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Weightlifting Exam Study Guide
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What is a benefit of weight training?
Ans: Increased muscular strength & injury prevention & better support for
joints
What is not a component of safety in the weight room?
Ans: Wearing proper shorts and shirt
What is the primary muscle involved in the bench press?
Ans: Anterior Deltoid
What is a primary muscle involved when performing cleans?
Ans: Hamstrings, calves, quadriceps
Weight plates are. . .
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Ans: Weight lifting equipment used to add resistance to adjustable
dumbbells and barbells
An isolation exercise that targets the hamstring muscles and involves
flexing the lower leg against resistance towards the glutes.
Ans: Leg curls
Any position of the human body where one leg is positioned forward
with knee bent and foot flat on the ground while the other leg is
positioned behind.
Ans: Lunges
A weight lifting exercise, which consists of the lifter moving a
weighted barbell from the top of the knee to a racked position
across deltoids and clavicles. The primary muscles targeted are the
hamstrings, gluteus maximus, quadriceps, and calves.
Weightlifting Exam Study Guide
Questions and Correct Answers/ Latest
Update / Already Graded
What is a benefit of weight training?
Ans: Increased muscular strength & injury prevention & better support for
joints
What is not a component of safety in the weight room?
Ans: Wearing proper shorts and shirt
What is the primary muscle involved in the bench press?
Ans: Anterior Deltoid
What is a primary muscle involved when performing cleans?
Ans: Hamstrings, calves, quadriceps
Weight plates are. . .
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Ans: Weight lifting equipment used to add resistance to adjustable
dumbbells and barbells
An isolation exercise that targets the hamstring muscles and involves
flexing the lower leg against resistance towards the glutes.
Ans: Leg curls
Any position of the human body where one leg is positioned forward
with knee bent and foot flat on the ground while the other leg is
positioned behind.
Ans: Lunges
A weight lifting exercise, which consists of the lifter moving a
weighted barbell from the top of the knee to a racked position
across deltoids and clavicles. The primary muscles targeted are the
hamstrings, gluteus maximus, quadriceps, and calves.
