Chapter 2: Principals of Optimal Health

Question 1

List and explain three of the secondary fitness components

Answer 1

The answer can include any three of the following:
Balance - ability to maintain a specific body position either in a stationary or moving situation.
Coordination - ability to use multiple body parts together to ensure smooth and fluid movement.
Agility - ability to change direction quickly.
Reaction time - time required to respond to a certain stimulus.
Speed - ability to move rapidly.
Power - the product of strength and speed.
Mental capacity - ability to concentrate during training exercise to improve training effects.

Question 2

How would you explain body composition to a client who wants to achieve weight loss?

Answer 2

Body composition is the proportion of fat-free mass (i.e., muscle, bone, blood, organs, and fluids) to fat mass (adipose tissue deposited under the skin and around organs). When we measure your body composition, we are able to determine how much of your total body weight is specifically from fat. With your weight-loss goal, keeping track of how much fat you are losing is helpful, and we can use the body composition measurement to help us do so. Some of the other long-term benefits of improving your body composition are decreased risk of cardiovascular disease, improved basal metabolic rate, improved bodily function, improved body mass index (BMI), and a higher level of overall self-confidence.

Question 3

Which components of the mind are as important as physical health?

Answer 3

mental health, social health, and emotional health

Question 4

What are the primary fitness components?

Answer 4

cardiorespiratory capacity, muscular capacity, flexibility, and body composition

Question 5

5. Which of canfitpro’s nine training principles is best demonstrated by the following example?

“A client who has a goal of running a marathon should have included in the program some exercises that target the ankles, knees, hips, and back because marathon training will stress those areas.”

Answer 5

structural tolerance

Question 5

What principle suggests that after training ceases, the body gradually returns to a pretraining state?

Answer 5

reversibility

Question 6

Which of the following accurately represents canfitpro’s recommendations for cardiorespiratory activity?

a. 300 minutes of moderate-intensity activity/week
b. 22 minutes of vigorous activity/day
c. 150 minutes of vigorous activity/week
d. all of the above

Answer 6

All of the above