Mccurdy Fitness For Life Final Review

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Positive component of health that includes having a good quality of life and a good sense of well-being exhibited by a positive outlook on life.

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Wellness

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Parts of physical fitness that help a person stay healthy; includes cardiorespiratory endurance, flexibility, muscular endurance, strength, power and body composition.

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Health-Related Fitness

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Ability to exercise your entire body for a long time without stopping.

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Cardiorespiratory Endurance

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Ability to use your joints fully through a wide range of motion without injury.

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Flexibility

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Ability to use your muscles many times without tiring.

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Muscular Endurance

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Maximal amount of force your muscles can produce.

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Strength

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Capacity to use strength quickly; involves both strength and speed.

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Power

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The proportional amounts of body tissues, including muscle, bone, body fat and other tissues that make up the body.

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Body Composition

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Parts of fitness that help a person perform well in sports/activities requiring certain skills; the part include agility, balance, coordination, reaction time and speed.

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Skill-Related Fitness

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Ability to change your body position quickly and control your body's movements

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Agility

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Ability to maintain an upright posture while standing still or moving.

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Balance

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Ability to use your senses together with your body parts or to use two or more body parts together.

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Coordination

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Amount of time it takes to move once you recognize the need to act.

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Reaction Time

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Ability to perform a movement or cover a distance in a short time.

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Speed

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A series of activities that prepares the body for more vigorous exercise.

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Warm Up

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How often a task is performed; in the FITT formula, it refers to how often physical activity is performed.

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Frequency

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Vigorousness of a task; in the FITT formula, it refers to how hard you perform a physical activity.

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Intensity

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Length of a task; in the FITT formula it refers to the optimal length of an activity session designed to improve fitness and promote health and wellness.

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Time

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The specific kind of task; in the FITT formula it refers to the specific kind of physical activity that is performed.

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Type

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Process of establishing objectives to accomplish; the objectives for lifetime fitness are to achieve good fitness, health and wellness and to adopt a healthy lifestyle.

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Goal Setting

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Goal relating to what you do rather than the product resulting from what you do.

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Process Goal

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Goal relating to what you get as a result of what you do.

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Product Goal

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Goal that can be reached in a short time, such as a few days or weeks.

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Short Term Goal

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Goal that takes months or even years to accomplish.

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Long Term Goal

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Goal that is specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and timely.

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SMART Goal

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The most basic law of physical activity, which states that the only way to produce fitness and health benefits through physical activity is to require your body to do more than it normally does.

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Principle of Overload

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Principle stating that the amount and intensity of your exercise should be increased gradually.

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Principle of Progression

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Principle stating that the type of exercise you perform determines the type of benefit you receive.

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Principle of Specificity

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Principle stating that you need to give your muscles time to rest and recover after a workout.

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Principle of Rest and Recovery

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Body system that includes your heart, blood vessels, and blood; provides oxygen and nutrients to the body.

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Cardiovascular System

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Body system made up of your lungs and the passages that bring air, including oxygen, from outside of your body into your lungs.

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Respiratory System

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Vessel that carries blood from your heart to another part of your body.

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Artery

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Vessel that carries blood filled with waste products from your muscle cells back to your heart.

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Vein

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Waxy, fatlike substance found in meat, dairy products and egg yolk; a high amount in the blood is implicated in various types of heart disease.

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Cholesterol

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Protein that carries lipids and cholesterol through your bloodstream.

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Lipoprotein

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Lipoprotein often referred to as good cholesterol because it carries excess cholesterol out of your bloodstream and into your liver for elimination from your body.

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High Density Lipoprotein (HDL)

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Type of lipoprotein often referred to as bad cholesterol because it carries cholesterol that is most likely to stay in your body and contribute to atherosclerosis.

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Low Density Lipoprotein (LDL)

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Activity that is steady enough to allow your heart to supply all the oxygen your muscles need.

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Aerobic Activity

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Aerobic activities intense enough to elevate your heart rate above your threshold of training and into your target zone for cardiorespiratory endurance.

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Vigorous Activity

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Activity so intense that your body cannot supply adequate oxygen to sustain it for a long time.

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Anaerobic Activity

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Difference between the number of times that your heart beats per minute at rest and during maximal exercise.

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Heart Rate Reserve (HRR)

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Minimum amount of overload you need in order to build physical fitness.

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Threshold of Training

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Your upper recommended limit of activity for optimally promoting fitness and achieving health and wellness.

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Target Ceiling

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Ability to exercise your entire body for a long time without stopping.

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Cardiorespiratory Endurance

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The number of consecutive times you do an exercise.

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Repetitions (Reps)

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One group of repetitions (reps)

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Set

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Muscle contraction that pulls on bone and produces movement of a body part.

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Isotonic Contraction

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A lengthening isotonic muscle contraction.

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Eccentric Contraction

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A shortening isotonic muscle contraction.

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Concentric Contraction

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Contraction in which muscles exert force but do not cause movement at a joint.

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Isometric Contraction

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Type of training designed to increase athletic performance using jumping, hopping and other exercises to cause lengthening of a muscle followed by a shortening contraction.

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Plyometrics

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Muscle fiber that contracts at a slow rate, is usually red because it has a lot of blood vessels delivering oxygen and generates less force than fast-twitch muscle fiber but is able to resist fatigue.

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Slow-Twitch Muscle Fiber

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Fiber that contracts quickly, is white because it receives less blood flow delivering oxygen, and generates more force than slow-twitch muscle fiber when it contracts.

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Fast-Twitch Muscle Fiber

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Increase in muscle fiber size.

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Hypertrophy

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Test of muscle strength in which you determine how much weight you can lift in one repetition.

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1RM

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Strength measured by how much weight or resistance you can overcome regardless of your body size.

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Absolute Strength

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Strength adjusted for your body size.

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Relative Strength

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Exercises done using all or part of the body weight as resistance.

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Calisthenics

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The most used method of applying the principle of progression for improving muscle fitness- first by increasing repetitions and second by increasing resistance or weight.

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Double Progressive System

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Type of training that uses bouts of high-intensity exercise followed by rest periods

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Interval Training

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Having, tight bulky muscles that inhibit free movement.

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Muscle Bound

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Condition in which a person is obsessed with building muscle.

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Body Dysmorphia

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A place in your body where bones come together.

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Joints

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Connects bone to bone

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Ligaments

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Connects muscle to bone

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Tendons

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Stretching slowly as far as you can without pain, until you feel a sense of pulling or tension (for several seconds).

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Static Stretching

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Involves contracting the muscles before you stretch it to help the muscle relax so that it is more easily stretched.

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PNF Stretching

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Series of gentle bouncing or bobbing motions that are not held for a long time

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Ballistic stretch

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Having an unusually large range of motion in certain joints--a condition sometimes referred to as being double jointed.

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Hyper-mobility

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Slow movement exercises designed to lengthen the muscles.

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Dynamic stretch

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All tissue in the body other than fat.

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Lean body tissue

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Condition of weighing less than the healthy range.

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Underweight

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Condition of weighing more than the healthy range.

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Overweight

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Condition of being especially overweight or high in body fat.

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Obesity

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A person with this condition will see themselves as being too fat even though they are extremely thin.

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Anorexia nervosa

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Eating disorder with symptoms similar to anorexia nervosa; most common among athletes involved in sports in which low body weight is desirable.

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Anorexia athletica

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Eating disorder in which a person binges, or eats very large amounts of food within a short period of time, followed by purging

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Bulimia