ACSM Certified Exercise Physiologist
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Physical Activity ✔✔Any bodily movement produced by contracting skeletal muscles, with an
increase in energy expenditure.
Exercise ✔✔Planned,
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ACSM Certified Exercise Physiologist
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Physical Activity ✔✔Any bodily movement produced by contracting skeletal muscles, with an
increase in energy expenditure.
Exercise ✔✔Planned, purposeful, repetitive
Physical Fitness ✔✔Attributes or characteristics that individuals have achieved that related to their
ability to perform physical activity
3 metabolic pathways the body uses to creates ATP ✔✔1. Creatine Phosphate
2. anaerobic glycolysis
3. 0xidative system
Claudication ✔✔pain in the leg is induced by exercise, usually because of an artery obstruction.
Creatine Phosphate system ✔✔Small amounts of CP are stored within each cell. Simple one-toone trade off that allows for the rapid production of ATP. ONLY for use during short bouts of
exercise. less that 10 seconds.
Anaerobic glycolysis ✔✔No oxygen required. NExt most immediate energy source. break down
carbs (glucose or glycogen) into pyruvate. Used during medium-duration exercise. no more than
about 90 seconds.
Aerobic glycolysis (oxidative system) ✔✔Oxygen dependent. As exercise intensity decreases
allowing for longer duration activities, use of the oxidative system increases. (Krebs cycle and
ETC). Produce ATP in the mitochondria of the cell--requires oxygen. Lasts longer than 1-2
minutes.
What is VO2? ✔✔The volume of oxygen the body consumes. VO2 max is the highest volume of
oxygen the body can consume.
Define Stroke Volume ✔✔the volume of blood the heart ejects with each beat.
How does SV increase with workload? ✔✔Similar to HR, it increases as workload increases but
only up to ~40% to 60% of VO2max. The percentages can be decreases in sedentary individuals
and increased with training.
What happens to resting HR as stroke volume increases? ✔✔it decreases, as more blood being
pumped per beat allows the heart to beat less often.
What is cardiac output? ✔✔a measure of blood pumped per minute. The product of stroke volume
and heart rate.
What does Diastolic Blood pressure do during exercise? ✔✔Remains stable or decreases slightly.
What is rate pressure product? ✔✔serves as an estimate of myocardial oxygen demand. Product
of HR and Systolic BP. HR X SBP
What is the Fick equation used to determine VO2 max? ✔✔VO2max = HRmax X SVmax X aVO2 difference max (arteriovenous oxygen difference)
What is the gold standard to measure Cardiorespiratory fitness? ✔✔VO2 max during open circuit
spirometry.
How does a submaximal exercise test work? ✔✔It estimates VO2 max from the HR response to
submaximal single stage or graded exercise.
absolute oxygen consumption vs. relative oxygen consumption ✔✔absolute is the raw volume of
O2 consumed by the body. Relative is the volume of O2 consumed relative to body weight. Useful
to compare fitness levels between individuals.
What is one of the largest components of PA-related energy expenditure? ✔✔Occupational
Physical Ativity
5 Health related physical fitness components ✔✔Cardiorespiratory endurance, body composition,
muscular strength, muscular endurance, and flexibility
6 Skill (performance) related physical fitness components ✔✔Agility, coordination, balance,
power, reaction time, and speed
cardiorespiratory endurance ✔✔ability of circulatory system and respiratory system to supply o2
during sustained physical activity
Body composition ✔✔relative amounts of muscle, fat, bone, and other vital parts of the body
Muscular strength ✔✔Ability of muscle to exert force
muscular endurance ✔✔ability of muscle to continue to perform without fatigue
flexibility ✔✔ROM at a joint. as per the skeletal muscles and not any external forces.
Agility ✔✔ability to change position of the body in space with speed and accuracy
coordination ✔✔ability to use the senses together with body parts to perform tasks smoothly and
accurately
balance ✔✔maintenance of equilibrium while stationary OR moving
reaction time ✔✔time elapsed between stimulation and the beginning of the reaction to said
stimulus
speed ✔✔ability to perform a movement with
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