Category: T

Type 2 diabetes is the most common form of diabetes mellitus. People with type 2 diabetes produce insulin, but either do not make enough insulin or their bodies do not use the insulin they make. Most of the people who have this type of diabetes are overweight. Therefore, people with type 2 diabetes may be…

Type 1 diabetes is a life-long condition in which the pancreas stops making insulin. Without insulin, the body is not able to use glucose (blood sugar) for energy. To treat the disease, a person must inject insulin, follow a diet plan, exercise daily, and test blood sugar several times a day. Type 1 diabetes usually…

In strength training, performance of multiple exercises stressing all major muscle groups per session.  

Target heart rate (THR) is a common way of judging how hard a person should exercise during endurance activities. It tells how fast the average person should try to make his or her heart beat during endurance sessions. A level of exercise intensity that enables one to gain the maximum training benefits from an aerobic…

Organelles that carry the electrical signal from the sarcolemma into the interior of the cell. T-tubule. An invagination of the cell membrane of a muscle fiber that carries the action potential to the interior of the cell and the innermost sarcomeres.  

The quantity of training overload calculated as frequency times duration. The total number of sets and repetitions performed during a training session. Altering training volume can be accomplished by changing the number of exercises performed per session, the number of repetitions performed per set, or the number of sets per exercise.  

A reduction in training load before an important competition that is intended to allow the athlete to recover from previous hard training, maintain physiological conditioning, and improve performance.  

Fundamental guidelines that form the basis for the development of an exercise training program.  

A consistent or chronic progression of exercise sessions designed to improve physiological function for better health or sport performance. In exercise, repeated activities that are highly sports specific, exercise prescription. The process of educating by giving instruction and the opportunity to practise. A systematic process for achieving proficiency in a specialized area. While “education” may…

A phenomenon in which a characteristic is maintained, in terms of relative rank, over a long time span or even a lifetime. In education, the practice of placing students according to their ability level in relatively homogeneous classes. Grouping students into classes based on assessments of their ability and past performance. In an elementary or…