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Acute Disease

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Suddenly occurring medical condition that can be treated and healed in a short period of time.

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Chronic disease

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A medical condition that persists without quickly going away, or being cured all together.

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Being overweight or obese, greatly increases the chances of?

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Developing a chronic disease.

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Cardiovascular disease

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Is a broad term, describing numerous problems of the heart and blood vessels, including stroke, heart attacks, heart, failure, heart valve, problems, and arrhythmias

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One of the primary risk factors for heart, disease, and stroke, which are the global leading causes of death.

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Hypertension

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Define Cholesterol

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A waxy substance found in the blood that is made up of a combination of protein and fatty acids.

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Diabetes

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Is the disease in which blood glucose levels are too high. Glucose comes from the food we eat.

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Define Insulin

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A hormone produced by the pancreas that helps glucose get into cells to provide energy for work.

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Define Cancer

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Abnormal growth of cells that can result from a wide range of genetic and environmental factors.

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Define COPD

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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is an umbrella term for lung disease, is characterized by increased breathlessness, airflow, limitation, and accelerated decline of lung function.

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What are two of the most common issues at the foot and ankle?

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Sprains and plantar fasciitis. And ankle sprain occurs when a person, rolls, twist or turns and ankle with stretches or tears, ligaments, whereas plantar fasciitis causes pain in the planter, fascia tissue located on the underside of the foot.

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Define LPHC

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Lumbopelvic hip complex is made up of the lumbar spine, pelvis, abdomen, and hip Musko, skeletal structures. It is more commonly referred to as the core. The LPHC is an important anatomical structure because it connects the upper and lower halves of a persons body.

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Regular exercise and increase physical activity improve what?

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Numerous types of Musko, skeletal dysfunction and chronic disease.

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Forecasting is?

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Predicting how many clients will need to be serviced to support a desired annual financial goal.

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Define marketing

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Process of communicating how a specific product or service will meet the wants and needs of a potential client.

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Four P’s of marketing

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Product, price, promotion, and place.

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Define intrinsic motivation

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The motivation to do some thing that comes from within an individual. It is strongly related to long-term adherence.

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Define extrinsic motivation

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When someone does something for rewards or recognition.

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Common barriers to exercise include

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Lack of time, unrealistic, goals, lack of social support, social, physique, anxiety, lack of convenience, and ambivalence, but all barriers can be either eliminated or minimized with some basic strategies that provide realistic solutions or alternatives

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Ambivalence to exercise occurs when

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Someone has mixed feelings about exercise and likely see is pros and cons to participation.

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Instrumental support includes

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The tangible things that assist people with the ability to exercise, such as providing transportation to a fitness facility, assisting with childcare, or packing someone’s gym bag.

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Emotional support comes from

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Being caring, empathetic, and concerned about someone’s experience with exercise.

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Define empathy

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The ability to relate to the way another person feels or views a situation.

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Informational support includes

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Providing accurate and current information about fitness and exercise. It is one of the main reasons why someone will seek out a fitness professional.

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Companionship support is when
Someone exercises with another person.
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The stages of change include
Precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, and maintenance.
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S.M.A.R.T
Specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and timely.
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The human movement system includes
Integration of the nervous, skeletal, and muscular systems.
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The nervous system provides
Provides sensory (afferent) and motor (efferent) information.
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The PNS, peripheral nervous system contains
Contains different types of sensory receptors, such as mechanoreceptors, nociceptors, chemoreceptors, and photoreceptors.
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The nervous system includes
The CNS (brain and spinal cord) and PNS (somatic and autonomic nervous system).
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What is the functional unit of the nervous system?
Neuron
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What are two important sensory receptors
The muscle spindle and Golgi tendon organ
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The nervous system requires different electrolytes for proper function, which include
Sodium, potassium, magnesium, and water.
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What are the three stages of motor skill development?
Cognitive, associative, and autonomous
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The skeletal system provides
Support for the body and protects the internal organs.
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What are the two divisions of the skeletal system?
Axial and appendicular
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What are the five categories of bones
Long, short, flat, irregular, and sesamoid.
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Bone growth occurs throughout life in remodels itself with specialized cells called
Osteoblast and osteoclasts
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Name the five distinct regions of the vertebral column
Cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacrum, and coccyx
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What does Osteo kinematic describe?
Bone movement
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What does arthrokinematic describe?
Movement at the joint surface
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Name the six classifications of synovial joints
Gliding (plane), condyloid, hinge, saddle, pivot, and ball-and-socket joints
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Barriers to exercise
Not enough time unrealistic goals Lack of support Social physique Convenience
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Five stages of change
Precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, maintenance
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Common vitamins, with adverse effects, when consumed in excess
Zinc, iron, vitamin D, vitamin a
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Fluid recommendations
6 to 12 ounces every 15 to 20 minutes of exercise 16 to 24 ounces per pound lost during exercise
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Macro calories
Protein 4 cal/gram Carb 4 cal/gram Fat 9 cal/gram Alcohol 7 cal/gram
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Recommended macros
Protein 10%-35% Carb 45-65% Fat 20-35%
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Amino acids
20 total, 8 essential
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Protein intake
Sedentary = .4g/lb Strength = .5-.8g/lb Endurance = .5-.6g/lb
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Exercise tools
Free weights, machines, cable, machines, elastic bands, medicine, balls, kettle, bells, body weight, TRX, Bosu, ball, stability ball
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Program design continuum: Muscle Endurance/stabilization
Reps: 12 to 20 Sets: 1-3 Intensity: 50%-70% Tempo: slow (4/2/1) Rest: 0-90 seconds
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Program design continuum Muscular Development/Hypertrophy
Reps: 6 to 12 Set: 3 to 5 Intensity: 70% - 85% Tempo: Moderate (2/0/2) Rest: 0-60 seconds
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Program design continuum Max Strength
Reps: 1 to 5 Sets: 4-6 Intensity: 85% - 100% Tempo: fast Rest: 3 to 5 minutes
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Program design continuum Power
Reps: 1 to 10 Sets: 3-6 Intensity: 35% to 45% Tempo: fast Rest: 3-5minutes
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ATP Recovery
20-30 seconds = 50% 40 sec = 75% 60 sec = 85% 3 min = 100%
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Acute variables of training
Repetition Set Training intensity Rep tempo Rest interval Training volume Training frequency Training duration Exercise selection
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What does diastolic pressure measure?
The pressure in your arteries when your heart rests between beats
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What does systolic pressure measure?
The pressure in your arteries when your heat beats
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Main purpose of circuit training?
Full body workouts that waste little time
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What is the main purpose of aerobic training or cardio?
Build endurance, burns, calories, and suits athlete training
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What is the main purpose of interval training
High intensity training them to find muscles and increases metabolism
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What is the main purpose of flexibility training?
Increases mobility and the range of motion, as well as improve posture and balance
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Define homeostasis
Homeostasis is the state of study, internal, physical, and chemical conditions maintained by the body
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Name the 3 levels with phases included in OPT model
Level 1: Stabilization Phase 1: Stabilization Endurance Level 2: Strength Phase 2: Strength Endurance Phase 3: Muscular Development Phase 4: Maximal Strength Level 3: Power Phase 5: Power
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What is the sympathetic nervous system responsible for?
The Bodys automatic reaction to high stress and emergency situation is also known as fight or flight
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What does the parasympathetic nervous system control?
Control the Every day, normal functioning within the body during a relaxed state
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What is the name of the energy source within muscle cells that make muscle contraction possible?
Adenosine tri phosphate, also known as ATP is the chemical energy substance created by the body from nutrients that fuels muscle contraction from within the muscle cells
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What are the names of the message carriers that signal both stretch reflex in autogenic inhibition during static stretching
The sensory neurons and inhibitory neurons
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Which phases of resistance training utilize 2/0/2 tempo in repetitions?
Phases two, three, and four (strength)
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Define arteriosclerosis
A cardiovascular disorder that results from hardening and narrowing of the arteries, specifically due to the buildup of excess plaque
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Which of the bodies six major systems is living tissue responsible for the essential function of hemopoiesis
The skeletal system has many important functions, including the formation of blood cells (hemopoiesis), movement, support, and protection and storage of blood cells
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What is the regression formula for maximal heart rate calculation?
208-(0.7 x age)
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When does triple flexion/extension occur?
When the hip, ankle, and knee joints are all flex or extended at the same time; this occurs during gait mechanics as well as cable rotation exercises
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How many vertebrae in the vertebral column
33
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What is the average resting heart rate for females and males?
The average resting heart rate is approximately 75 for females and 70 for males
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Optimal, tissue, recovery, normal joint, arthrokinematic’s, and neuromuscular efficiency are all reasons and benefits of which type of training
Core training, promotes, neuromuscular, control, tissue, recovery, force, couple, relationships, joint, arthrokinematic’s, and neuromuscular efficiency
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Type one muscle fibers
Slow twitch, or smaller in size, produce less force, and are fatigue resistant
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Type II muscle fibers
Fast twitch, or larger in size, produce more force, and fatigue quickly
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The cardio respiratory system is comprised of?
The heart, blood, blood vessels, and lungs
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The respiratory system is comprised of?
Respiratory airways, lungs and respiratory muscles
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Named the area where the heart is contained
Mediastinum
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Normal heart range
60 to 100 bpm
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Each side of the heart has two chambers
An atrium and ventricle
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The right atrium
Gathers deoxygenated blood returning to the heart from the body, and then sent it to the right ventricle, and to the lungs for oxygenation
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The left atrium
Receives oxygenated blood from the lungs and sent it to the left ventricle to be pumped out into the body
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The pulmonary artery
Transports deoxygenated blood from the right ventricle to the lungs
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The pulmonary vein
Transports oxygenated blood from the lungs to the left atrium
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Define stroke volume
The amount of blood pumped out of the heart with each contraction Ultimately a product of end systolic volume minus end diastolic volume
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End diastolic volume
The volume of blood in the ventricle prior to contraction
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End systolic volume
The amount of blood present in the ventricle after contraction
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Normal blood pressure
Is a systolic less than 120 MM Hg, with a diastolic of less than 80 MM Hg
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Arteries transport ?
Blood away from the heart to the body
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Veins transport?
Blood back to the heart
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Capillaries function?
As an exchange channel between the vessels and bodily tissues
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Normal respiratory rate
12 to 16 breaths per minute and relies on the primary respiratory muscles, the diaphragm and intercostals
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Define diffusion
The process of getting oxygen from the environment to the bodies tissues
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Bradypnea? Tachypnea?
Bradypnea a respiratory rate of less than eight breaths per minute considered too slow and tachypnea a rate of greater than 24 breaths per minute, considered too high
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What controls the majority of functions for the endocrine system?
Hypothalamus and pituitary gland
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The endocrine system is comprised of
Glands that secrete hormones
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When hormones are released into the bloodstream, what happens?
They are protected by transporters, which carry them to the intended organ or structure, where they bind with the receptor to stimulate a particular function
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Cortisol
Considered a catabolic hormone, is produced by the adrenal cortex, and is sensitive to blood sugar and sleep. May be used to aid in recovery from exercise, and as a marker of overtraining.
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Thyroid hormones functions in the body
Metabolism and increasing bone mineral density through the secretion of calcitonin
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The digestive system consists of
The oral cavity (head and mouth), the upper G.I. system (stomach, small intestine [duodenum,jejunum,and ileum], and the lower, G.I. tract (large intestine, rectum and anus) as well as liver, gallbladder, and pancreas
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Describe cardiac output
Beats per minute multiplied by the amount of blood pumped per beat
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The blood vessels that collect blood from capillaries to merge with beans, and begin the transport of blood back to the heart are known as
Venules
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At what measurement is a cholesterol reading considered high?
Greater than 200 mg/DL
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Vessels that moves blood away from the heart to the rest of the body are known as
Arteries

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