Kinesiology MidTerm Exam Question
and answers 100% correct 2025/2026
Susruta - correct answer ✔the first (Indian) physician to prescribe daily activity, (600 BCE)
- He stated "to be taken daily" but only "to half extent of ones capacity" or it may be fatal
-He advocated exercise to make the body strong, improve digestion, avoid laziness, less forgetful
(senility)
Hippocrates - correct answer ✔(father of scientific medicine): scientific medicine was evidence-based
medicine, he stated nutrition and physical activity balance led to health
Aristotle - correct answer ✔Greek philosopher/scientist (father of kinesiology): the stated walking
produced better health; he identified the balance between walking and health. "If walking doesn't
produce better health, than walking would be in vain"
Edward Stanley - correct answer ✔British politician "those who have no time for exercise they will
sooner or later have to have time for illness"
Exercise is medicine - correct answer ✔is an organization that proves exercise helps most chronic
diseases
Relationships between lifestyle and health behaviors - correct answer ✔-People who exercise regularly:
tend to eat better, tend to be leaner and have less chronic disease, people who smoke are less likely to
engage in physical activity; however, no relation between alcohol and physical activity (more active
people drink more), exercise does not cure obesity, some people are fat but fit
Brief History of "firsts" in exercise physiology - correct answer ✔-Luigi Galvani discovers that it is
electricity that stimulates contraction.
-Carl Ludwig measures human blood pressure
,-Augustus de 'sire Waller records the electrical activity of the human heart using the first EKG
-Archibald V.Hill describes maximal oxygen uptake (vo2 max) during exercise in humans; he measured
fitness on a treadmill, created exercise stress test; exercise stress test
-A.F. Huxley theorizes about muscle cross-bridges in contraction
What is physical fitness? - correct answer ✔-Fitness can't be tell unless it is measured
Definitions Physical fitness:
1. Capacity to live an optimal life
2. Functional quality of well being associated with participating in physical activity
3. Ability to perform muscular work satisfactorily, it is determined by the level of several attributes
which are influenced by activity such as cardiovascular-respiratory endurance, muscular strength,
muscular endurance, flexibility and body composition.
Health related fitness VS Performance related fitness - correct answer ✔Health related fitness: those
components of fitness that allow doing activities of daily living
Performance related fitness: those components of fitness that enable optimal work or sport
performance
Eg. Blood pressure is between both, as it shows how fit you are as an athlete and a predictor for your
health.
Eg. Walking your dog - health related
Eg. Carrying a hose up flight of stares- performance
Eg. Having normal body weight- health related
,Health Defined - correct answer ✔-Not so easy to define
-World health organization definition: a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, not
merely the absence of disease.
-"The enjoyment of the highest attainable health is a fundamental human right" -WHO
-An invitation to health, Canadian edition textbook suggests that being healthy is: "a connection
between body, mind and spirit"
(Spirit is Latin for breath, related to soul, courage and vigor)
Health magazines present white beautiful woman on covers as "optimal health" but this is
misinformation, you cannot determine health by simply looking at someone.
What makes you healthy?
-Behaviors -Genetics
-Environment -Community & Society → healthcare
The Canadian health care concept - correct answer ✔Lalonde framework: a significant Canadian health
field concept was presented in 1974 that included lifestyle and environment
Healthcare "systems" - correct answer ✔-Canada has a government
-Sponsored public plan available to all citizens that covers almost all elements of healthcare (usually not
medications) -$228 billion dollars on healthcare in Canada, a lot more than the 70s/80s/90s due to aging
population/baby boom etc.
-The US offers some government sponsored programs, but the majority buy private healthcare through
their employer -patient protection and affordable care act (Obama care)
, Canadian health spending - correct answer ✔-Spending on health care by governments and Canadians
is approximately:
-228$ billion, increasing rapidly since 1970s
-About 6,300 per person per year
-11% of GDP (gross domestic product) - GDP is how much money that country as a whole makes
-2.7% increases per year (inflation is about 2%)
-Health expenditure continues to rise but at some point it has to level off so it doesn't compromise our
schools, roads, environment etc.
-Graph shows the average $ spent on each person in different age groups, the average $6,300 isn't for
everyone (higher for very young, and for 65+)
- Graph comparing the amount of money Canada spends on healthcare compared to other countries.
We are high up (11%) but not the highest we are among European countries.
-Most/65% of the $6,300 comes from provincial government sector, while the rest is private insurance,
out of pocket other private, other public etc.
-What is the $6300 spent on? Mostly hospitals, drugs, physicians, and some on public health etc.
Health promotion - correct answer ✔Other issues:
-mental health -pregnancy -injury -infection -child health -violence
Public Health agency of Canada: a global governmentally funded website that does health cost analysis,
good job for kin major, focuses on child health, prevention (e.g. Tabaco prevention, diabetes prevention
etc)
ParticipACTION - correct answer ✔nationally funded program to promote physical activity to
Canadians, commercials to advocate activity. Initially it was focused of youth and now it's on the older
baby boomers
and answers 100% correct 2025/2026
Susruta - correct answer ✔the first (Indian) physician to prescribe daily activity, (600 BCE)
- He stated "to be taken daily" but only "to half extent of ones capacity" or it may be fatal
-He advocated exercise to make the body strong, improve digestion, avoid laziness, less forgetful
(senility)
Hippocrates - correct answer ✔(father of scientific medicine): scientific medicine was evidence-based
medicine, he stated nutrition and physical activity balance led to health
Aristotle - correct answer ✔Greek philosopher/scientist (father of kinesiology): the stated walking
produced better health; he identified the balance between walking and health. "If walking doesn't
produce better health, than walking would be in vain"
Edward Stanley - correct answer ✔British politician "those who have no time for exercise they will
sooner or later have to have time for illness"
Exercise is medicine - correct answer ✔is an organization that proves exercise helps most chronic
diseases
Relationships between lifestyle and health behaviors - correct answer ✔-People who exercise regularly:
tend to eat better, tend to be leaner and have less chronic disease, people who smoke are less likely to
engage in physical activity; however, no relation between alcohol and physical activity (more active
people drink more), exercise does not cure obesity, some people are fat but fit
Brief History of "firsts" in exercise physiology - correct answer ✔-Luigi Galvani discovers that it is
electricity that stimulates contraction.
-Carl Ludwig measures human blood pressure
,-Augustus de 'sire Waller records the electrical activity of the human heart using the first EKG
-Archibald V.Hill describes maximal oxygen uptake (vo2 max) during exercise in humans; he measured
fitness on a treadmill, created exercise stress test; exercise stress test
-A.F. Huxley theorizes about muscle cross-bridges in contraction
What is physical fitness? - correct answer ✔-Fitness can't be tell unless it is measured
Definitions Physical fitness:
1. Capacity to live an optimal life
2. Functional quality of well being associated with participating in physical activity
3. Ability to perform muscular work satisfactorily, it is determined by the level of several attributes
which are influenced by activity such as cardiovascular-respiratory endurance, muscular strength,
muscular endurance, flexibility and body composition.
Health related fitness VS Performance related fitness - correct answer ✔Health related fitness: those
components of fitness that allow doing activities of daily living
Performance related fitness: those components of fitness that enable optimal work or sport
performance
Eg. Blood pressure is between both, as it shows how fit you are as an athlete and a predictor for your
health.
Eg. Walking your dog - health related
Eg. Carrying a hose up flight of stares- performance
Eg. Having normal body weight- health related
,Health Defined - correct answer ✔-Not so easy to define
-World health organization definition: a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, not
merely the absence of disease.
-"The enjoyment of the highest attainable health is a fundamental human right" -WHO
-An invitation to health, Canadian edition textbook suggests that being healthy is: "a connection
between body, mind and spirit"
(Spirit is Latin for breath, related to soul, courage and vigor)
Health magazines present white beautiful woman on covers as "optimal health" but this is
misinformation, you cannot determine health by simply looking at someone.
What makes you healthy?
-Behaviors -Genetics
-Environment -Community & Society → healthcare
The Canadian health care concept - correct answer ✔Lalonde framework: a significant Canadian health
field concept was presented in 1974 that included lifestyle and environment
Healthcare "systems" - correct answer ✔-Canada has a government
-Sponsored public plan available to all citizens that covers almost all elements of healthcare (usually not
medications) -$228 billion dollars on healthcare in Canada, a lot more than the 70s/80s/90s due to aging
population/baby boom etc.
-The US offers some government sponsored programs, but the majority buy private healthcare through
their employer -patient protection and affordable care act (Obama care)
, Canadian health spending - correct answer ✔-Spending on health care by governments and Canadians
is approximately:
-228$ billion, increasing rapidly since 1970s
-About 6,300 per person per year
-11% of GDP (gross domestic product) - GDP is how much money that country as a whole makes
-2.7% increases per year (inflation is about 2%)
-Health expenditure continues to rise but at some point it has to level off so it doesn't compromise our
schools, roads, environment etc.
-Graph shows the average $ spent on each person in different age groups, the average $6,300 isn't for
everyone (higher for very young, and for 65+)
- Graph comparing the amount of money Canada spends on healthcare compared to other countries.
We are high up (11%) but not the highest we are among European countries.
-Most/65% of the $6,300 comes from provincial government sector, while the rest is private insurance,
out of pocket other private, other public etc.
-What is the $6300 spent on? Mostly hospitals, drugs, physicians, and some on public health etc.
Health promotion - correct answer ✔Other issues:
-mental health -pregnancy -injury -infection -child health -violence
Public Health agency of Canada: a global governmentally funded website that does health cost analysis,
good job for kin major, focuses on child health, prevention (e.g. Tabaco prevention, diabetes prevention
etc)
ParticipACTION - correct answer ✔nationally funded program to promote physical activity to
Canadians, commercials to advocate activity. Initially it was focused of youth and now it's on the older
baby boomers
