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Question | Answer |
Local muscular fatigue | When a muscle, or group of muscles, is unable to carry on contracting and movement stops |
Apprehensive | Fearful about the future |
Motivation | Your drive to succeed and desire and energy to achieve something |
Stress fractures | A break in the bone caused by repeated application of a heavy load or constant pounding on a surface such as by running |
Tennis elbow | A painful injury or inflammation of the tendon attached to the elbow joint |
Dilated | Enlarged, expanded or widened. |
Sprains | The overstretching or tearing of ligaments at a joint |
Strains | The overstretching of a muscle, rather than a joint |
Gaseous exchange | The process where oxygen is taken in from the air and exchanged for co2 |
Alveoli | Small air sacs in the lungs where gaseous exchange takes place |
Intercostal muscles | Abdominal muscles between the ribs which assist in the process of breathing |
Sternum | The chest or breast bone |
Glycogen | The main form of carbohydrate storage, which is converted into glucose as needed by the body to satisfy its energy needs |
Lactic acid | A mild poison and waste product of anaerobic respiration |
Heart rate | The number of times your heart beats in one minute, which is one contraction and relaxation of the heart |
Pulse | A recording of the rate per minute at which the heart beats |
Blood pressure | The force of the circulating blood on the walls of the arteries |
MHR | 220 minus age |
Training zone | The range of the heart within which a specific training effect will take place |
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