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NSCA Personal Trainer Exam

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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?
Myofilament - myofibril - fiber - fasciculus
Improved skill in performing the exercise
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh
150 mm

2. 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...
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement
Reliable
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass
5

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

4. 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
Reliable
Motor unit recruitment increases
Back squat

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'
A breakdown of glycogen - it's end product is converted to lactic acid - a breakdown of glucose
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client
Improved skill in performing the exercise

6. This describes the properties of Type I and Type II muscle fibers
Oxidative
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force
9 weeks
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity

7. A client with a high risk stratification for coronary artery disease
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
Increased = mitochondrial density - Decreased = submax exercise HR
50 year old femaile who has COPD

8. What change in muscle length and tension are associated with a muscle spindle and a Golgi tendon
Myofilament - myofibril - fiber - fasciculus
Decreased VO2 max
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension
150 mm

9. What guidelines should the personal trainer recommend to a client to promote proper fluid intake?
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound
5

10. 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
Integrated
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client
Improved skill in performing the exercise

11. What composes total lung capacity?
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity
150 mm
'I want to be able to bench press more than my friend'
'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!'

12. 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
Reliable
150 mm
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint

13. 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
1.5 mile run
An inexperienced personal trainer - an injured client - testing a female client
Motor unit recruitment increases

14. What controls the expansion and recoil of the lungs to create air exchange during heavy breathing?
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.
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement
Greater genetic variation
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium

15. What change will increase concentric force production?
Phosphagen
Oxidative
Increase pennation
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force

16. What is true regarding bone health?
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity
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.
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh

17. What should be included in a an informed consent?
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement
150 mm
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client
Motor unit recruitment increases

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

19. Describe what a client would be doing to allow the oxidative system to contribute the greatest percentage toward total ATP production.
Increased = mitochondrial density - Decreased = submax exercise HR
Improved skill in performing the exercise
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass
Sitting quietly

20. What skinfold sites should a personal trainer select when applying a three-site SKF equation to a 45 year old female client?
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
Phosphagen
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass

21. What energy system is capable of producing ATP at the greatest rate?
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass
Phosphagen
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client

22. How many weeks will it take a 220 lb client to reach a goal weight of 200 lbs?
9 weeks
Sitting quietly
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity
2349 kilocalories

23. What skinfold sites should a personal trainer select when applying a three-site SKF equation to a 45 year old female client?
150 mm
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh
9 weeks
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client

24. What energy system is capable of producing ATP at the greatest rate?
Greater genetic variation
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client
Phosphagen
150 mm

25. Recommended sequence of tests that promotes the most accurate results when assessing general fitness
1.5 mile run
Motor unit recruitment increases
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

26. Symptoms of overtraining from resistance exercise...
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint
Reliable
3RM hang clean
Inconsistent or interrupted sleep - nonpurposeful decreases in lean body mass - leveled-off improvements or losses in muscular strength

27. What are the most influential age-related changes that may decrease a client's ability to exhibit muscular strength?
9 weeks
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity
Increased = mitochondrial density - Decreased = submax exercise HR
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass

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

29. What change in the body's substrate use and enzyme levels is due to an adaptation to chronic aerobic exercise?
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound
A breakdown of glycogen - it's end product is converted to lactic acid - a breakdown of glucose
Increased concentration of GLUT

30. What is the correct sequence of structures that the blood passes through after it leaves the left ventricle
50 year old femaile who has COPD
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
Oxidative

31. What excercise mode requires the client to produce the most power?
9 weeks
3RM hang clean
5
Inconsistent or interrupted sleep - nonpurposeful decreases in lean body mass - leveled-off improvements or losses in muscular strength

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

33. Clients possessing predominantly Type II muslce fibers in their lower body probably would perform well in which of the events
Back squat
Increased concentration of GLUT
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint

34. What is true regarding bone health?
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.
An inexperienced personal trainer - an injured client - testing a female client
'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!'

35. What change in muscle length and tension are associated with a muscle spindle and a Golgi tendon
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension
At 90 degrees of flexion - because the moment arm is at it's longest length.
An inexperienced personal trainer - an injured client - testing a female client
Increased = mitochondrial density - Decreased = submax exercise HR

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

37. What factors discovered at a preparticipation health appraisal screening reveal a client's risk of coronary artery disease?
An inexperienced personal trainer - an injured client - testing a female client
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago
'I want to be able to bench press more than my friend'
'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!'

38. 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
9 weeks
Reliable
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh

39. What change will increase concentric force production?
Increase pennation
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
9 weeks
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension

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

41. What is a point along the self-determination or regulation continuum is a client who is highly intrinsically motivated?
Decreased VO2 max
Integrated
At 90 degrees of flexion - because the moment arm is at it's longest length.
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago

42. A client with a high risk stratification for coronary artery disease
9 weeks
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement
50 year old femaile who has COPD
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test

43. How many weeks will it take a 220 lb client to reach a goal weight of 200 lbs?
9 weeks
Oxidative
Greater genetic variation
An inexperienced personal trainer - an injured client - testing a female client

44. 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
Phosphagen
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity
5

45. Symptoms of overtraining from resistance exercise...
An inexperienced personal trainer - an injured client - testing a female client
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
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force

46. 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...
'I want to be able to bench press more than my friend'
Reliable
Sitting quietly
Evaluate the client's level of exercise readiness AND Discuss the client's goals for his or her exercise program.

47. An example of an outcome goal...

48. 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?
Decreased VO2 max
Upper body strength
Myofilament - myofibril - fiber - fasciculus
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound

49. This describes the properties of Type I and Type II muscle fibers
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
Greater genetic variation
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force
'I want to be able to bench press more than my friend'

50. What energy systems is capable of producing the greatest amount (capacity) of ATP?
Increased concentration of GLUT
Oxidative
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
Sitting quietly