🏃‍♀️ Part 1: Understanding Fitness

🌿 Part 2: Hauora and Physical Activity

🎯 Part 3: Personal Reflection and Goals

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