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NSCA Personal Trainer Exam

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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 composes total lung capacity?






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






3. An example of an outcome goal...


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






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






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






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






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






9. Three cognitive benefits provided by exercise






10. Symptoms of overtraining from resistance exercise...






11. Symptoms of overtraining from resistance exercise...






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






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






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






15. 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?






16. 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?






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






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






19. 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?






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






21. Three cognitive benefits provided by exercise






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






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






24. 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






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






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






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






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






29. 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...






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






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






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






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


34. 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?






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






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






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






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






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






40. What is true regarding bone health?






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


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






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






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






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






46. 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?






47. 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?






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






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






50. What is an example of negative reinforcement a personal trainer says to a client who just completed a month of consistently walking three times per week?