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The five components of physical health
Ξ -:- Cardiorespiratory conditioning, muscular endurance, muscular strength,
flexibility, body composition
SPICES
Ξ -:- Social health, physical health, intellectual Health, cognitive health, emotional
health, spiritual health
Cardiorespiratory conditioning
Ξ -:- Endurance
Muscular endurance
Ξ -:- The amount of strength that can be repeated several times
Muscular strength
Ξ -:- The amount of strength in one repetition
Flexibility
Ξ -:- The range of motion in given joints
Body composition
Ξ -:- The amount of body fat relative to the total weight or as compared to the lean
mass
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What are three additional factors that are specific to the fitness regimens of athletes and sports
teams?
Ξ -:- Agility, speed and Mobility
Intellectual health
Ξ -:- The capacity to assimilate and integrate new information into one's thinking and
thought processes
Cognitive health
Ξ -:- Often grouped with mental health as it has mostly to do with how we process
information in the brain. It includes the way we see, or conceptualized, the world around it
includes brain functioning in the areas of conceptual and perceptual skill, language learning as
well as many other brain development functions
Emotional health
Ξ -:- Includes self-esteem, self-awareness, self-acceptance, self-image and our
capacities to deal with adversity and stress. This includes our ability to intimate, not just sexual,
with a significant other.
Spiritual health
Ξ -:- This is focused on the connection of ourselves with a higher power, a sense of
purpose, self-actualization, and an inner Joy. It is often described as self-acceptance,
repentance for misdeeds, a willingness to give to and forgive others and a desire to seek peace
with the community and World overall
Why is it important to touch on all things spices related as a personal trainer?
Ξ -:- Think about it and perhaps write a blog post
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What are the three categories of motivating factors for positive behavior
Ξ -:- Predisposing factors, enabling factors and reinforcing factors
Predisposing factors include
Ξ -:- Knowledge, attitude, believe, values and perceptions
Enabling factors
Ξ -:- Skills, resources, physical and mental capabilities
Reinforcing factors
Ξ -:- Praise from others comma rewards, encouragement and recognition
Which factors does the personal trainer typically fall into
Ξ -:- Reinforcing factors. We can recognize how the other two factors promote or
inhibit positive behavior and we can work to reinforce positive behavior with forms of
encouragement
What are some things that can be added to life to invoke positive change?
Ξ -:- Taking time for Meaningful reflection, reading a book, being creative, socializing
with friends and family, adding a physical component and healthy eating to daily living
What areas of exercise therapy would require a highly trained exercise physiologist or physician to
prescribe appropriate regimens
Ξ -:- Cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, joint injury, or obesity / metabolic
disorders which include diabetes and hypertension
What is the purpose of muscles
Ξ -:- To produce Force, maintain posture, allow for movement and produces Heat
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All muscle action originates and is controlled by what?
Ξ -:- The brain which sends and receives signals through the nervous system
What gets pulled during a muscle contraction?
Ξ -:- Tendons, the strong connective tissue that connects muscles to bones
What are the two points of muscle
Ξ -:- Origin and insertion
Define muscle origin
Ξ -:- The origin is considered the point at which the muscle joins the stationary bone
at the end closest to the center of the body
Define muscle insertion
Ξ -:- Insertion is the point at which the muscle joints moving boat. When a muscle
contracts the insertion moves toward the origin
How many muscles are in the average adult body
Ξ -:- 656 muscles
Muscles are joined together to form muscle groups to execute bodily movement. They can get
shorter and pull but they cannot push. True or false?
Ξ -:- True
In muscle groups, when one group pulls the other group pulls back and as one team pulls the other
team relaxes. True or false?
Ξ -:- True
What are the three muscle types?
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