Health and Wellness Chapter 2

How many minutes of moderate physical activity should an adult perform each week to maintain health?

150 minutes

According to the physical activity pyramid, individuals should work on muscular fitness

2 days per week.

Sally is currently jogging 3 times per week for 30 minutes. She has become comfortable with this workout and now wants to increase her workout time. Using the principle of progression, Sally should increase her time to approximately ________ minutes.

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How long should the exercise-to-rest transition take?

5 to 15 minutes

________ barriers to physical activity include personal and physical factors affecting exercise participation.

Personal

The maintenance of equilibrium is

balance.

The components of the FITT formula are

frequency, intensity, time, and type.

The physical activity pyramid

consists of layers of types of physical activity and gives recommendations for each.

Kristina's mom wants to begin an exercise program. However, she is overweight and concerned about the impact exercise might have on her knees. To decrease her chance of injury, Kristina might recommend that her mom try

cross-training.

The FITT formula is used to

design a safe and effective exercise program.

Exercise is a subset of physical activity that is

done specifically to achieve or maintain fitness.

Aerobic exercise, weight lifting, and yoga are all examples of

exercise training.

Muscular strength is defined as the ability of your muscles to

exert force.

The times per week that an activity is performed is known as

frequency

Which factor has the least impact on designing an exercise program?

gender

Exercise intensity is most closely related to

how hard you exercise.

Golf, tennis, and soccer are all examples of

individual sport activities.

Actions that can be performed daily by beginning exercisers are

lifestyle physical activities.

Lean body tissue consists of

muscle, bone, and fluids.

Physical fitness is the ability to

perform moderate to vigorous physical activity without undue fatigue.

Which of the following is a benefit of maintaining a good level of flexibility?

prevention of low back pain

The principle that only the body systems worked during training will show adaptations is known as

specificity

During the specific cool-down, you should

stretch the muscle groups worked during the activity.

Activities at the top of the physical activity pyramid represent activities

that you should spend the least amount of time on.

The dose-response relationship states that the amount of adaptation you can expect from exercise directly relates to

the amount of overload incorporated into the program.