Flashcards and recall.

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1. Write one prompt per card. Use definitions, explanations or examples from your current topic.
2. Answer aloud before turning the card. Split a card if it asks for several unrelated facts.
3. Set aside missed cards and revisit them in a later session.

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Recall topics

• Why must ATP be continually resynthesised during exercise?
• How do the phosphagen pathway's rate and capacity suit a maximal jump?
• A player performs repeated five-second sprints with very short rests. Why may peak speed fall across repetitions?
• Why is it inaccurate to call lactate a useless waste product that causes next-day soreness?
• What is oxygen's key role in aerobic ATP production?
• Why can aerobic metabolism predominate in a long event while anaerobic pathways still matter?
• What does glycogen sparing mean, and what does it not guarantee?
• During a netball passage, a player jumps, accelerates, moves slowly for 20 seconds, then accelerates again. How should energy contribution be explained?
• Why can duration alone not determine exact energy-system percentages?
• How do Type I and fast muscle fibres differ in broad sporting tendencies?
• Trace oxygen from the atmosphere to its use in working muscle.
• Calculate cardiac output at 150 beats/min and a stroke volume of 120 mL/beat.
• How do haemoglobin and myoglobin differ in oxygen delivery?
• What is oxygen deficit at the start of exercise?
• Why is a plateau in oxygen uptake during moderate constant work not automatically VO2 max?
• An athlete uses 3.6 L O2/min and has a mass of 60 kg. Calculate relative VO2.
• An athlete has relative VO2 of 52 mL/kg/min and mass 75 kg. Calculate absolute VO2.
• Absolute VO2 remains 3.6 L/min while mass falls from 60 kg to 58 kg. What happens to relative VO2, and what can be concluded?
• Why can two runners with the same VO2 max perform differently?
• Step-test lactate values are 1.1, 1.3, 1.7, 3.2 and 6.0 mmol/L as speed rises. What does the pattern support?
• Distinguish an acute exercise response from a chronic training adaptation.
• Calculate resting cardiac output at 70 beats/min and 70 mL/beat.
• Calculate exercise cardiac output at 150 beats/min and 110 mL/beat.
• Resting ventilation is 12 breaths/min at 0.5 L/breath. What is minute ventilation?
• During exercise, breathing frequency is 40 breaths/min and tidal volume is 1.5 L. Calculate minute ventilation.
• Why may a trained endurance athlete have a lower heart rate at the same submaximal workload?
• Name two muscular adaptations to endurance training and state their functional value.
• How can resistance training increase force production without immediate muscle hypertrophy?
• Why does a lower post-training heart rate in an unmatched test not prove adaptation?
• Apply specificity to compare a cycling program with the goal of improving running performance.
• What should be established before selecting a training method?
• How do FITT and progressive overload work together?
• Three weekly 20-minute sessions increase to 20, 20 and 25 minutes. Calculate the percentage increase in weekly duration.
• Why does the label interval training not identify one energy-system demand?
• Six 20-second efforts have 40 seconds of recovery only between efforts. Calculate total block time.
• Why must an interval prescription state more than a 1:3 work-to-rest ratio?
• How do static, dynamic and PNF flexibility methods differ?
• Why might maximal-speed practice occur before fatiguing conditioning in a session?
• What is tapering, and why is complete inactivity usually an inaccurate description?
• A 40-minute session has session RPE 6. Calculate its session load and interpret it cautiously.