The Major Components of Physical Fitness
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It involves a manipulation of muscles through force and repetition. Fewer repetitions with greater force create more strength, while more repetitions create more endurance. Strength training can provide significant health benefits, such as improving the toughness of bones, ligaments, and tendons. Pilates and karate are other examples of strength training.
Strength training is a general term which usually involves either weight training or resistance training. Strength training differs from bodybuilding, weightlifting, and power lifting, which are sports rather than forms of exercise. Strength training is, however, a part of the training for these sports.
Weight training involves using movable objects like free-weights or stationary equipment (normally hydraulic or driven by a pulley system); in weight training both the body and the object move. Isotonic resistance training is moving against a stationary object in which the body moves against the object. Push-ups would be an example of isotonic resistance training. Isometric resistance training involves holding still against an object, this technique is primarily used in physical rehabilitation settings, examples include pressing against a wall or holding a stationary bar to improve muscle tension.