Weight Training Final Exam 2023 Questions and Answers
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Spending a few hours a week working out will give you what?
fit and healthy body, and increased strength that will carry over to different activities
Weight training isn't enough to obtain optimal health and fitness. You program
should also include what?
proper nutrition, good health habits and exercise for endurance strength and flexibility
Muscle makes up over how much percentage of your body mass?
40%
Strength training decreases what with aging?
bone loss
Active people have ______ bones.
denser
The higher your muscle mass, the more what?
the more calories you burn every day
Strength training makes what less susceptible to injury?
muscles, tendons and ligaments
Weak people use a greater percentage of what compared to strong people? This
compromises their ____
their strength, endurance
Weight training improves coordination between what?
the nervous and muscular systems
What are three factors that determine your strength-gaining potential?
genetics, gender, and training program
What determines the number of muscle fibers and fiber types within each
muscle?
genes
What determines how well your nervous system coordinates muscle function,
body size and bone length?
genes
Men and women gain strength at the same rate, but men are considerably _____
than women due to their ____ ____ _____.
stronger, larger muscle mass
There are changes during the first six weeks of your training program. What is an
example of this?
your nervous system improves its ability to use muscle fibers to exert force
There are changes during the first six weeks of your training program. But what
happens after those six weeks?
changes in muscle cells themselves will occur and thus the way the muscle looks
True or False? There is such thing as spot reducing.
False
What is this false "spot reducing"
exercising a body part to reduce fat in the area
If you stop training, muscles do not turn to fat, but what happens?
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Spending a few hours a week working out will give you what?
fit and healthy body, and increased strength that will carry over to different activities
Weight training isn't enough to obtain optimal health and fitness. You program
should also include what?
proper nutrition, good health habits and exercise for endurance strength and flexibility
Muscle makes up over how much percentage of your body mass?
40%
Strength training decreases what with aging?
bone loss
Active people have ______ bones.
denser
The higher your muscle mass, the more what?
the more calories you burn every day
Strength training makes what less susceptible to injury?
muscles, tendons and ligaments
Weak people use a greater percentage of what compared to strong people? This
compromises their ____
their strength, endurance
Weight training improves coordination between what?
the nervous and muscular systems
What are three factors that determine your strength-gaining potential?
genetics, gender, and training program
What determines the number of muscle fibers and fiber types within each
muscle?
genes
What determines how well your nervous system coordinates muscle function,
body size and bone length?
genes
Men and women gain strength at the same rate, but men are considerably _____
than women due to their ____ ____ _____.
stronger, larger muscle mass
There are changes during the first six weeks of your training program. What is an
example of this?
your nervous system improves its ability to use muscle fibers to exert force
There are changes during the first six weeks of your training program. But what
happens after those six weeks?
changes in muscle cells themselves will occur and thus the way the muscle looks
True or False? There is such thing as spot reducing.
False
What is this false "spot reducing"
exercising a body part to reduce fat in the area
If you stop training, muscles do not turn to fat, but what happens?
