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NSCA Personal Trainer Exam

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What are the components of oxygen uptake (vo2)






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






4. 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






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






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






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






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






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






10. 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?


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






12. What composes total lung capacity?






13. 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...






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






15. 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?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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


23. What change will increase concentric force production?






24. What change will increase concentric force production?






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






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






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






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






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


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






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






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






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






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






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






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


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






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






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






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






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






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






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






44. An example of an outcome goal...


45. What is true regarding bone health?






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






47. 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?






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






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






50. Three cognitive benefits provided by exercise