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NSCA Personal Trainer Exam

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Factors that may increase the standard error of measurement of a pushup test to assess muscular strength






2. 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






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


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






5. 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...






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






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






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






10. 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?






11. Three cognitive benefits provided by exercise






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






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






14. What composes total lung capacity?






15. What change will increase concentric force production?






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






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






18. 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...






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






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






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






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


23. Symptoms of overtraining from resistance exercise...






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






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






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






27. 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






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






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






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






31. 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?






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






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






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






35. 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?






36. What is true regarding bone health?






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






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






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






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


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


42. 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?






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






44. Symptoms of overtraining from resistance exercise...






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






46. What change will increase concentric force production?






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






48. An example of an outcome goal...


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






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