DFP Pre-Test

What does the F.I.T. principle stand for?

• Fitness, Intensity, Together

• Frequency, Intervals, Time

• Frequency, Intensity, Time

• Free weights, Intervals, Treadmills

If you take your heart rate when you first wake up in the morning, you are trying to find your…

• Target heart rate

• Resting heart rate

• Maximum heart rate

Dynamic stretches...

• are only useful if performed after your workout is completed

• often result in injury and are not recommended

• are continuous movement stretches that increase blood flow to muscles

• require a workout partner and follow a stretch and hold sequence

To extend the knee, the quadriceps contract (shorten) and the hamstrings relax (lengthen), these 2 muscles are known as?

• Essential and non-essential muscles pairings

• Agonistic and Antagonistic muscle pairings

• Compound muscle and concentrated muscle pairings

• Fast-twitch and slow-twitch muscle pairings

Which principle is being practiced when you increase the intensity, frequency or duration of activity over a period of time for improvements to occur?

• Principle of Progression

• Principle of Overload

• Principle of Specificity

How much physical activity should someone participate in if they want to see health benefits?

• 20 min per day including flexibility and strength training work

• 45 min per day 2-3 times per week with some flexibility work included

• 60 min every day including flexibility and strength training work

• Working out is over-rated

Exercises involving 2 or more joints/muscles are called...

• Complete exercises

• Congruent exercises

• Contrasting exercises

• Complex exercises

If you feel sharp pain when exercising just push through it, after all “no pain, no gain.”

• True

• False

Spot (fat) reduction from a specific body area is possible if you know what to do.

• True

• False

What is this cardiovascular exercise called?

• Treadmill

• Stepmill

• Rower

• Elliptical