CROSSFIT LEVEL 2 TEST BANK QUESTIONS
WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS FULL REVIEW
●● KEY POINTS: AIR SQUAT
Answer: 1
No movement is more foundational than the air squat.
2
Difficulty performing this movement reflects a need to perform it.
3
Correct performance promotes orthopedic safety, functionality, and
mechanical advantage.
●● KEY POINTS: FRONT SQUAT
Answer: 1
The front squat builds on the mechanics of the air squat.
,2
It introduces the front-rack position with external load.
3
It also introduces the importance of moving in the frontal plane under
load.
●● Frontal plane
Answer: 1) keeping the load as close as possible to the midline of the
body will allow for the best efficiency of movement with load
2) the further the load deviates from the frontal place, the greater the
demand on the midline. The risk of losing balance or collapsing under
the load also increases
●● Front Squat Common Faults
Answer: 1) improper rack position
2) elbows dropping
3) immature torse angle
●● The PRIMARY reason the elbows should remain high in the front
squat is to:
, Answer: allow the bar to rest on the torso instead of the weaker
structures of the wrists and hands
●● KEY POINTS: OVERHEAD SQUAT
Answer: The overhead squat builds on the mechanics of the air squat
and front squat.
2
Maintaining midline stabilization during the overhead squat creates a
tremendous demand on the core musculature.
3
Its proper execution demands and develops functional flexibility.
●● The overhead squat is the ultimate ___________ exercise, the heart
of the snatch, and peerless in developing athletic movement.
Answer: core strenghthing
●● The ___________ places tremendous demand on the core to
maintain midline stabilization and develops functional flexibility.
Answer: overhead squat
WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS FULL REVIEW
●● KEY POINTS: AIR SQUAT
Answer: 1
No movement is more foundational than the air squat.
2
Difficulty performing this movement reflects a need to perform it.
3
Correct performance promotes orthopedic safety, functionality, and
mechanical advantage.
●● KEY POINTS: FRONT SQUAT
Answer: 1
The front squat builds on the mechanics of the air squat.
,2
It introduces the front-rack position with external load.
3
It also introduces the importance of moving in the frontal plane under
load.
●● Frontal plane
Answer: 1) keeping the load as close as possible to the midline of the
body will allow for the best efficiency of movement with load
2) the further the load deviates from the frontal place, the greater the
demand on the midline. The risk of losing balance or collapsing under
the load also increases
●● Front Squat Common Faults
Answer: 1) improper rack position
2) elbows dropping
3) immature torse angle
●● The PRIMARY reason the elbows should remain high in the front
squat is to:
, Answer: allow the bar to rest on the torso instead of the weaker
structures of the wrists and hands
●● KEY POINTS: OVERHEAD SQUAT
Answer: The overhead squat builds on the mechanics of the air squat
and front squat.
2
Maintaining midline stabilization during the overhead squat creates a
tremendous demand on the core musculature.
3
Its proper execution demands and develops functional flexibility.
●● The overhead squat is the ultimate ___________ exercise, the heart
of the snatch, and peerless in developing athletic movement.
Answer: core strenghthing
●● The ___________ places tremendous demand on the core to
maintain midline stabilization and develops functional flexibility.
Answer: overhead squat
