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1
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What are Muscle Imbalances?

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Alteration of muscle length surrounding a joint.

2
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What is Chronic Disease?

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An incurable illness or health condition the persists for a year or more, resulting in functional limitations and the need for ongoing care.

note: can be preventable and manageable through early detection, treatment, and healthy living.

3
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What is Obesity?

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The condition of being considerably overweight, and refers to a person with a body mass index of 30 or greater, OR who is at least 30lbs over the recommended weight for their height.

4
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What are the healthy, borderline and high-risk levels for Blood Lipids/Cholesterol?

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Healthy Level: less than 200mg/dL
Borderline Level: 200-239 mg/dL
High-Risk Level: 240 mg/dL

5
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What are Blood Lipids also known as?

What are they carried by?

What is a healthy level?

A

Also known as cholesterol and triglycerides, blood lipids are carried in the bloodstream by protein molecules known as high-density lipoproteins (HDL) and low-density lipoproteins (LDL), or “bad cholesterol.” Healthy level is less than 200mg/dL.

6
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What qualifies as Overweight?

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Refers to a person with a body mass index of 25 to 29.9, or who is between 25-30lbs over the recommended weight for their height.

7
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What is Lumbar Lordisis?

A

Curve in lumbar spine associated with back pain.

8
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What does ACL stand for?

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Anterior Cruciate Ligament (in knee)

9
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What is Diabetes Mellitus?

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Metabolic disorder caused by insulin deficiency, which impairs carbohydrate usage and enhances usage of fats and proteins.

10
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What’s the difference between a sprain vs strain?

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Sprain: injured ligaments
Strain: injured tendons or muscles

11
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What is Neuromuscular Stabilization?

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Body control

12
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What does “Deconditioned” mean?

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A state of lost physical fitness, which may include muscle imbalances, decreased flexibility, and a lack of core and joint stability.

13
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What is the cumulative sensory input to the central nervous system from all mechanoreceptors that’s sense body position and limb movement.

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Proprioception

14
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What is a Proprioceptively Enriched Environment?

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An unstable (yet controllable) physical situation in which exercises are performed that causes the body to use its internal balance and stabilization mechanisms.

15
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What is the Muscle Action Spectrum?

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Concentric acceleration, eccentric decceleration, and isometric stabilization.

16
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What is Integrated Training? Give examples of types of training.

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Incorporates all forms of training in an integrated fashion (progressive system).
Includes flexibility training; cardiorespiratory training; core training; balance training; plyometric (reactive) training; speed, agility, and quickness training; and resistance training.

17
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What is the Optimum Performance Training (OPT) Model

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A training program developed for people with structural imbalances and susceptibility to injury that involves a process of programming that systematically progresses any client to any goal. Built on the foundation of principles that progressively and systematically allow any client to achieve optimal levels of physiologic, physical, and performance adaptions.

18
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What are some physical benefits of the OPT Model?

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  1. Decreases body fat
  2. Increases lean muscle mass (muscle)
  3. Increases tissue tensile strength (tendons, ligaments, muscles)
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What are some performance benefits of the OPT Model?

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  1. Strength
  2. Power
  3. Endurance
  4. Flexbility
  5. Speed
  6. Agility
  7. Balance
20
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What are some physiologic benefits of the OPT Model?

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  1. Improves cardiorespiratory efficiency
  2. Enhances beneficial endocrine (hormone) and serum lipid (cholesterol) adaptations
  3. Increase metabolic efficiency (metabolism)
  4. Increases bone density
21
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What level is the Stabilization Endurance Level in Phases of Training of the OPT model.

What are the primary goals?

What type of exercises are done? What is the level of load andrepetitions?

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  • Phase 1 = Stabilization Endurance Training

Main Goals:
- Increase muscular ENDURANCE and STABILITY while developing optimal NEUROMUSCULAR EFFICIENCY (coordination).

Achieved:
- Typically done in circuit fashion (short rest periods) with low loads and high number of repetitions.

22
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What is the definition of Phases of Training in the OPT Model?

What are they?

A

Smaller divisions of training progressions that fall within three building blocks of training:
Stabilization Level, Strength Level, and Power.

23
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What is Muscular Endurance?

A

Muscle’s ability to contract for an extended period.

24
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What is Neuromuscular Efficiency?

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The ability of the neuromuscular system to enable all muscles to efficiently work together in all planes of motion.

25
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What 2 things can help the client achieve stabilization and neuromuscular efficiency?

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achieve stabilization and neuromuscular efficiency by having appropriate combination of:

  • Proper ALIGNMENT (posture) of the human movement system (kinetic chain)
    and
  • The STABILIZATION STRENGTH necessary to maintain that alignment
26
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What are Multiplantar Movements?

A

Movements in all directions

27
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What level is Strength Endurance Training Training in the OPT Model?

What is the emphasis/goal?

How is this achieved?

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Emphasis/Goal:
- To enhance stabilization endurance while increasing Prime Mover strength

  • Perform a superset with exercises that use similar joint dynamics. The first is a regular strength exercise that works on the prime mover, and immediately afterwards, the second exercise challenges the stabilization muscles.
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What is a set of two exercises that are performed back-to-back, without any rest time in between them.

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Superset

29
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What is a Prime Mover?

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The muscle that acts as the initial and main source of motive power.

30
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What is a Superset?

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Set of two exercises that are performed back-to-back, without any rest time in between them.
Example: stable environment for first exercise (bench press), less stable environment for second exercise (stability ball push up).

31
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What Phase number is the Power Level of Phases of Training?

How does a client enter the Power Level Phase?

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  • Phase 5 = Power Level Phase

- Entered only after completion of Stabilization and Strength levels first.

32
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What are the Goals of the Power Level Phase of the OPT model?

What level is this in the model?

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  • To enhance neuromuscular efficiency
  • Enhance prime mover strength
  • Increase rate of force production

-level 5

33
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What is the Rate of Force Production?

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Ability of muscles to exert maximal force output in a minimal amount of time.

34
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How many phases are in the OPT Model? List them.

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5 total Phases:
Phase 1: Stabilization Endurance Training
Phase 2: Strength Endurance Training
Phase 3: Hypertrophy
Phase 4: Maximal Strength Training
Phase 5: Power Training
35
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What phase level is the Maximal Strength Phase?

What is the goal?

What level of loads and repetitions and rest are used?

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  • Phase 4

Goal:
-Maximum prime mover strength

Achieved through:
-high loads, low repetitions (1-5), with longer rest periods.

(versus 6-12 in Hypertrophy phase and 8-12 in Strength Endurance phase)

36
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What phase level is the Hypertrophy Phase?

What are the goals at this level and who is it for?

What level loads and repetitions are used?

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  • Phase 3 (optional)
  • Goal to achieve optimal levels of muscular hypertrophy (increase muscle size) like bodybuilders

Achieved through:
- Moderate to higher loads, moderate to lower repetitions (6-12)

(As opposed to 8-12 in the Strength endurance phase, and 1-5 in the Maximal strength phase).

37
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What sort of exercises are performed in the power level of the opt model?

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Achieved through a Superset of:

  • a traditional strength exercise (heavy load)
  • a power exercise (light load as fast as possible)
  • of similar joint dynamics.
38
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How do you calculate body mass index in both European and American measurement systems?

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703 x weight (lbs)/height^2 (inches^2)

weight (kg)/height^2 (meters^2)