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What are the Rhomboids?
The muscle that retracts the shoulder blades.
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What is Golfers Elbow?
The opposite of Tennis Elbow (aka medial epicondylitis).
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What is flat feet
This persons shoes collapse inwards when walking or standing.
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What is carb loading?
When you starve yourself of this nutrient for 1-2 weeks leading up to a major endurance event, then eat 6-10g / kg of LBM for 2-4 days in a row just before the event.
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What is the mitochondria?
The powerhouse of the cell
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What is the Tibialis Anterior?
The muscle that dorsiflexes the foot & commonly gets inflamed in people trying to get back into running.
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What is a meniscus tear? **Will accept other meniscus related answers**
A client experiences sharp pain and catching when walking up or down stairs.
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What is Upper Cross Syndrome?
Forward rounded shoulders & internally rotated arms. Can lead into kyphosis and flat neck syndrome. Is frequently caused by doing excessive pressing movements or spending excessive amounts of time sitting hunched over.
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What are glycogen stores?
This is typically very low in people that haven’t been active for a while, and causes people to get nauseous, lightheaded, and dizzy in their workouts during the first few weeks of beginning an exercise routine if they don’t ease into it and get proper nutrition.
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What is ATP?
This is responsible for movement.
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What is the Quadratus Lumborum?
This muscle helps to stabilize the hips, is a common source of lower back pain, and is used along with the obliques during a side plank.
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What is nerve related pain vs soft tissue pain (tendonitis / muscle strains / joint inflammation)
Burning, Tingling, Numbness, or Shooting pain vs Dull, Aching, or Throbbing pain
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What is a leg length discrepancy?
You have a client perform a squat pattern and their hips repeatedly shift to one side.
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What is an increase in protein intake?
People with a history of heart problems, prolonged uncontrolled diabetes, or any past or current kidney related issues should run this nutritional recommendation by their doctor before implementing it into their lifestyle change.
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What is creatine phosphate? **or Alactic energy system**
It takes the body 3-5 minutes to fully recover this energy pathway.
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What is the Gastrocnemius?
The only calf muscle that crosses the knee joint and can contribute to knee pain or be a focus of strengthening to assist with reducing knee pain.
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What is a Disc Herniation? ***Discs: L4 through S1***
You tell a client to perform a set of leg lifts during an Ab circuit, instructing the client to NOT put their hands under their butt, but the client complains of pain in their lower back.
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What is a patellar dislocation (subluxation)?
This can commonly happen from having a shallow femoral (trochlear) groove, excessive hyper mobility, or falling accidents as a child, and is mediated by focusing on building the vastus medialus muscle.
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What is Keto? ***Ketosis vs Ketoacidosis -- High Ketones vs High Ketones + High Glucose***
This eating style would be too dangerous for a Diabetic Type 1, and would be a major liability for you if you were to recommend it.
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What is hypertrophy training?
To best achieve this you would ideally perform 8-12 reps with 60 seconds of rest
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What is the Brachial Plexus?
This network of nerves branch out from C5, C6, C7, C8, & T1 and supplies nerve fibers to the chest, shoulder, arm, and hand.
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What is Anterior Femoral Glide Syndrome?
This person complains of sharp pain inside the hip when doing exercises like squats or sitting for extended periods of time. This pain usually transitions to a duller type of pain and persists throughout the rest of their day and into the next.
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What is a Hooked AC Joint?
This anatomical deformity can be a root cause of supraspinatus tendonitis. Overhead movements like Pull-Ups and Shoulder Presses would cause this persons tendonitis to get worse.
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