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1. Name three primary options available for the endurance
component of an aquatic workout. - ANS ✅1. Cardiorespiratory
Endurance Training
2. Muscular Fitness Training
3. Muscular Flexibility and ROM Training
2. Muscular strength - ANS ✅is defined as the maximum force that
can be exerted by a muscle or muscle group against a resistance.
3. Golgi tendon organ - ANS ✅This proprietorial is found in the
tendons of your muscle and measure muscle tension.
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4. 6 components to fitness skills - ANS ✅balance, coordination,
speed, power, agility, reaction time
5. What is the difference between maximal heart rate and heart
rate reserve? - ANS ✅Max HR-the highest HR a person can achieve
and is measured with a max HR test or estimated with 220 minus
your age.
HR Reserve-your minimal HR minus your resting HR
6. How does compression lower your Heart Rate in the water? -
ANS ✅The water compresses all body systems, including the
vascular system, causing a smaller venous load to the heart, reducing
HR.
7. What is acsms recommendation for frequency for resistance
training? - ANS ✅2-3 days per week for each major muscle group
8. Define body composition - ANS ✅The body relative percentage of
fat as compared to lean tissue (bones, muscles, and organs)
9. List 5 benefits of regular exercise - ANS ✅physical appearance,
increase in functional capacity, heart and bone strength, strengthen
walls of vessels, improve strength & endurance, improve efficiency of
nerves, improves psychological function
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10. Calculating exercise intensity using the Karvonen Formula
is known as - ANS ✅HR reserve method
11. The skeletal system provides our bodies with support,
protection and - ANS ✅shape
12. The humerus is classified as what type of bone? - ANS
✅Long
13. Which characteristic of muscle allows it to shorten and
thicken? - ANS ✅contractibility
14. Which muscle flexes the leg at the knee. - ANS ✅hamstrings
15. What is the motor neuron? - ANS ✅nerve cell that innervates
muscle fibbers to move
16. Name the 11 systems of the body - ANS ✅integumentary,
skeletal, muscular, nervous, endocrine, cardiovascular, lymphatic,
respiratory, digestive, urinary, reproductive
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17. 6 anatomical reference terms relating to exercise - ANS
✅superior/inferior
Anterior/posterior
Lateral/medial
18. 3 types of muscle tissues in the body - ANS ✅visceral /
cardiac / skeletal
19. The process by which bones grow in the body is called -
ANS ✅ossification
20. _______________ is moving away from the mid-line of the body -
ANS ✅Abduction
21. Flexion and extension are performed primarily in the
_________________ plane. - ANS ✅Sagittal
22. In a third class lever, the _____is between the ____ and _____ -
ANS ✅effort/fulcrum/resistance
23. What type of joint is the elbow - ANS ✅hinge
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