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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. Symptoms of overtraining from resistance exercise...






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






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


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






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






8. 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?






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






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






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






12. What is true regarding bone health?






13. What composes total lung capacity?






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






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






16. What change will increase concentric force production?






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






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






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






20. 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?


21. 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?






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






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






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






25. Three cognitive benefits provided by exercise






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






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






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






29. 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?






30. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. What composes total lung capacity?






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






42. What is true regarding bone health?






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






44. Three cognitive benefits provided by exercise






45. 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?






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






47. 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






48. 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?






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






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