___________ is defined as the maximum force that can be exerted by a muscle or a muscle group against a resistance - Answer- Musclar Strength
What type
... [Show More] of stretching activates the muscle spindles, specialized receptors in the muscle that monitor muscle length change and the speed of muscle length change? - Answer- Ballistic Stretching
Name the six skill-related components of fitness - Answer- Balance, coordination speed, power, agility, and reaction time
What is the difference between maximal heart rate and heart rate reserve - Answer- Maximal HR is the highest HR a person can achieve. It is measured with a max HR test or estimated with 220 minus your age. Heart rate reserve is your miximal HR minus (-) your resting HR
How does compression lower your heart rate in the water? - Answer- The water compresses all body systems, included the vascular system, causing a smaller venous load on the heart, reducing heart rate
What is the ACSM's (2018) recommended frequency for resistance training? - Answer- two to three days per week for each major muscle group
Define body composition - Answer- The body's relative pertentage of fat as compared to lean tissue (bone, muscles, and organs).
List five benefits of regular exercise - Answer- - Improves physical appearance
- Increases functional capactiy
-Heart beccomes stronger
- Strengthens the walls of the blood vessels
-Improves strength and endurance
-Improves the efficiency of the nervous, lymph, and endocrine system
- Improves psychological function
When calculating exercise intensity, a popular method is the Karvonen Formula, which is known as the _____________ - Answer- Heart Rate Reserve Method
_________ is a subjective method of assessing effort, strain, discomfort, and fatigue experienced during exercise - Answer- Rating of Preceirved Exertion
The skeletal system provides our bodies with support, protection, and ____________ - Answer- Structure
during the cardiac cycle, ____________ is the active contraction of the heart muscle and __________ is the relaxation of the heart muscle. - Answer- -Systole
-Diastole
Which characteristic of muscle allows it to shorten and thicken? - Answer- Contractibility
The ___________ muscle group flexes the leg at the knee - Answer- Hamstring
What is a motor neuron? - Answer- Efferent neurons (nerve cells) that relay outgoing information from the central nervous system to the muscle cells
Describe the Valsalva maneuver - Answer- Holding one's breath while exerting, such as during exercise, creates unequal pressure in the chest, causing blood pressure to drop and decreasing blodo flow to the heart. Resuming normal breathign creates a surge in blood to the heart, causing a sharp increase in blood pressure
Name the five systems of the body most actively involved in movement and exercise - Answer- Skeletal, muscular, nervous, respiratory, and cardiovascular systems
In a muscle pair, the muscle that is actively contracting is referred to as the ____________, or prime mover - Answer- Agonist
List the three type of muscle tissues in the human body - Answer- Visceral, Cardiac, and Skeletal
The process by which bones grow in the body is called ______________ - Answer- Ossification
__________ states that you train only that part of the system or body that is overwhelmed - Answer- Specificity
Muscle balance should be considered for the front and back, left and right sides, and __________ parts of the body - Answer- Upper and Lower
Which metabolic system yields the highest amount of ATP for the working muscle? - Answer- Oxidative system
Recovery pertains to two segments of training: recovery __________ exercise and recovery __________ an exercise session. - Answer- -During
-After
List five physical and psychological symptoms that commonly accompany overtraining? - Answer- Reduction in preformance and coordination, elevated resting HR and BP, loss of appetitie, soreness, increased illness or infection, as well as issues with sleep, depression, and a reduced self-esteem
which type of muscle tissue is best suited for endurance activities? - Answer- Slow twitch
Concentric and eccentric muscle actions are part of a(n) _________ muscle contraction - Answer- Isotonic
When initiating exercise, the time of inadequate oxygen supply is called __________ - Answer- Oxygen Deficit
A given overload must be exceeded in order to see improvements in fitness. This is referred to as __________ - Answer- Threshold of training
Name three types of muscle actions that skeletal muscle can generate - Answer- Isotonic, isometric, and isokinetic
________ is moving away from the midline of the body - Answer- Abduction
Flexion and extension are preformed primarily in the __________ - Answer- Sagittal
In a third-class lever, the ____________ is between the ___________ and __________ - Answer- - Effort
- Fulcrum
- Resistance
What type of joint is the elbow? - Answer- hinge [Show Less]