What is everyones opinion on the components of physical fitness?
Personal belief:
Agility
Flexibility
Power (yes i know there are different kinds)
Strength (ditto)
Speed (ditto)
Endurance (aerobic / anaerobic)
Reaction Time
Balance
Posture (debateable, i would take an athlete with excellent posture who is good at his sport, compared to an athlete with horrible posture who is great at his sport.)
any others?
Don’t forget:
Psychological aspect
Coordination/ proprioception
some people will also throw in body type (size and shape)
hmm, well phsycological component would be part of the mental aspect of fitness, which in my opinion is very hard to train, you either have the mind of a champoin or you dont.
i definatly agree with coordination though! thats a good one.
body type and size is to a certain affect untrainable, yes you can get bigger or smaller but your genetics will only let you go so far. once a hard gainer always a hard gainer.
OK. I didn’t realize that you where looking for the aspects that are trainable. I might argue that you can train the mental aspect of fitness through teaching tactics and stragedy, or you can push the pyschological limits through intense training. Cross country runners, marathoners and other such athletes must learn to push on when their body wants to shut down.
Just a thought!
I agree with you there. through training i think that an athlete can gain the ability to push him/herself longer than prior to training.
WOW!!
We finally found something we actually agree on! 
LOL,
Fire, dont worry you post some great stuff. I am just in one of those moods today!!!
What are the different types of power?
Every athlete must learn to push on when their body shuts down, that is the nature of sport, to over come adversity, whether it be internal or external, so in essence just by doing a sport you teach your body to perserver. But, IMO the mentality of an elite athlete is UNTRAINABLE, you can not turn a good or great ahtlete into an olympic one if the mentality is not there to begin with. They might just be lazy and rely on their god given talents, give me a hard worker with a great mentality and attitude over a natural any day.
im not disagreeing…ok well i guess i am in a sense, but only because its too much of a mental quality and not enough of a physical trainable quality.
I think the winning attitude and toughness that it takes to be a champion can be trained, at least a little bit. High school athletics are a great example. For example, there are a lot of football programs that do nothing but lose for years and years, even with good athletes. Someone comes along, either a coach or a group of athletes, and the attitude and work ethic are changed. Success follows. The younger athletes replace the older and can see and learn the traits of a champion, then success continues.
A lot of the time, the success changes with the athletes, but some teams are able to maintain the success year after year because the superior attitudes and work ethics become the norm. Agree?
Peak Power
Mean power
Power at any given instance
Coachf whole heartedly agreed…
now back to the orginal question.
on a side note, i was talking to a pro fighter the other day about his workouts, he told me he was doing power cleans for sets of 8 reps, when i asked why he would do such a ludacrisly high number he told me to build his power endurance…can someone please explain to me where the hell he would get power endurance? that is a double negative in my opinion, strength endurance yes, but not power endurance…anyone have thoughts on this?
If not mental toughness then level headedness / experience or whatever you want to call it, IMO you can fast track experience with proper mental training that can be taught.
Power-endurance would be the ability to produce powerful and explosive actions repeatedly over time while resisting fatigue. However, 8 reps is a “ludacrisly high number.” Power-endurance would be better worked by performing about 3 reps, resting for a small period and then go back for another set. Or, you could throw a set of cleans between each exercise throughout the workout, so that as you fatigue from the workout, you train the body to produce power with good form while resisiting fatigue.
Anyone else have thoughts on this matter?
One could possibly use a tendo unit / stop watch to measure the power endurance. Probably depending on the intensity level (%) as to the sustainability of ‘power.’
I wouldn’t train for “power endurance”, if this quality is necessary for perfromance it would be developed through event specific work. (i.e. speed endurance for sprinters)