NSCA Personal Trainer Exam

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• Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What are the most influential age-related changes that may decrease a client's ability to exhibit muscular strength?
Sitting quietly
An inexperienced personal trainer - an injured client - testing a female client
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass
9 weeks


2. What is a point along the self-determination or regulation continuum is a client who is highly intrinsically motivated?
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound
Integrated
Improved skill in performing the exercise
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity


3. How many weeks will it take a 220 lb client to reach a goal weight of 200 lbs?
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago
3RM hang clean
9 weeks
Back squat


4. 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?
Decreased VO2 max
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
5
150 mm


5. Recommended sequence of tests that promotes the most accurate results when assessing general fitness
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
'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!'
Evaluate the client's level of exercise readiness AND Discuss the client's goals for his or her exercise program.
Greater genetic variation


6. What composes total lung capacity?
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass
50 year old femaile who has COPD
Upper body strength


7. 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?
An inexperienced personal trainer - an injured client - testing a female client
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago
Increased = mitochondrial density - Decreased = submax exercise HR
Evaluate the client's level of exercise readiness AND Discuss the client's goals for his or her exercise program.


8. What skinfold sites should a personal trainer select when applying a three-site SKF equation to a 45 year old female client?
Oxidative
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh
Evaluate the client's level of exercise readiness AND Discuss the client's goals for his or her exercise program.


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

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

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11. Three cognitive benefits provided by exercise
Increasing aerobic endurance
Increased concentration of GLUT
Greater genetic variation
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint


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

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13. What change in the body's substrate use and enzyme levels is due to an adaptation to chronic aerobic exercise?
Myofilament - myofibril - fiber - fasciculus
Increased concentration of GLUT
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.
Motor unit recruitment increases


14. What are the components of oxygen uptake (vo2)
Greater genetic variation
Oxidative
A breakdown of glycogen - it's end product is converted to lactic acid - a breakdown of glucose
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference


15. A client with a high risk stratification for coronary artery disease
50 year old femaile who has COPD
Improved skill in performing the exercise
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference
Integrated


16. What are the most influential age-related changes that may decrease a client's ability to exhibit muscular strength?
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass
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.
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
Reliable


17. Symptoms of overtraining from resistance exercise...
At 90 degrees of flexion - because the moment arm is at it's longest length.
3RM hang clean
Inconsistent or interrupted sleep - nonpurposeful decreases in lean body mass - leveled-off improvements or losses in muscular strength
Increasing aerobic endurance


18. 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?

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19. Clients possessing predominantly Type II muslce fibers in their lower body probably would perform well in which of the events
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint
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.
Sitting quietly
'I want to be able to bench press more than my friend'


20. What should be included in a an informed consent?
Greater genetic variation
Sitting quietly
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client


21. How many weeks will it take a 220 lb client to reach a goal weight of 200 lbs?
Motor unit recruitment increases
A breakdown of glycogen - it's end product is converted to lactic acid - a breakdown of glucose
9 weeks
Increasing aerobic endurance


22. A 30 year old female client is an avid 5 kilometer runner but she would like to improve her time. What test is the most appropriate to estimate this client's VO2 max?
1.5 mile run
'I want to be able to bench press more than my friend'
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference


23. Symptoms of overtraining from resistance exercise...
Inconsistent or interrupted sleep - nonpurposeful decreases in lean body mass - leveled-off improvements or losses in muscular strength
Back squat
1.5 mile run
50 year old femaile who has COPD


24. Describe what a client would be doing to allow the oxidative system to contribute the greatest percentage toward total ATP production.
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh
Reliable
Sitting quietly
Integrated


25. Describe what a client would be doing to allow the oxidative system to contribute the greatest percentage toward total ATP production.
Myofilament - myofibril - fiber - fasciculus
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference
Sitting quietly


26. What is most responsible for the strength gain a client would experience following three weeks of a beginning resistance training program?
Integrated
Back squat
Improved skill in performing the exercise
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh


27. 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?
At 90 degrees of flexion - because the moment arm is at it's longest length.
Reliable
Oxidative
2349 kilocalories


28. Clients possessing predominantly Type II muslce fibers in their lower body probably would perform well in which of the events
50 year old femaile who has COPD
Inconsistent or interrupted sleep - nonpurposeful decreases in lean body mass - leveled-off improvements or losses in muscular strength
Increased = mitochondrial density - Decreased = submax exercise HR
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint


29. Factors that may increase the standard error of measurement of a pushup test to assess muscular strength
1.5 mile run
50 year old femaile who has COPD
An inexperienced personal trainer - an injured client - testing a female client
Motor unit recruitment increases


30. What skinfold sites should a personal trainer select when applying a three-site SKF equation to a 45 year old female client?
Inconsistent or interrupted sleep - nonpurposeful decreases in lean body mass - leveled-off improvements or losses in muscular strength
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client
Sitting quietly


31. What change will increase concentric force production?
Increase pennation
A breakdown of glycogen - it's end product is converted to lactic acid - a breakdown of glucose
Evaluate the client's level of exercise readiness AND Discuss the client's goals for his or her exercise program.
An inexperienced personal trainer - an injured client - testing a female client


32. 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
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference
5
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh


33. Using 220 lb for each and allowing 90 degrees of knee flexion at the bottom of each movement - what excercise produces the most work?
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
Back squat
2349 kilocalories


34. 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
Reliable
Phosphagen
150 mm
5


35. What guidelines should the personal trainer recommend to a client to promote proper fluid intake?
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound
2349 kilocalories
5


36. 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?
2349 kilocalories
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client
150 mm
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension


37. 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
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force


38. This describes the properties of Type I and Type II muscle fibers
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force
Reliable
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference


39. A 30 year old female client is an avid 5 kilometer runner but she would like to improve her time. What test is the most appropriate to estimate this client's VO2 max?
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint
Increasing aerobic endurance
Reliable
1.5 mile run


40. 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
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference
Increasing aerobic endurance
A breakdown of glycogen - it's end product is converted to lactic acid - a breakdown of glucose
5


41. Factors that may increase the standard error of measurement of a pushup test to assess muscular strength
Increased = mitochondrial density - Decreased = submax exercise HR
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement
An inexperienced personal trainer - an injured client - testing a female client
Oxidative


42. A client with a high risk stratification for coronary artery disease
'I want to be able to bench press more than my friend'
Sitting quietly
Evaluate the client's level of exercise readiness AND Discuss the client's goals for his or her exercise program.
50 year old femaile who has COPD


43. What is the correct sequence of components from smallest muscle structure to largest muscle structure?
Greater genetic variation
Myofilament - myofibril - fiber - fasciculus
5
3RM hang clean


44. What controls the expansion and recoil of the lungs to create air exchange during heavy breathing?
3RM hang clean
Sitting quietly
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement


45. What is most likely to occur during a se of 10 reps at 75% of the 1RM for the squat exercise?
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint
Motor unit recruitment increases
150 mm
50 year old femaile who has COPD


46. What should be included in a an informed consent?
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference
Increased = mitochondrial density - Decreased = submax exercise HR
5


47. What is the correct sequence of components from smallest muscle structure to largest muscle structure?
Myofilament - myofibril - fiber - fasciculus
50 year old femaile who has COPD
9 weeks
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement


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

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

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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?

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