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| the range of movement through which a patient can actively move a joint using the adjacent muscles |
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| excersise traing thatis geared to provide sufficient cardio vascular overload to stimulate increases in cardiac out put |
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| contracting muscle that is resisted or counteracted by an antagonistic muscle |
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| something such as a muscle or disease thaat impedes the actoion or the effect of something |
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| stretching using momentum of a moving body or limb in an attempt to force it beyod it limit of motion by bouncing in or out of stretching position; can lead to injury and is considered not useful |
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| Cardiorespiratory endurance |
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| the ability of the heart, lungs, and muscles to work aerobically over an extended period of time during prolonged excersise |
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| method of physical excersise in which activities ae arranged by sets and the participant moves quickly from one set to another with minimum rest |
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| closed kinetic chain excersise |
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| pertrainingto compound in which carbon atoms are bonded to form a close ring |
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| the common form of muscle contraction that occurs in rhythmic activities when the muscle fibers shorten tension developement |
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| type of muscle contraction that occurs when the muscle fibers lengthen |
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| the time limit of a person's ability to maintain either a specific force or power involving muscular contractions |
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| a form of physical traing used in humans and applicable to greyhounds and horses, involes excersing over long distances contiuously but with variations in speed |
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| quality of being readily bent without breaking |
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| functional strength training |
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| classification of excersisewhich involves traing the body for daily life |
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| enlargement or overgrowth of an organ or part due to the increase of sizeof its constituent cells |
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| application of highly structured excersise with rest intervals using "supermaximum' effort ot overload specific systems of energy transfer |
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| muscle contracts and shortens at a constant rate of speed |
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| muscle contraction wihtout appreciable change or shortening between its origin and insertion |
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| muscle contraction without appreciable change in the force of contraction |
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| ability of muscles to exert tension over an extended period |
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| ability of a person or animal to exert force on physical objcts using muscles |
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| ability of muscles to produce force in or at a given time |
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| open kinetic chain excersise |
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| excersise where the hand or foot are free to move |
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| theory of training in which excersise at an intensity above that normally attained will induce highly specific adaptions, enabling body to function more efficiently |
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| the moving of a joint through its range of motion without exertion by the subject usually done by an examiner who moves the persons's body part manually |
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| sequenced strenght training program that varies training volume and intensity to optimize physiologic functional capacity and excersise performance by structuring training into time blocks of different duration |
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| a method of training muscle elastic strength and explosiveness to enhance altetic performance |
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| proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation |
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| therapeutic technique with questionable neurophysiological in which maximum static stretch is first performed |
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| human body adapts specifically to imposed demands |
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| slow twitch oxidative fibers |
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| fibers characterized as low force/power/speed production and high endurance |
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| the placement of muscles and theri connective tissues at their greatest length by steady force in the direction of lengthing |
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