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Fitness Terms Quiz

 

  1. These activities use muscle groups at high intensities that exceed the body’s capacity to use oxygen to supply energy and create an oxygen debt by using energy produced without oxygen.

 

Anaerobic                     Aerobic                                    Sets                              Bench Press

 

  1. This is a muscle action in which the muscle is shortening under its own power.  This action is commonly called “positive” work.

 

Negative                       Concentric                   Eccentric                      Power

 

  1. This is a principal of fitness in which you subject a part of the body to efforts greater than it is accustomed to, in order to elicit a training response.  Increases may be in intensity or duration.

 

Specificity                    Overload                      Warm Up                      Plyometric

 

  1. This is a complete exercise session, ideally consisting of warm-up, intense aerobic and/or strength exercises, and cool down.

 

Exercise                       Cool Down                    Workout           Warm Up

 

  1. This is a gradual increase in the intensity of exercise to allow physiological processes to prepare for greater energy outputs.

 

Cool Down                    Beginning                     Start Off                       Warm Up

 

  1. Muscle action in which the muscle resists while it is forced to lengthen.  This action is commonly called “negative” work.

 

Positive                                    Concentric                   Reps                             Eccentric

 

  1. A gradual reduction of the intensity of exercise to allow physiological processes to return to normal.  Helps avoid blood pooling in the legs and may reduce muscular soreness.

 

Ending                          Cool Down                    Warm Up                      Workout

 

  1. The muscle or muscle group that is causing the movement around a joint.

 

Fibers                          Antagonist                    Prime Movers               Stabilizers

 

  1. A group of repetitions of an exercise movement.

 

Sets                              Reps                             Group                           Lift

 

  1. The general physical and psychological response of an individual to any real or perceived adverse stimulus, internal or external, that tends to disturb the individual's homeostasis.

 

Stress                           Physical                                   Psychological               Emotional