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NSCA Personal Trainer Exam

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A client with a high risk stratification for coronary artery disease






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






3. 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...






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






5. What composes total lung capacity?






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






7. 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?


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






9. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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


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






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






18. What is true regarding bone health?






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






20. 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?






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






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






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






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






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






26. 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?






27. Symptoms of overtraining from resistance exercise...






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






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






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






31. An example of an outcome goal...


32. 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?


33. An example of an outcome goal...


34. What composes total lung capacity?






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


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






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






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


39. 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






40. 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?






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






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


43. What change will increase concentric force production?






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






45. Three cognitive benefits provided by exercise






46. 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...






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






48. 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?






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. 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?