Long and short term effects of exercise

Long and short term effects of exercise

With focus on the musculoskeletal and cardiorespiratory systems

Multiple Select

Which of the following are short term effects on the muscular system?

• Muscle fatigue

• Muscle hypertrophy

• Increased vital capacity

• Lactose accumulation

Multiple Choice

What is a long term effect on the circulatory system?

• Increased efficiency of gaseous exchange

• You can grow taller

• Drop in resting heart rate

• Decrease in red blood cells

Multiple Choice

When we exercise there is an increase in stroke volume. Increase in stroke volume is a short term effect on the cardiovascular system.

Define stroke volume

• The amount of beats your heart does per minute

• The amount of blood exiting the heart per breath

• The amount of breaths per minute

• The amount of blood leaving the heart per beat

Multiple Select

A long term effect of weight bearing activities is that they help to develop the strength of your bones.

What is this long term benefit called and select a weight bearing activity

• Cycling

• Increased bone density

• Running

• Increased skeletal thickness

Multiple Choice

A long term adaptation that your body takes on is that your ligaments and tendons increase in strength. Which is the correct statement for a tendon?

• Attaches bone to bone

• Attaches bone to muscle

Multiple Select

Which 3 of these are long term effects of the cardiovascular system?

• Cardiac hypertrophy

• Drop in resting blood pressure

• Increase in resting heart rate

• Drop in blood viscosity

• Improved efficiency of gaseous exchange through increased capillarisation