Chapter 6: Fitness Assessment

Question 1

What is a comprehensive fitness assessment ?

Answer 1

It involves a series of measurements that help determine the current health and fitness level of clients.

Question 2

Are fitness assessments meant to diagnose medical or health conditions?

Answer 2

No

Question 3

Fitness assessments…

Answer 3

• provide ongoing communication between personal trainers and client to achieve fitness program goals
• a way to continually monitor clients needs, functional capabilities & physiological effects of exercise

Question 4

What are the cardiovascular risk factors?

Answer 4

cigarette smoking, dyslipidemia, impaired fasting glucose, obesity, and a sedentary lifestyle

Question 5

What factors can lead to neuromuscular disfunction?

Answer 5

poor posture, repetitive movement (pattern overload), lack of movement, injury

Question 6

Movement around joint become altered as a result of what?

Answer 6

neuromuscular disfunction

Question 7

What is altered reciprocal inhibition?

Answer 7

when when a short or tight muscle causes decreased neural drive (actions potentially discharged) of its functional antagonist (or lengthened/relaxed muscle pair)

Question 8

synergistic dominance

Answer 8

when the helper muscles or synergists have to pick up the slack for the prime mover muscles

Question 9

what are the 5 kinetic chain checkpoints

Answer 9

1) Head/Neck
2) Shoulder
3) Hips/Low Back
4) Knees
5) Feet