Personalized Fitness L5

A good warm-up will begin to activate your body's built-in cooling mechanism. What is your body's built-in cooling mechanism?

• Sweat

• Hairs

• socks

• Sweaters

Answer explanation

It is important to sweat so that your body can naturally control your body's inner temperature

What is the minimum time recommended for a cool down?

• 5-10 minutes

• 10-15 minutes

• 20 minutes

• 3 minutes

Answer explanation

While 5–10 minutes of cool-down is sufficient, adding more time to the cool-down could be beneficial too.

Some of the different reasons to initiate a fitness program are listed below:

1: To train for a sport

2: To prevent diseases

3: To improve overall quality of life.

What are two other reasons people start a fitness program?

Gradually increasing the work load in order to continue to improve.

• Overload

• Specificity

• Progression

• Recuperation/recovery

Muscle improvement specific to the particular muscles used in an exercise

• Recuperation/recovery

• Overload

• Progression

• Specificity

The result of overload and adapting to the new stress level and then progressing again

• Specificity

• Progression

• Recuperation/recovery

• Reversibility/regularity

Allowing your body proper time to rest between workouts

• Overtraining

• Reversibility/regularity

• Recuperation/recovery

• Warm up

FITT principle

• Fun

  Indoors

  Tennis

  Towel

• Frequency (how often exercise is done), I = Intensity (how hard you are working out), T = Time (how long you work out), T = Type (the type of activity used)

• Frequency

  Insanity

  Time

  Tears

• Freeze- How long can you stay still?

  Imagination- What can you picture in your mind?

  Time- How long can you last

  Teach: Show a partner how to do it

The range of heart beats per minute needed during your aerobic exercise session in order to improve your heart and overall fitness

• Target heart rate zone

• Target heart beat zone

• Maximum heart rate

When you began this class in Lesson 1, you were given an aerobic (cardio) exercise time of 10 minutes . The time was gradually increased for each week, as your body became accustomed to the activity

This is an example of

• Reversibility

• Overload

• Recuperation

Answer explanation

As the body adapts to exercise, your fitness level will improve. You must increase the overload in order to continue to improve. That can be done by increasing the time or intensity of your exercise.