Physical Fitness Quiz

Cardiorespiratory endurance is

• the body's ability to push or pull with all its force

• the ability to move a joint through its full range of motion

• the ability of the heart, blood, blood vessels and lungs to supply oxygen to the body

• the body's response to a flexibility, muscular strength and muscular endurance program

The muscle's ability to work over a long period of time is

• flexibility

• body composition

• intensity

• muscular endurance

What is one benefit of resistance training?

• Allow the body to run for long distances

• Improve daily eating habits

• Improve performance in activity and athletics

• Increase range of motion of joints in the body

Resistance training

• places additional force against a muscle or muscle group

• combines or balances a healthy diet and exercise

• improves cardiorespiratory endurance most efficiently

• uses the body's fat as an energy source

Which of these is a function of fat mass?

• Build organs

• Absorb vitamins

• Consume oxygen

• Digest food

Body composition refers to

• the combination of fat-free mass and fat mass

• the number of fat cells a person is born with

• how tall a person is compared to his/her height and weight

• the number of push-ups a person can do compared to his/her weight

Being able to do more than 12 bicep curls will help improve

• flexibility

• muscular strength

• cardiorespiratory endurance

• muscular endurance

To improve muscular strength

• stretch the muscles every day

• work the muscles to near maximal force

• complete an exercise at least 20 times

• run five miles up and down hills

When improving flexibility, the parts of the body that are stretched are

• tendons, ligaments, and bones

• tendons, ligaments, and muscles

• ligaments, bones, and muscles

• ligaments, tendons, and bones

Dynamic stretches involve

• the help of another person to hold the body part in position while contracting the muscle and after contraction, relaxing the muscles

• moving parts of the body continuously while gradually increasing reach, speed of movement or both gently through a full range of motion

• stretching a muscle to the point of mild tension for an extended period

• rapid bobbing, bouncing, or jerky movements that use the body's momentum to stretch