Pre-participation Screening
A questionnaire that asks about general health and specific medical conditions.
What is the Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire Plus (PAR-Q+)?
A subjective expression of exertion during a test.
What is the rating of perceived exertion scale?
The ability of a muscle group to execute repeated contractions.
What is muscular endurance?
The relative proportions of fat mass and fat-free mass in the human body.
What is body composition?
The most widely used assessment of flexibility.
What is a sit-and-reach test?
Any bodily movement produced by skeletal muscle that results in energy expenditure.
What is physical activity?
A global initiative to decrease population levels of physical inactivity
What is Exercise Is Medicine?
The ACSM screening algorithm recommendation for an individual who is displaying signs and symptoms of renal disease.
What is to discontinue and seek medical clearance?
An indication to not take part in activity, such as a recent stroke.
What is a contraindication?
Examples include Senior Fitness Test, Short Physical Performance Battery, and Timed UP and Go.
What are examples of functional strength assessments?
Condition directly linked to cardiovascular disease, osteoarthritis, and hypertension.
What is obesity?
A measurement tool used to measure complex joint actions by accounting for gravity.
What is an inclinometer?
Defined as not meeting the physical activity guidelines.
How is physical inactivity defined?
The definition of 1 MET
What is the significance of 3.5 mL/ kg/min?
The risk stratification group for a cardiac rehabilitation patient.
What is considered high risk?
Maximal oxygen consumption that accounts for an individual's body weight.
What is relative maximal oxygen consumption?
The percentage of load changes between reps of 1RM.
What is 2.5-5%?
Measurements of fat mass, dry fat free mass, and total body water.
What is the three-compartment model of body composition?
Considerations include extensibility of the joint capsule, muscle viscosity, and proper warm-up.
What are considerations for flexibility?
A metabolic equivalence less than 1.5 while sitting or lying.
What is the definition of sedentary?
Includes basal metabolic rate, thermic effect of food, and activity thermogenesis
What are components of total energy expenditure (TEE)?
What are positive risk factors for cardiovascular disease?
Also known as open-circuit spirometry.
What is indirect calorimetry?
Can assess endurance, power, and strength while maintaining a constant velocity.
What are isokinetic dynamometers?
A category of body composition that relies on two methods of estimation
What is doubly indirect?
The FMS was developed to determine areas of deficiencies in stability and THIS.
What is mobility?
Components include body composition, muscular endurance, and cardiorespiratory fitness.
What are the components of physical fitness?
The recommendation is 60 minutes of moderate or vigorous exercise each day
What is the PA recommendations for children and adolescents?
A document that explains the responsibility of the participant, risk and discomforts, and expected benefits.
What is informed consent?
The estimated maximum heart rate for someone 31 years of age.
What is 185 bpm?
The decrease in skeletal muscle mass and muscular strength and power that occurs in aging.
What is sarcopenia?
The standard error for circumference measurements estimation of body composition.
What is 2.5-4%?
A value of 120 degrees for range of motion for this hip movement.
What is hip flexion range of motion?
Recreation, Occupation, Household and Transportation
What are the domains of physical activity?
Sedentary bouts, Interruptions, Time and Type
What is SITTs?