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AEA Study Guide Questions and
Answers Grade A+
___________ is defined as the maximum force that can be exerted by a
muscle or a muscle group against a resistance
✓ Musclar Strength
What type of stretching activates the muscle spindles, specialized receptors
in the muscle that monitor muscle length change and the speed of muscle
length change?
✓ Ballistic Stretching
Name the six skill-related components of fitness
✓ Balance, coordination speed, power, agility, and reaction time
What is the difference between maximal heart rate and heart rate reserve
✓ Maximal HR is the highest HR a person can achieve. It is measured with
a max HR test or estimated with 220 minus your age. Heart rate reserve
is your miximal HR minus (-) your resting HR
How does compression lower your heart rate in the water?
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✓ The water compresses all body systems, included the vascular system,
causing a smaller venous load on the heart, reducing heart rate
What is the ACSM's (2018) recommended frequency for resistance training?
✓ two to three days per week for each major muscle group
Define body composition
✓ The body's relative pertentage of fat as compared to lean tissue (bone,
muscles, and organs).
List five benefits of regular exercise
✓ - Improves physical appearance
✓ - Increases functional capactiy
✓ -Heart beccomes stronger
✓ - Strengthens the walls of the blood vessels
✓ -Improves strength and endurance
✓ -Improves the efficiency of the nervous, lymph, and endocrine system
✓ - Improves psychological function
When calculating exercise intensity, a popular method is the Karvonen
Formula, which is known as the _____________
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✓ Heart Rate Reserve Method
_________ is a subjective method of assessing effort, strain, discomfort, and
fatigue experienced during exercise
✓ Rating of Preceirved Exertion
The skeletal system provides our bodies with support, protection, and
____________
✓ Structure
during the cardiac cycle, ____________ is the active contraction of the heart
muscle and __________ is the relaxation of the heart muscle.
✓ -Systole
✓ -Diastole
Which characteristic of muscle allows it to shorten and thicken?
✓ Contractibility
The ___________ muscle group flexes the leg at the knee
✓ Hamstring
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What is a motor neuron?
✓ Efferent neurons (nerve cells) that relay outgoing information from the
central nervous system to the muscle cells
Describe the Valsalva maneuver
✓ Holding one's breath while exerting, such as during exercise, creates
unequal pressure in the chest, causing blood pressure to drop and
decreasing blodo flow to the heart. Resuming normal breathign
creates a surge in blood to the heart, causing a sharp increase in
blood pressure
Name the five systems of the body most actively involved in movement and
exercise
✓ Skeletal, muscular, nervous, respiratory, and cardiovascular systems
In a muscle pair, the muscle that is actively contracting is referred to as the
____________, or prime mover
✓ Agonist
List the three type of muscle tissues in the human body
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AEA Study Guide Questions and
Answers Grade A+
___________ is defined as the maximum force that can be exerted by a
muscle or a muscle group against a resistance
✓ Musclar Strength
What type of stretching activates the muscle spindles, specialized receptors
in the muscle that monitor muscle length change and the speed of muscle
length change?
✓ Ballistic Stretching
Name the six skill-related components of fitness
✓ Balance, coordination speed, power, agility, and reaction time
What is the difference between maximal heart rate and heart rate reserve
✓ Maximal HR is the highest HR a person can achieve. It is measured with
a max HR test or estimated with 220 minus your age. Heart rate reserve
is your miximal HR minus (-) your resting HR
How does compression lower your heart rate in the water?
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✓ The water compresses all body systems, included the vascular system,
causing a smaller venous load on the heart, reducing heart rate
What is the ACSM's (2018) recommended frequency for resistance training?
✓ two to three days per week for each major muscle group
Define body composition
✓ The body's relative pertentage of fat as compared to lean tissue (bone,
muscles, and organs).
List five benefits of regular exercise
✓ - Improves physical appearance
✓ - Increases functional capactiy
✓ -Heart beccomes stronger
✓ - Strengthens the walls of the blood vessels
✓ -Improves strength and endurance
✓ -Improves the efficiency of the nervous, lymph, and endocrine system
✓ - Improves psychological function
When calculating exercise intensity, a popular method is the Karvonen
Formula, which is known as the _____________
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✓ Heart Rate Reserve Method
_________ is a subjective method of assessing effort, strain, discomfort, and
fatigue experienced during exercise
✓ Rating of Preceirved Exertion
The skeletal system provides our bodies with support, protection, and
____________
✓ Structure
during the cardiac cycle, ____________ is the active contraction of the heart
muscle and __________ is the relaxation of the heart muscle.
✓ -Systole
✓ -Diastole
Which characteristic of muscle allows it to shorten and thicken?
✓ Contractibility
The ___________ muscle group flexes the leg at the knee
✓ Hamstring
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What is a motor neuron?
✓ Efferent neurons (nerve cells) that relay outgoing information from the
central nervous system to the muscle cells
Describe the Valsalva maneuver
✓ Holding one's breath while exerting, such as during exercise, creates
unequal pressure in the chest, causing blood pressure to drop and
decreasing blodo flow to the heart. Resuming normal breathign
creates a surge in blood to the heart, causing a sharp increase in
blood pressure
Name the five systems of the body most actively involved in movement and
exercise
✓ Skeletal, muscular, nervous, respiratory, and cardiovascular systems
In a muscle pair, the muscle that is actively contracting is referred to as the
____________, or prime mover
✓ Agonist
List the three type of muscle tissues in the human body
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