Subjective Information
Information that is gathered from a prospective client to give the health and fitness professional feedback regarding personal
... [Show More] history such as occupation, lifestyle and medical background.
Program Design
A purposeful system or plan put together to help an individual achieve a specific goal.
Biomechanics
A study that uses principals of physics to quantitatively study how forces interact within a living body.
Dietary Supplement
A substance that completes or makes an addition to daily dietary intake.
Proprioceptively enriched environment
An unstable (but controlled) environment where exercises are performed that causes the body to use its internal balance and stabilization mechanisms
Reactive Training
Exercises that use quick, powerful movements involving an eccentric contraction immediately followed by an explosive concentric contraction.
Obesity
Fastest growing health problem in the US
The Nervous System
It is a conglomeration of billions of cells forming nerves that are specifically designed to provide a communication network within the human body
nervous system, skeletal system and muscular system
kinetic chain
Heart
Muscular pump that rhythmically contracts to push blood throughout the body
Dynamic Joint Stabilization
The ability of the kinetic chain to stabilize a joint during movement.
Speed
The ability to move the body in one intended direction as fast as possible.
The Core
The lumbo-pelvic -hip complex and the thoracic and cervical spine, where the body's center of gravity is located
Flexibility
The normal extensibility of all soft tissues that allow the full range of motion of a joint.
Nutrition
The sum of the processes by which an animal or plant takes in and uses food substances.
Blood
Acts as a medium to deliver and collect essential products to and from the tissues of the body.
Protein
Amino acids linked by peptide bonds.
Diabetes
Chronic metabolic disorder, in which the body's ability to produce insulin or to utilize glucose is altered
Rate of force production
How quickly a muscle can generate force
Superior
Positioned above a point of reference.
Dynamic Range of Motion
The combination of flexibility and the nervous system's ability to control this range efficiently.
General Adaptation Syndrome
The kinetic chain's ability to adapt to stresses placed on it.
Multisensory Condition
Training environment that provides heightened stimulation to proprioceptors and mechanoreceptors.
Cardiorespiratory system
A system comprised of the cardiovascular and respiratory systems
Rate of Force Production
Ability of muscles to exert maximal force output in a minimal amount of time.
Acute Variables
Important components that specify how each exercise is to be performed.
Inferior
Positioned below a point of reference.
sensory function
The ability to sense changes in either external or internal environments
Neromuscular efficiency
The ability of the neuromuscular system to allow agonists, antagonists, and stabilizers to work synergistically and control the entire kinetic chain in all three planes of motion
Estimated Average Requirement (EAR)
The average daily nutrient intake level that is estimated to meet the requirement of half the healthy individuals who are in a particular life stage and gender group.
Controlled Instability
Training environment that is unstable as can safely be controlled by an individual.
Blood Vessel
A hollow tube that allows blood to be transported to and from the heart
General Warm-Up
A low intensity exercise consisting of movements that do not necessarily relate to the more intense exercise that is to follow.
Hypertension
blood pressure of 140/90 or higher
integrative function
The ability to analyze and interpret sensory information to allow for proper decision making, which produces appropriate response
Repetition (Rep)
One complete movement of a single exercise.
Distal
Positioned farthest from the center of the body.
Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA)
The average daily nutrient intake level that is sufficient to meet the nutrient requirement of nearly all healthy individuals who are in a particular life stage and gender group.
Extensibility
The capability to be elongated or stretched.
Adequate Intake (AI)
A recommended average daily nutrient intake level, based on observed approximations or estimates of nutrient intake that are assumed to be adequate for a group of healthy people. This measure is used when an RDA cannot be determined.
Deconditioned
A state of lost physical fitness, which may include muscle imbalances, decreased flexibility, and/or a lack of core and joint stability
Specific Warm-Up
Low intensity exercise consisting of movements that mimic those that will be included in the more intense exercise that is to follow
Mediastinum
The space in the chest between the lungs that contains all the internal organs of the chest, except the lungs.
Motor function
Neuromuscular response to sensory information
Dynamic Functional Flexibility
Multiplanar soft tissue extensibility with optimal neuromuscular efficiency throughout the full range of motion.
Anterior (or Ventral)
On the front of the body.
Alarm Reaction
The initial reaction to a stressor.
Osteopenia
The precursor to osteoporosis. indicated by reduced bone mass.
Capillaries
The smallest blood vessel that is the location where substances such as oxygen, nutrients, hormones, and waste products are exchanged between tissues
Set
A group of consecutive repetitions.
Muscle Imbalance
Alteration of muscle length surrounding a joint
Osteoporosis
Condition in which there is a decrease in bone mass and density as well as an increase in the space between bones, resulting in porosity and fragility.
Posterior (or dorsal)
On the back of the body.
Postural distortion patterns
Predictable pattern of muscle imbalances
The Central Nervous System
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