NCERT solutions for Health and Physical Education [English] Class 11 chapter 8 - Health Related Physical Fitness [Latest edition]

Compare the strength of your classmates with an Arm Wrestling competitor.

Perform push-ups, pull-ups, situps along with your classmates and find who scores highest in these activities.

• Perform shoulder press, bench press and squats and find out who scores highest in these activities.
• Compare the body weight of a long distance runner and a sprinter in your school and see the difference.

Try to stretch your muscles with and without help and see the difference.

What do you understand by health?

List and explain the components of health related fitness.

Explain muscular strength.

Explain the benefits of endurance training.

Explain flexibility.

Explain the types of flexibility.

Explain the various factors affecting flexibility.

Define endurance.

What is physical fitness?

What is interval method?

What is Post-Isometric Stretch?

List down the four motion factors responsible for range of motion.

What is the full form of PNF?

Force is produced ______.

______ component helps in improving the number and size of mitochondria.

______ is a swedish method to develop the endurance.

______ method has incomplete recovery in endurance.

Body weight ______ with endurance traning.

______ is responsible for great range of motion.

Flexibility movements done with rhythmic movements are called as ______.

Universally practised stretching method is ______.

State whether true or false:

Passive flexibility training is done with internal help.

State whether true or false:

The bones are attached to each other by ligaments.

State whether true or false:

Muscles are made up of two types of fibres namely, fast twitch and slow twitch fibre.

State whether true or false:

Physical fitness indirectly influences the health of an individual.

State whether true or false:

The ability of muscles to consume oxygen while working is known as aerobic capacity.