High School Health: Quiz 3: Exercise and Physical Fitness
The target heart rate must be maintained for ______ minutes for aerobic exercise to be beneficial.
12
What is cardiorespiratory fitness?
Cardiorespiratory fitness is the most important type of fitness. It benefits the body and helps us maintain good health. Cardiorespiratory fitness is the ability of the heart and the respiratory system to be able to transfer oxygen and nutrients to the muscles.
What is involved in physical fitness?
Cardiorespiratory fitness, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, and body composition.
...have bodies that are tall and thin.
Ectomorphs
...are short and stout.
Endomorphs
Fast twitch fibers enable the muscles to exert force for a long period of time.
False
God created everyone with the potential to become a world class athlete.
False
Slow twitch fibers contract rapidly.
False
...have bodies that are of normal height and are well built.
Mesomorphs
What exercises should be included during warm-up and cool-down times?
Stretching or walking
What should be the aim of physical fitness?
To better yourself to be able to serve God.
Evaluating your fitness level will help you establish attainable fitness goals.
True
In addition to nutrition, exercise is an important means of maintaining your health.
True
Increasing the intensity of an exercise will increase the strength of a muscle.
True
It is important to evaluate your own level of fitness.
True
Muscles and joints that can move through their full range of motion are more powerful, more coordinated, and less likely to be injured.
True
Strength is the ability of a muscle to exert force.
True
To increase the amount of slow twitch fibers in a muscle, you need to exercise at low intensity for increasingly longer periods of time.
True
One of the best ways to improve cardiorespiratory fitness is to participate in _____.
aerobic exercise
Regular participation in stretching exercises increases... , making muscles and joints more flexible.
circulation
Your body composition can be changed by altering two factors,...
diet and exercise
Regular exercise will enable you to perform daily tasks with an increased amount of...
energy
The 5 means of measuring physical fitness are: Cardio-respiratory, muscular, endurance, composition and _____.
flexibility
_______demonstrates the possible range of motion of muscles, joints, and ligaments.
flexibility
According to the text, the basis for physical fitness is... habits.
good eating
The most technical means of measuring body fat is called...
hydrostatic weighing
Body composition is examined with regards to...mass in proportion to body...
lean, fat
You can keep your body healthy by participating in _____ activity.
physical
According to the text, one way to measure an individual's cardiorespiratory fitness is to measure the...
resting heart rate