NASM chapter 13 Test prep review

term used to describe how the body responds and adapts to stress.

• -improved cardiovascular efficiency
• -Beneficial endocrine(hormone) and serum lipid(cholesterol)adaptation
• -decreased body fat
• -increased metabolic efficiency(metabolism)

• -incrased tissue(muscle,tendons,ligaments)tensile strength
• -increased cross-sectional areas of muscle fibers
• -increased bone density

• -increased neuromuscular control (coordination)
• -increased endurance
• -increased strength
• -increased power

Initial reaction to stressor such as increased oxygen and blood supply to the necessary areas of the body

increased functional capacity to adapt to stressor such as increasing motor unit recuritment

A prolonged intolerable stressor produces fatigue and leads to a breakdown in the system or injury

• specific adaptation to imposed demands
• When applying the said principle to any training program remember the body is made up of two types of muscles tissue