Personal fitness unit 2 formative

The maximum heart rate for a 16-year-old is

• 207 beats per minute.

• 220 beats per minute.

• 205 beats per minute.

• 204 beats per minute.

Factors that influence restoration include:

• experience, environment & gender

• nutrition, fluids & overload

• age, rest & nutrition

• activity level, heart rate & ethnicity

Which of the following is NOT true about the specificity principle?

• working specific muscles will make all muscles stronger

• the specific results depend on the activity or exercise you engage in

• overloading a particular component improves that component alone

• any component or muscle that is not involved in the exercise or activity will remain unchanged

Hyperflexibility may be caused

• when a joint is stretched beyond its normal Range of Motion.

• when muscles surrounding a joint are healthy

• by hereditary tendencies called “stiff joints.”

• all of the above.

Skill-related fitness components include:

• cardiovascular fitness.

• reaction time.

• muscular strength.

• flexibility.

As you perform stretches, you should remember to

• stretch as far as you can until it hurts.

• stretch only in the morning.

• perform all stretches slowly.

• alternate stretching on one side one day and the other side the following day.

The biggest limitation to your skill related fitness is:

• age.

• heredity.

• the amount of practice.

• all of the above.

Which short-term goal would help you reach your long-term goal of running a marathon?

• practice taking off from blocks

• learn how to downhill ski

• begin running a comfortable distance, add distance gradually

• keep your heart rate as close to your resting heart rate as possible when exercising

Methods of measuring intensity include all of the following EXCEPT:

• the heat-stress index.

• percentage of maximum heart rate.

• perceived exertion.

• the talk test.

The two phases of a cooldown are

• cardiovascular and muscular-skeletal.

• cardiovascular and training plateau.

• cardiovascular and walking.

• muscular-skeletal and stretching.