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NSCA Personal Trainer Exam

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
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?






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






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






4. 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






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






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






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






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






9. Three cognitive benefits provided by exercise






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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


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






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






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






21. 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?






22. 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?






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


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






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






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






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






28. Symptoms of overtraining from resistance exercise...






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






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






31. 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...






32. Three cognitive benefits provided by exercise






33. 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...






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






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






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


37. An example of an outcome goal...


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






39. Symptoms of overtraining from resistance exercise...






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






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






42. What composes total lung capacity?






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






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






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






46. An example of an outcome goal...


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






48. 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?






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






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