MUSCULAR STRENGTH

The ability to maintain a muscle contraction for a long period of time without getting tired is? 

• Muscle endurance
• Muscle Strength
• Power
• Cardiovascular Fitness

Based on the Muscle Fitness Continuum, how should a person train in order to develop his or her muscular endurance? 

• Higher repetitions and lower weight
• Lower repetitions and lower weight
• Lower repetitions and higher weight
• Higher repetitions and higher weight 

What type of activities would best improve strength?

• basketball

• weight training

• Yoga

Which of the following fitness tests measures muscular strength?

• Pacer Run

• Pacer Push-ups

• Pacer Curl-ups

In regards to training for strength, when should you increase the amount of weight being lifted?

• When you can easily do 1 set of 25 repetitions

• When you can easily do 2 sets of 15 repetitions

• When you can easily do 3 sets of 8 repetitions

Which of the following training principles would you be applying if you lifted a little more weight each week for the next two months

• Principle of progression

• Principle of overload

• Principle of specificity

Rotating through a series of resistance exercise stations with no rest for a determined length of time  is considered to be which kind of training?  

• Interval training
• Circuit training
• Periodization

This type of training involves a series of  high intensity exercises followed by a period of rest or low intensity exercises.

• Periodization
• Interval training
  
• Circuit training
  

When you lift more weight that you normally lift, you are applying the principle of ?

• Progression

• Overload

• Specificity

Based on the Muscle Fitness Continuum, how should a person train in order to develop his or her muscular strength?

• Higher repetitions and lower weight

• Lower repetitions and lower weight

• Lower repetitions and higher weight

• Higher repetitions and higher weight