Aerobic Training
An aerobic training method involving activities lasting at least twenty minutes at a sub-maximal (75-80% max HR) intensity.
What is continuous training?
An anaerobic training method aimed at building muscular strength, power, or speed through weightlifting.
What is resistance training?
Specialised sports foods aimed at replenishing electrolytes and other fluids/nutrients lost during exercise.
What are sports gels/drinks?
The term used to describe the use of substances or methods to artificially improve performance.
What is doping?
The top prize in a sporting league.
What is a championship?
A type of running training that involves random variations in speed and intensity.
What is Fartlek?
Give an example of a mechanical aid used to complement resistance training.
What is a weighted vest, elastic cords, parachutes, or tyres?
A classification system used for sports supplements and ergogenic aids, categorising them according to the available evidence supporting their use.
What is the Australian Institute of Sport ABCD Classification system?
A professional sports team from Australia that, in 2012, were banned from competition due to implementing an illegal performance enhancing substance program.
Who are the Essendon Bombers?
The status of belonging to an organisation.
What is a membership?
A form of interval training that targets the aerobic energy system.
What is long-interval or HIIT?
An anaerobic training method involving repeated bouts of high-intensity effort followed by varying periods of complete rest or recovery at a lower intensity.
What is interval training?
An example of a performance supplement used by athletes.
What are caffeine, creatine, and bicarbonate?
A former American professional cyclist who gained fame for winning the Tour de France a record seven consecutive times (1999–2005) after surviving testicular cancer. He was stripped of all titles and banned from cycling in 2012 following a massive doping scandal, later admitting to using performance-enhancing substances in 2013.
Who is Lance Armstrong?
A joint business, like Ben & Jerry's.
What is a partnership?
A potential injury risk of aerobic training.
What is overtraining, incorrect technique, inadequate recovery, and so on?
An anaerobic training method aimed at stretching and contracting muscles as quickly as possible to improve the stretch reflex. It usually consists of exercises like box jumps, medicine ball slams, and plyo push ups.
What is plyometric training?
An example of a D-listed supplement according to the AIS classification system.
What are stimulants, prohormones, hormone boosters, GH releasers and peptides?
A synthetically produced drug that mimics the effects of testosterone.
What are anabolic steroids?
An authorised trading establishment, perhaps for cars.
What is a dealership?
A chronic adaptation of aerobic training.
What is increased size and number of mitochondria, increased myoglobin, increased stores of glycogen, decreased reliance on the anaerobic energy systems, and so on?
A chronic adaptation of anaerobic training.
What is muscular hypertrophy, increased ATP stores, increased speed of contractions, increased glycolytic capacity, and so on?
An example of a dietary supplement used by athletes.
What are calcium and iron supplements?
A peptide naturally produced in the human body that is responsible for height, bone, and muscle growth.
What is human-growth hormone (hGH)?
Absolute rule by an individual.
What is a dictatorship?