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NSCA Personal Trainer Exam

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. which of the following describes the process of fast glycolysis?


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






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






4. 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?






5. What change will increase concentric force production?






6. Symptoms of overtraining from resistance exercise...






7. 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?






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


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






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






11. 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






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






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






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






15. 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






16. An example of an outcome goal...


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






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






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






20. 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?






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






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






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






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






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






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


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






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






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






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


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






32. An example of an outcome goal...


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






34. What composes total lung capacity?






35. 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...






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






37. 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?






38. What is true regarding bone health?






39. 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...






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






41. 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?


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


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






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






45. 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






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






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






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






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






50. 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?