Exercise Science
What system controls breathing and heart rate during exercise?
What is Cardiovascular system.
How many players are on the field for one soccer team?
What is 11.
What type of exercise improves muscle strength?
What is Resistance Training.
What muscle is mainly used for bicep curls?
What is Biceps.
Where were the first modern Olympic games held?
Athens, Greece (1896).
The point during exercise at which lactic acid begins to accumulate in the blood faster than it can be removed.
What is the Lactate Threshold?
This term describes when a player dribbles, stops, and picks up the ball, then dribbles again.
What is a double dribble?
This principle states that for a muscle to increase in strength, it must be stressed beyond its normal capacity.
What is the Overload Principle?
The type of muscle fiber specialized for endurance activities, having high oxygen capacity?
What are Slow-Twitch (Type I) fibers.
Who is credited with starting the modern Olympic games?
Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
This term describes the oxygen consumption remaining elevated after a high-intensity workout.
What is EPOC (Excess Post-exercise Oxygen Consumption) or "Afterburn"?
This rule states that a player cannot be behind the last defender when the ball is played to them.
What is offside?
The "S" in the SMART goal acronym, crucial for advanced goal setting.
What is Specific?
The name of the joint mechanism allowing for the widest range of motion (found in shoulder/hip).
What is a Ball-and-Socket Joint?
Which basketball player revolutionized the game in the 1930s by introducing the one-handed running shot?
Hank Luisetti.
Fast-twitch muscle fibers (Type II) are best suited for this type of activity.
What is anaerobic/explosive activity?
This term describes the act of a player touching the net while the ball is in play, which is a fault.
What is a net foul/net violation?
Training the body specifically for the demands of a particular sport or activity.
What is Specificity?
This term describes the muscle that is the primary mover in a specific movement, like the biceps in a bicep curl.
What is an Agonist?
Which African American quarterback was the first to win a Super Bowl?
Doug Williams (Super Bowl XXII).
The maximum volume of oxygen a person can use during intense exercise.
What is V02 Max?
This specific, complex play involves a fake handoff to a running back before the quarterback throws a pass.
What is a play-action pass?
This training concept suggests that training must be altered every few weeks to avoid performance plateaus.
What is Periodization (or Progressive Overload)?
The structural unit of skeletal muscle that contracts, composed of actin and myosin.
What is a Sarcomere?
Which boxer was a 42-to-1 underdog when he knocked out Mike Tyson?
Buster Douglas.