Module 15: If you could only choose one. progressive resistance training

🧠 Shield Healthcare Education Series Quiz

If You Could Only Choose One: Why Progressive Resistance Training Provides the Greatest Benefits for Lifelong Health

Instructions: Choose the most correct answer for each question. Only one option is correct.

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1. According to current scientific evidence, if you could only choose one form of exercise for lifelong health, which would provide the broadest range of benefits?

A. Walking

B. Yoga

C. Pilates

D. Progressive resistance training

E. Swimming

2. What is progressive overload?

A. Exercising until complete exhaustion.

B. Gradually increasing the challenge placed on the body as it adapts.

C. Exercising every day without rest.

D. Lifting the heaviest weight possible.

E. Doing different exercises every session.

3. Why is skeletal muscle considered one of the body's most important organs?

A. It only improves appearance.

B. It helps regulate metabolism, blood sugar, movement and overall health.

C. It stores calcium.

D. It only assists athletes.

E. It has no effect on longevity.

4. Why is resistance training important for bone health?

A. It improves flexibility only.

B. Appropriate loading stimulates bones to maintain or increase bone density.

C. It completely prevents osteoporosis.

D. It replaces calcium intake.

E. It makes bones lighter.

5. Which of the following is NOT one of the major benefits of progressive resistance training discussed in this module?

A. Improved muscle strength.

B. Improved bone density.

C. Improved insulin sensitivity.

D. Guaranteed elimination of all injuries.

E. Improved functional independence.

6. How does resistance training help protect your joints?

A. By preventing all movement.

B. By strengthening the muscles that support and stabilise joints.

C. By reducing bone density.

D. By replacing cartilage.

E. By avoiding all loading.

7. According to the module, Pilates and yoga are:

A. Harmful forms of exercise.

B. Only suitable for athletes.

C. Valuable forms of exercise that complement resistance training but generally should not replace it.

D. Better than resistance training for bone density.

E. The only exercises older adults should perform.

8. Why does Shield Healthcare focus on functional resistance training?

A. To build the biggest muscles possible.

B. To improve movements that transfer directly into everyday life.

C. To prepare people for bodybuilding competitions.

D. To eliminate cardiovascular exercise.

E. To increase exercise complexity.

9. If someone only had enough time for one type of exercise, what does this module recommend?

A. Yoga only.

B. Pilates only.

C. Stretching only.

D. Progressive resistance training as the foundation.

E. No exercise is better than another.

10. What is the main message of this module?

A. Resistance training should replace every other form of exercise.

B. Pilates and yoga have no health benefits.

C. Progressive resistance training provides the broadest range of scientifically supported health benefits and should form the foundation of an exercise program, with other activities added where possible.

D. Only young people should perform resistance training.

E. Cardiovascular exercise is unnecessary.