Body Systems
This energy system uses creatine phosphate and lasts about 10 -12 seconds.
What is the ATP-PC system?
This step sets the tone for a coaching session and helps athletes understand the session’s goals.
What is the introduction phase of a coaching session?
These symbols include the Olympic flag, torch, and motto.
What are symbols of the Olympic Games?
This movement brings a body part toward the midline.
What is adduction?
This is the term for straightening a joint to increase the angle between bones.
What is extension?
These two muscle types work together to create movement.
What are agonist and antagonist muscles?
This coaching style is casual, focused on fun, and gives athletes full control.
What is laissez-faire coaching?
These are the three Olympic values.
What are excellence, friendship, and respect?
These symptoms—nausea, dizziness, and feeling hot—are signs of this condition.
What is dehydration?
This value is one of the three Olympic values and promotes doing your best.
What is excellence?
This is the process where oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged in the lungs.
What is gas exchange?
This type of motivation comes from within the athlete.
What is intrinsic motivation?
These three groups benefit from the commercialisation of sport.
What are sport, media, and sponsors?
These two muscles work together during a bicep curl.
What are the biceps and triceps?
This type of muscle contraction involves no change in muscle length.
What is an isometric contraction?
This type of joint allows flexion and extension, like in the elbow or knee.
What is a hinge joint?
These are four safety responsibilities of a coach.
What are checking equipment, safe environment, player readiness, and rule awareness?
These issues include the 1972 Munich attack and 1988 Seoul drug scandal.
What are political and social issues in international sport?
These are the three phases of competition training.
What are pre-season, in-season, and off-season?
These are the three types of muscle tissue in the human body.
What are skeletal, cardiac, and smooth muscle?
The skull, ribcage, vertebrae, sacrum, coccyx
What bones form the axial skeleton?
This part of training involves breaking down skills and using clear demonstrations.
What is skill development and practice?
These are four types of sponsorship in sport.
What are individual, team, sport, and event sponsorships?
These factors affect the development of sport in different regions.
What are distance, climate, culture, religion, and geography?
This is how sponsorship can influence sport, both positively and negatively.
What is it provides funding and exposure but may create pressure or bias?
Framework and support, protection of vital organs, movement, storage of minerals.
What are the functions of the skeletal system?
This coaching style encourages athlete input while maintaining structure.
What is democratic coaching?
These are five ways the media can influence public opinion about sport.
What are agenda setting, creating heroes/villains, sponsorship, fan behaviour, and bias?
These are the six types of synovial joints remembered by a mnemonic.
What are saddle, condyloid, pivot, hinge, ball and socket, and gliding joints?
These are the three phases of competition and how each contributes to athlete success.
What are pre-season (builds fitness), in-season (maintains performance), and off-season (recovery and rest)?