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For 2 contrasting sports identify and analyse the importance of health related fitness.  

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The Importance of Health Related Fitness Task: For 2 contrasting sports identify and analyse the importance of health related fitness For my assignment I have chosen the sports football and sumo wrestling, firstly because of the type of activity they are; football being predominantly a team game and sumo wrestling being an individual sport. And also I chose these sports because of the huge difference in health related and skill related components required to play them. These sports also require a massive difference in somatotype, as a sumo wrestler would be an endomorph and a footballer would be a mesomorph/ectomorph, as shown below: (http://www.e.kth.se/~e93_bea/sumo-01.jpg) (http://www.rediff.com/sports/football/2002/may/bobby.jpg ) Skilled Related Components (References: http://www.exrx.net/ExInfo/FitnessComponents.html http://www.insitefitness.com.au/lessons/ ) Speed is the maximum rate at which a person is able to move his/her body over a certain distance. It is a production of repeated maximal contractions, usually associated with short distances, i.e. 100m sprint requires very good speed. Reaction time is the...

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