Chapter 1: Why study physiology of exercise? Flashcards
(18 cards)
Define: Exercise Physiology
A branch of general physiology having to do with the improvement of human functional capacities.
Functional capacity is another way of referring to what?
Fitness
Optimal levels of physical activity and fitness are conducive to what?
Lifelong good health can be achieved through optimal levels physical activity and fitness.
By improving what, and increasing what, can we reduce obesity and other chronic diseases?
By improving eating habits and increasing physical activity, we can reduce obesity and other chronic diseases.
A key part of any weight control effort is what?
Physical activity is a key part of any weight control effort.
Reducing time that children spend doing which activity seems to be effective for controlling weight in children?
Reducing time watching television appears to help to control weight in children.
Increasing physical activity can help reduce many risks for illnesses associated with obesity, maintain weight loss, and prevent weight gain for which weight status of people?
Overweight people can prevent further weight gain, maintain weight loss, and decrease risks of illnesses associated with obesity by increasing physical activity.
In terms of exercise physiology and improving athletic performance, coaching is considered to be both an ___ and a ____ .
Coaching is considered to be an art and a science.
Sound principles in which two topics help a coach to better motivate an athlete?
Sound principles in psychology and sociology help a coach to motivate an athlete.
A coach with a sound ground in exercise physiology allows a coach to better understand the nature of the body’s responses to what?
Training Stimuli.
A coach must have a sound ground in exercise physiology to understand the immediate adaptations, or ____ responses, to training stimuli, as well as the long term adaptations, or ____ adaptations.
Immediate, or acute adaptations; long term, or chronic adaptations.
A coach well trained in this branch of exercise physiology would understand the effects of training in the heat or the cold and may reduce the number of athletes dying of heatstroke on the field.
Environmental exercise physiology.
Three subjects that comprise basic exercise science include what?
Kinesiology, physiology, and motor learning.
What kind of person professes a commitment to a learned discipline with a well-defined body of knowledge?
A professional professes her commitment to a learned discipline with a well-defined body of knowledge.
A practical advantage of being professionally trained includes being able to better predict what?
Professionally trained people can better predict results.
A practical advantage of being professionally trained includes better controlling which two processes?
Professionals can better control the conditioning and training process.
A practical advantage of being professionally trained includes gaining better results in order to protect an athlete’s what?
Professionals can gain better results in order to protect an athlete’s health.
A hunch, hypothesis, theory, and principle are all examples of various sources of what?
Various sources of evidence include a hunch, hypothesis, theory, and principle.
