Exam 4: Muscular Strength and Endurance

What is the recommended amount of resistance and number of repetitions for building muscular strength rapidly?

Name the two major types of muscle fibers,and describe key differences between them.Give at least two examples of activities that primarily use each type of fiber.

Which essential hormone do men have in higher amounts than women,allowing men to build more muscle mass than women?

The isometric side bridge exercise develops the obliques.

At what age do people typically begin to lose muscle mass?

What do experts say when they compare free weights to weight machines?

Which type of isotonic exercise would athletes use to simulate movement during sprinting or throwing?

Apply the FITT principle to strength training.Describe a complete weight training program for general fitness according to the FITT guidelines.

What is the best description of isokinetic exercise?

Women have a much larger proportion of muscle tissue in the upper body,compared to men.

In a strength-training program,you should increase resistance when you can do at least 8 repetitions of a particular exercise with good form.

Myofibrils are made up of groups of muscle fibers.

Which type of exercise is an individual performing when she or he jumps from a platform to the ground and then jumps back up on the platform?

The development of large muscle fibers is referred to as atrophy.

Which muscle group do lunges develop?

What do stability ball exercises improve?

Which muscle group do crunches develop?

Describe key differences between training with exercise machines and training with free weights.List at least two advantages and two disadvantages of each type of equipment.

What is the best classification of an exercise that includes muscular force exerted as a muscle shortens?

How does one make progress in a weight training program? When and how should a person increase resistance for safe training benefits?