ISSA Strength & Conditioning Final Exam Study questions with verified answers

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What is the neural circuitry that travels outside the spinal cord? - ✔✔Peripheral nervous system
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Which of the following is a sensory receptor within a muscle that detects changes in length and
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helps regulate contraction? - ✔✔Muscle spindle
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Which of the following are branches of the cell body that act as receivers, collecting information
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from other neurons? - ✔✔Dendrites
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A cascade of events, resulting in muscle contraction, is triggered when which of the following
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chemical neurotransmitters binds to receptors on the muscle? - ✔✔Acetylcholine
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Which division of the peripheral nervous system controls voluntary movement? - ✔✔Somatic
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Which type of motor unit can contract for many hours, or even days if necessary? - ✔✔Slow (S)
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Which type of motor unit has a large motor neuron and consists of a large bundle of type IIx
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muscle fibers? - ✔✔Fast fatigable (FF)
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Voluntary movement starts in the - ✔✔cerebral cortex || || || || || || ||




Which of the following is the process that allows a muscle spindle to contract at the same rate as
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the muscle where it resides? - ✔✔Alpha-gamma co-activation
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How many nerves are contained within the peripheral nervous system, which includes all the
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neurons and glia outside of the brain and spinal cord? - ✔✔43 pairs
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The muscular system includes how many muscles? - ✔✔Approximately 650
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Which muscle fiber type are the largest, and produce the most amount of force? - ✔✔Type IIx
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The cross-bridge cycle requires energy, which is provided by - ✔✔ATP hydrolysis.
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The function of epimysium is to - ✔✔protect muscle from friction against other muscles or bone.
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With regard to mitochondrial density, which muscle fiber type has a very small amount of
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mitochondria? - ✔✔Type IIx || || ||




Regarding the make-up of a person's muscle fiber ratio, which of the following is correct? - ✔✔It
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can't be changed to a large degree
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It is currently theorized that training with heavy loads causes - ✔✔equal growth of type I and type
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II fibers.
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Which of the following functions like girdles and guy wires to provide an interconnected
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structure? - ✔✔Fascia || ||




Current research demonstrates what three possible mechanisms for inducing hypertrophy? -
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✔✔Mechanical tension, metabolic stress, muscle damage || || || || ||




The functional units that can make a muscle shorten are: - ✔✔Sarcomeres
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Which of the following is found within the appendicular skeleton? - ✔✔Bones of the upper and
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Movement between two adjacent vertebrae is made possible by - ✔✔Facet joints
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Wolff's Law describes the way - ✔✔the body responds by increasing or decreasing the bone's
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diameter


In addition to being a barrier to pain, what important role does cartilage play? - ✔✔Bone
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development


Which of the following are mature bone cells that maintain a bone's matrix? - ✔✔Osteocytes
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Bone-on-bone contact that results in joint pain and stiffness from a loss of articular cartilage is -
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✔✔osteoarthritis



Elastin, an important elastic protein found in all connective tissues, allows those tissues to -
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✔✔regain their original shape after being stretched out
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Which of the following terms refers to the main part or the shaft of a long bone? - ✔✔diaphysis
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The frontal plane is an imaginary plane that divides the body into which of the following
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segments? - ✔✔Anterior and Posterior || || || ||




The angle that a joint rotates around its axis is referred to as - ✔✔the direction of rotation
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What term describes the smallest blood vessels in the human body? - ✔✔capillaries
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