How great is your fitness knowledge? Are you up for the challenge? Test yourself with the Christmas Fitness Quiz put together by us at Focus Fitness UK. A carefully compiled list of questions relating to a variety of areas in the fitness arena, to truly test your knowledge in the field.

1) The word ‘atrophy’ is best defined as?

  1. The building of muscle tissue
  2. The repair of damaged tissue
  3. The degeneration of muscle tissue
  4. The maintenance of muscle tissue

2) To become a better runner, you must not run everyday?

  1. True
  2. False

3) Your musculoskeletal system takes longer to adapt to running than your cardiorespiratory system does?

  1. True
  2. False

4) Fat is more dense than muscle?

  1. True
  2. False

These last 3 bonus questions have been pulled from an ‘Anatomy & Physiology’ mock paper for the aspiring Level 3 Personal Trainers on our course:

5) A moderate to hypertension blood pressure reading would be?

  1. 180/110
  2. 130/85
  3. 120/80
  4. 140/85

6) Which of the following muscle fibres would be stimulated in rapid intense movement?

  1. Type 1
  2. Type 2a
  3. Slow
  4. Type 2b

7) When would it be most appropriate to use proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation(PNF) stretching?

  1. As soon as you wake up
  2. To develop coordination
  3. During a warm up
  4. During a cool down

8) If I stop training will my muscles turn to fat?

  1. Yes
  2. No, your fat mass is dependent on your diet
  3. Sometimes, it depends on your genetics
  4. After 6 weeks of no training

9) What does HIIT abreviate for?

  1. Hyper intense interval training
  2. High intra intensity technique
  3. High intensity interval training
  4. High interval intensity training

10) When was Gold’s gym established?

  1. 1965
  2. 1983
  3. 1992
  4. 1998

Answers:

1) 3

2) 2

3) 1

4) 2

5) 4

6) 4

7) 4

8) 2

9) 3

10) 1

Written by Daniyal Siddiqui.