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1. Ligament - ANS ✓Strong fibrous connective tissue that attaches one
bone to another.
2. Maximum Oxygen Uptake (VO2max) - ANS ✓Maximum amount of
oxygen that can be taken in, absorbed and used by the muscles per
minute.
3. Components of Fitness - ANS ✓Aerobic fitness, anaerobic fitness,
strength, muscular endurance, flexibility, body composition and
speed.
4. Muscular Endurance - ANS ✓The ability of a muscle to undergo
repeated contractions without fatigue.
5. Obesity - ANS ✓Excessive body fat. Typically, men with more than
20% fat and women with more than 35% fat are clinically obese.
6. Over-Training - ANS ✓Condition that arises due to an imbalance
between training and recovery. This can lead to muscle ache, fatigue,
loss of appetite and sleep disturbance.
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7. Participation Pyramid - ANS ✓The various levels of sports
participation leading up to the professional level.
8. The foundation level - ANS ✓The individual learns basic sports
skills and develops an interest in sports related activities. Physical
education programs in schools are an example of this level.
9. The participation level - ANS ✓The individual exercises in his/her
leisure time for a sport. Extra-curricular sports activities at the
school or club level are an example of this level.
10. The performance level - ANS ✓Involves fine tuning of the
skills through coaching, training and competitions.
11. The excellence level - ANS ✓Involves reaching national and
recognized standards of performance.
12. Periodisation - ANS ✓The systematic planning of training
throughout a season so that an optimal physiological and
psychological level may be reached.
13. Plyometrics - ANS ✓Type of training designed to improve
both power and strength. It usually involves exercises such as an
athlete jumping from one block to the floor and then to another
block.
14. Principles of Training - ANS ✓Specificity, progressive
overload, reversibility, individual differences, and warm-up and
stretching.
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15. Progressive Overload - ANS ✓This principle that suggests
that in order to improve the body's strength or endurance, we must
put it under some kind of stress and as the body becomes stronger
we should increase the amount of stress to a next level.
16. Resistance Training - ANS ✓Any type of training or exercise
where resistance is applied to the body e.g. running up hills (against
gravity) or weight training.
17. Respiratory Exchange Ratio (RER) - ANS ✓Calculated by
dividing the volume of carbon dioxide expired per minute by the
volume of oxygen uptake per minute. The closer this value is to 1, the
more the body is using glycogen as an energy source. If the body is
using fat as an energy source, the value will be closer to 0.7.
18. Rotator - ANS ✓The muscle which causes rotation
19. SAQ (Speed, Agility and Quickness) - ANS ✓Type of training
specifically designed to improve the speed, agility and quickness of
the performer. This includes ladder and polymetric drills.
20. Slow Twitch Muscle Fibre - ANS ✓Muscle fibres that are
designed for endurance and high aerobic activity. They can produce a
large amount of energy using oxygen. For example, marathon
runners and cyclists have a lot of slow twitch fibbers.
21. Strength - ANS ✓The maximum force that can be developed
within a muscle or group of muscles during a single contraction.
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