Weightlifting Exam Study Guide Exam
Questions and Answers
What is a benefit of weight training? - -Increased muscular strength & injury
prevention & better support for joints
- What is not a component of safety in the weight room? - -Wearing proper
shorts and shirt
- What is the primary muscle involved in the bench press? - -Anterior
Deltoid
- What is a primary muscle involved when performing cleans? - -
Hamstrings, calves, quadriceps
- Weight plates are. . . - -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. - -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. - -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. - -Hang cleans
- What piece of weight room equipment has a flat, cushioned surface that
you lie down on when lifting weights overhead? - -Bench
- The number of consecutive times that the exercise is completed is
called____________. - -Repetitions
- A group of repetitions is called a ___________. - -Set
- The #1 rule in the weight room is _____________. - -Safety
- Exercises used to compliment upper and lower body main core exercises
are called ________. - -Supplement lifts
Questions and Answers
What is a benefit of weight training? - -Increased muscular strength & injury
prevention & better support for joints
- What is not a component of safety in the weight room? - -Wearing proper
shorts and shirt
- What is the primary muscle involved in the bench press? - -Anterior
Deltoid
- What is a primary muscle involved when performing cleans? - -
Hamstrings, calves, quadriceps
- Weight plates are. . . - -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. - -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. - -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. - -Hang cleans
- What piece of weight room equipment has a flat, cushioned surface that
you lie down on when lifting weights overhead? - -Bench
- The number of consecutive times that the exercise is completed is
called____________. - -Repetitions
- A group of repetitions is called a ___________. - -Set
- The #1 rule in the weight room is _____________. - -Safety
- Exercises used to compliment upper and lower body main core exercises
are called ________. - -Supplement lifts
