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NSCA Personal Trainer Exam

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is most likely to occur as a result of aerobic endurance overtraining?
Decreased VO2 max
Motor unit recruitment increases
Improved skill in performing the exercise
Increase pennation

2. 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
At 90 degrees of flexion - because the moment arm is at it's longest length.
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client
Increasing aerobic endurance

3. Factors that may increase the standard error of measurement of a pushup test to assess muscular strength
An inexperienced personal trainer - an injured client - testing a female client
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force
Integrated
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound

4. What is true regarding bone health?
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity
Oxidative
A breakdown of glycogen - it's end product is converted to lactic acid - a breakdown of glucose
Decreased bone mineral density is related to an increased risk of fracture.AND Bone mineral density is promoted by chronic participation in a physically-active lifestyle.

5. Using 220 lb for each and allowing 90 degrees of knee flexion at the bottom of each movement - what excercise produces the most work?
Decreased VO2 max
Decreased bone mineral density is related to an increased risk of fracture.AND Bone mineral density is promoted by chronic participation in a physically-active lifestyle.
Back squat
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client

6. What change in the body's substrate use and enzyme levels is due to an adaptation to chronic aerobic exercise?
Increased concentration of GLUT
Reliable
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test

7. What is most likely to occur during a se of 10 reps at 75% of the 1RM for the squat exercise?
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force
Motor unit recruitment increases
Back squat
50 year old femaile who has COPD

8. Three cognitive benefits provided by exercise
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound
Inconsistent or interrupted sleep - nonpurposeful decreases in lean body mass - leveled-off improvements or losses in muscular strength
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement
Greater genetic variation

9. What are the most influential age-related changes that may decrease a client's ability to exhibit muscular strength?
Increasing aerobic endurance
Back squat
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium

10. Three cognitive benefits provided by exercise
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity
Increasing aerobic endurance
Greater genetic variation
Integrated

11. What should be included in a an informed consent?
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force
150 mm

12. This describes the properties of Type I and Type II muscle fibers
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh
Oxidative
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement

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

14. What are the components of oxygen uptake (vo2)
Evaluate the client's level of exercise readiness AND Discuss the client's goals for his or her exercise program.
Increasing aerobic endurance
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference
50 year old femaile who has COPD

15. What controls the expansion and recoil of the lungs to create air exchange during heavy breathing?
50 year old femaile who has COPD
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement
An inexperienced personal trainer - an injured client - testing a female client
Sitting quietly

16. What should be included in a an informed consent?
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client
Decreased bone mineral density is related to an increased risk of fracture.AND Bone mineral density is promoted by chronic participation in a physically-active lifestyle.
Phosphagen

17. What are the components of oxygen uptake (vo2)
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh

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

19. What excercise mode requires the client to produce the most power?
3RM hang clean
Increasing aerobic endurance
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass
Sitting quietly

20. What is the correct sequence of structures that the blood passes through after it leaves the left ventricle
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago
'I want to be able to bench press more than my friend'
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium

21. What guidelines should the personal trainer recommend to a client to promote proper fluid intake?
Myofilament - myofibril - fiber - fasciculus
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound
Reliable

22. A client with a high risk stratification for coronary artery disease
Reliable
Increased = mitochondrial density - Decreased = submax exercise HR
Evaluate the client's level of exercise readiness AND Discuss the client's goals for his or her exercise program.
50 year old femaile who has COPD

23. 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?
Greater genetic variation
Upper body strength
Increased = mitochondrial density - Decreased = submax exercise HR
Increasing aerobic endurance

24. What change in muscle length and tension are associated with a muscle spindle and a Golgi tendon
Decreased VO2 max
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity
Phosphagen
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension

25. Factors that may increase the standard error of measurement of a pushup test to assess muscular strength
Improved skill in performing the exercise
'Good job! Next month - you do not have to take the time to fill out your own walking workout card - I'll do it for you!'
An inexperienced personal trainer - an injured client - testing a female client
At 90 degrees of flexion - because the moment arm is at it's longest length.

26. This describes the properties of Type I and Type II muscle fibers
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force
3RM hang clean
Sitting quietly
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh

27. Describe what a client would be doing to allow the oxidative system to contribute the greatest percentage toward total ATP production.
Myofilament - myofibril - fiber - fasciculus
'Good job! Next month - you do not have to take the time to fill out your own walking workout card - I'll do it for you!'
Sitting quietly
5

28. What are the most influential age-related changes that may decrease a client's ability to exhibit muscular strength?
Phosphagen
Decreased VO2 max
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound

29. What is a point along the self-determination or regulation continuum is a client who is highly intrinsically motivated?
Integrated
50 year old femaile who has COPD
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test

30. 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?
150 mm
Integrated
Reliable
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client

31. 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...
'Good job! Next month - you do not have to take the time to fill out your own walking workout card - I'll do it for you!'
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force
Reliable
Oxidative

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

33. An example of an outcome goal...

34. 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...
50 year old femaile who has COPD
Reliable
An inexperienced personal trainer - an injured client - testing a female client
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force

35. What skinfold sites should a personal trainer select when applying a three-site SKF equation to a 45 year old female client?
50 year old femaile who has COPD
Increase pennation
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh
'I want to be able to bench press more than my friend'

36. How many weeks will it take a 220 lb client to reach a goal weight of 200 lbs?
Sitting quietly
9 weeks
Phosphagen
Greater genetic variation

37. What is true regarding bone health?
Decreased bone mineral density is related to an increased risk of fracture.AND Bone mineral density is promoted by chronic participation in a physically-active lifestyle.
Sitting quietly
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
Increasing aerobic endurance

38. What composes total lung capacity?
Phosphagen
1.5 mile run
150 mm
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity

39. 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?
2349 kilocalories
5
Increasing aerobic endurance
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement

40. What energy system is capable of producing ATP at the greatest rate?
Decreased bone mineral density is related to an increased risk of fracture.AND Bone mineral density is promoted by chronic participation in a physically-active lifestyle.
At 90 degrees of flexion - because the moment arm is at it's longest length.
Oxidative
Phosphagen

41. Recommended sequence of tests that promotes the most accurate results when assessing general fitness
150 mm
At 90 degrees of flexion - because the moment arm is at it's longest length.
5
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test

42. What factors discovered at a preparticipation health appraisal screening reveal a client's risk of coronary artery disease?
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force
Integrated
1.5 mile run
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago

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

44. Describe what a client would be doing to allow the oxidative system to contribute the greatest percentage toward total ATP production.
Sitting quietly
50 year old femaile who has COPD
Greater genetic variation
Decreased VO2 max

45. What energy systems is capable of producing the greatest amount (capacity) of ATP?
Reliable
Oxidative
Phosphagen
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension

46. What is the correct sequence of structures that the blood passes through after it leaves the left ventricle
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint
Motor unit recruitment increases
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference

47. 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
Integrated
5
Increase pennation
Reliable

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

49. What controls the expansion and recoil of the lungs to create air exchange during heavy breathing?
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement
1.5 mile run
An inexperienced personal trainer - an injured client - testing a female client

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?
Upper body strength
2349 kilocalories
Oxidative
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity