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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 the correct sequence of components from smallest muscle structure to largest muscle structure?
Improved skill in performing the exercise
Myofilament - myofibril - fiber - fasciculus
Back squat
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement

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

3. What is most likely to occur during a se of 10 reps at 75% of the 1RM for the squat exercise?
At 90 degrees of flexion - because the moment arm is at it's longest length.
50 year old femaile who has COPD
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force
Motor unit recruitment increases

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

5. 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?

6. What are the components of oxygen uptake (vo2)
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference
Phosphagen
Sitting quietly
Sitting quietly

7. Describe what a client would be doing to allow the oxidative system to contribute the greatest percentage toward total ATP production.
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Increased = mitochondrial density - Decreased = submax exercise HR
Sitting quietly
Improved skill in performing the exercise

8. 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...
Reliable
'I want to be able to bench press more than my friend'
A breakdown of glycogen - it's end product is converted to lactic acid - a breakdown of glucose
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass

9. 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?
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh
1.5 mile run
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement
An inexperienced personal trainer - an injured client - testing a female client

10. What guidelines should the personal trainer recommend to a client to promote proper fluid intake?
150 mm
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound
Greater genetic variation
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement

11. An example of an outcome goal...

12. How many weeks will it take a 220 lb client to reach a goal weight of 200 lbs?
Integrated
3RM hang clean
Evaluate the client's level of exercise readiness AND Discuss the client's goals for his or her exercise program.
9 weeks

13. A client with a high risk stratification for coronary artery disease
50 year old femaile who has COPD
'I want to be able to bench press more than my friend'
Motor unit recruitment increases
1.5 mile run

14. 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?

15. 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?
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
Upper body strength
Increase pennation
Greater genetic variation

16. What composes total lung capacity?
3RM hang clean
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement
50 year old femaile who has COPD

17. 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?
Increased = mitochondrial density - Decreased = submax exercise HR
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass
1.5 mile run
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force

18. What controls the expansion and recoil of the lungs to create air exchange during heavy breathing?
A breakdown of glycogen - it's end product is converted to lactic acid - a breakdown of glucose
Motor unit recruitment increases
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement
Back squat

19. What is most likely to occur as a result of aerobic endurance overtraining?
Greater genetic variation
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
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.
Decreased VO2 max

20. What excercise mode requires the client to produce the most power?
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference
Upper body strength
3RM hang clean

21. 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
9 weeks
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.
2349 kilocalories

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

23. 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.
50 year old femaile who has COPD
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference
Motor unit recruitment increases

24. 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?
Decreased VO2 max
'I want to be able to bench press more than my friend'
50 year old femaile who has COPD
Increased = mitochondrial density - Decreased = submax exercise HR

25. Factors that may increase the standard error of measurement of a pushup test to assess muscular strength
50 year old femaile who has COPD
Increased = mitochondrial density - Decreased = submax exercise HR
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity
An inexperienced personal trainer - an injured client - testing a female client

26. Using 220 lb for each and allowing 90 degrees of knee flexion at the bottom of each movement - what excercise produces the most work?
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference
Inconsistent or interrupted sleep - nonpurposeful decreases in lean body mass - leveled-off improvements or losses in muscular strength
Back squat

27. An example of an outcome goal...

28. 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.
3RM hang clean
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force

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?
2349 kilocalories
Upper body strength
Increasing aerobic endurance
Motor unit recruitment increases

30. What change in the body's substrate use and enzyme levels is due to an adaptation to chronic aerobic exercise?
Increased concentration of GLUT
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension
Decreased VO2 max
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium

31. Describe what a client would be doing to allow the oxidative system to contribute the greatest percentage toward total ATP production.
Greater genetic variation
Evaluate the client's level of exercise readiness AND Discuss the client's goals for his or her exercise program.
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound
Sitting quietly

32. Recommended sequence of tests that promotes the most accurate results when assessing general fitness
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
An inexperienced personal trainer - an injured client - testing a female client
Increasing aerobic endurance

33. What is most likely to occur as a result of aerobic endurance overtraining?
Increase pennation
Motor unit recruitment increases
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
Decreased VO2 max

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

35. What is a point along the self-determination or regulation continuum is a client who is highly intrinsically motivated?
Integrated
Inconsistent or interrupted sleep - nonpurposeful decreases in lean body mass - leveled-off improvements or losses in muscular strength
At 90 degrees of flexion - because the moment arm is at it's longest length.
Greater genetic variation

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

37. What excercise mode requires the client to produce the most power?
Myofilament - myofibril - fiber - fasciculus
3RM hang clean
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference
Evaluate the client's level of exercise readiness AND Discuss the client's goals for his or her exercise program.

38. Symptoms of overtraining from resistance exercise...
50 year old femaile who has COPD
Improved skill in performing the exercise
Inconsistent or interrupted sleep - nonpurposeful decreases in lean body mass - leveled-off improvements or losses in muscular strength
'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!'

39. Three cognitive benefits provided by exercise
Myofilament - myofibril - fiber - fasciculus
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
Greater genetic variation

40. What energy systems is capable of producing the greatest amount (capacity) of ATP?
Oxidative
Motor unit recruitment increases
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity
Increased concentration of GLUT

41. What factors discovered at a preparticipation health appraisal screening reveal a client's risk of coronary artery disease?
'I want to be able to bench press more than my friend'
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.
Greater genetic variation
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago

42. 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
Myofilament - myofibril - fiber - fasciculus
5
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test

43. A client with a high risk stratification for coronary artery disease
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force
Phosphagen
50 year old femaile who has COPD
Decreased VO2 max

44. Three cognitive benefits provided by exercise
Phosphagen
Reliable
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh
Greater genetic variation

45. What is the correct sequence of components from smallest muscle structure to largest muscle structure?
150 mm
Upper body strength
Myofilament - myofibril - fiber - fasciculus
A breakdown of glycogen - it's end product is converted to lactic acid - a breakdown of glucose

46. What change in muscle length and tension are associated with a muscle spindle and a Golgi tendon
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension
Reliable
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test

47. What are the most influential age-related changes that may decrease a client's ability to exhibit muscular strength?
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass
Myofilament - myofibril - fiber - fasciculus
9 weeks
Motor unit recruitment increases

48. What energy systems is capable of producing the greatest amount (capacity) of ATP?
1.5 mile run
Reliable
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
Oxidative

49. What is the correct sequence of structures that the blood passes through after it leaves the left ventricle
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
1.5 mile run
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass

50. What is a point along the self-determination or regulation continuum is a client who is highly intrinsically motivated?
At 90 degrees of flexion - because the moment arm is at it's longest length.
1.5 mile run
Integrated
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