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ISSA STRENGTH & CONDITIONING, STRENGTH
AND CONDITIONING EXAM ISSA EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2025
Neural Circuitry that travels outside the spinal cord -
...ANSWER... ✔ ✔Peripheral nervous system
A sensory receptor within a muscle that detects changes
in length and helps regulate contraction - ...ANSWER...
✔ ✔Muscle Spindle
Branches of the cell body that act as receivers, collecting
information from other neurons - ...ANSWER... ✔
✔Dendrites
Muscle contraction is triggered when the following
chemical neurotransmitters binds to receptors on the
muscle - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔acetylcholine
Division of the peripheral nervous system controls
voluntary movement - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔somatic
nervous system
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Type of motor unit can contract for many hours -
...ANSWER... ✔ ✔Slow of Motor Unit
Type of motor unit has a large motor neuron & consists
of a large bundle of type IIx muscle fibers -
...ANSWER... ✔ ✔Fast Fatiguable (FF)
Voluntary movement starts in - ...ANSWER... ✔
✔Cerebral Cortex
The process that allows a muscle spindle to contract at
the same rate as the muscle where it resides -
...ANSWER... ✔ ✔Alpha-gamma Co-activation
How many nerves are contained within the peripheral
nervous system - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔43 Pairs
The muscular system includes how many muscles -
...ANSWER... ✔ ✔approximately 650
Muscle fiber type that's the largest & produce the most
amount of force - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔Type IIx
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Cross-bridge cycle requires energy, which is provided
by - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔ATP hydrolysis
The function of epimysium is too - ...ANSWER... ✔
✔Protect muscle from friction against other muscles or
bone.
Muscle fiber type has a very small amount of
mitochondria - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔Type IIx
Make-up of a person's muscle fiber ratio - ...ANSWER...
✔ ✔It can't be changed to a large degree
Training with heavy loads causes - ...ANSWER... ✔
✔Equal growth of type I and type II fibers
Functions like girdles & guy wires to provide an
interconnected structure - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔Fascia
Three possible mechanisms for inducing hypertrophy -
...ANSWER... ✔ ✔Mechanical tension, metabolic
stress, muscle damage
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functional units that can make a muscle shorten -
...ANSWER... ✔ ✔Sarcomere
Found within the appendicular skeleton - ...ANSWER...
✔ ✔Bones of the upper & lower extremities
Movement between 2 adjacent vertebrae is made
possible by - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔Facet Joints
Wolff's Law - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔The body responds
by increasing or decreasing the bone's diameter
Cartilage plays important rolls such as - ...ANSWER...
✔ ✔Bone development
Mature bone cells that maintain a bone's matrix -
...ANSWER... ✔ ✔Osteocytes
Bone on bone contact that results in joint pain -
...ANSWER... ✔ ✔osteoarthritis
ISSA STRENGTH & CONDITIONING, STRENGTH
AND CONDITIONING EXAM ISSA EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2025
Neural Circuitry that travels outside the spinal cord -
...ANSWER... ✔ ✔Peripheral nervous system
A sensory receptor within a muscle that detects changes
in length and helps regulate contraction - ...ANSWER...
✔ ✔Muscle Spindle
Branches of the cell body that act as receivers, collecting
information from other neurons - ...ANSWER... ✔
✔Dendrites
Muscle contraction is triggered when the following
chemical neurotransmitters binds to receptors on the
muscle - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔acetylcholine
Division of the peripheral nervous system controls
voluntary movement - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔somatic
nervous system
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Type of motor unit can contract for many hours -
...ANSWER... ✔ ✔Slow of Motor Unit
Type of motor unit has a large motor neuron & consists
of a large bundle of type IIx muscle fibers -
...ANSWER... ✔ ✔Fast Fatiguable (FF)
Voluntary movement starts in - ...ANSWER... ✔
✔Cerebral Cortex
The process that allows a muscle spindle to contract at
the same rate as the muscle where it resides -
...ANSWER... ✔ ✔Alpha-gamma Co-activation
How many nerves are contained within the peripheral
nervous system - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔43 Pairs
The muscular system includes how many muscles -
...ANSWER... ✔ ✔approximately 650
Muscle fiber type that's the largest & produce the most
amount of force - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔Type IIx
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Cross-bridge cycle requires energy, which is provided
by - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔ATP hydrolysis
The function of epimysium is too - ...ANSWER... ✔
✔Protect muscle from friction against other muscles or
bone.
Muscle fiber type has a very small amount of
mitochondria - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔Type IIx
Make-up of a person's muscle fiber ratio - ...ANSWER...
✔ ✔It can't be changed to a large degree
Training with heavy loads causes - ...ANSWER... ✔
✔Equal growth of type I and type II fibers
Functions like girdles & guy wires to provide an
interconnected structure - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔Fascia
Three possible mechanisms for inducing hypertrophy -
...ANSWER... ✔ ✔Mechanical tension, metabolic
stress, muscle damage
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functional units that can make a muscle shorten -
...ANSWER... ✔ ✔Sarcomere
Found within the appendicular skeleton - ...ANSWER...
✔ ✔Bones of the upper & lower extremities
Movement between 2 adjacent vertebrae is made
possible by - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔Facet Joints
Wolff's Law - ...ANSWER... ✔ ✔The body responds
by increasing or decreasing the bone's diameter
Cartilage plays important rolls such as - ...ANSWER...
✔ ✔Bone development
Mature bone cells that maintain a bone's matrix -
...ANSWER... ✔ ✔Osteocytes
Bone on bone contact that results in joint pain -
...ANSWER... ✔ ✔osteoarthritis
