Answer: stretching
Stretching helps improve your range of motion. Depending on the exercises done, it can help with building muscle tone as well.
From Quiz: Let's Talk About Flex
Answer: An ancient Chinese martial art
In tai chi, you perform a series of movements (called a form) in a slow manner with coordinated breathing. The philosophy of tai chi is softness overcoming hardness, an example being the soft waves on the beach eventually shaping hard rock. Becoming aware of their own breathing, practitioners ease muscle tension while learning the basic movements of their form.
From Quiz: Tai Chi, Anyone?
Answer: Active Release Technique
Active release technique is a form of massage with the purpose of releasing soft tissue adhesions. Adhesions are painful fibrous threads that commonly form after surgery. They are sometimes described as internal scar tissues that join tissues that are normally not connected at all. ART is supposedly an effective method of fixing this problem, but to be honest, it's probably just as painful as the adhesions, because it basically aims to tear those joined tissues apart with pressure. Surgery is also an option. Could you direct me to the operating theatre please?
From Quiz: When Somebody Kneads You
Answer: Legs, bums and tums
Unsurprisingly a 'legs, bums and tums' class is designed to lose fat from and tone up the legs, bottom and stomach. Exercises performed in this class include things like squats, lunges and sit ups all designed to tone up the legs, bum and tum.
From Quiz: There's a Class for That
Answer: Grapefruit diet
Bocce, bodybuilding, and geocaching are all safe ways to improve your fitness and health, but any diet that eliminates all but one food, such as the grapefruit diet, approach with caution. Our bodies need a range of nutrients, and extreme diets may promise quick results, only to be followed by negative consequences. Weight Watchers was voted the number one easiest, and number one best weight-loss diet, as well as the third best diet overall (US News World Report 2015) while Jenny Craig, Mayo Clinic, and the Mediterranean Diet are all popular and safe alternatives. Even Dr. Oz and Deepak Chopra offer diet advice. The "South Beach" diet was voted number 19 and the controversial Atkins was number 32. Do your research and choose what is right for you.
From Quiz: A Brand New Day
Answer: aerobic
Everything starts with aerobic exercise. Aerobic exercises are those that generate energy from aerobic (or oxygen-based) respiration, which is how most energy is generated in the human body. Don't overdo it: you'll generally want to pick a speed or intensity that brings your heart up to 85% of its maximum rate. The treadmill is one of your best bets in a gym, which would otherwise be too small for a decent jog.
From Quiz: Pressing, Pulling, and Pumping Iron
Answer: Leslie Sansone
Leslie Sansone created the "Walk at Home" program, a low-impact exercise regime. It might sound silly, but it's more than just walking on the spot. She leads viewers through one mile, two mile, even up to five mile walking exercises, suggests when to pick up the pace and when to slow down, when to add in arm movements, when to move from side to side instead of just walking on the spot. Sansone's home walking DVD line includes titles such as "Walk Away the Pounds" and "Walk This Way!" She has also written books on fitness. Her general motto and belief is that the body is meant to move, so move it however you can!
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From Quiz: Have You Been Working Out?
Answer: Tony Horton
Prior to creating the P90X system, Horton collaborated with Debbie Siebers to create a program called "Great Body Guaranteed". In 2001 he gained recognition for the "Power 90", which is described as an "in-home boot camp". P90X (Power 90 Extreme) was introduced in 2004.
From Quiz: P90X: Strength Through Training and Nutrition
Answer: Hand weights
Dumbbells, or barbells, are types of hand weights. The weight in each dumbbell is built into the entire bar instead of having the weights added to an additional bar like traditional weights. Dumbbells can be very light, such as the 1 pound or 2 pound weights, but they can get very heavy, such as the 35 pound and 50 pound weights.
From Quiz: Going Away to College
Answer: Lymphatic Drainage
Although all types of massage are beneficial, lymphatic drainage helps move the fluid that builds up in the arm areas after breast cancer surgery. Removal of lymph nodes causes a build up of interstitial fluid which needs to be mechanically removed. The techniques used in lymphatic drainage aid in directing the contents of the lymphatic vessels towards the heart area. Very light circular movements and very light long sweeping movements are techniques used over the area that is swollen. Talcum powder is often used instead of oil so that the therapist's hands can glide lightly over the skin surface.
From Quiz: Health And Fitness
Answer: anterior deltoids, pectoralis major, triceps
Working your chest(pectoralis major)more than the triceps and anterior deltoids; however all muscles work to initiate the movement.
Pushing the bar up or extending your arms away is where you use your pectoralis major(mid-way extended),triceps(fully extended), and anterior deltoids(mid-way, and fully extended).The primary force is concentrated on the pectoralis major.
From Quiz: Mind Over Muscle
Answer: All of these
A specially designed massage chair has been made so that massages can be done in the seated position. A normal chair can also be used. This type of massage is seen in office buildings, where massage is done during lunch times etc. An elderly person, who cannot get on or off a clinic table, will often have this type of massage. The focus of the massage is usually on the upper body.
From Quiz: Massage Therapy Techniques And Terminology.
Answer: Fish
This position eases tensions in the shoulders and neck and improves circulation.
From Quiz: Yoga Postures with Animal Names
Answer: Rectus Abdominis
The Rectus Abdominis runs from the sternum to the pelvic bone and is the muscle we tend to notice first if it is shows a well developed "6-pack". Other muscles in your frontal midsection include the external obliques (on the sides) and the Transversus Abdominis, both of which cinch the waistline much like a belt. The other muscles listed are unrelated.
From Quiz: Let's Talk Abs!
Answer: Triceps
Antagonists work as opposites to the agonists.
From Quiz: Health and Fitness
Answer: pectorals
Works the entire chest area.
From Quiz: Lifting Weights
Answer: quads
The quads (or quadriceps) are the muscles in the front of your leg on the upper half. There are four muscles, and they essentially allow you to walk and run with ease. At the same time, the hamstrings (in the back of your leg) are being contracted.
From Quiz: Let's Talk About Flex
Answer: Medication in motion
The May 2009 issue of Harvard Women's Health Watch says that tai chi is a
"mind-body practice that can help treat or prevent many age-related health problems." The article goes on to suggest that tai chi "may be the perfect activity for the rest of your life", citing that people can get started with tai chi even if they aren't in top shape.
From Quiz: Tai Chi, Anyone?
Answer: Clearing blockages in your meridians
Somewhat similar in style to acupuncture, acupressure is the practice of clearing blockages in your meridians (No, Johnny, Mummy isn't going to blow up the equator) by applying pressure to the same points in the body as acupuncture practitioners. This is done with the hand, or the elbow (ouch) or with manufactured devices. Meridians are various channels on the human body through which life energy is supposed to flow. There are twelve major ones on the body, but these cannot be seen with the naked eye. They include the lungs, large intestine, small intestine, spleen, gallbladder, stomach, heart, kidneys, pericardium, triple warmer (body as a whole), liver and bladder. No way, no how is anybody manipulating my bladder with an elbow. I'd wet myself.
From Quiz: When Somebody Kneads You
Answer: 3500
Although many disagree, the Mayo Clinic and others stick to the formula that one pound of human fat contains 3500 calories. Their advice is to cut 500 calories a day from your diet, or burn an additional 500 calories through exercise, to lose one pound per week.
From Quiz: Eat Less, Move More
Answer: RSI/OOS
Repetitive Strain Injury or Occupational Overuse Syndrome comes from a person doing the same movement over and over but there are other primary risk factors involved such as poor posture, poor technique, and overuse. Systems are now in place to ensure that this does not happen such as appropriate breaks, changes in duties and exercises to undertake.
From Quiz: Taking Up The Challenge
Answer: bench press
That large, weight-laden bar is called a barbell. You don't have to start big if you can't handle it: in fact, you don't even need any bars at all on the sides if you're new to the bench press. A basic bench press works the upper arm muscles.
From Quiz: Pressing, Pulling, and Pumping Iron
Answer: Exhale when lifting, inhale when letting down the weight
You can support your lifting with the right breathing. Most people instinctively do it right when working with larger weights, but when using less weight they often forget about the proper rhythm: Exhale in the concentric phase (while lifting), inhale in the eccentric phase (when returning to the resting position).
From Quiz: Heavy Metal - Lift it up!
Answer: All of these
All of the answers are correct. We can avoid the risk of becoming diabetic by eating less processed foods, reducing alcohol consumption and avoiding fried foods. Processed foods are often high in sugar, salt and simple carbohydrates which all contribute to obesity if eaten too much.
From Quiz: Health And Fitness
Answer: Equine massage
Equine massage can be used over the entire horses body. It increases circulation, increases joint range of movement and decreases tightness in muscles. If the horse is injury free and not stressed, it performs better. Elbows, forearms and hands are used in much the same way as humans are massaged.
From Quiz: Massage Therapy Techniques And Terminology.
Answer: Rabbit
The rabbit position works the lungs.
From Quiz: Yoga Postures with Animal Names
Answer: All of these selections
All the abs-specific exercise in the world will not show off your sculpted abs if they are covered by a layer of fat. You get rid of the fat by proper cardio-vascular exercise and proper nutrition. Also, genetics plays a key role. Some people are just born that way and there is nothing you can change about it.
From Quiz: Let's Talk Abs!
Answer: Leg
They are located on the reverse of the thigh, as part of the hamstring muscle group.
From Quiz: Health and Fitness
Answer: deltoids
Gives nice width to shoulders.
From Quiz: Lifting Weights
Answer: Poliomyelitis
For every ten people who contacted the raging fever and incredible nausea in the first stages of poliomyelitis, nine recovered. One, however, progressed on to permanent paralysis, with lifelong and life changing disabilities. There were literally thousands of these people, many of whom were children, hit by this third stage of polio in Australia alone during the large epidemics that swept the world in the 20th century. Initial and erroneous treatment by doctors was complete immobilisation of the limbs in plaster. All that did, however, was result in the atrophy of the muscles and a wasting away of same. Only then, and now too late to recover, were patients sent to physiotherapists to begin their work. This therapy involved incredibly painful stretching for hours every day in an attempt to make those tightened up muscles loose and pliable again. One treatment in particular, in order to try to straighten up spines that were becoming twisted from lack of movement, was to hang sobbing children, with braces around their necks, from wall racks several feet off the ground, for assorted periods of time. These children then spent the remainder of their days and nights tied down into splints, undoing whatever loosening effect the torture of their daily physiotherapy had done.
Then along came Sister Kenny, an Australian bush nurse, with her methods of heat and massage to the paralysed limbs as soon as the polio struck and the fever and sensitivity to touch had abated. This was in complete opposition to the medical treatment of the time and her methods were met with almost violent resistance from the Australian Medical Association. They genuinely believed her treatment was harmful in spite of all evidence to the contrary, so she left Australia to set up clinics in a more receptive America instead. There, with her massage combined with heat treatments, many early polio victims recovered full or partial use of their limbs, depending on what stage of the paralysis they were at, when they were brought to her. It was a logical step then for the medical profession, which eventually began to emulate this form of treatment, to move the massage and manipulation of patients into heated pools and Hubbard baths. This kept their limbs supple, flexible, warm (really important), and encouraged greater attempts at movement. Today, with poliomyelitis epidemics a thing of the past (hopefully) aquatic or hydro massage, as this was known, is used to treat other conditions such as spinal cord and neurological injuries, generalised pain usually involving the spine, sporting injuries, and muscular pain brought on by stress.
From Quiz: When Somebody Kneads You
Answer: High Intensity Interval Training
High Intersity Interval Training or HIIT is a cardiovascular exercise which alternates short periods of intense activity with lower intensity recover periods. The most common types of exercise used in a HIIT program are running and cycling. While HIIT exercise is good for improving cardiovascular fitness it is deemed less effective for weight loss than many other exercise styles.
From Quiz: There's a Class for That
Answer: Twice a week
The ACSM recommends a minimum of stretching each major muscle group at least twice a week for 60 seconds per muscle group. The ACSM also now discounts some previous conventional wisdom about stretching: it is not required before all periods of exercise; it is not necessarily harmful to "bounce" during stretches; you do not have to hold a stretch for a long period of time.
From Quiz: Eat Less, Move More
Answer: BMI
The idea behind Body Mass Index was to work out what the height of a person is and what their weight should be. BMI equals weight over height which gives a range of weight depending on a number of things including age, sex and bone structure.
From Quiz: Taking Up The Challenge
Answer: butterfly
On the butterfly machine, you will sit with your arms at right angles. Pull your arms from out to in and repeat; the motion will be like a butterfly flapping its wings. The butterfly is sometimes recommended after the bench press (though as with all exercise, individual needs may vary), and provides upper arm exercise.
From Quiz: Pressing, Pulling, and Pumping Iron
Answer: Skullcrushers
Almost every biceps exercise that involves lifting involves a curl motion of some sort. When doing any those exercises with free weights, lifters only interested in biceps development should focus on curling at angle that completely isolates the muscle. "Skullcrushers" is the popular nickname for a common tricep extension exercise.
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Answer: seated cable row
The squat machine and seated leg press are primarily focusing on working the leg muscles. The seated military press works the medial and anterior deltoids. The seated cable row works the latissimus dorsi, along with the rhomboids, trapezius, and biceps.
From Quiz: Mind Over Muscle
Answer: Reflexology
Reflexology is an alternative medical treatment, which is associated with the soles of the feet. It works on the theory, that if you put direct pressure on a certain area of the foot, then another area on the body will be affected. Blood supply and nerves are stimulated so that health improves in areas that are not even being touched.
From Quiz: Massage Therapy Techniques And Terminology.
Answer: Peacock
This is a very difficult posture as it's quite a balancing act!
From Quiz: Yoga Postures with Animal Names
Answer: back muscles
From Quiz: Lifting Weights
Answer: posterior deltoid
The posterior deltoid is one of the primary muscles in the shoulders. It needs to be stretched to make it easier to move your shoulders. It also helps the tension in the shoulders, making them more relaxed.
From Quiz: Let's Talk About Flex
