Exam 7: Principles of Aerobic Exercise

Mary is 30 lb overweight and wants to start exercising for fitness and to lose weight before her high school class reunion next year.For motivation, she has set a specific goal to run a 10K race in 6 months.The best method of training for this event would be:

A carefully planned exercise program includes three components: the warm-up, aerobic period, and the cool-down.Which of the following is a true statement about an exercise program that is carefully planned?

Your patient has poor upper quarter posture, and you are training the scapular depressors in order to improve thoracic and scapular position for postural control.Against low resistance, the scapular depressors are muscle setting for 60 seconds.What muscle fibers primarily are recruited during this activity?

Each of the following is true about the inpatient cardiac rehabilitation program for a patient who has had a myocardial infarction except:

Which of the following is correct about the intensity of exercise and achieving a conditioning response?

Your patient is a sedentary 52-year-old man who smokes a pack of cigarettes a day and has a family history of cardiovascular disease.The most appropriate method of determining his cardiovascular fitness is:

As part of a circuit weight training program, your patient performs 2 sets of 10 repetitions of biceps curls at 70% of a 1 repetition maximum (RM), resting briefly between sets.Which of the following energy systems is primarily being used?

Four methods of training are known to challenge the aerobic system.Which method of training is characterized by a period of exercise followed by a brief period of relief?

The ability of the body to transport and use oxygen during physical and aerobic activities is an indicator of physical fitness and is measured most commonly using which unit of measure?

Aerobic exercise training (cardiorespiratory endurance) is defined as improvement in the energy utilization of the muscle by means of an exercise program.Which of the following is true of this type of training?

Principles of stress testing include each of the following except:

If jogging for 20 minutes requires 50 units of work output and 200 units of work input, what is the exercise efficiency?

A patient referred to you in your home-health practice needs to spend the next 8 weeks on bed rest because of complications of pregnancy.You design an exercise program to reduce the adverse effects of prolonged bed rest.Which of the following is least likely to occur as the result of deconditioning from prolonged bed rest?

Which of the following statements is correct about the use of arm exercises (upper extremity ergometry) versus leg exercises (treadmill walking, bicycling) in a cardiac rehabilitation program?

Which of the following is a correct statement about maximum heart rate and exercise heart rate?

A stress test should be terminated if: