162 Fitness Trivia Questions (Ranked From Easiest to Hardest)

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162 Fitness Trivia Questions Ranked From Easiest to Hardest (Updated For 2024)

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. Known for its "Twelve Steps" and “Twelve Traditions” guidelines for keeping clean, Bill Wilson and Robert Holbrook Smith founded what alliterative support group in 1935, which launched one of its first meetings in Akron, Ohio?
   
   Answer: Alcoholics Anonymous
   
   
6. What isometric core exercise involves assuming the push-up position, and holding that position for a proscribed 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. 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
   
   
9. 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
   
   
10. 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
    
    
11. “Delts” for short, which group of triangle-shaped muscles stabilize your shoulders and help you move your arms around?
    
    Answer: Deltoids
    
    
12. 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
    
    
13. 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
    
    
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. In July 2021, Usain Bolt did a promotion allowing bar patrons to open a "running tab" to get a free pour of the Ultra version of what American beer brand?
    
    Answer: Michelob
    
    
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. 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
    
    
28. 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
    
    
29. 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
    
    
30. 2022 Boston Marathon winners Evans Chebet and Peres Jepchirchir are both from what African nation famed for its many successful distance runners?
    
    Answer: Kenya
    
    
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. 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
    
    
33. 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
    
    
34. Sacramento hosts Eppie's Great Race, a triathlon that swaps out swimming with a ride in what palindromic watercraft?
    
    Answer: Kayak
    
    
35. 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
    
    
36. 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
    
    
37. 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
    
    
38. Which fitness wearable loved by pro basketball players like LeBron James has a name that rhymes with “hoop?”
    
    Answer: Whoop
    
    
39. 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
    
    
40. Nike-sponsored athlete Mat Fraser is the five-time world champion in the "Games" associated with what branded fitness regimen?
    
    Answer: CrossFit
    
    
41. 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
    
    
42. 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
    
    
43. 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
    
    
44. Also known as “leaf cabbage,” which perennial vegetable can have green or purple leaves that are a vitamin-rich addition to a salad or smoothie, or even baked into chips for a snack?
    
    Answer: Kale
    
    
45. 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 your lungs, and “cardio” which refers to which blood pumping organ?
    
    Answer: Heart
    
    
46. 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
    
    
47. 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
    
    
48. 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
    
    
49. 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
    
    
50. Participants earn "splat points" by keeping their heart rate in the right zone in what colorfully named exercise program?
    
    Answer: Orangetheory
    
    
51. 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
    
    
52. 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
    
    
53. 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
    
    
54. 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
    
    
55. 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
    
    
56. Between 1982 - 1995, what two-time Academy Award winning actress (Klute and Coming Home) sold 17 million VHS copies in her "Workout" series?
    
    Answer: Jane Fonda
    
    
57. 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
    
    
58. 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
    
    
59. 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
    
    
60. 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
    
    
61. 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
    
    
62. 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
    
    
63. In fitness, the Karvonen Formula is often used to calculate the ideal target value of what metric for an intense workout?
    
    Answer: Heart rate
    
    
64. 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
    
    
65. 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
    
    
66. 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
    
    
67. What is required in aerobic respiration that is not required in anaerobic respiration?
    
    Answer: Oxygen
    
    
68. 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
    
    
69. 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)
    
    
70. A type of remote project management software shares what name for general yoga postures that help one relax after remote project management?
    
    Answer: Asana
    
    
71. What netted game that uses terms including “attack,” “bump pass,” and “jump serve” became the official national sport of Nepal in 2017?
    
    Answer: Volleyball
    
    
72. Jenny Craig is the sister nutrition program of what women's-only gym chain, which promotes its 30-minute total body workout?
    
    Answer: Curves
    
    
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, and her title was stripped after 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. 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
    
    
75. 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
    
    
76. 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
    
    
77. Who starred in the '80s workout video series, "Sweatin' to the Oldies," as well as his own television workout show?
    
    Answer: Richard Simmons
    
    
78. 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
    
    
79. 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
    
    
80. Which I-term 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
    
    
81. 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
    
    
82. 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
    
    
83. 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
    
    
84. 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
    
    
85. 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
    
    
86. "Independent, athletic, I been sweating, doing calisthenics" opens the 2018 song "Fitness" by what one-named pop star?
    
    Answer: Lizzo
    
    
87. 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
    
    
88. 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
    
    
89. What “T” is a version of HIIT based on a study involving Olympic speedskaters and named after a Japanese professor?
    
    Answer: Tabata
    
    
90. Frank Shorter's 1972 gold medal win in which Olympic event kick-started Americans' obsession with running?
    
    Answer: Marathon
    
    
91. How many racing lanes are in an Olympic swimming pool? We're excluding warm-up and practice lanes on this one.
    
    Answer: 8
    
    
92. 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
    
    
93. 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
    
    
94. Which S-term describes running as fast as you can over a short distance?
    
    Answer: Sprint
    
    
95. 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
    
    
96. 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
    
    
97. 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
    
    
98. Which material is commonly used for “rollers” that make great tools for do-it-yourself myofascial release if you have trigger points?
    
    Answer: Foam
    
    
99. Kaatsu is an exercise method developed (and patented) by Dr. Yoshiaki Sato that means "additional language" in what language?
    
    Answer: Japanese
    
    
100. 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 callouses on his hands to prove it?
     
     Answer: Pull Ups
     
     
101. 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
     
     
102. 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
     
     
103. Which NYC-based fitness startup founded by Aly Orady powers your home gym with AI to create customized workouts?
     
     Answer: Tonal
     
     
104. “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
     
     
105. 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
     
     
106. Claiming that overfunding led to its demise, which startup that had raised $930 million in capital went under in 2016? This company produced Bluetooth speakers, headsets, and fitness trackers.
     
     Answer: Jawbone
     
     
107. 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
     
     
108. 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
     
     
109. 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
     
     
110. 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
     
     
111. 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
     
     
112. The word calisthenics comes from the ancient Greek words "sthenos", meaning strength, and "kallos", meaning what?
     
     Answer: Beauty
     
     
113. 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”
     
     
114. 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
     
     
115. What is the name of the fitness app started up by Hollywood megastar Chris Hemsworth and his wife Elsa Pataky?
     
     Answer: Centr
     
     
116. 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
     
     
117. 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
     
     
118. 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
     
     
119. What two-word term describes the physiological point during exercise at which lactic acid starts to accumulate in the muscles?
     
     Answer: Anaerobic threshold
     
     
120. In 1982, whose original workout video became the highest selling VHS of all time, selling over 17 million copies?
     
     Answer: Jane Fonda
     
     
121. 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 hint: the answer is a palindrome, and they are quite the arm workout.
     
     Answer: Kayak
     
     
122. 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
     
     
123. What actress-turned-fitness personality heavily endorsed the "Thighmaster" in the 80s?
     
     Answer: Suzanne Somers
     
     
124. The DASH diet is rich in grain products and fruits and is designed, as per the acronym "DASH," to treat what condition?
     
     Answer: Hypertension
     
     
125. 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
     
     
126. What word of French origin that means "platoon" is used to describe the main pack of riders in a cycling race?
     
     Answer: Peloton
     
     
127. 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
     
     
128. 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
     
     
129. 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
     
     
130. Beginning and ending in Chamonix, France, the 106-mile Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc foot race loops around Mont Blanc and through what other two countries?
     
     Answer: Italy and Switzerland
     
     
131. 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
     
     
132. 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
     
     
133. In the 2018 Winter Olympics, the U.S. 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
     
     
134. Iron Mike is the military name for what quad-busting exercise that’s essentially a really goofy knees-to-the-floor walk?
     
     Answer: Lunge
     
     
135. 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
     
     
136. What four-time Olympic gold medalist, considered "perhaps the greatest and most famous athlete in track and field history" during his lifetime, called Cleveland home from the age of 9 onwards?
     
     Answer: Jesse Owens
     
     
137. 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.
     
     Answer: Snatch
     
     
138. The reason orange foods like carrots and sweet potatoes may be good for vision and eye health is that they are high in what compound, which is converted by the body into Vitamin A retinol?
     
     Answer: Beta-Carotene
     
     
139. Who is the only athlete ever to play in a Super Bowl and a World Series?
     
     Answer: Deion Sanders
     
     
140. In August 2020, Tadej Pogacar became the first cyclist from what central European nation to win the Tour de France?
     
     Answer: Slovenia
     
     
141. 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
     
     
142. The May/June 2022 cover of "Men's Health" magazine featured Danny Ramirez, Jay Ellis, and Glen Powell, the pilot-playing stars of what 2022 blockbuster movie sequel?
     
     Answer: Top Gun: Maverick
     
     
143. 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
     
     
144. What fad diet popular in the 2000s that prohibits white bread, white potatoes, and white rice, was invented by Miami-area doctor Arthur Agatston?
     
     Answer: South Beach
     
     
145. A five-color heart is the logo of what health-tracking app developed and released by Google in 2014?
     
     Answer: Fit
     
     
146. 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
     
     
147. Of the 28 Olympic medals won by swimmer Michael Phelps between 2004 and 2016, how many were NOT gold?
     
     Answer: Five
     
     
148. Popularized by modern Olympic founder Baron Pierre de Coubertin, what summer Olympic event designed to simulate the experience of a 19th-century cavalry soldier behind enemy lines who must ride an unfamiliar horse, fight enemies with pistol and sword, swim, and run to return to their own soldiers?
     
     Answer: Modern Pentathlon
     
     
149. What was the two-word name of the program, helmed by First Lady Michelle Obama, that sought to encourage kids to exercise and tackle childhood obesity? (The exclamation point at the end is optional.)
     
     Answer: Let's Move!
     
     
150. 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
     
     
151. The marathon course at the 1972 Munich Olympics was shaped like Waldi, a dog of what pretty much local breed?
     
     Answer: Dachshund
     
     
152. 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
     
     
153. What martial artist, who also worked as a bodyguard and an actor, created the Tae Bo exercise program?
     
     Answer: Billy Blanks
     
     
154. With origins in 18th-century Russia, what piece of fitness equipment has features including the handle, window, corners and horns?
     
     Answer: Kettlebell
     
     
155. 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
     
     
156. Bangles, weighted bands designed for any workout, are produced by what Los Angeles fitness company that was featured on the ABC show “Shark Tank?”
     
     Answer: Bala
     
     
157. 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
     
     
158. Actress and singer Hailee Steinfeld is the niece of Jake Steinfeld, who founded what fitness and lifestyle brand in 1980?
     
     Answer: Body By Jake
     
     
159. What bodybuilding magazine was founded in 1935 by Joe Weider under its original title “Your Physique”?
     
     Answer: Muscle & Fitness
     
     
160. What fitness studio hired DJ Steve Aoki as its first ever Chief Music Officer? The studio surveyed its users and over 90 percent said that music motivated them during workouts. Aoki created bespoke setlists for a new workout series called “All Out with Aoki.”
     
     Answer: Orangetheory
     
     
161. What is the regal first name of the American physiologist after whom the burpee exercise is named?
     
     Answer: Royal
     
     
162. 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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