Weight Lifting Fundamentals

With isometric contractions, the muscle doesn't?

• lengthen

• shorten

• concentric

• angle

With isotonic contractions, the muscle?

• shortens and lengthens

• works

• maxes

• adductors

The last T in the FITT formula stands for?

• Thigh

• Type of exercise

• Session Time

• Time spent

Moving a body part away from the middle of the body in the side plane is called?

• Adduction

• Abduction

• Abdominal

• Dorsal

Muscle size training is also known as?

• Strength training

• Power training

• Hypertrophy

• Endurance

1RM bench 185 pounds means?

• 185 pounds is your max bench for 5 repetitions

• 185 pounds is your max bench for 12 repetitions

• 185 pounds is your max bench for 2 repetitions

• 185 pounds is your max bench for 1 repetition

Strength endurance training involves how many reps per set?

• 15 to 20 reps

• 2 to 5 reps

• 8 to 12 reps

• 1 to 3 reps

If your max bench is 160 pounds, what is 85% of your max?

• 160 pounds

• 80 pounds

• 136 pounds

• 146 pounds

Overload principle incorporates?

• lifting increasingly heavier weights

• lifting more reps

• lifting lighter weights

• lifting the same weight

Hypertrophy is the enlargement of an organ or tissue from the increase in size of its?

• cells

• recovery

• repetitions

• sets