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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. 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...






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






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






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






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


7. What composes total lung capacity?






8. Three cognitive benefits provided by exercise






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






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






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






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






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






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






15. 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?






16. 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






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






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






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






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


21. 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?


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






23. 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?






24. What change will increase concentric force production?






25. What change will increase concentric force production?






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






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






28. An example of an outcome goal...


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


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






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






32. 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?






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






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






35. Three cognitive benefits provided by exercise






36. 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?






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






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






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






40. 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






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






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






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






44. What composes total lung capacity?






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






46. Symptoms of overtraining from resistance exercise...






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






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






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






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