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NASM EXAM STUDY COMPLETE
1. Subjective Information
Answer Information that is gathered from a prospective client togive the health and fitness
professional feedback regarding personal history such as occupation, lifestyle and medical
background.
2. Program Design
Answer A purposeful system or plan put together to help an individualachieve a specific goal.
3. Biomechanics
Answer A study that uses principals of physics to quantitatively study howforces interact within a
living body.
4. Dietary Supplement
Answer A substance that completes or makes an addition to dailydietary intake.
5. Proprioceptively enriched environment
Answer An unstable (but controlled) environ-ment where exercises are performed that causes
the body to use its internal balanceand stabilization mechanisms
6. Reactive Training
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Answer Exercises that use quick, powerful movements involving aneccentric contraction
immediately followed by an explosive concentric contraction.
7. Obesity
Answer Fastest growing health problem in the US
8. The Nervous System
Answer It is a conglomeration of billions of cells forming nerves that are specifically designed to
provide a communication network within the humanbody
9. nervous system, skeletal system and muscular system
Answer kinetic chain
10. Heart
Answer Muscular pump that rhythmically contracts to push blood throughout thebody
11. Dynamic Joint Stabilization
Answer The ability of the kinetic chain to stabilize a jointduring movement.
12. Speed
Answer The ability to move the body in one intended direction as fast as possible.
13. The Core
Answer The lumbo-pelvic -hip complex and the thoracic and cervical spine,where the body's
center of gravity is located
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14. Flexibility
Answer The normal extensibility of all soft tissues that allow the full range ofmotion of a joint.
15. Nutrition
Answer The sum of the processes by which an animal or plant takes in anduses food
substances.
16. Blood
Answer Acts as a medium to deliver and collect essential products to and fromthe tissues of
the body.
17. Protein
Answer Amino acids linked by peptide bonds.
18. Diabetes
Answer Chronic metabolic disorder, in which the body's ability to produceinsulin or to
utilize glucose is altered
19. Rate of force production
Answer How quickly a muscle can generate force
20. Superior
Answer Positioned above a point of reference.
21. Dynamic Range of Motion
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Answer The combination of flexibility and the nervoussystem's ability to control this range
efficiently.
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