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6. How do you calculate your target heart rate zones?

  • Multiply your resting heart rate by three
  • Calculate the HR max using the equation 220-age(years). Then multiply your answer by 0.85 for your upper training threshold and by 0.6 for your lower training threshold. Your target zone is between these two thresholds
  • Guess
  • Measure your heart rate when exercising at your hardest and at a moderate rate

7. What is Specificity?

  • When you only work on one muscle group
  • When training is specific to the individual's sport, activity or fitness goals
  • When you only focus on one training method for your entire life
  • When you only take part in one specific sport so you don't get confused about the rules

8. What is Body Composition?

  • How fast you can run
  • How many bones and muscles you have
  • The relative ratio of fat mass to fat-free mass in the body
  • How tall you are and how much you weigh

9. What is Individual Needs?

  • When you need extra help doing certain exercises
  • When you take long rest breaks during exercise
  • When training is designed to meet the needs and goals of each sports performer
  • When you only eat from a particular diet to make sure you play at your best

10. What is Flexibility?

  • When your muscles don't get torn very easily
  • Having an adequate range of movement in all joints in the body
  • When you can hyperextend all of your joints
  • Having the ability to keep exercising despite an injury

11. What is Pure Speed?

  • Sprints up to 100m
  • Sprints up to 60m
  • Sprinting with short rests in between
  • Sprints up to 30m

12. What is Aerobic Endurance?

  • The ability of the cardiorespiratory system to work efficiently, supplying nutrients and oxygen to the working muscles during sustained physical activity
  • When your lungs are strong so can withstand high pressure, making it safer to lift weights
  • The speed at which the heart can pump blood around the body
  • When you can exercise for a whole year

13. What is Adaptation?

  • When over time you turn into a different species
  • How the body reacts to training loads by increasing its ability to cope with these loads
  • When you grow extra bones, making you stronger
  • When you decrease in your ability to do certain tasks

14. What is Muscular Strength?

  • When your muscles can contract for a sustained period of time
  • When you can complete a multi-stage fitness test very well
  • The maximum force that can be generated by a muscle or muscle group
  • When you can complete a circuit training session without your muscles getting sore

15. What is Balance?

  • The ability to hold you breath while exercising
  • The ability to move quickly and precisely
  • The ability to maintain a centre of mass over a supporting base
  • When you can remain standing on one foot with your eyes closed

16. What is Reversibility?

  • Instead of your friend helping you increase a component of fitness, you would help your friend
  • When you can drive well and do reverse parking
  • If training stops or the intensity of training is not sufficient to trigger adaptation, the effects of training are reversed
  • When if you pass on your sporting knowledge to someone they will gain knowledge and you will lose it

17. What does FITT stand for?

  • Frequency, Insanity, Time, Type
  • Frequency, Intensity, Type, Toast
  • Frequency, Intensity, Time, Type
  • Fast, Indestructible, Timid, Tired

18. What is Speed?

  • When you can run for a sustained period of time
  • How fast something is, measured in m/s
  • When you can cover a short distance in a long period of time
  • Jogging at a moderate pace for a sustained period

19. What is Accelerative Speed?

  • Sprints up to 30m
  • Sprints up to 1000m
  • Sprints up to 60m
  • Sprints up to 5m

20. What is Coordination?

  • When you can plan ahead and organise plans
  • The smooth flow of movement needed to perform a motor task efficiently and accurately
  • The ability to move quickly and precisely without falling over
  • When you can successfully hit a target from a far distance