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NSCA Personal Trainer Exam

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. How many weeks will it take a 220 lb client to reach a goal weight of 200 lbs?






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






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






4. 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?






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






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






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






8. 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?






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






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


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


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






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






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






15. What is true regarding bone health?






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






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






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






19. What composes total lung capacity?






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






21. An example of an outcome goal...


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






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






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






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






26. 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...






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


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






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






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






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






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






33. 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?






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. 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?






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






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






43. 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...






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


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


46. 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






47. 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?






48. What change will increase concentric force production?






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






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