1. When you increase your exercise program gradually, you are following the principle of progression.

a. true b. false

2. The four factors in the FITT formula are frequency, intensity, time, and type.

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3. You should increase the intensity of physical activity quickly, so that your body does not have time to adapt to a particular load.

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4. A high performance rating is not a necessity for good health.

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5. You can improve your fitness without increasing the amount you exercise.

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6. Your resting heart rate is the number of times your heart beats per minute while you are asleep.

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7. To estimate your heart rate during an exercise activity, count your pulse as soon as you finish the activity.

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8. A minimum goal should be to achieve high performance in all five parts of health-related fitness.

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9. The threshold of training is the minimum amount of overload you need to build physical fitness.

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10. The FITT formula can be applied differently for each area of fitness and for each body part.

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11. The principle of specificity states that most types of activity build the same parts of fitness.

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12. Exercising above your target ceiling is a good way to build fitness fast.

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13. An athlete’s chances of success are increased if he or she has a high performance fitness rating.

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14. You can tell everything you need to know about your fitness from one physical activity.

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15. Maturation can play an important part in a person’s skill-related fitness.

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16. For exercise to be of benefit, the frequency needs to remain the same for each kind of exercise.

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17. The first goal for people with low fitness should be to move to the marginal fitness zone.

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