Muscular, cardiopulmonary, and metabolic adaptations to exercise are known as the training effect. - answer-True
The body's automatic tendency to maintain a constant internal body environment through various processes is called: - answer-Homeostasis
What does BMR stand for and what does it me...
ISSA CERTIFIED PERSONAL TRAINER EXAM
Muscular, cardiopulmonary, and metabolic adaptations to exercise are known as the training effect. -
answer-True
The body's automatic tendency to maintain a constant internal body environment through various
processes is called: - answer-Homeostasis
What does BMR stand for and what does it mean? - answer-Basal Metabolic Rate - Amount of calories
you would burn if you stayed in bed all day.
Anabolism and catabolism occur at the same time throughout the body. - answer-True
Calories - answer-A calorie is a unit of heat
one calorie is the energy required to raise 1 kilogram of water by 1 degree Celsius
the preferred unit in metabolic studies and nutrition labels is the kilocalorie (Kcal)
The primary (not initial) fuel during endurance exercise is - answer-Fatty acids
The molecule used for storing and transferring energy in the body is called: - answer-Adenosine
Triphosphate (ATP)
The ATP/CP pathway is the primary pathway used for activities lasting two minutes or greater - answer-
False
About 98% of the human body is composed of only six elements: oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen,
calcium and phosphorous. - answer-True
The respiratory system is responsible for - answer-Supplying oxygen to the body
Eliminating carbon dioxide in the body
Helps regulate the body's pH balance
The circulatory system consists of - answer-Heart, arteries, veins
The nervous system is made up of - answer-central nervous system and peripheral nervous system
Excretion is a function of the digestive system - answer-True
Hormones are classified - answer-Steroids, amino acid derivatives, and peptides
Hemoglobin is an oxygen transporting protein in red blood cells - answer-True
The main purpose of hormones are - answer-To alter the state of synthesis of your cellular protein
change the rate of enzyme activity
, change the rate of transport of nutrients through the cell membrane
Tendons - answer-Connect muscle to bone
The average human body has how many bones? - answer-206
What are tendons? - answer-An extension of muscle fibers and connect muscle to bone
What are the anatomical terms for front and back? - answer-Front: anterior
back: posterior
Type one muscle fibers are: - answer-Predominately aerobic
Type 2 muscle fibers are - answer-Not entirely aerobic
Muscular hypotrophy - answer-Increase in muscle fiber size
In a concentric contraction, the muscle lengthens to produce movements - answer-False
Kinesiology - answer-the science or the study of movement, and the active and passive structures
involved
An isometric contraction is when - answer-A muscle does not lengthen or shorten as it contracts
True synergy occurs when a muscle contracts to stop the secondary action of another muscle (T/F) -
answer-True
An example of an antagonist muscle is - answer-Triceps during a biceps curl
T/F Adduction is movement of a body part away from the midline of the body. - answer-False
An example of flexion is the - answer-Concentric action of a bicep curl
Flexion mainly occurs in which plane? - answer-sagittal plane
Posture is solely viewed in static positions, such as sitting, standing, or lying down. - answer-False
"Flat-back" can be identified by a... - answer-Posterior pelvic tilt
Excessive lateral curvature of the spinal column is known as - answer-Scoliosis
T/f kyphosis is an exaggerated anterior-posterior curvature of the spinal column - answer-True
When the superior iliac crest of the pelvis moves forward and downward from the normal anatomical
position, it is know as - answer-Lordosis
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