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ISSA Certified Personal Trainer Exam
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ISSA Certified Personal Trainer ExamMuscular, cardiopulmonary, and metabolic adaptations to exercise are
known as the training effect. - -True
-The body's automatic tendency to maintain a constant internal body
environment through various processes is called: - -Homeostasis
-What does BMR stand for and what does it mean? - -Basal Metabolic Rate -
Amount of calories you would burn if you stayed in bed all day.
-Anabolism and catabolism occur at the same time throughout the body. - -
True
-Calories - -A calorie is a unit of heat
one calorie is the energy required to raise 1 kilogram of water by 1 degree
Celsius
the preferred unit in metabolic studies and nutrition labels is the kilocalorie
(Kcal)
-The primary (not initial) fuel during endurance exercise is - -Fatty acids
-The molecule used for storing and transferring energy in the body is called:
- -Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP)
-The ATP/CP pathway is the primary pathway used for activities lasting two
minutes or greater - -False
-About 98% of the human body is composed of only six elements: oxygen,
carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium and phosphorous. - -True
-The respiratory system is responsible for - -Supplying oxygen to the body
Eliminating carbon dioxide in the body
Helps regulate the body's pH balance
-The circulatory system consists of - -Heart, arteries, veins
-The nervous system is made up of - -central nervous system and
peripheral nervous system
-Excretion is a function of the digestive system - -True
-Hormones are classified - -Steroids, amino acid derivatives, and peptides
, -Hemoglobin is an oxygen transporting protein in red blood cells - -True
-The main purpose of hormones are - -To alter the state of synthesis of your
cellular protein
change the rate of enzyme activity
change the rate of transport of nutrients through the cell membrane
-Tendons - -Connect muscle to bone
-The average human body has how many bones? - -206
-What are tendons? - -An extension of muscle fibers and connect muscle to
bone
-What are the anatomical terms for front and back? - -Front: anterior
back: posterior
-Type one muscle fibers are: - -Predominately aerobic
-Cardiovascular exercise/aerobic exercise results in: - -Mitochondrial
adaptions
-Type 2 muscle fibers are - -Not entirely aerobic
-Muscular hypotrophy - -Increase in muscle fiber size
-In a concentric contraction, the muscle lengthens to produce movements -
-False
-Kinesiology - -the science or the study of movement, and the active and
passive structures involved
-An isometric contraction is when - -A muscle does not lengthen or shorten
as it contracts
-True synergy occurs when a muscle contracts to stop the secondary action
of another muscle (T/F) - -True
-An example of an antagonist muscle is - -Triceps during a biceps curl
-T/F Adduction is movement of a body part away from the midline of the
body. - -False
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