Welcome to Fitness Basics

This section is to help you understand the basics of fitness so that you will enjoy your sports participation at a higher level.

Let’s look at the most common fitness goals so you will better understand the many advantages of exercising:

• We’ll identify key programs designed to help you attain your goals.
• We’ll review fitness safety tips before you start or continue an exercise routine.

We’ll also help you understand how to:

• Explain why heart rate is important to know in fitness training
• Determine your heart rate using just your fingers
• Calculate heart rate zones
• Identify heart rate zone ranges and their characteristics
• Explain the purpose of Body Mass Index(BMI) and use the BMI chart