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| American College of Sports Medicine |
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| Acute exercise vs. Chronic exercise |
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Acute--now
Chronic--over-time/training |
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| If obesity rates continue to increase, when will 100% of the American population be obese? |
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| What is exercise physiology? |
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| How the physiological system responds to human movement |
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| The study of physical principles that underline human motion |
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| What is the performance continuum? |
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| The fact that people are always at different levels of performance/fitness |
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| What are the three types of muscle, and where are they? |
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Definition
Cardiac--heart
Smooth muscle--arteries
Skeletal muscle--all voluntary muscles |
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| What is the composition of muscles? |
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Definition
75% water
20% proteins
5% minerals |
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| What are the different types and functions of skeletal muscles? |
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Definition
Tendons--muscle to bone
Ligaments--bone to bone
Bones-structure
Muscles--movement |
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| How many muscle fibers are present in the body? |
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| A grouping of muscle cells |
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| The connection of muscle to nervous system |
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| How many motor neurons are present in the body? |
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Definition
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| What is the ratio of muscles to muscle neurons in the eye and the calf? |
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| A basic unit of contraction |
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| What is a sarcomere made up of? |
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Definition
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| What are the different types of muscle action and what do those contractions do? |
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Concentric--shorten
Eccentric--lengthen
Isometric--Tension w/o movement |
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| How long does the CP system last? |
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| Where is glycogen stored? |
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Definition
| In the liver and skeletal muscle |
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| What are the three types of energy? |
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Definition
Free Fatty Acids
Glucose
Creatine Phosphate |
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| What are free fatty acids combined with to make ATP? |
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| What does Beta-Oxidation do? |
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| Converts free fatty acids to ATP |
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| What are the three types of muscle fibers? |
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Definition
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| What kind of twitch is Type I and what pathway does it use? |
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Definition
| Slow twitch oxidative, aerobic pathway |
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| What kind of twitch is Type IIa? |
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Definition
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| What kind of twitch is Type IIb and what pathway does it use? |
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| Fast twitch glycolytic, anaerobic pathway |
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| In Type I muscle fibers, what color is it? What type of meat is it? What is the main fuel source? And what percentage of muscles does it make up? |
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Definition
| Red fibers, dark meat, fuel source is fat, 40% of muscles |
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| In Type IIb muscle fibers, what color is it? What type of meat is it? What is the main fuel source? And what percentage of muscles does it make up? |
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Definition
| White fibers, white meat, fuel source is glucose, 60% of muscles |
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| What is the cardiovascular system responsible for? |
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Definition
| Connects tissues of the body together |
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