Fitness take 1

Define the term 'exercise'

• Activity requiring physical effort, carried out to sustain or improve health and fitness”

• The ability to carry out a specific activity without the onset of fatigue.

• •Training reduces the magnitude of the oxygen debt and increases the speed/ability with which the stores of glycogen and fat can be restore

• i am not sure

Define the term 'training'

• The ability to carry out a specific activity without the onset of fatige

• Fitness is specific to the individual horse and specific to the activity required.

• •A training programme is designed to develop the specific capabilities that are requires to perform a certain form of exercise. Working towards a goal

• I am not sure

Define the term 'fitness'

• •A training programme is designed to develop the specific capabilities that are requires to perform a certain form of exercise.

• •The ability to carry out a specific activity without the onset of fatigue

• I am not sure

• Activity requiring physical effort, carried out to sustain or improve health and fitness

List 12 things you need to take into consideration when bringing a horse into work

What does stroke volume mean?

When you are training the cardiovascular system, which one is the odd one out.

• Locomotor respiratory coupling

• Reduced risk of heart disease

• Heart muscle increases in size and strength

• Lower resting heart rate, quicker recovery from exercise

• Increased number of capillaries in muscles

What is locomotor respiratory coupling?

• Pattern of breathing with a fixed ratio between respiratory frequency and stride frequency

• I am not sure

• Something to do with breathing

• Something to do with moving

When training the respiratory system, which is the odd one out.

• •Alveolar Recruitment

• •Pulmonary Capillarisation

• Muscular development

• Increased stroke volume

How is bone loaded?

Do tendons increase in diameter when training?

• yes

• no

• i am not sure