NASM Chapter 11: Plyometric (Reactive) Training Concepts

_____ is a form of exercise that uses explosive movements such as bounding, hopping, and jumping to develop muscular power.

• Plyometric training

• High intensity training

• Hypopressive exercise

Which of the following is a form of training in which an individual reacts to the ground surface in such a way that he or she develops larger than normal ground forces that can be used to project the body with a greater velocity or speed of movement?

• High intensity training

• Vacuum exercise

• Plyometric training

Identify an alternative name for plyometric training.

• Functional training

• Reactive training

• Stabilization training

The rate of force production relates to the ability of muscles to:

• exert maximal force output in a minimal amount of time.

• produce a concentric contraction after an eccentric muscle action.

• release energy in a controlled manner.

The _____ states that to move with precision, forces must be loaded, stabilized, and then unloaded or accelerated.

• integrated performance paradigm

• continuous performance theory

• Brown-Peterson procedure

The first stage of a plyometric movement can be classified as the _____.

• concentric phase

• amortization phase

• eccentric phase

The _____ has also been called the deceleration, loading, yielding, counter movement, or cocking phase.

• concentric phase

• eccentric phase

• continuum phase

The _____ phase increases muscle spindle activity by prestretching a muscle before activation.

• amortization

• eccentric

• continuum

Potential energy is stored in the elastic components of a muscle during the _____ of plyometric training much like stretching a rubber band.

• eccentric phase

• concentric phase

• continuum phase

The _____ involves dynamic stabilization and is the time between the end of the loading or deceleration phase and the initiation of the unloading or force production phase.

• amortization phase

• concentric phase

• eccentric phase