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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. Is considered to be the best indicator of cardiovascular fitness - and aerobic physically activity is the preferred method for achieving it
Relative Strength
Aerobic Capacity
48 hours
70
2. When do people with no interventions such as exercise program reach their maximum strength
out
HDL Cholesterol
Dangers Over fat
20 y.o
3. A type of blood fat associated with increased risk for heart disease. are related to heart disease - lose some of their ability to predict heart disease with the presence of other risk factors - so high levels are more difficult to interpret than oth
Triglycerides
4
3 kinds of muscles
3500
4. Isotonic muscle contractions in which the muscle gets longer as it contracts that is - when a weight is gradually lowered and the contracting muscle gets longer as it gives up tension. also called negative exercise.
Atherosclerosis
Eccentric Contraction
Saturated fat
3 ways to use calories
5. Vitamins - minerals and water
Flexibility
Regulatory Nutrients
Essential Amino Acids
Omega 6
6. Hardening of the arteries due to conditions that cause the arterial walls to become thick - hard and nonelastic.
Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness
Brown Fat
Arteriosclerosis
Percentage overweight
7. A dark-colored adipose tissue with many blood vessels - involved in the rapid production of heat in hibernating animals and human babies
Brown Fat
Right and Left Atrium
Polyunsaturated fat
Capillaries
8. 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
Good Carbs
Vitamins
P
Heredity and body composition
9. Which kind of PRE is used when you do lunges with no free weights
F
oxygen to muscles
Isotonic
Concentric Contraction
10. I have been doing 2 sets of 8 reps each with 8-lb. weights - how might I apply the principle of progression
Training for 2 components of muscle fitness
add 2lbs per week
S
overload
11. 10-20% males 17-28% females
Healthy Fat Percentage
Dancers - Rehab
Dangers Over fat
muscles and bones
12. 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
Causes of DOMS
tension not pain
bones
Heredity and body composition
13. Important for bone information and metabolism
Fat Soluble Vitamins
Manganese
10-35%
resting heart rate
14. A hormone that makes you feel full; plays a crucial role in altering appetite and in speeding up or slowing down the metabolism. some people are resistant to this because of genetics
overload principle
Leptin
false maintenance
MG
15. Bring your arms into you closer pinching your sides - bring arms in the shape of a diamond
Lacto-ovo Vegetarians
faster
120/80
Making Push-ups Difficult
16. Which is a good use of and necessary thing for strength training
overload
Manganese
Percentage overweight
Right and Left Atrium
17. Slow twitch (Type I)fast twitch (Type IIb) intermediate Twitch (Type IIa)
NA and CL
intermediate twitch fibers
Viscous
3 muscle fibers
18. Muscle fitness (endurance and strength) - cardiovascular - flexibility and body composition
4 traditional components of health fitness
Z
15-60 sec
Good Carbs
19. What are the lower chambers called
Dehydration
Right and Left Ventricle
3 benefits of flexibility
Vitamins v. Minerals
20. 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
3500
2-3
Isotonic
21. Percentage carbs in diet
Electrolytes
Causes of DOMS
45-60%
Fat
22. Type of muscle contraction in which the muscle remains the same length. Also known as static contraction.
P
Isometric
2 Physiological Components of Health
benefits of strength - flexibility
23. What is it that keeps blood from rushing down to your feet in between heart beats.
muscles to bone
Water Soluble Vitamins
Outcome goals
Valves
24. 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
HDL Cholesterol
Percentage overweight
13
false maintenance
25. What are minerals mostly made from
0-80
Less than 40-men - Less than 50-woman
phosphorous and calcium
15-60 sec
26. Not regulated by FDA (food and drug administration) can make any claims - spend $ - no benefit - may be bad for you.
healthy Blood Lipid Numbers
Aging on BMI
Protein Supplements
Eating Fewer Tootsie Roll Pops
27. A positive state of the physiological systems commonly associated with reduced risk for chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease.
Metabolic Fitness
Fit Heart
4 traditional components of health fitness
Viscous
28. (how and why treated)
3 muscle fibers
15-60 sec
What carbs do for us
Tap Water
29. 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
Plyometrics
S
HDL Cholesterol
agonist/ antagonist
30. Give us energy - every grain of carb gives us 4 calories 9 fat calories - broken down into sugars - then enters the blood stream - stored in liver or muscles or is used up.
Isokinetic
What carbs do for us
4 seconds
false maintenance
31. Meaning you have a good heart and are not at risk for getting heart disease or diabetes
Exercise Balls - BOSU - balance boards.
Slow twitch I
Metabolic fitness
Vitamins v. Minerals
32. The oxygen-carrying protein (molecule) of red blood cells
Hyponatremia
4 ways measure aerobic exercise
Water per day
Hemoglobin
33. increase heart rate - increase breathing rate - redistribution of blood skeletal muscles - improved oxygen uptake
Bad Carbs
4
Glutes
oxygen to muscles
34. Sodium and chlorine. tied for 5th abundant. both are electrolytes and postassium - most people get plenty of sodium - and many get too much. the upper level is 2300 mg a day which is about 1 teaspoon. Chloride helps us digest food and need about the
NA and CL
behavioral and outcome goals
muscles to bone
agonist/ antagonist
35. Hormone that makes you feel hungry
Isotonic
Grehlin
120/80
Lacto-ovo Vegetarians
36. Which kind of goal is more sensible (SMART) when one is beginning to make a change in lifestyle
Causes of DOMS
Outcome goals
80
Cholesterol
37. As a person becomes more aerobically fit - what happens to their heart rate
Healthy weight loss rate
I
304 calories (1 cal/kg/hr X MET)
decreases
38. Before you do serious resistance or cardio exercises what should you be SURE to do?
Vitamins
Warm-up
80
20-35%
39. How much bottled water is said to come from the same sources as municipal water.
25%
Right and Left Atrium
Bad Carbs
Gunnar Borg
40. If you are using the HIT method of training you would normally do How many sets
1
benefits of strength - flexibility
lose fat not muscle
decreases
41. Help prevent cancer by absorbing free particals.
above 130/85
overload principle
10-35%
Antioxidants
42. Smooth - cardiac and skeletal
Phytochemicals
5 Dimensions of Wellness
Right and Left Atrium
3 kinds of muscles
43. If you are using the HIT method of training you would normally do How many repetitions per set
Dangers Under fat
Endurance and Strength
5.3 quarts
8-12 reps
44. Body fat that is located in the core of the body - also known as central fat. located in the abdominal cavity as opposed to subcutaneous dangers are heart disease - stroke - breast cancer - type 2 diabetes.
Essential Fat
130/85
Visceral Fat
Percentage overweight
45. Which muscle fibers can help you excel at jumping for rebounds in basketball
NA and CL
Electrolytes
Water in foods
Fast twitch fibers IIb
46. Both: are chemicals the body need to function; Minerals are needed in larger quantities (pounds - versus ounces of vitamins) - minerals are not destroyed - broken down or transformed in the body; minerals cannot be made by the body - have to get from
Free weights
120/80
9
Vitamins v. Minerals
47. Come from plants; a plant derived chemical that is not considered an essential nutrient in the human diet but is believed to have beneficial health effects
Phytochemicals
Electrolytes
Essential Amino Acids
30-90 minutes
48. They are highly adaptable and have biochemical and physiological properties of fast and slow twitch fibers
Fuel Nutrients
add 2lbs per week
intermediate twitch fibers
Relative Strength
49. Precontemplation - not thinking about stopping Contemplation - considering stopping eating themPreparation - looking for healthier snacks Action - starts to eat fewer tootsie pops Maintenance - only eating four tootsie pops every month
phosphorous and calcium
Eccentric Contraction
Valves
Eating Fewer Tootsie Roll Pops
50. 2 knids of people that need to do PNF stretches
How RPE is Used
Diastolic
Dancers - Rehab
Dangers Over fat