HPEX 375 Exercise Physiology Test 1
What factors affect performance? - ✔✔CNS function, strength/skill (practice), genetics
(body type, muscle fiber type), environment (altitude, heat, humidity), energy production
(ana
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HPEX 375 Exercise Physiology Test 1
What factors affect performance? - ✔✔CNS function, strength/skill (practice), genetics
(body type, muscle fiber type), environment (altitude, heat, humidity), energy production
(anaerobic sources [PC, glycolysis], aerobic sources [VO2 max, Q, O2 delivery, Hb,
PO2, O2 extraction, mitochondria]), diet (carbohydrate, H2O intake)
Who is A.V. Hill? - ✔✔From England, won Nobel Prize for measurement of heat
production during musc. contraction and recovery as well as measurement of O2
uptake. Developed the terms steady state exercise, VO2 max, O2 debt, and metabolic
efficiency.
Who is Otto Meyerhof? - ✔✔From Germany, won Nobel Prize for discovering the
relationship between O2 consumption and lactic acid
Who is August Krogh? - ✔✔From Denmark, won the Nobel Prize for key work in
capillary circ. and gas diffusion as well as study of gase exchange. Designed ex. phys.
instruments.
Lawrence Henderson - ✔✔Biochem. professor at Harvard Med. School, opened the
Harvard Fatigue Lab in the US in 1927.
D.B. Dill - ✔✔Scientific director of Harvard Fatigue Lab. for all 20 years of it being open
What did the autopsies of young soldiers from the Korean war show in the 1950s? -
✔✔Significant coronary artery disease had already developed
What is the AAPHERD Youth Fitness Test? - ✔✔It was developed in 1957 and used in
physical ed. programs throughout the nation. It established national norms.
During WWII, being underweight and small were the main reasons for being rejected
from the military. What are the main reasons for rejection today? - ✔✔Obesity
Why are people growing more and more interested in fitness today? - ✔✔The interest is
due to growing concern over the high death rates from diseases that are caused (in
part) by poor diet, lack of exercise, and smoking.
How do schools today measure fitness? - ✔✔Instead of traditional tests, schools today
use health-related fitness tests, like the skinfold est. of body fat.
Independent variable (IV) - ✔✔manipulated by researcher
Dependent variable (DV) - ✔✔changes as a function of the IVHomeostasis - ✔✔Maintenance of a constant and "normal" internal environment
Steady state - ✔✔Physiological variable is unchanging, but not necessarily "normal."
Balance between demands placed on body and the body's response to those demands.
Ex. body temp., aterial BP
What happens to body temp. during exercise? - ✔✔It rises and then reaches a plateau
or steady state
What happens to arterial BP at rest? - ✔✔It oscillates, but has a constant mean
pressure
Biological control system - ✔✔Composed of a receptor, a control center, and an
effector. Usually responsible for protein breakdown and synthesis, energy production,
and maintenance of stored nutrients
Sensor/receptor - ✔✔Detects changes in variable
Control center - ✔✔Assesses input and initiates response
Effector - ✔✔Changes internal environment back to normal
Most control systems work via - ✔✔Negative feedback
Gain of the system - ✔✔The degree to which a control system maintains homeostasis.
Positive feedback - ✔✔Response increases original stimulus. Ex. childbirth.
How does exercise interrupt homeostasis - ✔✔By changing pH, O2 and CO2 levels,
and temp.
Acclimation - ✔✔The change that occurs in response to repeated stresses and results
in the improved function of an existing homeostatic system
Cell signaling - ✔✔A system of communication that governs cellular acitivities and
coordinate cell action
What major cell signaling mechanisms participate in the regulation of homeostasis and
are required to regulate cellular adaptation? - ✔✔Intracrine signaling, juxtacrine
signaling, autocrine signaling, paracrine signaling, endocrine signaling
Metabolism - ✔✔Sum of all chem. reactions that occur in body.Anabolic reactions - ✔✔synthesis of molecules
Catabolic reactions - ✔✔breakdown of molecules
Bioenergetics - ✔✔Converting food (fat, protein, carbs) into energy
Cell membrane - ✔✔protectice barrier between the inside of the cell and the ECF
Nucleus - ✔✔Contains genes that regulate protein synthesis
Cytoplasm - ✔✔fluid portion of cell, contains organelles
Endergonic reactions - ✔✔Require energy to be added (endothermic)
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