(SUMMARY) NASM STUDY GUIDE
COMPLETE LATEST 2023
Subjective Information - Correct Answer 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.Program Design - Correct Answer A purposeful system or plan put together to help an individual achieve a specific goal.Biomechanics - Correct Answer A study that uses principals of physics to quantitatively study how forces interact within a living body.Dietary Supplement - Correct Answer A substance that completes or makes an addition to daily dietary intake.Proprioceptively enriched environment - Correct Answer An unstable (but controlled) environment where exercises are performed that causes the body to use its internal balance and stabilization mechanisms Reactive Training - Correct Answer Exercises that use quick, powerful movements involving an eccentric contraction immediately followed by an explosive concentric contraction.Obesity - Correct Answer Fastest growing health problem in the US The Nervous System - Correct Answer It is a conglomeration of billions of cells forming nerves that are specifically designed to provide a communication network within the human body nervous system, skeletal system and muscular system - Correct Answer kinetic chain Heart - Correct Answer Muscular pump that rhythmically contracts to push blood throughout the body Dynamic Joint Stabilization - Correct Answer The ability of the kinetic chain to stabilize a joint during movement.Speed - Correct Answer The ability to move the body in one intended direction as fast as possible.The Core - Correct Answer The lumbo-pelvic -hip complex and the thoracic and cervical spine, where the body's center of gravity is located 1 / 2
Flexibility - Correct Answer The normal extensibility of all soft tissues that allow the full range of motion of a joint.Nutrition - Correct Answer The sum of the processes by which an animal or plant takes in and uses food substances.Blood - Correct Answer Acts as a medium to deliver and collect essential products to and from the tissues of the body.Protein - Correct Answer Amino acids linked by peptide bonds.Diabetes - Correct Answer Chronic metabolic disorder, in which the body's ability to produce insulin or to utilize glucose is altered Rate of force production - Correct Answer How quickly a muscle can generate force Superior - Correct Answer Positioned above a point of reference.Dynamic Range of Motion - Correct Answer The combination of flexibility and the nervous system's ability to control this range efficiently.General Adaptation Syndrome - Correct Answer The kinetic chain's ability to adapt to stresses placed on it.Multisensory Condition - Correct Answer Training environment that provides heightened stimulation to proprioceptors and mechanoreceptors.Cardiorespiratory system - Correct Answer A system comprised of the cardiovascular and respiratory systems Rate of Force Production - Correct Answer Ability of muscles to exert maximal force output in a minimal amount of time.Acute Variables - Correct Answer Important components that specify how each exercise is to be performed.Inferior - Correct Answer Positioned below a point of reference.sensory function - Correct Answer The ability to sense changes in either external or internal environments Neromuscular efficiency - Correct Answer The ability of the neuromuscular system to allow agonists, antagonists, and stabilizers to work synergistically and control the entire kinetic chain in all three planes of motion
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