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NSCA Personal Trainer Exam

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. What change in the body's substrate use and enzyme levels is due to an adaptation to chronic aerobic exercise?






2. What composes total lung capacity?






3. 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?






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






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






6. Symptoms of overtraining from resistance exercise...






7. 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






8. At what point during the upward movement phase of the standing barbell curl exercise can the biceps brachii muscles produce the greatest torque?


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






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






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






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






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






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






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






16. What change will increase concentric force production?






17. What controls the expansion and recoil of the lungs to create air exchange during heavy breathing?






18. Clients possessing predominantly Type II muslce fibers in their lower body probably would perform well in which of the events






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






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






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






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






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


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






25. A 52 year old male client's resting blood pressure was 130/82 during the initial assessment. When measuring his blood pressure one month later - to what level of mercury (Hg) should the bladder be inflated?






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






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






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






29. 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?






30. 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?






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






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






33. An example of an outcome goal...


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






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


36. A personal trainer performs a skinfold body composition test on a client. If the same test is performed two days later with the same body fat percentage result - this test and the result are said to be...






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






38. What is true regarding bone health?






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






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






41. A 35 year old female began an exercise program four months ago in which she has been running on a treadmill four days per week. What describes the adaptations that are most likely to occur with this program?






42. What is true regarding bone health?






43. A 52 year old male client's resting blood pressure was 130/82 during the initial assessment. When measuring his blood pressure one month later - to what level of mercury (Hg) should the bladder be inflated?






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






45. A 35 year old female began an exercise program four months ago in which she has been running on a treadmill four days per week. What describes the adaptations that are most likely to occur with this program?






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






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


48. 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?






49. A personal trainer performs a skinfold body composition test on a client. If the same test is performed two days later with the same body fat percentage result - this test and the result are said to be...






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






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