Fitness and health can be hard to define. However, there are 10 fitness components recognised as being important for sport: (1) agility, (2) coordination, (3) balance, (4) power, (5) reaction time, and (6) speed (american college of sports medicine, 2013).
Achieving optimal physical fitness requires a balanced approach that incorporates all five components of physical fitness: An individual’s physical fitness may be assessed by. The ten components of physical fitness include muscular strength, muscular endurance, cardiovascular endurance, body fat composition, balance and coordination, speed or quickness, flexibility, agility, power, and reaction time.
Body composition can be expressed as the relative percentage of body mass that is fat and fat. Endurance, speed, strength, flexibility and coordination. This document defines and provides examples of the 12 components of fitness: Body composition, muscular endurance, muscular strength, cardiovascular endurance and flexibility.
From a sports perspective there are 5 basic components of fitness: Cardiovascular endurance, muscular strength, muscular endurance, flexibility, and body composition.