The Fit bit
A product that exists to generate profit
What is a commodity?
A predetermined pulse rate to be obtained during exercise
What is target heart rate?
These people may work in conjunction with fitness centres or may work independently to design a specialised program to suit the requirements and capabilities of patrons
What are personal trainers
A not-for-profit industry association, that exists to professionalise the fitness industry through engaging in partnerships, advocacy, delivering education, quality and accreditation.
What is Fitness Australia?
Planned, structured and repetitive bodily movement
What is exercise?
Activity that requires approximately three to four times as much energy as rest
What is light exercise?
Receiving praise and encouragement from others, such as receiving a T-shirt for achieving a goal or when joining a fitness centre
What is an extrinsic reward?
A promotional technique used that generates billions of dollars of sales in the fitness industry annually in Australia.
What is direct marketing?
Any movement that results in some expenditure of energy
What is physical activity?
Activity that requires approximately five to six times as much energy as rest
What is moderate exercise?
A fitness activity that is designed to be a total mind and body experience and improves flexibility, strength, breathing and relaxation?
What is yoga?
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s there was a large positive shift towards fitness attitudes. What was the colloquial term for this known as.
What is the fitness boom?
The number of times an exercise is repeated without rest
What is a repetition?
Activity that requires seven times or more energy as rest
What is vigorous exercise?
Correct term for a weight training program that involves the use of elaborate machines that allow maximum muscle tension through the full range of movement?
What is kinetic training?
Moral principles that govern a person's behaviour or the conducting of an activity
What are ethics?
The number of repetitions done in succession
What is a set?
Classes that are resistance workouts with weights and movements and are generally slower than an aerobics class.
What is a pump class?
The ability to carry out daily tasks with vigour and alertness, without undue fatigue and with enough reserve energy to enjoy leisure time pursuits and to meet unforeseen emergencies
What is fitness?
Act that exists to protect consumers against faulty advertising
What is the Trade Practices Act?