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1. “Music is like a legal drug for athletes,” says Costas Karageorghis, Ph.D., one of the world’s leading authorities on music and exercise. By this, he MOST likely meant:
  1. Music creates an unrealistic state of euphoria, serving much like an amphetamine drug
  2. Music improves endurance significantly while reducing the athlete’s perception of effort, serving much like performance-enhancing drugs
  3. Music reduces the anxiety and stress of competition, serving much like a depressant drug
  4. Athletes can become addicted to listening to music
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2. When instructing an exercise class, one of the fundamental rules is to follow the three S’s. What are these common group fitness safety recommendations?
  1. Simplicity, safety and stability
  2. Slow-to-fast, safety and sequencing
  3. Safety, specificity and stability
  4. Stretching, specificity and sequencing
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3. Although your musical preference leans strongly towards an eclectic mix of reggae and 1940’s show tunes, you realize that may not be everyone’s cup of tea. Regardless of the style of music, your tempo must match the pacing of the chosen activity. Which tempo would BEST match the pacing of an inside cycling class?
  1. 110-125 bpm
  2. 137-139 bpm
  3. 147-157 bpm
  4. 135-170 bpm
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4. Beat induction -- the ability of humans to infer a beat from a sound pattern and then to synchronize our movements to the beat - has always been assumed to be a solely human trait. Interestingly, this has been challenged recently by research performed on an Eleonora Cockatoo (Snowball) whose videotaped dance moves to the beat of the Backstreet Boys has “gone viral”. This ability (and compulsion) of humans to synchronize with music is known as:
  1. Interpretive dance
  2. Entrainment
  3. Vibrational awareness
  4. Entrapment
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5. Current yoga fads aside, a hot, humid environment is a very stressful environment for exercise. Which of the following terms would BEST describe the most severe heat-related condition, typified by a complete failure of the heart-regulating mechanisms?
  1. Dehydration
  2. Heat stroke
  3. Heat exhaustion
  4. Non-acclimation
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