Fitness Assessment

Question 1

What does the acronym PATH mean

Answer 1

Physical Activity Training for Health.

Question 2

What are the key features and options of the appraisal?

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Question 3

For whom is the PATH designed?

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Question 4

Which issues require referral to another health professional? Who is the appropriate health professional?

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Question 5

What is the purpose of the fantastic lifestyle checklist? How do you calculate the score?

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Question 6

What is the purpose of the physical activity and sedentary behavior questionnaire? (PASB-Q) how do you score it?

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Question 7

What is the purpose of the AAL-Q? is it the same as the PAR-Q+ Or GAQ?

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Question 8

GAQ, PAR-Q+ PARmed-x for pregnancy. What is important to know about each one? What happens if there is a yes answer?

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Question 9

define blood pressure. What is the response to exercise (acute responses and chronic adaptations)? What are the cutoff values for the PATH?

Answer 9

Blood pressure is the force or pressure of blood against the walls of the arteries as heart pumps blood.
Cutoff values:
SBP _> 160mmHg
DBP _> 90mmHg

Question 10

Define heart rate. What is the cutoff value for the PATH?

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Question 11

what are potential causes for increase or decrease heart rate and blood pressure at rest? is a low resting heart rate good? Is a high resting heart rate.? What are the normal heart rate values?

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Question 12

What happens to heart rate during exercise at same workload and maximum heart rate as client becomes more fit (chronic adaptation??)

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Question 13

Why is waist circumference measurement important?

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Question 14

What is the protocol for measuring waist circumference? What are the units? What is the sensitivity?

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Question 15

What is BMI and how do you calculate it? Why can BMI be high? Low? When should you be concerned?

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Question 16

What are the preliminary instructions for your client? What are the observations?

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Question 17

When should the appraisal be canceled or postponed? How is this different than terminated?

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Question 18

Why do the appraisal protocols have such strict procedures?

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Question 19

what is the process if a client exceeds the cutoff values for either the heart rate and / or blood pressure readings? What are the cutoff values for each?

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