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NSCA Personal Trainer Exam

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What change in muscle length and tension are associated with a muscle spindle and a Golgi tendon






2. 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?






3. What is most likely to occur during a se of 10 reps at 75% of the 1RM for the squat exercise?






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






5. What composes total lung capacity?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






15. An example of an outcome goal...


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






17. 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?






18. 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?






19. Three cognitive benefits provided by exercise






20. An example of an outcome goal...


21. Symptoms of overtraining from resistance exercise...






22. 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?


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






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






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






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






27. 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?






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






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






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






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






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






33. 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?






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






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






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


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






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






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






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. 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?


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






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






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






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






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






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






48. What is most likely to occur during a se of 10 reps at 75% of the 1RM for the squat exercise?






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


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