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NSCA Personal Trainer Exam

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1. What controls the expansion and recoil of the lungs to create air exchange during heavy breathing?
'Good job! Next month - you do not have to take the time to fill out your own walking workout card - I'll do it for you!'
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
Integrated
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement

2. What is the correct sequence of components from smallest muscle structure to largest muscle structure?
Myofilament - myofibril - fiber - fasciculus
Motor unit recruitment increases
1.5 mile run
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium

3. What change will increase concentric force production?
150 mm
Increase pennation
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint
Increased = mitochondrial density - Decreased = submax exercise HR

4. Using 220 lb for each and allowing 90 degrees of knee flexion at the bottom of each movement - what excercise produces the most work?
Back squat
Integrated
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force
An inexperienced personal trainer - an injured client - testing a female client

5. What guidelines should the personal trainer recommend to a client to promote proper fluid intake?
Evaluate the client's level of exercise readiness AND Discuss the client's goals for his or her exercise program.
Myofilament - myofibril - fiber - fasciculus
Increased = mitochondrial density - Decreased = submax exercise HR
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound

6. What change in muscle length and tension are associated with a muscle spindle and a Golgi tendon
Phosphagen
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
Inconsistent or interrupted sleep - nonpurposeful decreases in lean body mass - leveled-off improvements or losses in muscular strength

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

8. What excercise mode requires the client to produce the most power?
3RM hang clean
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago
Myofilament - myofibril - fiber - fasciculus
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint

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

10. What guidelines should the personal trainer recommend to a client to promote proper fluid intake?
A breakdown of glycogen - it's end product is converted to lactic acid - a breakdown of glucose
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound
Greater genetic variation

11. What energy system is capable of producing ATP at the greatest rate?
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force
Phosphagen
Back squat
A breakdown of glycogen - it's end product is converted to lactic acid - a breakdown of glucose

12. What energy system is capable of producing ATP at the greatest rate?
Evaluate the client's level of exercise readiness AND Discuss the client's goals for his or her exercise program.
Decreased VO2 max
An inexperienced personal trainer - an injured client - testing a female client
Phosphagen

13. What is most likely to occur as a result of aerobic endurance overtraining?
Decreased VO2 max
At 90 degrees of flexion - because the moment arm is at it's longest length.
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
Improved skill in performing the exercise

14. What skinfold sites should a personal trainer select when applying a three-site SKF equation to a 45 year old female client?
Decreased VO2 max
Reliable
Upper body strength
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh

15. What energy systems is capable of producing the greatest amount (capacity) of ATP?
Oxidative
Decreased bone mineral density is related to an increased risk of fracture.AND Bone mineral density is promoted by chronic participation in a physically-active lifestyle.
'I want to be able to bench press more than my friend'
Integrated

16. Clients possessing predominantly Type II muslce fibers in their lower body probably would perform well in which of the events
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago
Oxidative
9 weeks
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint

17. What is most likely to occur as a result of aerobic endurance overtraining?
At 90 degrees of flexion - because the moment arm is at it's longest length.
Decreased VO2 max
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound
Upper body strength

18. A client with a high risk stratification for coronary artery disease
Greater genetic variation
50 year old femaile who has COPD
Back squat
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client

19. What is the correct sequence of components from smallest muscle structure to largest muscle structure?
Integrated
Myofilament - myofibril - fiber - fasciculus
A breakdown of glycogen - it's end product is converted to lactic acid - a breakdown of glucose
Inconsistent or interrupted sleep - nonpurposeful decreases in lean body mass - leveled-off improvements or losses in muscular strength

20. What change in the body's substrate use and enzyme levels is due to an adaptation to chronic aerobic exercise?
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago
Increasing aerobic endurance
Decreased bone mineral density is related to an increased risk of fracture.AND Bone mineral density is promoted by chronic participation in a physically-active lifestyle.
Increased concentration of GLUT

21. How many weeks will it take a 220 lb client to reach a goal weight of 200 lbs?
9 weeks
Oxidative
Decreased bone mineral density is related to an increased risk of fracture.AND Bone mineral density is promoted by chronic participation in a physically-active lifestyle.
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity

22. Describe what a client would be doing to allow the oxidative system to contribute the greatest percentage toward total ATP production.
'Good job! Next month - you do not have to take the time to fill out your own walking workout card - I'll do it for you!'
'Good job! Next month - you do not have to take the time to fill out your own walking workout card - I'll do it for you!'
Sitting quietly
9 weeks

23. What is most likely to occur during a se of 10 reps at 75% of the 1RM for the squat exercise?
Motor unit recruitment increases
Increase pennation
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint
Increasing aerobic endurance

24. 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?
Increase pennation
Upper body strength
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force
2349 kilocalories

25. 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?
Increased = mitochondrial density - Decreased = submax exercise HR
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client
'I want to be able to bench press more than my friend'

26. What change in the body's substrate use and enzyme levels is due to an adaptation to chronic aerobic exercise?
Myofilament - myofibril - fiber - fasciculus
1.5 mile run
Evaluate the client's level of exercise readiness AND Discuss the client's goals for his or her exercise program.
Increased concentration of GLUT

27. 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
Increasing aerobic endurance
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago

28. What is the correct sequence of structures that the blood passes through after it leaves the left ventricle
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
Phosphagen
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago

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...
50 year old femaile who has COPD
At 90 degrees of flexion - because the moment arm is at it's longest length.
50 year old femaile who has COPD
Reliable

30. What is true regarding bone health?
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force
Decreased bone mineral density is related to an increased risk of fracture.AND Bone mineral density is promoted by chronic participation in a physically-active lifestyle.
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint

31. What factors discovered at a preparticipation health appraisal screening reveal a client's risk of coronary artery disease?
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass
3RM hang clean
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago

32. Using 220 lb for each and allowing 90 degrees of knee flexion at the bottom of each movement - what excercise produces the most work?
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference
'I want to be able to bench press more than my friend'
Increase pennation
Back squat

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

34. What energy systems is capable of producing the greatest amount (capacity) of ATP?
Decreased bone mineral density is related to an increased risk of fracture.AND Bone mineral density is promoted by chronic participation in a physically-active lifestyle.
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
Oxidative

35. 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
9 weeks
Upper body strength
5
3RM hang clean

36. What should be included in a an informed consent?
Greater genetic variation
'Good job! Next month - you do not have to take the time to fill out your own walking workout card - I'll do it for you!'
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client

37. What skinfold sites should a personal trainer select when applying a three-site SKF equation to a 45 year old female client?
Reliable
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
Motor unit recruitment increases
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh

38. Factors that may increase the standard error of measurement of a pushup test to assess muscular strength
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
Integrated
An inexperienced personal trainer - an injured client - testing a female client
A breakdown of glycogen - it's end product is converted to lactic acid - a breakdown of glucose

39. What are the components of oxygen uptake (vo2)
Inconsistent or interrupted sleep - nonpurposeful decreases in lean body mass - leveled-off improvements or losses in muscular strength
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference
5
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client

40. What factors discovered at a preparticipation health appraisal screening reveal a client's risk of coronary artery disease?
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago
9 weeks
Phosphagen

41. Recommended sequence of tests that promotes the most accurate results when assessing general fitness
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass
3RM hang clean

42. Recommended sequence of tests that promotes the most accurate results when assessing general fitness
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
3RM hang clean
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
'I want to be able to bench press more than my friend'

43. What composes total lung capacity?
Myofilament - myofibril - fiber - fasciculus
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity
A breakdown of glycogen - it's end product is converted to lactic acid - a breakdown of glucose

44. What are the most influential age-related changes that may decrease a client's ability to exhibit muscular strength?
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh
2349 kilocalories
5
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass

45. Factors that may increase the standard error of measurement of a pushup test to assess muscular strength
An inexperienced personal trainer - an injured client - testing a female client
'I want to be able to bench press more than my friend'
Increasing aerobic endurance
2349 kilocalories

46. Describe what a client would be doing to allow the oxidative system to contribute the greatest percentage toward total ATP production.
Increased concentration of GLUT
9 weeks
50 year old femaile who has COPD
Sitting quietly

47. What is most likely to occur during a se of 10 reps at 75% of the 1RM for the squat exercise?
3RM hang clean
At 90 degrees of flexion - because the moment arm is at it's longest length.
Motor unit recruitment increases
1.5 mile run

48. What excercise mode requires the client to produce the most power?
3RM hang clean
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound
At 90 degrees of flexion - because the moment arm is at it's longest length.
Back squat

49. What should be included in a an informed consent?
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client
Decreased bone mineral density is related to an increased risk of fracture.AND Bone mineral density is promoted by chronic participation in a physically-active lifestyle.
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound

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?