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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 the body's substrate use and enzyme levels is due to an adaptation to chronic aerobic exercise?






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






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






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






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






6. Three cognitive benefits provided by exercise






7. An example of an outcome goal...


8. 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






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


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






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


12. 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?






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






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






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






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






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






18. 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






19. What is true regarding bone health?






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






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






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






23. An example of an outcome 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. At what point during the upward movement phase of the standing barbell curl exercise can the biceps brachii muscles produce the greatest torque?


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






28. 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?


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






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






31. What is true regarding bone health?






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






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






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






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






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


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






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


39. 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?






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






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






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






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






44. Symptoms of overtraining from resistance exercise...






45. What change will increase concentric force production?






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






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






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






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






50. 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?