Terminology
This defines any bodily movement produced by the contraction of skeletal muscles that results in a substantial increase in caloric requirements over resting energy expenditure
What is physical activity?
The most common exercise-related complication characterized by damage to the muscles, bones, joints, ligaments, tendons, and other soft tissues of the body
What is musculoskeletal injury (MSI)?
A legal document and process that ensures a client understands the risks, benefits, and purposes of an exercise program or health assessment
What is informed consent?
Smoking is a positive RF and those that have quit within these many months
What is six?
This refers to fluid retention and swelling
What is edema?
This is defined as a type of physical activity consisting of planned, structured, and repetitive bodily movement done to improve and/or maintain one or more components of physical fitness
What is exercise?
ACSM recommends this many minutes per week of moderate exercise to reduce risk of CVD and CV events
What is 150 minutes?
A self-administered health screening tool that helps identify any health risks, or need for medical clearance before starting an exercise program
What is Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire (PARQ+)?
In women, this waist circumference becomes a positive RF
What is >88 cm or 38 in?
This refers to loss of consciousness
What is syncope?
This defines the ability to carry out daily tasks with vigor and alertness, without undue fatigue, and with ample energy to enjoy leisure-time pursuits and meet unforeseen emergency
What is physical fitness?
This health related physical fitness component describes the ability of the cardiovascular and respiratory to supply oxygen during sustained physical activity
What is cardiorespiratory endurance?
This tool is used to identify individuals at risk for CV complications during or immediately after aerobic exercise, and need for medical clearance
What is the Pre-Participation Screening Algorithm?
For men, this age is considered a positive RF
What is greater than or equal to 45?
This defines difficult, or labored breathing
What is dyspnea?
This defines any behavior resulting in an energy expenditure of ≤1.5 METs while in a sitting, reclining, or lying posture
What is sedentary?
This relationship suggests that additional health benefits result from greater amounts of PA
What is dose-response?
According to ACSM, the criteria for "regular exercise " is moderate intensity, three days per week for this many months
The age for men when Family History of CVD becomes a positive RF in father or first degree male relative
What is 55?
This refers to abnormal breathing in the recumbent position
What is orthopnea?
This is a useful, convenient, and standardized method for quantifying absolute intensity of different physical activities
What is metabolic equivalent (MET)?
This intensity range defines moderate (number) physical activity
What is 3 to 5.9 METS?
This intensity range defines moderate (number) physical activity
The concentration (mg/dL) of glucose obtained from a FBG test in which it becomes a positive RF
What is greater than or equal to 100mg/dL?
This refers to pain in the lower extremities with inadequate blood supply that is brought on by exercise
What is intermittent claudication?