NASM STUDY GUIDE COMPLETE NEWEST
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1. Subjective Information: Information that is gathered from a prospective client to
give the health and fitness professional feedback regarding personal history such as occupation,
lifestyle and medical background.
2. Program Design: A purposeful system or plan put together to help an individual achieve a
specific goal.
3. Biomechanics: A study that uses principals of physics to quantitatively study how forces
interact within a living body.
4. Dietary Supplement: A substance that completes or makes an addition to daily dietary
intake.
5. Proprioceptively enriched environment: An unstable (but controlled) environment
where exer- cises are performed that causes the body to use its internal balance and stabilization
mechanisms
6. Reactive Training: Exercises that use quick, powerful movements involving an eccentric
contraction imme- diately followed by an explosive concentric contraction.
7. Obesity: Fastest growing health problem in the US
,8. The Nervous System: It is a conglomeration of billions of cells forming nerves that are
specifically designed to provide a communication network within the human body
9. nervous system, skeletal system and muscular system: kinetic chain
10. Heart: Muscular pump that rhythmically contracts to push blood throughout the body
11. Dynamic Joint Stabilization: The ability of the kinetic chain to stabilize a joint
during movement.
12. Speed: The ability to move the body in one intended direction as fast as possible.
13. The Core: The lumbo-pelvic -hip complex and the thoracic and cervical spine, where the
body's center of gravity is located
14. Flexibility: The normal extensibility of all soft tissues that allow the full range of motion of
a joint.
15. Nutrition: The sum of the processes by which an animal or plant takes in and uses food
substances.
16. Blood: Acts as a medium to deliver and collect essential products to and from the tissues
of the body.
, 17. Protein: Amino acids linked by peptide bonds.
18. Diabetes: Chronic metabolic disorder, in which the body's ability to produce insulin
or to utilize glucose is altered
19. Rate of force production: How quickly a muscle can generate force
20. Superior: Positioned above a point of reference.
21. Dynamic Range of Motion: The combination of flexibility and the nervous
system's ability to control this range eflciently.
22. General Adaptation Syndrome: The kinetic chain's ability to adapt to stresses
placed on it.
23. Multisensory Condition: Training environment that provides heightened
stimulation to proprioceptors and mechanoreceptors.
UPDATES
1. Subjective Information: Information that is gathered from a prospective client to
give the health and fitness professional feedback regarding personal history such as occupation,
lifestyle and medical background.
2. Program Design: A purposeful system or plan put together to help an individual achieve a
specific goal.
3. Biomechanics: A study that uses principals of physics to quantitatively study how forces
interact within a living body.
4. Dietary Supplement: A substance that completes or makes an addition to daily dietary
intake.
5. Proprioceptively enriched environment: An unstable (but controlled) environment
where exer- cises are performed that causes the body to use its internal balance and stabilization
mechanisms
6. Reactive Training: Exercises that use quick, powerful movements involving an eccentric
contraction imme- diately followed by an explosive concentric contraction.
7. Obesity: Fastest growing health problem in the US
,8. The Nervous System: It is a conglomeration of billions of cells forming nerves that are
specifically designed to provide a communication network within the human body
9. nervous system, skeletal system and muscular system: kinetic chain
10. Heart: Muscular pump that rhythmically contracts to push blood throughout the body
11. Dynamic Joint Stabilization: The ability of the kinetic chain to stabilize a joint
during movement.
12. Speed: The ability to move the body in one intended direction as fast as possible.
13. The Core: The lumbo-pelvic -hip complex and the thoracic and cervical spine, where the
body's center of gravity is located
14. Flexibility: The normal extensibility of all soft tissues that allow the full range of motion of
a joint.
15. Nutrition: The sum of the processes by which an animal or plant takes in and uses food
substances.
16. Blood: Acts as a medium to deliver and collect essential products to and from the tissues
of the body.
, 17. Protein: Amino acids linked by peptide bonds.
18. Diabetes: Chronic metabolic disorder, in which the body's ability to produce insulin
or to utilize glucose is altered
19. Rate of force production: How quickly a muscle can generate force
20. Superior: Positioned above a point of reference.
21. Dynamic Range of Motion: The combination of flexibility and the nervous
system's ability to control this range eflciently.
22. General Adaptation Syndrome: The kinetic chain's ability to adapt to stresses
placed on it.
23. Multisensory Condition: Training environment that provides heightened
stimulation to proprioceptors and mechanoreceptors.
