The Circulatory System
Carries blood away from the heart.
What are arteries?
The fingers are ___________ to the hand.
What is distal?
The shortening phase of an exercise when a muscle is contracting.
What is concentric?
These bones make up the wrist.
What are carpals?
This is another name for the aerobic system.
What is the oxidative system?
This chamber of the heart receives oxygenated blood from the lungs and pumps it to the rest of the body.
What is the left ventricle?
The 3 types of muscle tissue.
What is skeletal, smooth, and cardiac?
This principle involves gradually increasing the demands placed on the body over time to promote muscle growth and/or strength gains.
What is progressive overload?
This is the largest bone in your body.
What is the femur?
This tissue connects bone to bone.
What are ligaments?
These are the primary cells responsible for carrying oxygen in the blood.
This system controls body movements and functions; contains the brain and spinal cord.
What is the nervous system?
A barbell squat occurs in this anatomical plane.
What is the sagittal plane?
This is the bone in the skull that moves the most.
What is the mandible?
The ability to exert a maximal force in as short a time as possible.
What is power?
The tiny blood vessels that connect the veins and arteries where gas exchange occurs.
What muscle extends, adducts, and rotates the shoulder joint?
What is the latissimus dorsi?
This energy system produces pyruvate and can then be used for the aerobic system or to create lactic acid.
What is the anaerobic glycolysis system?
This bone is part of the lower leg, but not part of the knee.
What is the fibula?
This type of exercise refers to movement at a constant speed regardless of the force applied.
What is isokinetic?
This makes up 55% of your total blood volume.
What is plasma?
This site is where a motor neuron's axon terminal connects with skeletal muscle fibers to initiate muscle contraction.
What is the neuromuscular junction?
The percentage of your 1 rep maximum that allows for 8 repetitions.
The one bone that articulates with no other bone.
What is the hyoid bone?
This term describes the loss of bone mineral density without the presence of bone fractures.