QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
◉ Chronic adaptation . Answer: a physiological change (semi-
permanent) that happens when body exposed to repeated acute exercise
bouts over a period of time.
◉ Epidemiology . Answer: study of patterns and determinants of health
and disease.
◉ Exercise Epidemiology . Answer: branch of epidemiology that
investigates the role of sedentary behaviour (SB) and physical activity
(PA) in determining health and disease.
◉ Physical Activity (PA) . Answer: any bodily movement produced by
muscular contraction.
◉ Exercise . Answer: planned PA with goal of improve physical fitness;
it is a subset of PA.