Weight room safety
To avoid hitting classmates or dropping heavy weights on your feet, always maintain a safe 3-foot personal space bubble when using these handheld free weights.
What are dumbbells?
Located on the front of your upper arm, this muscle flexes your elbow and is commonly flexed to show off arm strength.
What are the biceps?
Experiencing thirst or dark-colored urine during exercise are early warning signs that your body has entered this state of fluid imbalance.
What is dehydration?
In sports like basketball, soccer, and football, this fundamental offensive concept involves moving the ball to an open teammate rather than trying to score all by yourself.
What is passing?
Known widely as "The GOAT" in basketball, this Chicago Bulls legend won six NBA championships, wore the iconic number 23, and revolutionized basketball footwear.
Who is Michael Jordan?
During a wall sit, your knees should form this specific angle to protect your joints while maximizing thigh strength.
What is a 90 degree angle?
This massive muscle group on the front of your thigh is made up of four individual muscles that extend your leg at the knee joint.
What are the quads?
During intense, short bursts of exercise like sprinting or heavy lifting, your muscles burn through glucose without oxygen, creating this temporary metabolic byproduct that causes a rapid burning sensation in your muscles.
What is lactic acid?
In basketball and ultimate frisbee, once a player catches the ball and stops moving, they must keep one foot planted on the floor to rotate and change direction, known as this movement.
What is pivoting?
Widely considered one of the greatest sprinters of all time, this Jamaican runner set world records in both the 100m and 200m dashes and earned 8 Olympic gold medals.
Who is Usain Bolt?
When doing bodyweight squats, you should keep your chest lifted, your core tight, and bend your knees as if you are sitting down into this imaginary object
What is a chair?
Located on the back of your leg, this muscle group bends your knee and works directly opposite your quadriceps.
What are the hamstrings?
According to national health guidelines, school-aged children and teenagers should aim for at least this total amount of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity every single day.
What is 60 minutes?
In floor hockey, lacrosse, or soccer, this defensive strategy involves assigning every player on your team to guard a specific player on the opposing team?
What is "man-to-man defense"?
With 23 Grand Slam singles titles, the most in the Open Era, this American icon dominated women's tennis for over two decades.
Who is Serena Williams?
To prevent the weights from slamming and to keep continuous tension on your muscles, all cable machine movements should be performed using this type of pace.
What is slow and controlled?
Rather than just your "6-pack abs" (rectus abdominis), this total midsection muscle group includes your obliques, lower back, and transverse abdominis to stabilize your entire spine.
What is your core?
The two most common and accessible places on your body to feel your pulse and calculate your heart rate
What are The neck and wrist?
In basketball, ultimate frisbee, or handball, walking repeatedly without dribbling or passing is called this rule violation.
What is traveling?
Widely regarded as the greatest gymnast of all time, this American athlete has won 11 Olympic medals and has five distinct gymnastics elements officially named after her.
Who is Simone Biles?
A proper plank isn't just an ab exercise; to maintain a perfectly straight line, you must simultaneously squeeze your abdominal muscles, your glutes, and these upper leg muscles.
What are your quadriceps (quads)?
During bodyweight glute bridges or hip thrusts, fully squeezing these muscles at the very top of the movement extends your hips into a flat line without arching your lower back.
What are your glutes?
For a healthy teenager or adult resting comfortably, a normal average heart rate falls within this range of beats per minute.
What is 60-100 bpm?
In volleyball, when a serving team loses the point, the receiving team gains the serve and all players must move one position in this specific direction.
What is clockwise rotation?
Known as "The Greatest," this heavyweight boxing champion was famous for his "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee" style, as well as his refusal to be drafted into the Vietnam War.
Who is Muhammad Ali?