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Personal Training - ANSWER - a fitness training program that joins a personal trainer
with a client to establish a mutual, respectful, and beneficial partnership in order to
reach a particular fitness/health goal.
Personal Trainer - ANSWER - a qualified fitness professional who is hired by a client
to assist the client in reaching a particular fitness/health goal.
Striated or Skeletal Muscle - ANSWER - the anatomical structure that provides the
force necessary to move the body
Bone - ANSWER - the anatomical structure that provides support, movement, and
protection for the body.
Joint - ANSWER - the point at which two or more bones come together or make
contaact.
Articulation - ANSWER - movement at a joint
Diarthrodial Joint or Diarthrosis - ANSWER - moveable joints that has an articular
cavity or separation present to allow movement.
Capsule Ligamentous - ANSWER - lined with synovial membrane which secretes
synovial fluid to lubricate the joint with synovial fluid stored in bursa sac.
Tendon - ANSWER - attach skeletal muscles to bones. Formed by each layer
bundling together at the end of each muscle.
, Myofibrils - ANSWER - microscopic proteins bundled together to form a myofibril.
Sarcomere - ANSWER - housed in the myofibrils.
Sliding Filament - ANSWER - occurs when actin (thin filament) and myosin (thick
filament) slide across each other.
Articular Surfaces - ANSWER - smooth and lined with hyaline or fibrous cartilage.
Irregular Joint - ANSWER - carpals and tarsals
Hinge Joint - ANSWER - humerus and ulna
Pivot Joint - ANSWER - humerus and radius
Condyloid Joint - ANSWER - radiocarpal; joint of the wrist
Saddle Joint - ANSWER - first carpometacarpal; joint of the thumb
Ball and Socket - ANSWER - shoulder and hip
Synarthrodial Joint or Synarthrosis - ANSWER - non-moveable joint that does not
have an articular cavity or separation present to allow movement
Cartilaginous Joints - ANSWER - disks between the vertebrae of the spine
Fibrous Joints - ANSWER - the sutures of the skull or the connecting points of the 6
bones in the pelvic girdle.
Ligamentous Joint - ANSWER - mid-union of the forearm between the ulna and
radius.