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Question 0

What do fitness practitioners do?

Answer 0

Design fitness regimes for people.

Question 1

What is being fit a measure of?

Answer 1

Of how well you can do physical activities.

Question 2

What six things do fitness practitioners need to know about you before they form a fitness regime for you?

Answer 2

1) Health problems
2) Current medication
3) Previous fitness treatments
4) family medical history
5) lifestyle factors
6) Physical activity

Question 3

What is your blood pressure and heart rate called when you are not exercising?

Answer 3

Resting levels

Question 4

What is a recovery period?

Answer 4

Time taken once you have stopped exercising for your blood pressure and heart rate return to their resting levels.

Question 5

BMI=

Answer 5

Body mass (kg)
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Height squared(m)

Question 6

Why isn’t BMI always accurate?

Answer 6

You could be fit and muscular your BMI might be outside the ‘normal’ range because muscle is more dense than fat.

Question 7

What is another way of monitoring your fitness apart from BMI and recovery period?

Answer 7

Proportion body fat- Percentage of your body that is made from fat- as your fitness increases the percentage lowers.