Training/Sport
What branded fitness training is known for high-intensity interval training and has been accused for exposing users to a heightened risk of rhabdomyolysis (rhabdo)?
CrossFit
A wearable fitness tracker might show you your max VO2, which tells you how well your body takes up and uses oxygen while you’re working out. In the reading, “O2” is oxygen and “max” is maximum. What does the “V” stand for?
Volume
Which term describes running as fast as you can over a short distance?
Sprint
What is the only country to have played in every single soccer World Cup?
Brazil
What is required in aerobic respiration that is not required in anaerobic respiration?
Oxygen
Warmup! Before we get started, get on the treadmill for a bit. What kind of exercise helps get the blood moving?
Aerobic
Body’s ability to maintain stable position?
Balance
What timely name is given to a road cycling event where you take a 100-mile/kilometer bike ride not just for fun and fitness, but often fundraising, too?
Century ride
Who is the father of aerobics and coined this word?
Dr. Kenneth Cooper
A great workout can make you feel great physically and mentally, in part because of what “feel good” hormones that get released by your nervous system?
Endorphinis
Have you ever started hurting a day or two after a workout? Blame DOMS for that. DOMS stands for delayed onset ______ soreness.
Muscle
Lifting body using arms and toes?
Plank
The Olympic games have different kinds of jumps - high jump, long jump, pole vault/jump. What fourth event?
Triple jump
As of April 2021, the top 25 fastest marathon runners in history are all from just two countries. 13 of those runners are Ethiopians. From what country are the other 12?
Kenya
This brain-released chemical gives us the motivation to achieve something of value or that makes us feel rewarded.
Dopamine
The earliest of these were constructed from stitched seal stretched over a wood or whalebone-skeleton frame and were originally developed by the Indigenous Americans.
Kayak
This position involves lying on your back with your legs straight out in front of you and then arching your back but keeping your buttocks on the ground, using your elbows to support you and allowing your head to fall back.
Fish
What iconic event in New York City cost participants only $1? The event is the largest of its kind in the world.
New York Marathon
Which four-time Olympic gold medalist made one dictator angry?
Jesse Owens
What is the most important chemical used for sports clothing?
Elastan
Which Olympic sport requires competitors to keep at least one foot on the ground at all time?
Speed walking
According to the Mayo Clinic (a reputable source), how many calories are there in a pound of human fat?
3500
Aquatherapy was particularly useful for people a global epidemic of an infectious disease (virulent in the 20th century)?
Poliomyelitis
Claude Bernard discovered the ability of one organ to change glycogen to sugar. Which organ is it?
Liver
Which substance in the body was once thought to be nothing more than waste from oxygen-starved muscles, but may actually be a “fuel” for high-intensity workouts?
Lactic acid