13 - Resistance Training Concepts

Question 1

A seated cable row is an example of an exercise from which level in the OPT model?

Answer 1

Strength

Question 2

What is the immediate progression of an alternating-arm ball dumbbell chest press?

Answer 2

Single-arm ball dumbbell chest press

Question 3

What is involved in the preparatory step for a multiplanar step-up, balance, curl to overhead press exercise?

Answer 3

Stand in front of a box with feet shoulder-width apart.

Question 4

Which of the following exercises is the best example of a Stabilization Level exercise?

Answer 4

Multiplanar step-up balance, curl, to overhead press

Question 5

Which of the following exercises is considered a back-stabilization exercise?

Answer 5

Standing cable row

Question 6

When performed at an appropriate tempo, which of the following exercises would offer the best improvement of the power of a client’s pectoralis major?

Answer 6

Medicine ball rotation chest pass

Question 7

Performing resistance training exercises in a circuit fashion in order to burn more calories is an example of which of the following principles of specificity?

Answer 7

Metabolic

Question 8

What refers to the weight and movements placed on the body?

Answer 8

Mechanical specificity

Question 9

What exercise is considered a total-body Strength Level exercise?

Answer 9

Squat, curl, to two-arm press

Question 10

When performing a peripheral heart action workout for strength, which of the following exercises would you perform immediately after a barbell squat?

Answer 10

Seated row

Question 11

What is a multiplanar step-up to balance an example of?

Answer 11

Leg-stabilization exercise

Question 12

A new client with limited exercise experience has recently begun a Phase 1: Stabilization Endurance training program. Which of the following is the most appropriate way for this client to increase muscular endurance?

Answer 12

Circuit training

Question 13

A resistance training system that is a variation of circuit training and that alternates upper body and lower body exercises throughout the circuit is called?

Answer 13

Peripheral heart action

Question 14

A client’s increase in biceps strength from performing dumbbell curls is evidence of which fitness principle?

Answer 14

Specificity

Question 15

Which of the following refers to a resistance training workout that involves performing all sets of an exercise or body part before moving on to the next exercise or body part?

Answer 15

Horizontal loading

Question 16

What is occuring when a prolonged intolerable stressor produces fatigue and leads to a breakdown in the system or injury?

Answer 16

Exhaustion

Question 17

A woman is training to improve her running capabilities for an upcoming marathon. She is progressively increasing the distance and time of her runs. Which principle best explains physiological adaptions occuring to the woman’s aerobic energy system?

Answer 17

Metabolic specificity

Question 18

Which of the following governs how the body responds and adjusts to stress?

Answer 18

General adaptation syndrome