SEPTEMBER
UNIT 1.1.3 Health, Exercise, Fitness and Performance
 Define Health, Exercise, Fitness and Performance
 Know the relationship between them all
 5 Health Related Fitness Components – CMMFB
 Definitions, examples from sports
 6 Skill related fitness components – RSPCA, B
 Definitions and examples from sports
UNIT 1.1.5 – Exercise, work and Diet
 Components of a balanced diet - Macro nutrient, Carbs, Fats, Protein Water,
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Micro Nutrient - Vitamins, Minerals Fibre
Diet and Performance – Carbo loading
UNIT 1.1.1 Benefits of Healthy Lifestyles
 Benefits of a healthy lifestyle – Physical, Mental and Social
 Benefits of Taking part in Physical activity – inc fitness, feel goo, relive
stress, inc self confidence, improve health, enjoyment, mental challenge
 Reasons for taking part in Physical Activity – Cooperation, Competition,
Physical Challenge, Aesthetic Appreciation, Social Mixing
UNIT 1.1.2 Influences on your healthy lifestyle
 Who influences you to take part in physical activity – Family, Peers, Role
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Models, Fashion, Media coverage, Age, Disability, Race, Availability, Location, Access,
Time, Health, cost, status.
Opportunities for getting involved – Government initiatives (2 hours sport,
PESCCL/PESSY, Sport England, Youth sport Trust, Sainsbury’s vouchers
Sports Participation Pyramid – Foundation, Participation, Performance, Elite
UNIT 1.2.1
 Performance Enhancing Drugs – anabolic steroids, beta blockers, diuretics,
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narcotic analgesics, stimulants, epo and peptide hormones – what they each improve,
which sports people would take them, the positive and negative effects.
Injuries and the skeletal system – types of fracture, tennis and golfers elbow,
dislocations, sprains
Injuries and treatment – Tears, pulls, strains, RICE (FROM UNIT 1.2.4)
Risk assessment – warming up, checking equipment and facilities, protective
equipment and clothing, balanced competition, rules
SOMATOTYPES – Body types – Endo, Ecto and Meso, how each of these can
be measured and what sports need what body types.
Optimum Weight – factors affecting weight including height gender, muscle and
bone structure
Weight related conditions – anorexia, obese, overfat, overweight, underweight
UNIT 1.2.2 The Cardiovascular system
 What is the CV system made of?
 Define Heart rate, Stroke Volume, Cardiac Output and Blood Pressure
 The immediate effect of exercise on the above
 The immediate effects of exercise on the body
 Lactic acid in the blood
 Regular exercise and the CV System – Dec in RHR, recover rate improves, Inc
SV, Red in blood pressure, dec in CHD
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The effect of diet, drugs and rest on the cv system – high cholesterol,
smoking sedentary lifestyle and stress negatively effect the cv system
UNIT 1.2.3 The Respiratory system
 How the respiratory system works – the structures of the resp system, alveoli
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and gaseous exchange, Inspiration and expiration, the passage of air into the lungs
percentage of gases in the air, Tidal Volume and Vital Capacity.
Immediate effects of exercise on the resp system – breathing rate inc,
depth of breathing inc, oxygen debt occurs
Effects of reg exercise on the respiratory system – Lung capacity inc, vital
capacity inc, number of alveoli increases, gaseous exchange improves
 The effects of smoking on the lungs