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WorksheetsMuscular Fitness
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 11mins
Achieving muscular fitness can help a person with all of the following except:
Look firmer and trimmer
Better posture
Increase risk of injury
Reduces bone and muscle loss as you age
This is a group of exercise stations that combine weight training with flexibility and aerobic exercises to improve overall fitness.
Circuit Training
Isometric Training
Isokinetic Training
Isotonic Training
Muscular Endurance is the amount of force that can be exerted by a single contraction of the muscle.
True
False
When working to increase the muscular endurance of a particular muscle, it's recommended to complete 3 sets of 12-20 repetitions.
True
False
You need to wait 24 hours before training, or lifting weights with the same muscle group.
True
False
Which FitnessGram test assesses upper body strength and endurance?
Pacer Test
Push Up Test
Curl Up Test
Sit-n-Reach Test
Which exercises would be BEST for improving your push up test?
pull ups and Pacer
bench press and tricep dips
sit ups and leg lifts
planks and lunges
A _______ is a band of muscle fibers that contract and produce movement.
Muscle
Tendon
Ligament
Muscle tissue uses ______ at rest.
Cell Production
Energy
Nothing
What is the recommended rest period between sets for strength training exercises?
15-30 seconds
30-60 seconds
1-2 minutes
2-3 minutes
An exercise that can best increase bicep strength and endurance is _________.
bicep curls
leg extension
shoulder press
We use _____ training in order to combine weight training with flexibility work and brief aerobic exercises.
circuit
isometric
isokinetic
Lifting a heavy weight is a way to demonstrate:
muscular endurance
muscular strength
neither
To increase strength, you will want to _____ resistance (weight) and ______ repetitions.
increase, decrease
decrease, increase
increase, increase
A _____ is a repeated lift or movement.
repetition
set
A ______ is a group of successive repetitions performed without resting.
repetition
set
Muscular ______ is the ability to continue using certain muscles for a period of time.
strength
endurance
fiber lengthening
To improve endurance, the training session would include ______ resistance and ______ repetitions.
increasing, increasing
increasing, decreasing
decreasing, increasing
Muscles become stronger in a 3-step process:
rest, recover, rest
stress, recovery, repeated stress
stress, stress, recovery
To change muscular ability it is important to ________.
workout frequently
along proper recovery time
put enough stress on the muscle during a workout
all of the above
_____ exercises means without oxygen.
Anaerobic
Aerobic
If you are performing calf raises then you are working out which muscle:
gastrocnemius
quadricep
bicep
