HSC 220 QUIZ 1 QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
ACCURATE ANSWERS
What does ACSM stand for? - Answers - American College of Sports Medicine
What does NASM stand for? - Answers - National Academy of Sports Medicine
What does NSCA stand for? - Answers - National Strength and Conditioning
Association
What does ACE stand for? - Answers - American Council on Exercise
What are the certifications through ACSM? (3) - Answers - ACSM Certified Personal
Trainer (CPT)
ACSM Certified Exercise Physiologist (CES)
ACSM certified group exercise instructors (GEI)
What are the certifications through NSCA? (4) - Answers - NSCA Certified Personal
Trainer (CPT)
NSCA Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS)
NSCA Certified Special Population Specialist (CSPS)
NSCA Tactical Strength and Conditioning (TSAC)
What are the certifications of ACE? (4) - Answers - ACE Personal Trainer Certificate
(ACE-CPT)
ACE Group Fitness Instructor Certificate (ACE-GFI)
ACE Health Coach Certification (ACE Health Coach)
ACE Advanced Health and Fitness Specialist Certification (ACE-AHFS)
What does the FITT principle stand for? - Answers - Frequency, intensity, timing, and
type of activity
What is the difference between health and fitness? - Answers - Health is to delay death,
avoid disease, enjoy life, withstand challenges, improve systolic BP, and lipid profiles,
and lose body fat
Fitness is to continue with health benefits, greater reduction in risk of CVD, reduce
diastolic BP, enhance glucose control, greater increase in CRF, and development of
components of fitness
What are the major risk factor categories and examples of each - Answers - Inherited-
age, gender, race, susceptibility to disease
Environmental- physical, socioeconomic, family
Behavioral- smoking, inactivity,, drinking alcohol, stress
, Define Physical Activity - Answers - Any bodily movement produced by skeletal muscle
resulting in energy expenditure
Define exercise - Answers - Physical activity that is voluntary, planned, structured and
repetitive. Aims to improve or maintain physical fitness
Define physical fitness - Answers - A set of attributes or characteristics that people have
or achieve that relates to the ability to perform physical activity
What are the five components of Health-related fitness? - Answers - Muscular strength
Endurance
CRF
flexibility
body composition
What are the four components of skill-related fitness? - Answers - Agility
Balance and coordination
Speed
Power and reaction time
Define Absolute Exercise intensity - Answers - describes the rate of work
Define relative exercise intensity - Answers - Describes the rate of work relative to the
maximal value
Define frequency - Answers - Number of times per week PA is performed
Define duration - Answers - amount of time spent doing PA
Define volume - Answers - Total amount of time or work completed in activity
What are the benefits of activity? - Answers - Improved cardiorespiratory health
Improved metabolic health
Improved musculoskeletal health
Reduction in certain types of cancers
Improved mental health
Improved functional ability and overall reduction in falls
What are the ACSM current guidelines? - Answers - -Moderate-intensity
cardiorespiratory exercise training for ≥30 min·d−1 on ≥5 d·wk−1 for a total of ≥150
min·wk−1
-Vigorous-intensity cardiorespiratory exercise training for ≥20 min·d−1 on ≥3 d·wk−1
(≥75 min·wk−1)
-Or a combination of moderate- and vigorous-intensity exercise to achieve a total
energy expenditure of ≥500-1000 MET·min·wk−1.
ACCURATE ANSWERS
What does ACSM stand for? - Answers - American College of Sports Medicine
What does NASM stand for? - Answers - National Academy of Sports Medicine
What does NSCA stand for? - Answers - National Strength and Conditioning
Association
What does ACE stand for? - Answers - American Council on Exercise
What are the certifications through ACSM? (3) - Answers - ACSM Certified Personal
Trainer (CPT)
ACSM Certified Exercise Physiologist (CES)
ACSM certified group exercise instructors (GEI)
What are the certifications through NSCA? (4) - Answers - NSCA Certified Personal
Trainer (CPT)
NSCA Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS)
NSCA Certified Special Population Specialist (CSPS)
NSCA Tactical Strength and Conditioning (TSAC)
What are the certifications of ACE? (4) - Answers - ACE Personal Trainer Certificate
(ACE-CPT)
ACE Group Fitness Instructor Certificate (ACE-GFI)
ACE Health Coach Certification (ACE Health Coach)
ACE Advanced Health and Fitness Specialist Certification (ACE-AHFS)
What does the FITT principle stand for? - Answers - Frequency, intensity, timing, and
type of activity
What is the difference between health and fitness? - Answers - Health is to delay death,
avoid disease, enjoy life, withstand challenges, improve systolic BP, and lipid profiles,
and lose body fat
Fitness is to continue with health benefits, greater reduction in risk of CVD, reduce
diastolic BP, enhance glucose control, greater increase in CRF, and development of
components of fitness
What are the major risk factor categories and examples of each - Answers - Inherited-
age, gender, race, susceptibility to disease
Environmental- physical, socioeconomic, family
Behavioral- smoking, inactivity,, drinking alcohol, stress
, Define Physical Activity - Answers - Any bodily movement produced by skeletal muscle
resulting in energy expenditure
Define exercise - Answers - Physical activity that is voluntary, planned, structured and
repetitive. Aims to improve or maintain physical fitness
Define physical fitness - Answers - A set of attributes or characteristics that people have
or achieve that relates to the ability to perform physical activity
What are the five components of Health-related fitness? - Answers - Muscular strength
Endurance
CRF
flexibility
body composition
What are the four components of skill-related fitness? - Answers - Agility
Balance and coordination
Speed
Power and reaction time
Define Absolute Exercise intensity - Answers - describes the rate of work
Define relative exercise intensity - Answers - Describes the rate of work relative to the
maximal value
Define frequency - Answers - Number of times per week PA is performed
Define duration - Answers - amount of time spent doing PA
Define volume - Answers - Total amount of time or work completed in activity
What are the benefits of activity? - Answers - Improved cardiorespiratory health
Improved metabolic health
Improved musculoskeletal health
Reduction in certain types of cancers
Improved mental health
Improved functional ability and overall reduction in falls
What are the ACSM current guidelines? - Answers - -Moderate-intensity
cardiorespiratory exercise training for ≥30 min·d−1 on ≥5 d·wk−1 for a total of ≥150
min·wk−1
-Vigorous-intensity cardiorespiratory exercise training for ≥20 min·d−1 on ≥3 d·wk−1
(≥75 min·wk−1)
-Or a combination of moderate- and vigorous-intensity exercise to achieve a total
energy expenditure of ≥500-1000 MET·min·wk−1.
