Personal Fitness Final Exam Review

Contraction is when a muscle contracts, this is tightening the muscle and making the muscle stronger

Aerobic refers to oxygen or air

Having a certain amount of fats in your body is important as they protect organs and help you not get certain diseases.

How is water essential for your body?

Making fitness goals something you try to continue for a lifetime is very important.

Self motivation is known as instrinsic motivation and will help you reach your goals better than extrinsic motivation

It is recommeded that most adults get 150 minutes of exercise each week.

Cardiovascular strength is also known as the strength of

Which of the following is the more reliable type of motivaton

Lifting can cause a great strain and stress on your lower back.

Exercising has many benefits including helping relieve stress.

Aerobic exercise helps with a person's stress, tension and improve strength. Aerobic exercise, air/oxygen is present.

A plank is an example of a issometric contraction, as the muscles do not lengthen or shorten.

Your body needs time to slow the pace and intensity of the exercise before stopping.

The ______ system links endorpins to your physical activity.

Maximum heart rate can be found by 220-age.

No oxygen or air is anaerobic.

Body image is how you view your body, your subjective view of your body.

You can never overtrain by doing too much exercise and not letting your body rest.

The sit and reach fitnessgram assessment measures flexibility.

Most exercise programs are build around aerobic exercise.

Fitness goals should be a life time pursuit, attainable and realistic.

In order to build muscles and gain bone strength a person should have some type of strength training twice a week.

Endorphins are

A lower heart rate is NOT a benefit of exercise.

After exercising in a gym is important to wipe down the equipment.

Fat, bone, water and muscle % in your body is body composition.

Your resting heart rate is best taken in the morning and will be a person's lowest heart rate.

Resolution is deciding to reach your goals. Resolution and persistence are important when trying to reach your goals.

Biological, emotional, social and cognitive forces all play a role in motivation.

Having your spine in a neutral and nature, not curved or arched, not rounded position is a healthy posture.

Fat burns more energy than muscle.

Your target heart rate is the rate or "target" for your exercise that will put you in the right zone to get in shape

Culture can affect the way a person view their body and the way they think about foods and activities.

Working hard even when things get hard is known as persistence

Not having a disease or injury is considered optimal health

Biomechanics help athletes in sports find different ways to perform by studying body movement.

When examining a person's fitness lever there are five zones or components that must be considered.

Muscles which help our body move and are attached to the bones by tendons are skeletal muscles.

Diseases, illness and obesity can often be avoided by eating a healthy diet and exercising.

When a person is bending their joints and the angle increases this is now as flexion.

Physical problems must be considered before starting to exercise.