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Exercise physiology
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Exercise Physiology is a discipline involving the study of how exercise alters the structure and function of the human body.
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Optimum fitness
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Optimal level of cardiovascular endurance, muscular strength, and flexibility, as well as the achievement and maintenance of ideal body weight.
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Muscular strength
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Is the max. Amount of force a muscle or muscle group can develop during a single contraction.
Muscular endurance p. 2 is the number of repeated
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Muscular endurance
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Number of repeated contractions a muscle or muscle group can perform against a resistance without fatiguing,
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Cardiac output
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5 is the amount of blood that flows from each ventricle in one min. usually expressed in liters of blood per min.
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Heart rate
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Monitoring a target heart rate provides an excellent indication of correct exercise intensity
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Stroke volume
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The amount of blood pumped from each ventricle each time the heart beats from the left ventricle during one heartbeat.
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Ejection fraction
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The percentage of the total volume of blood that is pumped out of the left ventricle during the systolic contraction
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Oxygen extraction
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The amount of oxygen taken from hemoglobin molecule and used in exercising muscle cells, often referred to as the arteriovenous oxygen difference
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Adenosine triphoshate
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Is the body’s energy source, just as gas is the energy source in the car.
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Statement
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A assertion that something is or is not the case
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Premise
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A statement given in support of another statement
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Conclusion
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A statement that premises are used to support
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Argument
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A group of statements in which some of them (the premises) are intended to support another of them (the conclusion)
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Explanation
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A statement of statements asserting why or how somethine is the case
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