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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 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






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






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






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






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






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






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


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






9. 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?






10. An example of an outcome goal...


11. Three cognitive benefits provided by exercise






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






13. 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






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






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






16. 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...






17. What change will increase concentric force production?






18. Symptoms of overtraining from resistance exercise...






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. 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?






26. 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?


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






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






29. Three cognitive benefits provided by exercise






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






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






32. An example of an outcome goal...


33. What composes total lung capacity?






34. 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?






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






36. What is true regarding bone health?






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






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






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






40. What composes total lung capacity?






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






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






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






44. 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






45. What is true regarding bone health?






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






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






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






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