NASM CPT | Questions and Answers with complete solution

Golgi tendon - musculotendonous junction that detects tension applied to tendon during slow static stretch. Cardio Output - amount of blood pumped out by each side of the heart in 1 min. Davie's Law - soft tissue models along the lines of stress. Reciprocal inhibition - muscles on one side of a joint relaxing to accommodate contraction on the other side of that joint. Agonist Muscle - the muscle that contracts to produce a movement; prime mover. Antagonist Muscle - the muscle that has an action opposite to that of the agonist and helps in the production of a coordinated movement. Prime Mover - the muscle that acts as the initial and main source of motive power. Static Stretching - a technique in which a muscle is slowly and gently stretched and then held in the stretched position. Autogenic Inhibition - the process when neural impulses that sense tension is greater than the impulses that cause muscles to contract, providing an inhibitory effect to the muscle spindles. Force Couple Relationship - muscle groups moving together to produce movement around a joint; muscles in a force-couple provide divergent pulls on the bone or bones they connect with which is a result of the fact that each muscle has different attachment sites, pulls at a different angle, and create a different force on that joint.