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NSCA Personal Trainer Exam

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What controls the expansion and recoil of the lungs to create air exchange during heavy breathing?






2. What skinfold sites should a personal trainer select when applying a three-site SKF equation to a 45 year old female client?






3. This describes the properties of Type I and Type II muscle fibers






4. How many weeks will it take a 220 lb client to reach a goal weight of 200 lbs?






5. A 39 year old female client performed a submaximal bicycle ergometer test and had her VO2 max estimated as 30.2 ml x kg-1 x min-1. She weighs 136 pounds and is 66 inches tall. Her body fat is 24% and resting blood pressure is 124/84 mmHg. What should






6. What skinfold sites should a personal trainer select when applying a three-site SKF equation to a 45 year old female client?






7. What composes total lung capacity?






8. A 39 year old female client performed a submaximal bicycle ergometer test and had her VO2 max estimated as 30.2 ml x kg-1 x min-1. She weighs 136 pounds and is 66 inches tall. Her body fat is 24% and resting blood pressure is 124/84 mmHg. What should






9. Recommended sequence of tests that promotes the most accurate results when assessing general fitness






10. A 21 year old male client had the following results: 72 inches tall - Weight: 210 lbs - 1RM bench: 200 lbs - 1RM leg press: 400 lbs - Situps: 50 - Sit and Reach: 15 inches. What should be his primary exercise goal?






11. What is most likely to occur as a result of aerobic endurance overtraining?






12. Taking into consideration REE - which of the following is the approximate daily caloric need of a 45 year old - 176 pound male client who has a very light activity level?






13. What energy system is capable of producing ATP at the greatest rate?






14. What composes total lung capacity?






15. What guidelines should the personal trainer recommend to a client to promote proper fluid intake?






16. Taking into consideration REE - which of the following is the approximate daily caloric need of a 45 year old - 176 pound male client who has a very light activity level?






17. What energy systems is capable of producing the greatest amount (capacity) of ATP?






18. What is the correct sequence of components from smallest muscle structure to largest muscle structure?






19. What excercise mode requires the client to produce the most power?






20. How many servings of the 'bread - cereal - rice - and pasta' group does this meal provide? 1.5 cups cooked oatmeal 1 cup 1% milk 3/4 cup apple juice 2 slices wheat toast with 2 tablespoons peanut butter






21. Recommended sequence of tests that promotes the most accurate results when assessing general fitness






22. What factors discovered at a preparticipation health appraisal screening reveal a client's risk of coronary artery disease?






23. What change in muscle length and tension are associated with a muscle spindle and a Golgi tendon






24. What is most responsible for the strength gain a client would experience following three weeks of a beginning resistance training program?






25. How many servings of the 'bread - cereal - rice - and pasta' group does this meal provide? 1.5 cups cooked oatmeal 1 cup 1% milk 3/4 cup apple juice 2 slices wheat toast with 2 tablespoons peanut butter






26. which of the following describes the process of fast glycolysis?


27. What change in the body's substrate use and enzyme levels is due to an adaptation to chronic aerobic exercise?






28. What is a point along the self-determination or regulation continuum is a client who is highly intrinsically motivated?






29. What is a point along the self-determination or regulation continuum is a client who is highly intrinsically motivated?






30. Using 220 lb for each and allowing 90 degrees of knee flexion at the bottom of each movement - what excercise produces the most work?






31. What are the most influential age-related changes that may decrease a client's ability to exhibit muscular strength?






32. Three cognitive benefits provided by exercise






33. How many weeks will it take a 220 lb client to reach a goal weight of 200 lbs?






34. What is most likely to occur during a se of 10 reps at 75% of the 1RM for the squat exercise?






35. An example of an outcome goal...


36. What energy system is capable of producing ATP at the greatest rate?






37. What change in muscle length and tension are associated with a muscle spindle and a Golgi tendon






38. A 21 year old male client had the following results: 72 inches tall - Weight: 210 lbs - 1RM bench: 200 lbs - 1RM leg press: 400 lbs - Situps: 50 - Sit and Reach: 15 inches. What should be his primary exercise goal?






39. What should a personal trainer do during the initial meeting with a new client?


40. What are the components of oxygen uptake (vo2)






41. Three cognitive benefits provided by exercise






42. which of the following describes the process of fast glycolysis?


43. Describe what a client would be doing to allow the oxidative system to contribute the greatest percentage toward total ATP production.






44. A client with a high risk stratification for coronary artery disease






45. What is true regarding bone health?






46. Factors that may increase the standard error of measurement of a pushup test to assess muscular strength






47. What should be included in a an informed consent?






48. What energy systems is capable of producing the greatest amount (capacity) of ATP?






49. What change will increase concentric force production?






50. What is most responsible for the strength gain a client would experience following three weeks of a beginning resistance training program?