ISSA Final Exam |Questions and Verified Answers| 2023/ 2024 New Update

ISSA Final Exam |Questions and Verified Answers| 2023/ 2024 New Update Q: What is the most superficial (closest to the surface) muscle of the abdominals. Answer: External obliques Q: Utilizing the FITT principle, how many times a week should a beginner client workout for? Answer: 3 times a week. This principle works best for beginners because it will show them how to get started. Q: What is responsible for sensing excessive stretch to protect the muscle? Answer: Muscle spindle. Q: Cycling your training to help account for shock, compensation, and exhaustion is an important part of periodization and refers to which principle? Answer: The GAS principle. 1. "Alarm stage" applying intense training stress. 2. "Resistance stage" muscles evolve and adapt to handling heavier loads and resist stressful weights more easily and effectively. 3. "Exhaustion stage" continually adding stress will exhaust our reserves and will cease to function at peak performance. To prevent the third stage from even happening, you need weeks of going "light"; decreasing the weight and intensity to give your body time to rest and recover. Q: The need for different phases of training helps to prevent what? Answer: Overtraining Mix things up a bit. Don't get stuck with using the same program/workouts over and over again, which will lead to orthopedic stress. Incorporate different modes of training and experiment. A good example is cross-training, which involves performing different activities and sports to achieve a well-rounded and healthy body. Q: Individuals with hypertension should moderate their intake of what? Answer: Salt It has been shown to increase blood pressure in sodium-sensitive individuals. Half of hypertensive individuals are sodium-sensitive. Q: A client performs 8 reps of the seated leg press at 320 lbs. What is their estimated 1RM? Answer: 400 lbs Take the weight that he lifted (320 lbs) and divide that by 80% (0.80 is the percent of max) and that = 400 lbs. Q: What would be a symptom of overtraining? Answer: Decrease in performance There are two types of overtraining: 1. Sympathetic: mostly seen in anaerobic clients, this type of overtraining affect