Cardioresp physiology & aerobic exercise
Bioenergetics
Muscle physiology, performance, & RT
Balance & Motor Learning
STM, Soreness, & Stretching
Functional UE and LE patterns
Nutrition, Weight loss, & body comp
PNF
Knee injury prevention & motor priming
Exercise and aging, mental health, DM, osteoporosis and cancer
100

Exchange of gases in the respiratory system happens via these 2 processes

What are ventilation and perfusion?

100

The exercise intensity at which blood lactate begins an abrupt increase above the baseline concentration. 

What is the lactate or anaerobic threshold?

100

The three types of muscle tissue.

What are smooth, cardiac, and skeletal? 

100

Skill retention over time, repeated with independence. 

What is motor learning?

100

The type of muscle contraction that causes DOMS (two parts). 

What is a novel eccentric contraction? 

100

The LE functional pattern that is predominantly a hip pattern. 

What is a hinge pattern? 

100

This is considered the gold standard lab test for body composition testing. 

What is hydrostatic weighing? 

100

A PNF technique for improving range of motion involving active use of the muscle needing to be stretched.

What is contract-relax?

100

The dosing recommendation for each session of exercise-based knee injury prevention for athletes. 

What is at least 20 minutes? 

100

One in five adults in the US live with this problem that can be helped by exercise.

What is mental illness? 

200

The formula used for estimating maximum heart rate

What is 220-age?

200

This is more important to determining the energy system most utilized than event duration. 

What is exercise intensity? 

200

Improved insulin resistance, body composition, reduced depression, improved bone mineral density. 

What are benefits of resistance training?

200

A busy setting, for example a sports physical therapy clinic with moving visual and auditory stimuli. 

What is an open environment?

200

This technique is appropriate to utilize to preserve the joint integrity of the therapist's hands when soft tissue is the issue. 

What is instrument-assisted soft tissue mobilization (IASTM)?

200

The often scrutinized lower extremity positioning that may be a performance advantage for some powerlifters. 

What is knee valgus? 

200

The specific carbohydrate that predominantly adds bulk to the stool. This may also improve joint health when serum cholesterol is high.

What is soluble fiber? 

200

The functional UE PNF pattern that is associated with putting on your seatbelt. 

What is D2 extension?
200

The name of a warm-up that performed before the targeted movement and may include dynamic stretching, aerobic exercise, and movement integration? 

What is movement-based motor priming? 

200

Exercise dose at which a positive impact on mental illness may be experienced. 

What is moderate to high intensity? 

300

The product of heart rate and stroke volume

What is cardiac output?

300

The system that predominates during low-intensity exercise, utilizing carbohydrate and fats to produce ATP. 

The oxidative (aerobic) system

300

Factors responsible for improvements in strength during the initial 6-8 weeks of training

What are neural adaptations?

300

Over time, less input is given verbally, visually, or haptically. 

What is a faded feedback schedule?

300

Infection, malignancy, and fracture are these with regards to soft tissue mobilization. 

What are contraindications? 

300
The deadlift variation that reduces torso incline angle (for example in the case of LBP in that position). 
What is a sumo deadlift?
300

The vitamin that is difficult to obtain from plant sources alone and is vital to neurological function. 

What is vitamin B12?

300

The technique used to create stability around a joint by providing resistance to two opposing movements (for example, flexion and extension) sequentially. 

What is alternating isometrics?

300

The non-MSK factor shown to increase risk of injury by 1.7x.

What is sleep?

300

The cancer treatment side effect that requires special training to address and can be improved with RT. 

What is lymphedema? 

400

The highest rate oxygen can be taken up into the blood and utilized by the muscles

What is VO2max?

400

The system provides immediate energy that is predominant in brief, very high-intensity exercise. 

What is the phosphagen system?

400

Proprioceptive organs that run in parallel with muscle fibers and sense change in length

What are muscle spindles?

400

The best way to learn balance strategies is to allow for this. 

What is error-ful learning? 

400

These are three purported benefits of static stretching that are not demonstrated in the literature or practice. 

What are performance improvement, injury prevention, and reduced muscle soreness? 

400

Successfully overcoming the scapular downward rotation and depression moments as part of the overhead press is accomplished primarily by these muscles. 

What are the upper traps, serratus anterior, and lower traps? 

400

The action you should take when your patient with a history of disordered eating asks for your nutritional advice about specific macro and micronutrient balance. 

What is refer out? 

400

The PNF technique used to help a person understand the desired movement to be completed, before completing it with assistance. 

What is rhythmic initiation? 

400

With regard to the principle of movement specificity, this is the best choice to perform movement-based motor priming for a heavy barbell squat. 

What is a barbell squat?

400

The oxygen saturation at which exercise is contraindicated for cancer patients. 

What is <88%?

500

Intermittent periods of intense exercise separated by periods of recovery

What is HIIT (high-intensity interval training)?

500

Energy stored in this form is used to power muscular activity

What is ATP?

500

The product of strength and speed of movement

What is muscle power?

500

This is the number of balance-loss episodes shown to have induced sustained balance improvement over a year in a cohort of older adults. 

What is 24?

500

This is a predictor of reduced DOMS after eccentric loading. 

What is previous eccentric loading? 

500

The body structure/function impairment to squatting that may be mitigated by use of traditional weightlifting shoes. 

What is ankle dorsiflexion ROM impairment? 

500

This lipid may benefit recovery after an injury by priming muscles for action through the branched-chain amino acid most associated with muscle protein synthesis.

What is an omega-3 fatty acid? 

500

The functional LE PNF pattern associated with getting into the bathtub. 

What is D2 flexion? 

500

The (5) training program components most commonly included in evidence-based knee-injury prevention programs. 

What are flexibility, running, strength, plymetrics, and core stability? 

500

Along with progressive resistance training, this type of exercise is indicated for slowing bone mineral density loss in the femoral neck according to the 2022 geriatric section CPG. 

What is impact exercise (for example, stair climbing and jogging)?