Fitness Tests
Miscellaneous
Disorders of the Muscular System
Major Muscles
Types of Muscle
100
This test measures abdominal strength and endurance.
What is the curl-up test?
100
There are approximately how many muscles in the body?
What is 650-700?
100
Tearing of part of the muscle tissue.
What is a strain?
100
This muscle is located in the shoulder.
What is the deltoid?
100
A voluntary muscle.
What is skeletal muscle?
200
This test measures arm and shoulder strength and muscular endurance.
What is the push-up test?
200
Inflammation of the tendon caused by overuse.
What is tendonitis?
200
A condition where all the fibers of the muscle contract quickly.
What is a cramp?
200
This muscle is located in the back of the upper arm?
What is the tricep?
200
The strongest TYPE of muscle in your body?
What is cardiac muscle?
300
This test measures cardiovascular endurance?
What is the Pacer test?
300
This connects muscle to bone.
What is a tendon?
300
Where blood seeps through the fibers of the muscle and rises to the skin surface.
What is a bruise?
300
This muscle is located in the back of your lower leg?
What is the gastrocnemius?
300
This type of muscle generally works in pairs.
What is skeletal muscle?
400
This test measures the trunk extensor strength and flexibility
What is the Trunk lift?
400
A slight tension or firmness of muscle.
What is muscle tone?
400
When muscle is torn away from the tibia and/or the fibula.
What are shin splints?
400
One of two major muscle groups in your abdomen area.
What are the Rectus Abdominus or the External Obliques?
400
Name the two types of involuntary muscles.
What is cardiac muscle and smooth muscle?
500
This test measures flexibility of the lower back and the hamstrings
What is the "V-Sit"?
500
The place where muscle attaches to the stationary end of the bone.
What is the origin?
500
Loss of muscle tone due to lack of use of the muscle.
What is atrophy?
500
This muscle is opposite of the hamstring.
What is the quadricep muscle?
500
This extends a muscle or straightens a joint.
What is an extensor?
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