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A comprehensive set of questions and answers related to nasm (national academy of sports medicine) study materials. It covers a wide range of topics in fitness and health, including biomechanics, nutrition, exercise physiology, and program design. Designed to help students prepare for nasm certifications and gain a deeper understanding of key concepts in the field.
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Information that is gathered from a prospective client to give the health and fitness professional feedback regarding personal history such as occupation, lifestyle and medical background. - Correct Answers ✅Subjective Information A purposeful system or plan put together to help an individual achieve a specific goal. - Correct Answers ✅Program Design A study that uses principals of physics to quantitatively study how forces interact within a living body. - Correct Answers ✅Biomechanics A substance that completes or makes an addition to daily dietary intake. - Correct Answers ✅Dietary Supplement An unstable (but controlled) environment where exercises are performed that causes the body to use its internal balance and stabilization mechanisms - Correct Answers ✅Proprioceptively enriched environment Exercises that use quick, powerful movements involving an eccentric contraction immediately followed by an explosive concentric contraction. - Correct Answers ✅Reactive Training
Fastest growing health problem in the US - Correct Answers ✅Obesity It is a conglomeration of billions of cells forming nerves that are specifically designed to provide a communication network within the human body - Correct Answers ✅The Nervous System kinetic chain - Correct Answers ✅nervous system, skeletal system and muscular system Muscular pump that rhythmically contracts to push blood throughout the body - Correct Answers ✅Heart The ability of the kinetic chain to stabilize a joint during movement. - Correct Answers ✅Dynamic Joint Stabilization The ability to move the body in one intended direction as fast as possible. - Correct Answers ✅Speed The lumbo-pelvic -hip complex and the thoracic and cervical spine, where the body's center of gravity is located - Correct Answers ✅The Core The normal extensibility of all soft tissues that allow the full range of motion of a joint. - Correct Answers ✅Flexibility
The kinetic chain's ability to adapt to stresses placed on it. - Correct Answers ✅General Adaptation Syndrome Training environment that provides heightened stimulation to proprioceptors and mechanoreceptors. - Correct Answers ✅Multisensory Condition A system comprised of the cardiovascular and respiratory systems - Correct Answers ✅Cardiorespiratory system Ability of muscles to exert maximal force output in a minimal amount of time. - Correct Answers ✅Rate of Force Production Important components that specify how each exercise is to be performed. - Correct Answers ✅Acute Variables Positioned below a point of reference. - Correct Answers ✅Inferior The ability to sense changes in either external or internal environments - Correct Answers ✅sensory function The ability of the neuromuscular system to allow agonists, antagonists, and stabilizers to work synergistically and
control the entire kinetic chain in all three planes of motion - Correct Answers ✅Neromuscular efficiency The average daily nutrient intake level that is estimated to meet the requirement of half the healthy individuals who are in a particular life stage and gender group. - Correct Answers ✅Estimated Average Requirement (EAR) Training environment that is unstable as can safely be controlled by an individual. - Correct Answers ✅Controlled Instability A hollow tube that allows blood to be transported to and from the heart - Correct Answers ✅Blood Vessel A low intensity exercise consisting of movements that do not necessarily relate to the more intense exercise that is to follow. - Correct Answers ✅General Warm-Up blood pressure of 140/90 or higher - Correct Answers ✅Hypertension The ability to analyze and interpret sensory information to allow for proper decision making, which produces appropriate response - Correct Answers ✅integrative function
Low intensity exercise consisting of movements that mimic those that will be included in the more intense exercise that is to follow - Correct Answers ✅Specific Warm-Up The space in the chest between the lungs that contains all the internal organs of the chest, except the lungs. - Correct Answers ✅Mediastinum Neuromuscular response to sensory information - Correct Answers ✅Motor function Multiplanar soft tissue extensibility with optimal neuromuscular efficiency throughout the full range of motion.
products are exchanged between tissues - Correct Answers ✅Capillaries A group of consecutive repetitions. - Correct Answers ✅Set Alteration of muscle length surrounding a joint - Correct Answers ✅Muscle Imbalance Condition in which there is a decrease in bone mass and density as well as an increase in the space between bones, resulting in porosity and fragility. - Correct Answers ✅Osteoporosis On the back of the body. - Correct Answers ✅Posterior (or dorsal) Predictable pattern of muscle imbalances - Correct Answers ✅Postural distortion patterns Sensory/Afferent neurons transmit nerve impulses from effector sites to - Correct Answers ✅The Central Nervous System Set of two exercises that are performed back to back without any rest time between them - Correct Answers ✅Superset
Prolonged stress or stress that is intolerable and will produce this distress to the system. - Correct Answers ✅Exhaustion The muscle that acts as the main source of motive movement
Power: explosive (x/x/x) Strength: Moderate (2/0/2) Stabilization: Slow, emphasizing eccentric, concentric, and isometric muscle groups. (4/2/1) - Correct Answers ✅Repetition Tempo The concept of muscle inhibition, caused by a tight agonist, which inhibits its functional antagonist. - Correct Answers ✅Altered Reciprocal Inhibition The cumulative neural input to the central nervous system from mechanoreceptors that senses position and limb movement - Correct Answers ✅Proprioception Vessels that transport blood away from the heart - Correct Answers ✅Arteries Composed of the brain and spinal cord & it interprets information - Correct Answers ✅Central Nervous System Degenerative joint disease in which the body's immune system mistakenly attacks its own tissues. - Correct Answers ✅Rheumatoid Arthritis Neutral compounds of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen (such as sugars, starches, and celluloses) which make up a large portion of animal foods. - Correct Answers ✅Carbohydrates
_____ are chambers located inferiorly on either side of the heart. - Correct Answers ✅Ventricles Any of various types of malignant neoplasms, most of which invade surrounding tissues, may spread to several sites and are likely to recur after attempted removal. - Correct Answers ✅Cancer 12 cranial nerves, 31 pairs of spinal nerves, and sensory receptors - Correct Answers ✅relay info to and from brain Positioned on the same side of the body - Correct Answers ✅Ipsilateral Refers to the weight and movements placed on the body. - Correct Answers ✅Mechanical Specificity The ability of the neuromuscular system to allow all muscles to work together with proper activation and timing between them. - Correct Answers ✅Intermuscular Coordination The ability to accelerate, decelerate, stabilize, and change direction quickly, while maintaining proper posture - Correct Answers ✅Agility
The motions of joints in the body - Correct Answers ✅Arthrokinematics Altered forces at the joint that result in abnormal muscular activity and impaired neuromuscular communication at the joint - Correct Answers ✅Arthrokinematic Dysfunction An imaginary bisector that divides the body into left and right halves. - Correct Answers ✅Sagittal Plane Refers to the speed of contraction and exercise selection. - Correct Answers ✅Neuromuscular Specificity The ability to react and change body position with maximum rate of force production, in all planes of motion, from all body positions, during functional activities. - Correct Answers ✅Quickness The condition where ability to expand lungs is decreased - Correct Answers ✅Restrictive lung disease An individuals level of effort, compared with their maximal effort, which is usually expressed as a percentage. - Correct Answers ✅Training Intensity
The ability of the neuromuscular system to produce internal tension to overcome an external force. - Correct Answers ✅Strength The exhalation of air during the process of breathing - Correct Answers ✅Expiration The Straightening of a joint, causing the angle to the joint to increase. - Correct Answers ✅Extension A group of compounds that includes triglycerides (fats and oils), phospholipids, and sterols. - Correct Answers ✅Lipids An imaginary bisector that divides the body into front and back halves. - Correct Answers ✅Frontal Plane Sensitive to change in tension of the muscle and the rate of that change. musculotendinous junction. sensitive to changes in muscular tension and rate of tension change. causes relaxation to prevent xs stress/injury. - Correct Answers ✅Golgi Tendon Organs Looks at how chemical energy is converted into mechanical energy - Correct Answers ✅Bioenergetics
The process when neural impulses that sense tension is greater than the impulses that cause muscles to contract, providing an inhibitory effect to the muscle spindles. - Correct Answers ✅Autogenic Inhibition An action that occurs in the presence of oxygen - Correct Answers ✅Aerobic Constantly repeating the same pattern of motion, which may place abnormal stresses on the body. - Correct Answers ✅Pattern Overload In and around joint capsule. Responds to pressure, acceleration and deceleration of joint. signals extreme joint positions. Initiates reflexive inhibitory response in surrounding muscles. - Correct Answers ✅Joint Receptors Movement of a body part away from the middle of the body (in the frontal plane). - Correct Answers ✅Abduction skull, rib cage, vertebral column 80 bones - Correct Answers ✅Axial skeleton Cellular structure that serves as a storage and transfer unit within the cells of the body for energy - Correct Answers ✅Adenosine triphosphate
Rotation of a joint toward the middle of the body. - Correct Answers ✅Internal Rotation The process of passively taking a muscle to the point on tension and holding the stretch for a minimum of 20 sec - Correct Answers ✅Static stretching The ability of the body to maintain postural equilibrium and support joints during movements. - Correct Answers ✅Stability The inhalation of air during the process of breathing - Correct Answers ✅Inspiration An action that is not dependent on oxygen for proper execution - Correct Answers ✅Anaerobic Rotation of a joint away from the middle of the body. - Correct Answers ✅External Rotation The ability of the body to repeatedly produce high levels of force for prolonged periods. - Correct Answers ✅Strength Endurance
Enlargement of skeletal muscle fibers in response to overcoming force from high volumes of tension - Correct Answers ✅Hypertrophy The process of using agonists and synergists to dynamically move the joint into a range of motion - Correct Answers ✅Active isolated Stretching These form junctions that are connected by muscles and connective tissue. - Correct Answers ✅Bones The maximum force that a muscle can produce in a single, voluntary effort, regardless of velocity. - Correct Answers ✅Maximal Strength Sites where movement occurs as a result of muscle contraction. - Correct Answers ✅Joints The number of training sessions performed during a specified period (usually 1 week) - Correct Answers ✅Training Frequency Small terminal branches of an artery, which end in capillaries