LEC2: The Basis of Conditioning

Question 1

What is Conditioning?

Answer 1

Noun (condition): the state of something with regard to its appearance, quality or working order:
- A person’s or animal’s state of helath or physical fitness
- An illness or other medical problem

Verb (conditioning): bring (something) into the desired state of use:
- Make (a person or animal) fit and healthy

Question 2

How is conditioning achieved?

Answer 2

1. Physical activity
2. Nutrition
3. Erogenic aids
4. Adjunctive modalities (massage, thermal, etc.)

Question 3

What is exercise?

Answer 3

Activity requiring physical effort, carried out to sustain or improve health and fitness
- An activity carried out for a specific purpose

Question 4

What is the difference between physical activity and exercise?

Answer 4

Physical activity: activity requiring physical exertion. Purpose may or may not be to sustain or improve health and/or fitness
- Types: locomotion, ADL’s, occupation, recreation/sport, exercise

Exercise: type of PA. Specific purpose is to sustain or improe health and/or fitness

Question 5

According to ACSM, what is exercise?

Answer 5

Any and all activity involving generation of force by the activated muscle(s) that result in disruption of a homeostatic state. In dynamic exercise, the muscle may perform shortening (concentric) contractions or be overcome by external resistane and perform lengthening (eccentric) contractions. When muscle force results in no movement, the contraction should be termed isometric.

Question 6

According to Journal of Sports Sciences, what is exercise?

Answer 6

A potential disruption to homeostasis by muscle activity that is either exclusively or in combination, concentric, isometric, eccentric.