C2 Short Answer Flashcards
Why is an adequate intake of vitamins important in an athletes diet?
They act as catalysts to assist energy metabolism
An individual is required to perform a discrete, open and externally paved skill. An example of this?
Nature of Skill - clear beginning & end
Returning a tennis serve
What type of feedback occurs when an athlete receives a score at the conclusion of a gymnastics routine?
KR or KP
Knowledge of results
How could a coach use a circuit training program to develop the aerobic capacity and strength of her athletes?
How would they change the stations.
Increasing the resistance and the time at each station
Which of the following would be a suitable weight training plan for enhancing the performance of an endurance Athlete?
High repetition numbers with fast speed and short recovery periods between sets (D)
A coach tells the squad that a strong performance in the next match will result in individuals being selected for a representative team. What type of motivation is this.
Positive and extrinsic
What is cardiac output?
The volume of blood ejected by the heart per minute
In basketball, players can be awarded a free throw, whereby they are allowed to attempt a shot without any defenders. Which set of motor skills is used in a basketball free throw?
Nature of skill - 2 things
Closed and gross
Which group of physical skills is best acquired using massed practice?
Flip in gymnastics
Skills that have a distinctive beginning and end
Which of the following would be suitable for enhancing the performance of an autonomous athlete?
Feedback & Performance elements
Concurrent feedback and tactical development
Which of the following will occur when an endurance athlete competes in an event lasting two and a half hours?
What will decrease?
The metabolism of glycogen will decrease towards the end of the event
Which if the following recovery techniques is an effective neural strategy?
Nervous system and relieving Tension
Relaxing muscles that have been fatigued or damaged
An athletes competition strength have descrease due to injury. Which principle of training has the athlete displayed in weeks 6-12?
Reversibility
The table below shows an athletes adaptations from training that occurred over 14 weeks.
Slow twitch muscle fibres has increased.
Aerobic capacity has increased.
Number of capillaries has increased Anaerobic capacity has not changed, which is the most likely method of training to have been undertaken?
Continuous training
Which principle of training refers to aligning training activities with the demands of a particular sport?
P - R S T - V W (NO Q OR U)
Specificity
Which type of feedback is relieved by a runner who checks her time after crossing the finish line?
Delayed Feedback and Knowledge of Results (KR)
What does the inverted U hypothesis suggest about the arousal-performance relationship?
There is a level of arousal that creates optimal performance
In what stage of skill acquisition is Anticipation initially learned?
Associative
Features of a resistance program are listed. What is this training program specifically designed to improve?
Power
In movement appraisal, which of the following judgment criteria is applied to improve objectivity?
Objectivity - has a object to measure.
Prescribed or Personal
Prescribed
Which recovery strategy should an athlete choose immediately after sustaining a soft tissue injury?
Cryotherapy
What is a common feature of the alactacid and lactic acid system?
alactacid = ATP-PC
ATP is resynthesised anaerobically
Who are Part practice methods most appropriate for?
Practise methods
Beginner athletes learning a new skill
A valid and reliable athletic skills assessment is one that?
Valid - test same thing / Reliable - repeat
Accurately reflects the level of skill achievement and can be consistently replicated
Which of the following is a feature of the associative stage of skill acquisition?
Experiencing repeated success with a decreasing number of errors
During a grand final match, an athlete becomes negatively affected by the pressure and significance in the occasion. What is the athlete experiencing?
S or T anxiety
State anxiety (D)
When should athletes consume greater quantities of high GI foods?
Immediately post performance
What type of skill is a defensive player performing when executing a tackle during a game?
Open and externally paced
Which types of training methods would be most suitable for an elite basketball player?
Anaerobic interval, ballistic flexibility, elastic resistance
What is increased by an athletes use of creating supplementation?
Phosphatecreatine stores and the ability to resynthesise ATP
Athletes are filmed executing a skill. They rewatch the film and correct their techniques based upon what they observed.
What type of feedback is this?
Video - internal or external. Feedback timing - at the time or after.
External and delayed
A timed 100m sprint trial to measure speed and power is conducted using several athletes.
The same test procedure and conditions are followed for each of the athletes three times, repeated straight after each trial.
Is this a reliable and valid test?
Yes or No. What is it?
They are reliable but not valid
Which psychological performance strategy are athletes using if they are able to perceive themselves winning the event before the event has taken place?
Visualisation
Which physiological adaptations occur in athletes when regularly training a sub maximal levels to improve their aerobic performance?
Decreased resting heart rate, increased stroke volume and increased haemoglobin levels.
The physiological adaptation that is likely to occur from progressively overloading a strength training program, is an increase in what?
Muscle hypertrophy
