Standard Grade PE RevisionStandard Grade PE Revision

Skill Related FitnessSkill Related Fitness

Mental FitnessMental Fitness

Brannock High SchoolBrannock High School

There are six types of skill related fitness:

• AGILITY

• REACTION TIME

• BALANCE

• TIMING

• CO-ORDINATION

• MOVEMENT ANTICIPATION

These aspects of skill related fitness have an important part to play in the preparation of the body for any activity. They enable skills to be performed successfully.

Agility

Agility is the ability to move the body quickly and precisely.

When dribbling in hockey, you need to be able to run fast and adjust your body shape to maintain control of the stick and ball. In hockey, agility requires both flexibility and speed.

Reaction Time

Reaction Time is the time taken between the recognition of a signal and the start of

the movement.

In 100m sprint, the athletes must have good reaction time to react to the starter’s gun and start the sprint.

Balance is the ability to retain the centre of gravity over your base of support.

Balance

Static Balances require you to hold a balance in stillness.

E.g. Headstand

Dynamic Balances require you to maintain balance under constantly changing conditions e.g. Skiing

Timing is the ability to perform skills at exactly the right time and with the right

degree of emphasis

Timing

In Volleyball, the players who are blocking must time their jump correctly so that they can block the opposing team’s attack.

Co-ordination is the ability to control movements smoothly and fluently.

In Javelin, the athlete needs strong arm, back, shoulder and abdominal muscles to throw the javelin. However, in addition to this explosive strength, she must have co-ordination, so that the strength is used at the right stage of the throw.

Co-ordination

Movement anticipation is the ability to predict accurately the next set of

movements that you need to make.

Movement Anticipation

In Badminton, you require movement anticipation to respond and move quickly to where your next shot is going to be played. To do this you need to watch your opponent carefully and anticipate early where they will play the shot.

Choose an activity. Explain two aspects of Skill Related Fitness that are required for this activity…….

There are three types of mental fitness:

• LEVEL OF AROUSAL

• REHEARSAL

• MANAGING YOUR EMOTIONS

Your level of arousal affects how well you perform. Your level of arousal needs to be

just right to perform well

Level of Arousal

Performance Level

Arousal Level of Performer

High

Mod

Low

Low Mod High

On occasions you might be tired or have other things on your mind so your level of arousal will be low. Therefore your performance level will be low. Sometimes the more anxious you are, the higher your level of arousal, the poorer your performance.

Rehearsal is the running through in your mind what you need to do to perform well,

prior to the actual performance.

Rehearsal

A Gymnast may run through her routine on the beam, in her head, prior to performing her sequence.

Managing your emotions is being able to control your emotions in a demanding

situations

Managing Emotions

In Football, when taking a penalty, there are a lot of pressures on you. You need to focus on what you are going to do, be positive and not become distracted

Choose an activity. Explain two aspects of Mental Fitness that are required for this activity…….

Section 8 – Skill Related/Mental FitnessSection 8 – Skill Related/Mental Fitness

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