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Exercise Physiology Exam 2
Aging and Exercise
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02/26/2005

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What are three major benefits to a healthy lifestyle?
Definition
You live longer, delay the risk of disability, and disability is compressed into fewer years.
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What is sedentary Death Syndrome?
Definition
Inactivity alone results in a constellation of problems and conditions that eventually lead to premature death.
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What are the sedentary death syndrome related conditions? (11)
Definition
High triglycerides, high blood cholesterol, high blood glucose, type 2 diabetes, HTN, MI, obesity, chronic back pain, stroke, falls resulting in hip fractures, vertebra/femoral fractures.
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Define Physical Activity.
Definition
Body movement produced by muscle action that increases energy expenditure.
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define exercise.
Definition
planned, structured, repetetive and purposeful physical activity.
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define physical fitness.
Definition
attributes related to how well one performs physical activity.
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define health.
Definition
physical, mental and social well-being, not just the absence of disease.
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define longevity.
Definition
length of life.
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What are the components of health-related physical fitness? (4)
Definition
Cardiovascular fitness, flexibility of the lower back, hamstrings and shoulder/wrist, abdominal strength and endurance, body composition.
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What are the goals of "Healthy People 2010"?
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Increase quality and quantity of life, and eliminate health disparities.
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Does strength loss begin later in women or men?
Definition
Women
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Between what ages is strength the greatest?
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20-40.
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Which declines faster; power or strength?
Definition
power.
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Which declines sooner and faster; eccentric or concentric strength?
Definition
Concentric Strength.
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Which deteriorates faster; arm or leg strength?
Definition
leg.
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Strength loss in the elderly is directly related to what two things?
Definition
limited mobility and fitness status.
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What leads to decreased strength with age?
Definition
Atrophy, hypoplasia, increased connective tissue and fat, decreased GH and IGF-I
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What leads to decreased power with age?
Definition
Decrfeased muscle mass, incomplete motor-unit activation.
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What leads to decreased endurance with age?
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Decreased capillaries/fiber, decreased mitochondrial enzymes, atrophy.
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Describe fiber type grouping that occurs with increasing age.
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Type one groups together, and type two groups together. This is not typical. We are unsure of the implications of this.
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How much faster is VO2 decline in sedentary as compared to active people, with age?
Definition
sedentary VO2 decreases 2xs faster than active individuals' VO2.
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What are the five factors that contribute to decline in VO2max?
Definition
Inactivity, Heredity, Increase in body mass, Decrease in muscle mass, Decreased oxygen delivery.
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How is CO affected by age?
Definition
HRmax is decreased with increasing age as a result of decreased beta adrenergic stimulation. Stroke volume also decreases due to contractile function.
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How can an active, healthy elderly individual compensate for the decrease in their HR max?
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Increase their stroke volume with exercise.
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How is elderly blood flow different in comparison to young people?
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They have 20-30% less leg blood flow and vascular conductance at a similar submax VO2 in the elderly. But they hav eincreased O2 extraction.
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What are the structural changes in the lung with age? (4)
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Decreased elastic recoil, increased RV, decreased alveolar surface area, decreased respiratory muscle strength.
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What are the functional lung changes that occur with age?
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Decreased minute ventilation, decreased expiratory flow rate, decreased fev1, decreased MVV, decreased VC, decreased minute ventilation/VO2
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What happens to reaction times and movement times with age? How can this be combatted?
Definition
Reaction and movement times decrease with age. However, staying active can greatly reduce the impact of this.
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Many age-related changes in muscle, body composition, bonemass and atherosclerosis are related to what?
Definition
Endocrine (hormone) changes in the pituitary, pancreas, adrenal and thyroid glands.
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What is thyroid dysfunction?
Definition
Metabolic function including glucose metabolism and protein synthesis.
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What does the pituitary release less of with age?
Definition
TSH
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how does body mass change with age?
Definition
It increases until 5th or 6th decade, then decreases.
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What happens to fat mass with increasing age?
Definition
It increases, with increased abdominal girth.
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What happens to fat free mass with increasing age?
Definition
It decreases, even in the active. But it can be attenuated with activity.
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What two things affect bone mass?
Definition
estrogen and inactivity.
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What happens to bone mass in people over 60?
Definition
It decreases 30-50%.
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Training can induce what four improvements in the elderly?
Definition
HRrest, Qmax, SVmax, (a-v)O2
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What is atypical about muscle fiber hypertrophy with resistance training in the elderly?
Definition
Both type 1 and type 2 hypertrophy w/ resistance training in the elderly. In the young individual, only type 2 would hypertrophy. this speaks to the lack of movement in the sedentary elderly.
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What was the important finding in a study of structured vs unstructured activity in the elderly?
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That improvements could be seen doing lifestyle exercises that could be incorporated easily into a daily routine, without having to go to the gym. Activity can be related to every day activities to increase compliance and ease.
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