The Relationship Between Physical Fitness Qualities and Sport-Specific Technical Skills in Female, Team-Based Ball Players: A Systematic Review

Sports Medicine - Open

Table 1 Definitions of physical fitness components [9, 38]

Component	Definition
Agility	The capacity to rapidly move the whole body in different directions with speed and accuracy.^a
Balance	The maintenance of equilibrium while the whole body is moving or stationary.
Body composition	Describes the human body’s relative amount of muscle, fat, bone, and other tissue.^b
Cardiorespiratory fitness	Relates to the ability of the circulatory and respiratory systems of the human body to supply oxygen during large-muscle, dynamic exercise.
Coordination	Relates to the ability to use body parts to accurately and smoothly perform motor tasks.
Flexibility	The available range of motion at a joint.
Muscular endurance	The ability of a muscle or muscle group to remain contracted or to contract repeatedly without fatigue.
Muscular strength	The ability of a muscle to produce force.
Power	The rate one is able to exert maximal force.
Reaction time	The time elapsed between a stimulus and onset of movement to respond to it.
Speed	The ability to perform a skill or movement quickly.^c

^aTests that involved a response to a stimulus [39] or change of direction speed [40] were considered under the global term of ‘agility’
^bAnthropometric measures were included in the ‘body composition’ category [9]
^cTests that measured speed endurance were considered under the global component of ‘speed’