Fitness Crossword

2. A great workout can make you feel great physically and mentally, in part because of what “feel good” hormones that get released by your nervous system?
6. A wearable fitness tracker might give you a measure of the change in the time between each beat of your heart. It’s called heart rate ______ (HRV), and it can tell you how good your body is at adapting to stress.
7. To train for a race back in the 1970s, Ed Pauls built a static cross country skiing machine in his Chaska, Minnesota garage. That's the origin of what exercise equipment company based in Utah, not Sweden?
11. As of April 2021, the top 25 fastest marathon runners in history are all from just two countries. 13 of those runners are Ethiopians. From what country are the other 12?
12. High intensity workouts that involve aerobic and resistance exercises are sometimes called High Intensity ______ Training, or HICT. Fill in the blank, also a term for electronic components that combine to allow for electronic flow.
14. What is required in aerobic respiration that is not required in anaerobic respiration?
15. What athleisure brand was once designed with a specific "muse" in mind: a 32-year-old woman named Ocean making $100,000 a year?
16. Which geographical term is used to describe when your progress with your fitness or diet routine “flattens out?”

1. Frequently the object of ridicule, what Olympic distance sport requires competitors to keep at least one foot on the ground at all time?
3. The late, great Olivia Newton-John wore full '80s workout gear, including leotard, sweatband, and tights, in the music video for what hit 1981 song?
4. Created in the 1920s by its German namesake founder and physical trainer, what P-word exercise is also known as contrology and uses devices including the Ladder Barrel and the Cadillac?
5. One summer day in July 1922, in Lake City, Minnesota, Ralph Samuelson used household items to invent what water-surface sport? Samuelson went on to perform and teach the sport for over 20 years.
8. Mount Whitney is the finish line for a race that starts 135 miles earlier at Badwater, the scorching basin of what national park?
9. Between 1982 - 1995, what two-time Academy Award winning actress (Klute and Coming Home) sold 17 million VHS copies in her "Workout" series?
10. The United States Anti-Doping Agency recently stated they can't unilaterally change rules that led to the suspension of Sha'Carri _____________ from the Tokyo Olympics.
13. Which S-term describes running as fast as you can over a short distance?