Health, Fitness and Exercise

The rate at which your heart beats while you are at rest is called:

• Resting heart rate
• Maximum heart rate
• Quieted heart rate
• Normal Heart Tempo

Your target heart rate is the rate at which your heart should be beating:

• While you sleep, since that involves lots of hours.
• While you are exercising for fitness
• When you are having a physical examination.  
• While you are moving at a slow and steady pace.

Of the measures of fitness, you mostly need good flexibility to:

• lift very heavy objects
• Move very heavy objects
• dance
• do pushups

In training for increased exercise, you should practice going a little bit further than you thought you could.  This is called:

• The overload principle
• injury risk
• professional training
• logging exercise

In the FIT principle, the F stands for:

• Food
• Frequency
• Falling
• Fast

In the FIT principle, the I stands for:

• Irritating
• Individual
• Innovation
• Intensity

Int he FIT principle, the T stands for:

• Tall
• Talent
• Try
• Time

A distance runner should eat a large amount of pasta about 10 minutes before he runs because:

• No, he shouldn't.  This is a trick question.
• He's Italian.
• He doesn't want the pasta to spoil.
• The pizza is all gone.  

Frequency of exercise means how often a person exercises.

• True
• False

Athletic injuries are never serious.  

• True
• False