High School Health: Quiz 3: Exercise and Physical Fitness

The target heart rate must be maintained for ______ minutes for aerobic exercise to be beneficial.

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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