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NSCA Personal Trainer Exam
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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 is the correct sequence of components from smallest muscle structure to largest muscle structure?
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client
Motor unit recruitment increases
Myofilament - myofibril - fiber - fasciculus
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago
2. What are the components of oxygen uptake (vo2)
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference
Greater genetic variation
At 90 degrees of flexion - because the moment arm is at it's longest length.
Increase pennation
3. What change in the body's substrate use and enzyme levels is due to an adaptation to chronic aerobic exercise?
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force
Increased concentration of GLUT
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass
Upper body strength
4. What is most likely to occur as a result of aerobic endurance overtraining?
Sitting quietly
Decreased VO2 max
5
1.5 mile run
5. What is most responsible for the strength gain a client would experience following three weeks of a beginning resistance training program?
'I want to be able to bench press more than my friend'
Improved skill in performing the exercise
Oxidative
3RM hang clean
6. 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
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.
An inexperienced personal trainer - an injured client - testing a female client
5
7. Three cognitive benefits provided by exercise
Reliable
At 90 degrees of flexion - because the moment arm is at it's longest length.
Greater genetic variation
Inconsistent or interrupted sleep - nonpurposeful decreases in lean body mass - leveled-off improvements or losses in muscular strength
8. What is most likely to occur as a result of aerobic endurance overtraining?
Decreased VO2 max
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force
Reliable
Integrated
9. How many weeks will it take a 220 lb client to reach a goal weight of 200 lbs?
9 weeks
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client
Improved skill in performing the exercise
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.
10. What guidelines should the personal trainer recommend to a client to promote proper fluid intake?
Greater genetic variation
At 90 degrees of flexion - because the moment arm is at it's longest length.
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
11. 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?
Integrated
Reliable
Phosphagen
Increased = mitochondrial density - Decreased = submax exercise HR
12. What factors discovered at a preparticipation health appraisal screening reveal a client's risk of coronary artery disease?
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh
'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!'
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago
Increased = mitochondrial density - Decreased = submax exercise HR
13. This describes the properties of Type I and Type II muscle fibers
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago
Reliable
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force
Back squat
14. 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?
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass
1.5 mile run
Integrated
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity
15. 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?
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity
1.5 mile run
'I want to be able to bench press more than my friend'
Motor unit recruitment increases
16. What change in muscle length and tension are associated with a muscle spindle and a Golgi tendon
5
Greater genetic variation
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint
17. What change in the body's substrate use and enzyme levels is due to an adaptation to chronic aerobic exercise?
Increased = mitochondrial density - Decreased = submax exercise HR
'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!'
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint
Increased concentration of GLUT
18. Symptoms of overtraining from resistance exercise...
At 90 degrees of flexion - because the moment arm is at it's longest length.
Back squat
Inconsistent or interrupted sleep - nonpurposeful decreases in lean body mass - leveled-off improvements or losses in muscular strength
2349 kilocalories
19. What composes total lung capacity?
Myofilament - myofibril - fiber - fasciculus
Integrated
Upper body strength
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity
20. What controls the expansion and recoil of the lungs to create air exchange during heavy breathing?
Increased concentration of GLUT
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement
'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!'
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension
21. What is most likely to occur during a se of 10 reps at 75% of the 1RM for the squat exercise?
Back squat
A breakdown of glycogen - it's end product is converted to lactic acid - a breakdown of glucose
Motor unit recruitment increases
Oxidative
22. What is a point along the self-determination or regulation continuum is a client who is highly intrinsically motivated?
At 90 degrees of flexion - because the moment arm is at it's longest length.
Integrated
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client
23. 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?
Increasing aerobic endurance
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement
Increase pennation
Upper body strength
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?
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client
2349 kilocalories
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago
25. What should a personal trainer do during the initial meeting with a new client?
26. What energy systems is capable of producing the greatest amount (capacity) of ATP?
Integrated
An inexperienced personal trainer - an injured client - testing a female client
Oxidative
An inexperienced personal trainer - an injured client - testing a female client
27. What is most likely to occur during a se of 10 reps at 75% of the 1RM for the squat exercise?
'I want to be able to bench press more than my friend'
Motor unit recruitment increases
Back squat
'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!'
28. What are the most influential age-related changes that may decrease a client's ability to exhibit muscular strength?
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force
2349 kilocalories
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass
150 mm
29. Symptoms of overtraining from resistance exercise...
150 mm
Inconsistent or interrupted sleep - nonpurposeful decreases in lean body mass - leveled-off improvements or losses in muscular strength
2349 kilocalories
Myofilament - myofibril - fiber - fasciculus
30. What is the correct sequence of components from smallest muscle structure to largest muscle structure?
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
Myofilament - myofibril - fiber - fasciculus
150 mm
2349 kilocalories
31. A client with a high risk stratification for coronary artery disease
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago
Motor unit recruitment increases
50 year old femaile who has COPD
32. 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
Motor unit recruitment increases
Increasing aerobic endurance
2349 kilocalories
Upper body strength
33. At what point during the upward movement phase of the standing barbell curl exercise can the biceps brachii muscles produce the greatest torque?
34. At what point during the upward movement phase of the standing barbell curl exercise can the biceps brachii muscles produce the greatest torque?
35. What composes total lung capacity?
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass
'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!'
Reliable
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity
36. 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?
2349 kilocalories
'I want to be able to bench press more than my friend'
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago
37. Using 220 lb for each and allowing 90 degrees of knee flexion at the bottom of each movement - what excercise produces the most work?
'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!'
Back squat
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client
38. What skinfold sites should a personal trainer select when applying a three-site SKF equation to a 45 year old female client?
Reliable
Back squat
Sitting quietly
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh
39. What should a personal trainer do during the initial meeting with a new client?
40. Factors that may increase the standard error of measurement of a pushup test to assess muscular strength
Increasing aerobic endurance
An inexperienced personal trainer - an injured client - testing a female client
Motor unit recruitment increases
Integrated
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?
Sitting quietly
Decreased VO2 max
Increased = mitochondrial density - Decreased = submax exercise HR
50 year old femaile who has COPD
42. 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?
43. which of the following describes the process of fast glycolysis?
44. 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?
150 mm
Increased concentration of GLUT
Reliable
9 weeks
45. What is most responsible for the strength gain a client would experience following three weeks of a beginning resistance training program?
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
Improved skill in performing the exercise
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
46. This describes the properties of Type I and Type II muscle fibers
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
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force
Inconsistent or interrupted sleep - nonpurposeful decreases in lean body mass - leveled-off improvements or losses in muscular strength
47. 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?
Upper body strength
Increasing aerobic endurance
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
1.5 mile run
48. What should be included in a an informed consent?
Upper body strength
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client
1.5 mile run
Inconsistent or interrupted sleep - nonpurposeful decreases in lean body mass - leveled-off improvements or losses in muscular strength
49. How many weeks will it take a 220 lb client to reach a goal weight of 200 lbs?
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
9 weeks
50 year old femaile who has COPD
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh
50. What change will increase concentric force 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!'
Sitting quietly
Increase pennation
Greater genetic variation