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Question: The 2018 New York City Marathon was ran on November 4th. This race is considered one of the "6 World Majors" for marathons. 2 others are in the US. Name either of them.
Answer: Boston or Chicago
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1. Practiced in a hot and heated room, Bikram is a form of what spiritual discipline that is practiced by many people interested in building their fitness?
Answer: Yoga
2. Your VO2 max shows how much of which element you can take in during a workout and can be an indicator of your cardiorespiratory fitness level?
Answer: Oxygen
3. Which geographical term is used to describe when your progress with your fitness or diet routine “flattens out?”
Answer: Plateau
4. For the fit or fit-aspirational people in your life, avoid ‘90s throwbacks like imitating Billy Blanks with Tae Bo or...uh, a horse with Prancercise. Help them get their ergs in by picking up a Concept 2 Model D so that they can simulate what sport indoors?
Answer: Rowing
5. You can take a class at just about any gym or find gurus to guide you through savasana on YouTube, but what fitness routine has ancient origins that go back 5,000 years to its first appearance in the Rig Veda?
Answer: Yoga
6. What isometric core exercise involves assuming the push-up position, and holding that position for a prescribed length of time? It is different than the ledge pirates used to walk off of.
Answer: Plank
7. What six-letter word names both a seed company and an exercise that combines a squat, a pushup, and a jump in the air?
Answer: Burpee
8. The side-straddle hop is the U.S. military's name for what basic warm-up exercise that kicks the legs apart while doing an overhead clap?
Answer: Jumping jack
9. Near the top of Peloton's top five songs of 2021 was "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by what harmonious '90s indie rock band?
Answer: Nirvana
10. Complete with a balance board that could also take a user’s weight, what mid-2000s Nintendo video game console released the first popular “exergames” ?
Answer: Wii
11. What term refers to the practice of eating large quantities of carbohydrates, sometimes after a period of low carbohydrate intake, for several days immediately before participating in an athletic event in order to store glycogen in the body?
Answer: Carb-loading
12. Inspired by a long-distance event in the 1896 Summer Olympics, what famous American race takes place annually in Massachusetts in April on Patriot's Day?
Answer: Boston Marathon
13. “Delts” for short, which group of triangle-shaped muscles stabilize your shoulders and help you move your arms around?
Answer: Deltoids
14. Treating an urban landscape as an obstacle course is pretty much the point of what sport that gets its name from the French for "obstacle"?
Answer: Parkour
15. What athlete famously declared his strategy to be the following nature-full phrase? "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee."
Answer: Muhammad Ali
16. Which internet service, first released in 2009, was founded by Mark Gainey and Michael Horvath? This internet service enables tracking of physical exercise.
Answer: Strava
17. Celebrated for its ability to improve athletic capacity and glucose metabolism, HIIT is typically a cardiovascular exercise strategy alternating periods of intense exercise with recovery. What does HIIT stand for?
Answer: High intensity interval training
18. The Nike San Francisco Women's Half Marathon features a hilly course ending with tuxedoed firefighters awarding finishers their medals in the signature blue box of what jewelers?
Answer: Tiffany & Co.
19. Held by Josef Salek of Czechia, 9 hours, 38 minutes, and 47 seconds is the current world record for holding what pirate-approved exercise position?
Answer: Planking
20. Milton Teagle is the rarely-known legal first and middle name of what eccentric and energetic American fitness guru who has made numerous aerobics videos, including “Sweatin' to the Oldies”?
Answer: Richard Simmons
21. “Temptation”, “Last Chance Workout”, and “Weigh-In” are three of the challenges featured on what fitness reality competition series initially hosted by Caroline Rhea from 2004 to 2006 on NBC?
Answer: The Biggest Loser
22. Fitness instructors Bob Harper and Jillian Michaels are best known for their work on which TV series which ran on NBC from 2004 to 2016?
Answer: The Biggest Loser
23. Aviron is a fitness company that makes what kind of exercise machine, which offers short, high-intensity full body workouts designed to recreate an aquatic team-based olympic race?
Answer: Rowing Machine
24. PING, Callaway, Cobra, and TaylorMade are all companies that mainly manufacture equipment used to play what sport?
Answer: Golf
25. What fitness program is said to have originated in the 1990s when Colombian aerobics teacher Alberto Perez subbed salsa and merengue for his normal workout-class music?
Answer: Zumba
26. Known in part for playing the character of Wolverine over an 18-year span along with hosting the Tony Awards four times, what British-Australian actor and singer also taught physical education for a year in Uppingham School in England while he was still a teenager?
Answer: Hugh Jackman
27. High-density lipoprotein is the name given to the "good" kind of what substance found in the human body?
Answer: Cholesterol
28. The slingshot, Turkish get-up, and American swing are all exercises that are designed to be used with what piece of equipment - essentially a cannonball with a handle?
Answer: Kettlebell
29. The Presidential Physical Fitness test (active in the United States from 1966 to 2018) consisted of six exercises: curl-ups, pull-ups, shuttle run, one-mile run, sit-and-reach, and what exercise that draws on the pectoral muscles?
Answer: Push-ups
30. Fitness gurus might suggest you change up your routine to confuse which part of your body (that is, to make sure you’re keeping them challenged)?
Answer: Muscles
31. In addition to the squat and the bench press, powerlifting consists of which other lift that involves lifting a weight off the ground until the lifter is standing straight?
Answer: Deadlift
32. While they’re gaining popularity as weight loss treatments, Ozempic and Wegovy are GLP-1 receptor agonists that are mainly used to treat what chronic medical condition?
Answer: Type 2 diabetes
33. A great workout can make you feel great physically and mentally, in part because of what “feel good” hormones that get released by your nervous system?
Answer: Endorphins
34. Which DC superhero gives his name to an exercise that involves lying face down and lifting the chest and legs off the ground simultaneously?
Answer: Superman
35. Sacramento hosts Eppie's Great Race, a triathlon that swaps out swimming with a ride in what palindromic water craft?
Answer: Kayak
36. Skill-based physical activity includes balance, agility, and which skill that relates to moving the different parts of your body such that they all work together smoothly?
Answer: Coordination
37. The Presidential Fitness test, a national physical fitness testing program conducted in United States public middle and high schools from the late 1950s until 2013, contained six various exercises: curl-up, push-up, the sit-and-reach, the 30-foot "shuttle run," the one-mile endurance run, and what sixth discipline testing your biceps and lats?
Answer: Pullup
38. What four-letter "C" app for guided meditations was founded in 2012 by Michael Acton Smith and Alex Tew? It hopes to instill an inner sense of peace.
Answer: Calm
39. Which term that starts with E describes your ability to do exercise for a long(ish) time? (Hint: It’s also used to describe certain aerobic sports like long-distance running as well as the athletes that compete in them).
Answer: Endurance
40. What is the C-word phase for muscles shortening while they are exerting force?
Answer: Concentric phase
41. Which fitness wearable loved by pro basketball players like LeBron James has a name that rhymes with “hoop?”
Answer: Whoop
42. What netted game that uses terms including “attack,” “bump pass,” and “jump serve” became the official national sport of Nepal in 2017?
Answer: Volleyball
43. Criss-cross applesauce with a higher chance of a foot cramp is a doofy way to describe a cross-legged yoga pose that shares what flowery name with a car and an old spreadsheet?
Answer: Lotus
44. What popular gym club, founded in 1992 in New Hampshire, features a logo of a gear with a hand offering a thumbs up? You may be able to get a workout that is out of this world.
Answer: Planet Fitness
45. What athletic and fitness apparel company began in the late 1990s by launching their Heatgear and Coldgear products? Their 2003 commercial with the tagline "Protect This House" raised their profile another level, and in 2004 they became the official outfitter of Maryland athletics. By 2010, they were a billion dollar brand.
Answer: Under Armour
46. Nike-sponsored athlete Mat Fraser is the five-time world champion in the "Games" associated with what branded fitness regimen?
Answer: CrossFit
47. What gym chain was founded in 1984 in Irvine, California, by Louis Welch and others? It has branches across the US and Canada, although, based on its name, you might assume it is solely located in the hometown of the WNBA Sparks.
Answer: LA Fitness
48. Which substance in the body was once thought to be nothing more than waste from oxygen-starved muscles, but may actually be a “fuel” for high-intensity workouts?
Answer: Lactic Acid
49. Not just an adjective for a strange someone, which E word also describes the phase of muscle movement where it lengthens (as opposed to the concentric phase, when it shortens)?
Answer: Eccentric
50. Which A-word from the Greek for “ill-fed” refers to the wasting away and weakening of muscle?
Answer: Atrophy
51. It can be played indoors or outdoors. It's notable for attracting a wide range of ages and fitness levels. It combines elements of tennis, badminton, and ping-pong. Its highest governing body is the IFP. What sport is it?
Answer: Pickleball
52. 2022 Boston Marathon winners Evans Chebet and Peres Jepchirchir are both from what African nation famed for its many successful distance runners?
Answer: Kenya
53. Cardiorespiratory fitness is a metric that you can measure to get a sense of how well your body performs and adapts to exercise. It’s a key indicator of your overall health but especially for the organs that are in its name: “respiratory” which means you’re lungs, and “cardio” which refers to which blood pumping organ?
Answer: Heart
54. The beginnings of yoga can be traced back 5,000 years to the Indus civilization of Northern India. In modern yoga exercises such as Ashtanga vinyasa yoga, "Ujjayi" refers to which core component of yoga practice?
Answer: Breath
55. Participants earn "splat points" by keeping their heart rate in the right zone in what colorfully-named exercise program?
Answer: OrangeTheory
56. Debuting in the U.S. in December 2009, what intense NBC reality competition series challenges its athletic competitors to ascend The Warped Wall and traverse through other obstacles before facing Mount Midoriyama?
Answer: American Ninja Warrior
57. A wearable fitness tracker might show you your max VO2, which tells you how well your body takes up and uses oxygen while you’re working out. In the reading, “O2” is oxygen and “max” is maximum. What does the “V” stand for?
Answer: Volume
58. One summer day in July 1922, in Lake City, Minnesota, Ralph Samuelson used household items to invent what water-surface sport? Samuelson went on to perform and teach the sport for over 20 years.
Answer: Water skiing
59. Between 1982 and 1995, what two-time Academy Award winning actress (Klute and Coming Home) sold 17 million VHS copies in her "Workout" series?
Answer: Jane Fonda
60. What branded fitness training is known for high-intensity interval training and has been accused for exposing users to a heightened risk of rhabdomyolysis (rhabdo)?
Answer: CrossFit
61. In 2022, fintech startup Oura partnered with which luxury fashion brand to bring you a $950 fitness tracking ring that is certified bling?
Answer: Gucci
62. In fitness, the Karvonen Formula is often used to calculate the ideal target value of what metric for an intense workout?
Answer: Heart Rate
63. Mount Whitney is the finish line for a race that starts 135 miles earlier at Badwater, the scorching basin of what national park?
Answer: Death Valley
64. In 2019, gamers got a way to play and work out at the same time when Nintendo launched Ring Fit Adventure for which console?
Answer: Switch
65. The late, great Olivia Newton-John wore full '80s workout gear, including leotard, sweatband, and tights, in the music video for what hit 1981 song?
Answer: Physical
66. What athleisure brand was once designed with a specific "muse" in mind: a 32-year-old woman named Ocean making $100,000 a year?
Answer: Lululemon
67. To train for a race back in the 1970s, Ed Pauls built a static cross country skiing machine in his Chaska, Minnesota garage. That's the origin of what exercise equipment company based in Utah, not Sweden?
Answer: NordicTrack
68. Frequently the object of ridicule, what Olympic distance sport requires competitors to keep at least one foot on the ground at all time?
Answer: Speed walking
69. In 1980, what athlete and Canadian hero, who was equipped with a prosthetic right leg, ran more than 5,000 kilometers across the country to raise money for cancer research in his "Marathon of Hope"?
Answer: Terry Fox
70. Whether you're doing the breaststroke, backstroke, or butterfly, how many meters long is an Olympic-sized swimming pool?
Answer: 50
71. Nordic walking was originally designed as a summer training routine for cross-country skiers, but it is now catching on in the United States as a recreational fitness activity. Nordic walking engages not just your legs, but your arms, shoulders, and upper body because it requires you to walk with what type of equipment?
Answer: Walking poles
72. PLAY 60, which encourages kids to be active for 60 minutes a day, was launched in 2007 and has committed over $350 million to youth health and fitness campaigns. What sports league is responsible for the PLAY 60 initiative?
Answer: National Football League (NFL)
73. Rosie Ruiz rose to fame in 1980 after she finished a running race in a record time of two hours and 31 minutes. However, the fame was mostly infamy as her title was stripped because of her lack of sweating, exhaustion, or knowledge of the course led to the natural conclusion that she had cheated. What was the race?
Answer: Boston Marathon
74. Jenny Craig is the sister nutrition program of what women's-only gym chain, which promotes its 30-minute total body workout?
Answer: Curves
75. Also the first name of the star of "The Nanny," what is the name of the CrossFit workout that consists of completing 45 each of thrusters and pull-ups as quickly as possible?
Answer: Fran
76. Typically, there are four different major jumping events in athletic competitions such as the Track & Field World Championships or the Olympics. These are the high jump, long jump, pole vault/jump, and what fourth event?
Answer: Triple jump
77. Also a term for a component of a spacecraft, what T-word in CrossFit means a barbell exercise that combines a front squat with an overhead press?
Answer: Thruster
78. In 2017, which popular diet tracker and fitness app became the first to be recognized by the CDC as a diabetes-prevention program? It anagrams to MOON.
Answer: Noom
79. Who starred in the 80s workout video series, "Sweatin' to the Oldies," as well as his own television workout show?
Answer: Richard Simmons
80. Popularly known as a "jump rope" in American English, what is the term for the same object in British English that is used for fitness, competition, and choreography?
Answer: Skipping rope
81. What annual "testing" program, used in schools between the 1950s and the 2010s, included such challenges as pull-up (or flex arm hang), v-sit and reach, and the shuttle run?
Answer: President's Physical Fitness Test
82. Which I-word describes an exercise where you tighten up a muscle without moving any of the joints around it? (A “wall sit” is one example.)
Answer: Isometric
83. Created in the 1920s by its German namesake founder and physical trainer, what P-word exercise is also known as contrology and uses devices including the Ladder Barrel and the Cadillac?
Answer: Pilates
84. In 1960, which president wrote an article for “Sports Illustrated” (entitled “The Soft American”) and created fitness councils to come up with physical education curriculums for schools?
Answer: John F. Kennedy
85. Which term borrowed from music refers to how fast you should do an exercise (for example, a rep) to get the benefits without hurting yourself? (Hint: You might also hear it called “time under tension” when talking about your muscles)
Answer: Tempo
86. Whether you’re a former ballerina or not, you can get the benefits of which workout that uses a ballet studio fixture (or even just the back of a kitchen chair—as long as it helps you balance!)?
Answer: Barre
87. Which piece of workout equipment also known as a “cross-trainer” involves holding onto handles and moving through the motions of stair climbing without actually going anywhere?
Answer: Elliptical
88. The training method fartlek is defined as periods of fast running intermixed with periods of slower running. The word fartlek means “speed play” in which Scandinavian language?
Answer: Swedish
89. Headquartered in Japan, what “A” sportswear brand is actually an acronym for a phrase translated from Latin to "a sound mind, in a sound body?”
Answer: Asics
90. "Independent, athletic, I been sweating, doing calisthenics" opens the 2018 song "Fitness" by what one-named pop star?
Answer: Lizzo
91. Requiring one to lie on their back on a flat bench while using a dumbbell, what one-handed weight training exercise is also a type of sweater and a verb describing a law-enforced traffic stop?
Answer: Pullover
92. With booty-focused cover art on its VHS tape case, what exercise video franchise began in 1987 with a Greg Smithey-hosted session that promised "intense target toning with less aerobics?"
Answer: Buns of Steel
93. What “t” is a version of HIIT based on a study involving Olympic speedskaters and named after a Japanese professor?
Answer: Tabata
94. How many racing lanes are in an Olympic swimming pool? We're excluding warm-up and practice lanes on this one.
Answer: 8
95. Frank Shorter's 1972 gold medal win in which Olympic event kick-started Americans' obsession with running?
Answer: Marathon
96. Nike released the product line Infinalon in 2019 which is an apparel collection marketed primarily toward practitioners of what group of physical, mental, and spiritual practices or disciplines?
Answer: Yoga
97. What electronics and fitness company, best known for its wearable activity monitors, announced in 2021 that it would grade the sleep quality of its users with cartoon animals? The company, founded in 2007 in San Francisco, is perhaps best known for step counting.
Answer: Fitbit
98. The Corpulence Index, Waist Circumference, and Surface-based Body Shape Index are three methods of quickly gauging someone's overall fitness levels based on body composition measurables. They are primarily used either in addition to, or as an alternative to what other method that only relies on two calculations: height and weight?
Answer: Body Mass Index
99. Which S-term describes running as fast as you can over a short distance?
Answer: Sprint
100. What L-word refers to dietary fats, fat-soluble vitamins, and fat-adjacent substances like waxes and oils, and is a term you’ll get familiar with after having your cholesterol checked?
Answer: Lipids
101. Which sport gear brand’s Training Club fitness app includes a huge selection of home workouts led by famous athletes and pro trainers?
Answer: Nike
102. Which subscription-based fitness app that’s packed with over 20 live workouts a day and a library of on-demand classes (often with pop culture themes) is a favorite of celebrities like Drew Barrymore and Kate Hudson? (Hint: The name may compel you to not skip a workout…)
Answer: obé Fitness
103. Which material is commonly used for “rollers” that make great tools for do-it-yourself myofascial release if you have trigger points?
Answer: Foam
104. Kaatsu is an exercise method developed (and patented) by Dr. Yoshiaki Sato that means "additional language" in what language?
Answer: Japanese
105. In 2019, a former Army ranger named John Orth really stuck his chin out and raised the bar when he set the record for doing the most of which gym class exercise in 24 hours, topping out at 7,600 and with plenty of calluses on his hands to prove it?
Answer: Pull Ups
106. Which American billionaire, whose company recently merged with Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), was once featured on the cover of Muscle and Fitness magazine at age 69?
Answer: Vince McMahon
107. There’s no shortage of “fitness food” to be found in grocery stores, pharmacies, and online—but there weren’t always so many brands to choose from when you were looking for a post-workout pick-me-up. While it’s best known for its colorful electrolyte drink that kept kids playing soccer and Floridian pro- footballers fueled up during the Big Game, which brand has since expanded its offerings to include protein bars and powders?
Answer: Gatorade
108. Which NYC-based fitness startup founded by Aly Orady powers your home gym with AI to create customized workouts?
Answer: Tonal
109. “Rumbacize” was the original name that Beto Perez gave his Latin dance-fitness program, which is today known by which Z-name that kind of rhymes with the style of dance it was inspired by?
Answer: Zumba
110. Also a Marvel superhero, what name is given to the long-distance triathlon races organized by the World Triathlon Corporation which consist of a 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile bicycle ride, and a 26.22-mile run?
Answer: Ironman
111. What brand of fitness equipment that includes bouncy balls and balance boards created by David Weck in the late ‘90s? (Hint: The name stands for “both sides utilized.”)
Answer: BOSU
112. Triples are three sets of what three-letter word that refers to how many times you complete a movement in your exercise? For example, how many times to lift and lower a weight?
Answer: Rep
113. The chain known as Gold’s Gym was founded in Venice, California by Joe Gold in which year? Five years either way accepted.
Answer: 1965
114. In 2002, PepsiCo released a new beverage made for yoga enthusiasts and leisurely athletes called G2, which was billed as the lighter version of what sports drink?
Answer: Gatorade
115. What kind of reps take you beyond failure—as long as you’ve got a spotter to give you a hand and look out for you?
Answer: Forced
116. The word calisthenics comes from the ancient Greek words "sthenos", meaning strength, and "kallos", meaning what?
Answer: Beauty
117. Hulk Hogan and Laila Ali served as the hosts for the 2008 NBC revival of what athletic competitive series that had its contenders face hulking superstars nicknamed “Militia,” “Wolf,” and “Hellga” while enduring events including Hang Tough, Joust, and Powerball?
Answer: American Gladiators
118. In 1913, the first U.S. patent for a “training machine” was issued and paved a road (albeit a stationary one) for what modern-day piece of workout equipment that lets you run a long distance without ever leaving home?
Answer: Treadmill
119. As a popular fitness supplement, creatine gives your muscles energy and is especially key for what kind of muscle movement that you might do when you want to show off your hard work at the gym?
Answer: Flexing
120. When he was just 24 and a fullback at U Maryland who was sick of sweaty clothes, Kevin Plank started what moisture-wicking sportswear brand from his grandma’s basement in D.C.?
Answer: Under Armour
121. What word describes exercises that use the body's large muscle groups, and are usually repetitive in nature, such as walking, running, or swimming?
Answer: Aerobic
122. What two word term describes the physiological point during exercise at which lactic acid starts to accumulate in the muscles?
Answer: Anaerobic threshold
123. What muscle group, found on the leg, is the site of the most common sports injury?
Answer: Hamstring
124. What term is given to the muscle which is the prime mover in a joint movement?
Answer: Agonist muscle
125. The Greenwood Athletic and Tennis Club has been listed as the biggest gym in the world. It is found in Greenwood Village in which US state?
Answer: Colorado
126. Of the six World Marathon Majors, three are in the North America (Chicago, New York and Boston), and two are in Europe (London and Berlin), and one in Asia - what city is this final Marathon Major held in?
Answer: Tokyo
127. Belgian statistician Adolphe Quetelet wanted to create a way to determine the ideal weight for a person of a given height - what system (usually seen as a three-letter acronym) did he come up with?
Answer: Body Mass Index (BMI)
128. Founded in 2013 by Mehmet Yilmaz, Joshua Cornelius and Andrej Matijczak, what is one of the top fitness apps in Europe that offers AI-powered, personalized fitness coaching? With paid content, despite its name.
Answer: Freeletics
129. The earliest of these were constructed from stitched seal stretched over a wood or whalebone-skeleton frame and were originally developed by the Inuit, Yup'ik, and Aleut. What are they? A quick hint: the answer is a palindrome and they are quite the arm workout.
Answer: Kayaks
130. Called "the fittest woman on earth" for having won five CrossFit Games championships in a row, Tia-Clair Toomey has also represented what southern-hemisphere nation in weightlifting at the Olympic Games?
Answer: Australia
131. What actress-turned-fitness personality heavily endorsed the "Thighmaster" in the 80s?
Answer: Suzanne Somers
132. What iconic event in New York City cost participants only $1 upon its 1970 introduction? The event is the largest of its kind in the world and has been canceled twice since 2000.
Answer: New York Marathon
133. What word of French origin that means "platoon" is used to describe the main pack of riders in a cycling race?
Answer: Peloton
134. The DASH diet is a diet rich in grain products and fruits that is designed, as per the acronym "DASH," to treat what condition?
Answer: Hypertension
135. Squats, bench press, and lunges are just some examples of what kind of exercises that target multiple muscles or muscle groups at the same time?
Answer: Compound
136. The metaphoric feeling marathoners get when their glycogen stores deplete around mile 20 shares what name with a Chris Harwick-hosted trivia show?
Answer: The Wall
137. Beginning and ending in Chamonix, France, the 106-mile Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc foot race loops around Mont Blanc, through what other two countries?
Answer: Italy and Switzerland
138. La Masia de Can Planes is an "academy" in eastern Spain that served as both educational facilities and sporting grounds for promising youth talent in a specific sport. What sports TEAM is the owner and operator of this academy?
Answer: FC Barcelona
139. In the 2018 Winter Olympics, the US won their first medal in 42 years in what skiing event that has historically been dominated by Nordic countries? The event has two major techniques: "classic" and "skating."
Answer: Cross country skiing
140. On average, what is the largest muscle in the human body? It's generally responsible for keeping the trunk of the body in an erect posture.
Answer: Gluteus Maximus
141. What timely name is given to a road cycling event where you take a 100-mile/kilometer bike ride not just for fun and fitness, but often fundraising, too?
Answer: Century Ride
142. Iron Mike is the military name for what quad-busting exercise that’s essentially a really goofy knees-to-the-floor walk?
Answer: Lunge
143. What two-word fitness equipment supplier, based out of Vista, CA, offers neoprene dumbbells and manual treadmills, all with a company name reminiscent of a 1969 Academy Award winning western starring John Wayne? Its name is the same, except minus one “e.”
Answer: Tru Grit
144. In Olympic weightlifting, what is the term for the type of lift where the athlete takes the weight from the ground to directly above their head? This lift, combined with the clean and jerk, decides the winner and it shares its name with a 2000 Guy Ritchie film.
Answer: Snatch
145. In August 2020, Tadej Pogacar became the first cyclist from what central European nation to win the Tour de France?
Answer: Slovenia
146. In 1982, whose original workout video became the highest selling VHS of all time, selling over 17 million copies?
Answer: Jane Fonda
147. The May/June 2022 cover of "Men's Health" magazine features Danny Ramirez, Jay Ellis, and Glen Powell, the pilot-playing stars of what 2022 blockbuster movie sequel?
Answer: Top Gun: Maverick
148. The burn is mine: One of Peloton's Artist Series pits R&B star Brandy against what other singer in run, ride, and strength workouts?
Answer: Monica
149. What fad diet popular in the 2000s, which prohibits white bread, white potatoes, and white rice, was invented by Miami-area doctor Arthur Agatston?
Answer: South Beach
150. A five-color heart is the logo of what health-tracking app developed and released by Google in 2014?
Answer: Fit
151. Popularized by modern Olympic founder, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, is what summer Olympic event designed to to simulate the experience of a 19th-century cavalry soldier behind enemy lines: he must ride an unfamiliar horse, fight enemies with pistol and sword, swim, and run to return to his own soldiers?
Answer: Modern Pentathlon
152. Which fitness and diet app was founded by Artem Petakov and Saeju Jeong in 2008 and became the first app to be recognized by the CDC as a diabetes-prevention program in 2017?
Answer: Noom
153. Dietary hormone response expert Dr. Barry Sears created what end-of-the-alphabet anti-inflammatory diet plan in 1998, which involves preparing each meal to include a healthy balance of carbs, protein, and fats?
Answer: Zone Diet
154. Of the 28 Olympic medals won by swimmer Michael Phelps between 2004 and 2016, how many were not gold?
Answer: Five
155. What was the two-word name of the program, helmed by First Lady Michelle Obama, that sought to encourage exercise among children and tackle childhood obesity? (The exclamation point at the end is optional.)
Answer: Let's Move!
156. What is the name of the overnight, long-distance relay held annually in Oregon in August that is considered the largest running and walking relay in the world? The course runs approximately 200 miles and more than 10,000 participants as they start and end at important geographical landmarks.
Answer: Hood to Coast Relay
157. The marathon course at the 1972 Munich Olympics was shaped like Waldi, a dog of what pretty much local breed?
Answer: Dachshund
158. What term is used for the method of training that focuses on developing muscular power? This term is derived from the Greek for “more” and “measure.”
Answer: Plyometrics
159. What martial artist, who also worked as a bodyguard and an actor, created the Tae Bo exercise program?
Answer: Billy Blanks
160. Commonly classified as good and bad cholesterol, HDL and LDL is an abbreviated way of describing high-density and low-density types of what protein which transports cholesterol to the blood?
Answer: Lipoprotein
161. Which term refers to the amount of work you do during a workout? For example, you could increase this value by doing more reps per set.
Answer: Volume
162. Bangles, weighted bands designed for any workout, are produced by what Los Angeles fitness company that was featured on the A”B”C show “Shark Tank?”
Answer: Bala
163. With origins in 18th century Russia, what piece of fitness equipment has features including the handle, window, corners and horns?
Answer: Kettlebell
164. Gold's Gym on the West Coast and Bev Francis' Powerhouse Gym on the East Coast both have what M-word attached to their brand, signifying their significance and acclaim in the bodybuilding world?
Answer: Mecca
165. Actress and singer Hailee Steinfeld is the niece of Jake Steinfeld, who founded what fitness and lifestyle brand in 1980?
Answer: Body By Jake
166. What bodybuilding magazine was founded in 1935 by Joe Weider under its original title “Your Physique”?
Answer: Muscle & Fitness
167. What fitness studio has hired DJ Steve Aoki as its first ever Chief Music Officer? The studio surveyed its users and over 90 percent of them said that music motivated them during workouts. Aoki will be creating bespoke setlists for a new workout series called “All Out with Aoki.”
Answer: Orangetheory
168. What is the regal first name of the American physiologist after whom the burpee exercise is named?
Answer: Royal
169. What bodybuilder was famous for advertising his exercise course in comic books, beginning in the 1940s and continuing on past his death in 1972?
Answer: Charles Atlas
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