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NSCA Personal Trainer Exam

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






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






3. What composes total lung capacity?






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






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






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






7. An example of an outcome goal...


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






9. What guidelines should the personal trainer recommend to a client to promote proper fluid intake?






10. What is the correct sequence of structures that the blood passes through after it leaves the left ventricle






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






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






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






14. An example of an outcome goal...


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






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






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


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






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






20. 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?






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






22. What guidelines should the personal trainer recommend to a client to promote proper fluid intake?






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






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






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






26. 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?






27. Three cognitive benefits provided by exercise






28. Three cognitive benefits provided by exercise






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






30. What change will increase concentric force production?






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






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






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


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






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






36. 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?






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?






38. 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






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






40. What is true regarding bone health?






41. 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...






42. What is the correct sequence of structures that the blood passes through after it leaves the left ventricle






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






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






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






46. 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?


47. 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?






48. Symptoms of overtraining from resistance exercise...






49. What composes total lung capacity?






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