Fitness Professional's Handbook 7th Edition **IFTA Study Guide** CH.1
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1. "How Much physical activity is enough": This is dependent on your fitness goal
2. Performance: The ability to perform a task or sport at a desired level.
3. Intensity (Strenuousness of Activity): Describes the rate of work (how much
energy is being expended per minute) or the degree of effort required to carry out
the task.
4. Frequency: Refers to the number of days per week that physical activity is done
5. Duration/Time: Length of time for a fitness workout or a bout of physical activity
6. C R F: Cardio Respiratory Fitness
The Ability of the circulatory and respiratory systems to supply oxygen to muscles
during dynamic exercise involving a large muscle mass
7. Health: Being alive with no major health problems
8. Positive Health: Optimal quality of life, including social, mental, spiritual and
physical fitness components. Capacity to enjoy life and withstand challenges, not
just the avoidance of disease
9. Negative Health: Associated with morbidity (incidence of death) and premature
mortality
10. Leading Causes of Death: Heart Disease (23.7%)
Cancers (22.9%)
Chronic Respiratory Diseases (5.7%)
Stroke (5.1%)
Accidents (4.8%)
11. Behaviors of linked to death: Smoking
Inactivity/Poor Nutrition
Drinking Alcohol
Overuse of Medication
Stress
12. Physical Activity: Any bodily movement produced by skeletal muscle that re-
sults in energy expenditure
13. Exercise: a subset of physical activity that is planned, structured and repetitive
and is meant to improve or maintain physical fitness
14. Physical Fitness: A set of health or skill related attributes that people have or
achieve relating to their ability to perform physical activity
15. Health-Related Fitness: muscular strength and endurance, CRF, flesibility and
body composition
16. Skill-Related Fitness: agility, balance, coordination, speed,power, and reaction
time tat are linked to games, sport, dance etc.
17. Volume: Total amount of energy expended or work accomplished in an aerobic
activity; equals the product of the absolute intensity, frequency and time.
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Study online at https://quizlet.com/_4eiecm
1. "How Much physical activity is enough": This is dependent on your fitness goal
2. Performance: The ability to perform a task or sport at a desired level.
3. Intensity (Strenuousness of Activity): Describes the rate of work (how much
energy is being expended per minute) or the degree of effort required to carry out
the task.
4. Frequency: Refers to the number of days per week that physical activity is done
5. Duration/Time: Length of time for a fitness workout or a bout of physical activity
6. C R F: Cardio Respiratory Fitness
The Ability of the circulatory and respiratory systems to supply oxygen to muscles
during dynamic exercise involving a large muscle mass
7. Health: Being alive with no major health problems
8. Positive Health: Optimal quality of life, including social, mental, spiritual and
physical fitness components. Capacity to enjoy life and withstand challenges, not
just the avoidance of disease
9. Negative Health: Associated with morbidity (incidence of death) and premature
mortality
10. Leading Causes of Death: Heart Disease (23.7%)
Cancers (22.9%)
Chronic Respiratory Diseases (5.7%)
Stroke (5.1%)
Accidents (4.8%)
11. Behaviors of linked to death: Smoking
Inactivity/Poor Nutrition
Drinking Alcohol
Overuse of Medication
Stress
12. Physical Activity: Any bodily movement produced by skeletal muscle that re-
sults in energy expenditure
13. Exercise: a subset of physical activity that is planned, structured and repetitive
and is meant to improve or maintain physical fitness
14. Physical Fitness: A set of health or skill related attributes that people have or
achieve relating to their ability to perform physical activity
15. Health-Related Fitness: muscular strength and endurance, CRF, flesibility and
body composition
16. Skill-Related Fitness: agility, balance, coordination, speed,power, and reaction
time tat are linked to games, sport, dance etc.
17. Volume: Total amount of energy expended or work accomplished in an aerobic
activity; equals the product of the absolute intensity, frequency and time.
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