 |
|
|
ADDUCTION: |
Movement toward the midline of the body. |
|
|
AEROBICS: |
The word aerobic means with oxygen. Aerobic exercise is any repetitive activity that you do long enough and hard enough to challenge your heart and lungs. In order to work your heart and lungs hard enough, you must get your largest muscle groups involved. They include your legs, glutes, back and chest. |
| |
|
|
AGONIST: |
The muscle most involved in producing a movement |
|
|
ANAEROBICS: |
The word anaerobic means without oxygen. It is a highly intense, short term activity such as sprinting and weightlifting. After about 60 seconds or so, your body starts to gasp for air and you feel a fatiguing sensation is a anaerobic state. This is caused because the extra oxygen supply you have in your body has been used up. |
| |
|
| |
|
ANABOLIC ANDROGENIC STEROIDS: |
Synthetic derivation of the male sex hormone testosterone. |
|
| |
|
ANATOMICAL POSITION: |
Standing erect, with feet and palms facing forward. |
|
| |
|
ANDROGENIC HORMONE: |
A hormone that promotes the development and maintenance of masculine characteristics. |
|
| |
|
ANGINA: |
Pain originating from the heart; characterized by a substantial pressure within the chest, radiating down the arms, or up into the jaw. |
|
| |
|
ANOREXIA NERVOSA: |
An eating disorder characterized by an intense fear of becoming obese, a distorted body image and extreme weight loss. Metabolic abnormalities are commonly associated with this disorder and it can sometimes be fatal. |
| |
|
| |
|
ANTAGONIST: |
The muscle in opposition to the agonist. |
|
| |
|
ANTERIOR: |
Anatomiacal term meaning toward the front. Same as ventral. Opposite or posterior. |
|
| |
|
ASORBIC ACID: |
Vitamin C |
|
| |
|
ATROPHY: |
A decrease in the cross sectional size of a muscle |
|
| |
|
AUGMENT: |
To make greater, morenumerous, larger or more intense |
|
| |
|
AXON: |
Neuron process carrying nerve impulses away from the cell body of the neuron. The pathway through which the nerve impulse travels. |
|
