Lesson 1
What vocabulary term describes the way in which the body responds and adapts to stress?
What is general adaptation syndrome?
What is muscular hypertrophy?
The enlargement of skeletal muscle fibers.
Why are acute variables an important part of exercise programming?
They specify how each exercise should be performed, which can help achieve goals
What type of resistance training alternates heavy resistance exercise with an explosive power exercise that is biomechanically similar in movement?
What is complex training?
What term is used to describe exercises that relate to ONE side of the body?
What is unilateral?
Which type of specificity refers to the speed of contraction and exercise selection?
What is neuromuscular specificity?
What is the best term to describe the ability to produce and maintain force production for long periods of time?
What is muscular endurance?
What term best describes one complete movement of an exercise?
What is a repetition?
What system describes the act of performing two exercises in rapid succession with MINIMAL rest?
What is a common compensation that occurs when performing a standing cable chest press?
- Shoulder shrug
- Posterior pelvic tilt
- Knee valgus of the back leg
- Knee hyperextension of the front leg
Which type of specificity refers to "the weight and movements placed on the body"?
What is mechanical specificity?
What term describes the ability of the neuromuscular system to produce internal tension to overcome an external load?
What is muscular strength?
What term best describes a group of CONSECUTIVE repetitions?
What is a set?
What training system consists of training different body parts on separate days?
What is the split-routine system
Stabilization-focused exercises would require what combination of tempo and reps?
Slow tempo, high reps.
Which type of specificity refers to the energy demands placed on the body?
What is metabolic specificity?
Which equation is used to describe muscular power?
What is:
Force x Velocity
OR
Work / Time
What term best describes an individual's level of effort compared with their maximal effort?
What is training intensity?
What system of exercise describes increasing or decreasing weight with each set?
What is the pyramid system?
What term describes the process that involves expiring against a closed windpipe therefore creating additional intra-abdominal pressure and spinal stability?
What is the Valsalva maneuver?
What term refers to a motor neuron and all the muscle fibers it intervates?
What is a motor unit?
What term best describes the ability of muscles to exert MAXIMAL force output in a MINIMAL amount of time?
What is calculated by totaling the number of repetitions performed in a set during a training session, then multiplying it by the resistance used?
What is training volume?
Describe a drop set
Performing a set to failure, then removing a small percentage of the load and continuing with the set
In a ball cobra exercise, how should the arms be rotated and where should the thumbs be pointing?
Externally rotate the arms so the thumbs are pointing up toward the sky