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- 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?”
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- 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?