Fitness Vocabulary-Year 8

What does "aerobic fitness" mean?

• It is the body's ability to use the energy already stored in the muscles.

• Running.

• It is the body's ability to bring oxygen and nutrients to the muscles for a short time.

• It is the body's ability to bring oxygen to the muscles for a longer time.

What is an example of an aerobic activity?

• High Jump

• Yoga

• long distance rowing

• 50 metre sprint

What does the training principle and acronym "FITT" stand for?

• Fit

  Interesting

  Training

  Team

• Fast

  Intense

  Timed

  Toned

• Frequency

  Intensity

  Time

  Type

• Fitness

  Interesting

  Therapeutic

  Training

What does "RPE" stand for?

• Rate of Perceived Exertion.

• Rate of Principled Exercise

• Repetitive Performance Exam

• Repetitive Perfomance Exercise

What does "anaerobic exercise" mean?

• With oxygen

• Anaerobic exercises push your body and lungs to rely on energy sources stored in your muscles.

• Long distance running

• Anaerobic exercises push your body and lungs to rely on oxygen sources stored in your lungs and muscles.

Aerobic vs. Anaerobic is the same as...

• With air vs. without air.

• Without air vs. with air.

• With oxygen vs. without oxygen.

• Without oxygen vs. with oxygen.

An example of an anaerobic activity is...

• 50 metre sprint

• A marathon.

• zumba class

• a spinning (exercise cycle) class.

Choose the best answer.

Resistance training is...

• ... a form of exercise that improves muscular strength and endurance. 

• ... a form of aerobic exercise that improves muscular strength and endurance.

• ... a form of aerobic exercise that improves endurance.

• ... a form of exercise that improves resistance to exercise.

Examples of resistance used in resistance training are...

• Push ups

  Using Dumbells

  Running sprints

• Aerobics class

  Swimming

  Using dumbells

• Your body weight

  Gravity

  Elastic bands

  Weighted bars or dumbbells

• Squats

  Cycling 20 minutes with high level resistance on spinning wheel

Choose the BEST answer.

Muscular Endurance is...

• Tiring

• is the ability of a muscle or group of muscles to perform repetitive contractions against a force for an extended period of time

• achieved by increasing the number of exercises that you do.

• is the ability to do an exercise for a long period of time.