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Fitness
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Subject
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health-and-nutrition
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A blood substance that picks up bad cholesterol - takes it to the liver and helps remove it from the body; often called good cholesterol; can not replenish of with foods - to replenish a good way to replenish
Eating Fewer Tootsie Roll Pops
P
HDL Cholesterol
25%
2. Important for bone information and metabolism
20
Visceral Fat
Manganese
3 ways to use calories
3. Who may need supplements
Recommendations for fat
elderly and pregnant
Warm-up
2 Physiological Components of Health
4. I have been doing 2 sets of 8 reps each with 8-lb. weights - how might I apply the principle of progression
Water Soluble Vitamins
elderly and pregnant
add 2lbs per week
80
5. Limit saturated fat to 7-10% limit cholesterol to 300mg - 200mg if you are at high risk for diabetes - avoid trans fatty acids like - mac n cheese - eat cold water fish twice a week
Healthy weight loss rate
Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness
Right and Left Atrium
Recommendations for fat
6. What are proteins made of
140-159 or 90-99
overload
Amino Acids
Water Soluble Vitamins
7. Kinds of Vegetarians
Triglycerides
Vegans and Lacto-ovo Vegetarians
Relative Strength
Caloric Balance
8. A training technique used to develop explosive power. It consists of isotonic -concentric muscle contractions performed after a prestretch or an eccentric contraction of a muscle; greater stimulus to their muscles and improve their body's ability to
Isometric
Causes of DOMS
Plyometrics
Unsaturated fat
9. Potassium - it is the third most abundant mineral in the body. it is an electrolyte - they help with proper nerve and muscle function - such as beating of the heart. we need about 4700mg per day - good sources include fruits and veggies - especially
lose fat not muscle
3-5 days
140-159 or 90-99
K
10. In context of strength training - what does HIT stand for?
High Intensity Training
80-82 ml/kg
4 Exceptions
Tap Water
11. Occurs 24 hours after exercise
4 seconds
DOMS
Healthy Fat Percentage
Trans fat
12. Where are those minerals stored first.
Polyunsaturated fat
bones
Exercise Balls - BOSU - balance boards.
3 muscle fibers
13. Calories per gram of protein
4
PNF
Atherosclerosis
Z
14. In a single day How many gallons of blood does the heart pump
Making Push-ups Difficult
Brown Fat
tension not pain
4 -000 gal
15. You need it in cell walls - used for digestion - making hormones and part of nerves. Like a waxy substance but not fat but like looks like it - cant be used as an energy source - HDL and LDL high density lip protein total > 200
9
20
3-5 conditions metabolic syndrome
Cholesterol
16. Cant make them in our body - good for our brain - liver and kidney reduce growth sunflower - soy beans - and corn
add 2lbs per week
4 Exceptions
Omega 6
above 150
17. Tends to deteriorate with age - and this is partly due to corresponding declines in muscle strength - range of motion - and a lower ability to coordinate muscle movements.
agonist/ antagonist
Regulatory Nutrients
Functional Balance
Slow twitch I
18. Helps with weight control - helps posture - prevents back pain - can become more limber
SMART goals
Fuel Nutrients
FE
benefits of strength - flexibility
19. If you want to develop or maintain cardiovascular fitness level and are working at a vigorous intensity - how long should you plan to exercise on your work out days
30-90 minutes
40 million
lose fat not muscle
Isotonic Exercise
20. 24 - 48 hours after the exercise.
DOMS Occurs
Fast twitch fibers IIb
Vitamins v. Minerals
muscles and bones
21. Nine basic amino acids that the human body cannot produce and that must be obtained from food sources.
Right and Left Atrium
3 benefits of flexibility
Essential Amino Acids
lose fat not muscle
22. What disease is also known as the silent killer
Water in foods
High blood pressure
PNF
Aging on BMI
23. Will not eat any thing that has to do with animals - they also dont buy leather. need to know food chemistry from incomplete amino acids. Good (in)complete = rice - beans - soy beans - nuts veggies; need to make sure they get enough B12 calcium and V
120/80
remains the same length
Vegan
I
24. What blood pressure brings a diagnosis of high blood pressure or hypertension
140/90
Isometric
Plyometrics
70
25. Muscle fitness (endurance and strength) - cardiovascular - flexibility and body composition
48 hours
4 traditional components of health fitness
4 Exceptions
Gunnar Borg
26. Which is a good use of and necessary thing for strength training
Bottled Water
Complete Proteins
Omega 3
overload
27. Isotonic muscle contractions in which the muscles gets shorter as it contracts - such as when a joint is bent and two body parts move closer together
Concentric Contraction
Metabolic Fitness
Isokinetic
Healthy BMI
28. Some arsenic is found in these - (how big in country - draw backs of drinking bottled water)
Bottled Water
45-60%
Soy
3 benefits of strength
29. Recommended frequency for flexibility exercises - and What is the minimum
2-7 times per week
SMART goals
3-5 conditions metabolic syndrome
140-159 or 90-99
30. The amount of energy expended at rest is referred to 1
304 calories (1 cal/kg/hr X MET)
1 MET
Isokinetic
Diastolic
31. Iodine - it is needed to avoid a thyroid disease called goiter - because that was the leading reason for rejecting recruits during WWI - the government decided to add it to table salt in 1924 - and that has just about eliminated the disease -
Water Soluble Vitamins
3 kinds of muscles
3500
I
32. Calories in a pound
Protein Supplements
Aging on BMI
10-35%
3500
33. PRE strengthens your muscles - and it also strengthens something else. What is that
140/90
muscles and bones
72 beats
13
34. One advantage of ___________ over machines is that they work muscles other than the ones you are targeting in your exercise
Free weights
4
Unsaturated fat
High blood pressure
35. Also known as neutraceuticals - products that contain these medically beneficial compounds - because they are a combination of pharmaceuticals and food.
Z
F
Atherosclerosis
Functional Foods
36. Is considered to be the best indicator of cardiovascular fitness - and aerobic physically activity is the preferred method for achieving it
70
P
Aerobic Capacity
Electrolytes
37. Heredity does not affect your destiny - genetics loads the gun but lifestyle pulls the trigger. so there are things that you inherent but how you ultimately live can affect your look
4 traditional components of health fitness
Brown Fat
Heredity and body composition
Dancers - Rehab
38. Which kind of muscle fibers help you excel at long distance running
DOMS Occurs
Metabolic Fitness
Slow twitch I
above 150
39. Fat - located under the skin. skinfold measures - can be used to estimate body fatness; waist to hip circumference ratio - can be an indicator.
Subcutaneous Fat
Functional Balance
Metabolic Fitness
Fast twitch fibers IIb
40. As a person becomes more aerobically fit - what happens to their heart rate
decreases
lose fat not muscle
20-35%
Antioxidants
41. Individuals who are overweight or obese as children are more likely to be overweight as adults. over fatness in children causes the body to produce more fat cells; Children who are adopted are said to take on the BMI of their birth parents rather tha
Aging on BMI
Good Carbs
72 beats
30-90 minutes
42. For metabolic syndrome - What is considered low for HDL.
Isotonic
Glutes
Less than 40-men - Less than 50-woman
Aging on BMI
43. Calories per gram Carbs
Polyunsaturated fat
lactic acid
304 calories (1 cal/kg/hr X MET)
4
44. Serve a variety of functions within the body. as co-enzymes for metabolism of different nutrients - contribute to the regulatory of energy stores and assist in immune functions. Antioxidants are those who are thought ot inactivate 'activated oxygen m
Dehydration
Vitamins
intermediate twitch fibers
Right and Left Ventricle
45. For men and women is 17-25
Training for 2 components of muscle fitness
Concentric Contraction
High Intensity Training
Healthy BMI
46. How much bottled water is said to come from the same sources as municipal water.
Subcutaneous Fat
25%
What carbs do for us
Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness
47. Blood pressure above 130/85 - a fasting blood sugar level of 100 or higher - blood triglycerides of 150 or above
benefits of strength - flexibility
Regulatory Nutrients
Fit Heart
3-5 conditions metabolic syndrome
48. For the purposes of diagnosing metabolic syndrome - What is considered high blood pressure.
Free weights
above 130/85
Capillaries
Less than 40-men - Less than 50-woman
49. For metabolic syndrome - What is considered high for triglycerides
Leptin
above 150
4
Purpose of Functional Balance
50. Muscles are exercised at levels beyond their normal use.
Causes of DOMS
3-5 days
Making Push-ups Difficult
Isotonic