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A structured movement process that individuals consciously and voluntarily engage in.
What is exercise?
According to your book this was the most common cause of mortality in the United States in 2017.
What is heart disease?
This is sometimes referred to as pure or fundamental research and aims to expand the knowledge base by formulating, evaluating, or expanding a theory.
What is basic research?
This system brings air into the lungs, allows for oxygen to be removed from the air, and facilitates the elimination of carbon dioxide into the external environment.
What is the respiratory or pulmonary system?
An umbrella term that comprises numerous disciplines including physical activity, exercise and sport and athletic performance.
What is exercise science?
This system's primary components are the heart, blood vessels, and blood.
What is the circulatory (cardiovascular) system?
This includes those movement activities of daily living such as work- and job-related activities, leisure time activities, and activities performed around the home.
What is physical activity?
This type of research uses a scientific approach designed for the collection and analysis of numerical data typically obtained from subjects through direct testing in a laboratory or field-based setting, or using questionnaires.
What is Quantitative Research?
This system serves as a structural framework of the body, protecting underlying organs and tissues of the body, providing a lever system for movement, and serving as a storage area of minerals important to the body’s function.
What is the skeletal system?
The relative incidence of a particular disease.
What is morbidity?
Information, reviews, or scholarly journal articles that discuss or evaluate someone else’s original research.
What are secondary sources?
Work conducted in this northeastern laboratory provided the foundation for many of the basic theories used in the study and application of exercise science today.
What is the Harvard Fatigue Laboratory?
If the research involves human subjects, then approval is sought from this group.
What is an Internal Review Board (IRB)?
Along with the nervous system, this system is the other primary control system of the body
What is the endocrine system?
The variable that is manipulated in a research study.
What is the independent variable?
This is systematic research directed toward finding solutions to an immediate practical problem.
What is applied research?
The initial name chosen by the founding members “Federation of Sports Medicine” was changed to the ACSM in.
What/when is 1955?
This is a short summary that describes the research study’s purpose, methods, results, and conclusions.
What is a research abstract?
This system allows the body to make a distinction between its normal components and any foreign elements, with the purpose of protecting itself against those substances foreign to the body
What is the immune system?
The primary function of this system is the regulation of fluid volume, electrolyte composition, and body pH
What is urinary system?
He was the first person to make accurate measurements of blood pressure
Who was Stephen Hales?
In 2007, ACSM developed this signature program to provide an evidence-based and science-based measurement of the state of health and fitness at the community level throughout the United States.
What is the American Fitness Index™ (AFI)?
This type of translate findings from basic research into meaningful practices, typically in the field of health care
What is translational research?
The primary components of this system are the mouth, pharynx, esophagus, stomach, pancreas, liver, and small intestine and large intestine
What is the digestive system?
Smooth, cardiac and skeletal are three types of this/
What is muscle?