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Training effect |
An increase in functional capacity of muscles and other bodily tissues as a result of increased stress (overload) placed upon them. |
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Homeostasis |
The automatic tendency to maintain a relatively constant internal environment. |
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Metabolism |
The chemical processes occurring within a living cell or organism that are necessary for the maintenance of life. |
In metabolism some substances are broken down to yield energy for vital processes while other substances, necessary for life, are synthesized |
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Anabolism |
The building up in the body of complex chemical compounds from simpler compounds (e.g., proteins from amino acids). |
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Catabolism |
The breaking down in the body of complex chemical compounds into simpler ones (e.g., amino acids to individual proteins). |
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Metabolic set point |
The base rate of metabolism that your body seeks to maintain; results in your basal metabolic rate. |
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Basal metabolic rate |
The minimum energy required to maintain the body's life function of rest. Usually expressed in calories per hour per square meter of the body surface. |
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Kilocalories |
The amount of energy released when food is digested. |
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Calorie |
A unit of heat. |
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Thermogenic effect |
The heat liberated from a particular food is thus a measure not only of its energy content but also of its tendency to be burned as heat. |
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Respiratory quotient (RQ) |
A method of determining the "fuel mix" being used giving us a way to measure the relative amounts of fats, carbohydrates, and proteins being burned for energy. |
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ATP/CP pathway |
ATP and CP provide anaerobic sources of phosphate-bond energy. The energy liberated from hydrolysis (splitting) of CP rebonds ADP and Pi to form ATP. |
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Glycolytic pathway |
Glucose is broken down to produce energy anaerobically. |
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Oxidative pathway |
Oxygen combines with lactic acid resynthesizing glycogen to produce energy aerobically. |
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Pyruvate |
A byproduct of glycolysis. |
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Beta oxidation |
A series of reactions in which fatty acids are broken down. |
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Krebs cycle |
Citric acid cycle; a set of 8 reactions, arranged in a cycle, in which free energy is recovered in the form of ATP. |
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Electron transport |
The passing of electrons over a membrane aiding in a reaction to recover free energy for the synthesis of ATP. |
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