Ch. 7 Sports Med

The term prehabilitation refers to treatment required by an individual after an injury 

• True 
• False

Isometric exercise causes a rapid increase in blood pressure

• True
• False

With circuit training, rest periods should be taken between each exercise and a longer rest period is required between circuits if more than one circuit will be completed 

• True
• False

When limbs are immobilized to allow broken bones to repair, hypertrophy is a major concern for the muscles of that limb

• True
• False

The purpose of progressive resistance exercise is to allow the body to adapt to the increased demand placed upon it

• True 
• False

Muscle fiber type appears to play an important role in determining success in some sports, such as sprints, but not in other sports, such as shot-putting

• True
• False

Male athletes tend to be more flexible than female athletes

• True 
• False

Static stretching is a gradual stretching of muscle through its entire range of motion

• True
• False

With dynamic exercise,

• muscles contract, but there is no movement of the joint
• manual resistance accomplished using a training partner
• muscle fibers maintain a constant length throughout the exercise
• machines are used to control contraction

Advantages of dynamic exercise exercise include all of the following, except:

• less equipment is used
• the spotter can help the athlete with technique
• workouts can be done in less than 30 minutes
• finding an adequately trained spotter