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NSCA Personal Trainer Exam

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is most likely to occur during a se of 10 reps at 75% of the 1RM for the squat exercise?






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...






3. 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






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






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






6. What change will increase concentric force production?






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


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






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


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






11. What composes total lung capacity?






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






13. What change will increase concentric force production?






14. 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?






15. What is the correct sequence of components from smallest muscle structure to largest muscle structure?






16. A client with a high risk stratification for coronary artery disease






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






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. 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?






20. Three cognitive benefits provided by exercise






21. A client with a high risk stratification for coronary artery disease






22. Symptoms of overtraining from resistance exercise...






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?






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






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






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






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?






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






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...






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






31. What composes total lung capacity?






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






33. 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?






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






35. What is the correct sequence of components from smallest muscle structure to largest muscle structure?






36. What is true regarding bone health?






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






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






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






40. 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






41. Clients possessing predominantly Type II muslce fibers in their lower body probably would perform well in which of the events






42. Three cognitive benefits provided by exercise






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


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






45. An example of an outcome goal...


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






47. 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?


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






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






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