Glossary
Recreation and Fitness Professor Terms & Vocabulary
15 essential recreation and fitness professor terms with plain-English definitions: the vocabulary you’ll hear in training and on day one.
Key recreation and fitness professor vocabulary
These 15 terms come up constantly in recreation and fitness professor training, on the job and in interviews. Knowing them helps you follow instructions, document accurately and sound prepared.
- ACSM
- American College of Sports Medicine.
- Adjunct
- Part-time instructor.
- Biomechanics
- Physics of movement.
- CPRP
- Certified Park and Recreation Professional.
- Exercise physiology
- How the body responds to exercise.
- Force plate
- Measures ground force.
- Kinesiology
- Study of human movement.
- Leisure studies
- Study of recreation.
- Motor learning
- How skills are learned.
- NSCA
- National Strength and Conditioning Association.
- Peer review
- Expert review of research.
- Periodization
- Planned training cycles.
- Syllabus
- Course plan and policies.
- Tenure
- Permanent faculty status.
- VO2 max
- Maximum oxygen use.
Practice these terms
Test yourself with the free Recreation and Fitness Professor practice test: it includes vocabulary questions built from this list. For a complete course, see Recreation and Fitness Professor training.
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