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Anatomy revision quiz for gym instructors and personal trainers
Short answerThis anatomy revision quiz for gym instructors and personal trainers has 20 questions on bones, muscles, directions, muscle pairs, bone shapes, the spine, joints and describing movement. Every question comes from the eleven Body Reps lessons. Answer each from memory, then check the answer key, which gives the explanation and the lesson to revise.
These questions are taken from the Body Reps lessons. They are not matched to any awarding body's syllabus.
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The 20 questions
The big bones Covered on Day 1
- How many bones are in an adult skeleton?
- Name it: the thigh bone, from hip to knee. The longest bone in the body.
Muscles: the front Covered on Day 2
- Name it: the four-headed muscle group at the front of the thigh. It straightens the knee.
- Gym name: pecs. What is its formal name?
Muscles: the back Covered on Day 3
- Name it: the widest muscle of the back. It pulls the arm down and back in a pull-up.
- Name it: the biggest muscle in the body, in the buttock. It drives the hips through at the top of a squat.
Arms, legs, and what bones do Covered on Day 4
- Name it: the forearm bone on the thumb side.
- Blood cells are made inside bones like the pelvis, sternum and femur. In what?
Directions and muscle pairs Covered on Day 5
- Name it: the muscle that makes a movement happen. In a curl, the biceps.
- Name it: the word for nearer the midline of the body.
Two skeletons, five bone shapes Covered on Day 6
- The skull, spine, ribs and sternum together form which part of the skeleton?
- The patella sits inside a tendon. What type of bone is it?
The spine: five regions Covered on Day 7
- Name it: the lower back region of the spine. Five big vertebrae.
- Name it: five fused vertebrae forming a triangle that locks the spine into the pelvis.
The spine: numbers and curves Covered on Day 8
- How many vertebrae are in the thoracic spine?
- The natural outward curve of the upper back is called what?
Inside a joint Covered on Day 9
- Name it: a strong band that joins bone to bone.
Six kinds of moving joint Covered on Day 10
- Name it: a joint that only bends and straightens, like a door. Elbow and knee.
Describing movement Covered on Day 11
- The arm lifts out to the side, away from the body. What is this movement?
- Going down into a squat, what is happening at the knee?
Answer key
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| # | Answer (also accepted) | Explanation from the app | Revise |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 206 (two hundred and six) | An adult has 206 bones. A newborn has around 270 to 300, and many fuse together during growth. | Covered on Day 1 |
| 2 | Femur | The femur runs from hip to knee. It is the longest and strongest bone in the body and takes huge load in squats and deadlifts. | Covered on Day 1 |
| 3 | Quadriceps (quadricep, quadriceps femoris) | The quadriceps are four muscles at the front of the thigh sharing one tendon over the kneecap. They straighten the knee: the drive up out of a squat. | Covered on Day 2 |
| 4 | Pectoralis major | Pectoralis major pulls the arm across and in front of the body. Bench press, press-ups, flyes. A smaller one, pectoralis minor, lies underneath. | Covered on Day 2 |
| 5 | Latissimus dorsi | Latissimus dorsi pulls the arm down and back. Pull-ups, pulldowns, rows. | Covered on Day 3 |
| 6 | Gluteus maximus | Gluteus maximus extends the hip. The top of a squat, deadlift or hip thrust. Gluteus medius and gluteus minimus sit higher and to the side. | Covered on Day 3 |
| 7 | Radius | The radius sits on the thumb side of the forearm. It rolls over the ulna when you turn your palm down. | Covered on Day 4 |
| 8 | Red bone marrow (red marrow, bone marrow, marrow) | Red marrow inside bones such as the pelvis, sternum and the ends of long bones makes red cells, white cells and platelets. | Covered on Day 4 |
| 9 | Agonist (prime mover) | The agonist is the muscle doing the work, also called the prime mover. In a curl, biceps brachii is the agonist. | Covered on Day 5 |
| 10 | Medial | Medial means closer to the midline. Your big toe is on the medial side of your foot. | Covered on Day 5 |
| 11 | Axial skeleton (axial) | The axial skeleton is the central column: skull, spine, ribs and sternum. It protects the brain, spinal cord, heart and lungs. | Covered on Day 6 |
| 12 | Sesamoid bone (sesamoid) | A sesamoid bone grows inside a tendon. The patella is the biggest one. It improves the leverage of the muscle pulling over it. | Covered on Day 6 |
| 13 | Lumbar spine (lumbar, lumbar vertebrae) | The lumbar spine is the lower back. Its five vertebrae are the largest in the spine because they carry the most weight. | Covered on Day 7 |
| 14 | Sacrum | The sacrum is five vertebrae fused into one triangle of bone that locks the spine into the pelvis. | Covered on Day 7 |
| 15 | 12 (twelve) | Twelve, one for each pair of ribs. | Covered on Day 8 |
| 16 | Kyphosis (kyphotic) | Kyphosis is the outward curve of the upper back. Too much is the rounded hunch you see after years at a desk. | Covered on Day 8 |
| 17 | Ligament (ligaments) | Ligaments are strong bands that join bone to bone and keep the joint stable. | Covered on Day 9 |
| 18 | Hinge joint (hinge) | A hinge joint moves in one direction only, bending and straightening, like a door. The elbow and the knee. | Covered on Day 10 |
| 19 | Abduction | Abduction moves a limb away from the midline of the body. A lateral raise is shoulder abduction. | Covered on Day 11 |
| 20 | Knee flexion (flexion) | The knee angle closes, so it is flexion. The hips flex too. Driving back up is extension at both. | Covered on Day 11 |
One rep, from memory
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In the app
Where Body Reps teaches this
- Covered on Day 1The big bones
- Covered on Day 2Muscles: the front
- Covered on Day 3Muscles: the back
- Covered on Day 4Arms, legs, and what bones do
- Covered on Day 5Directions and muscle pairs
- Covered on Day 6Two skeletons, five bone shapes
- Covered on Day 7The spine: five regions
- Covered on Day 8The spine: numbers and curves
- Covered on Day 9Inside a joint
- Covered on Day 10Six kinds of moving joint
- Covered on Day 11Describing movement
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