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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 during a se of 10 reps at 75% of the 1RM for the squat exercise?






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






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






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






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


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


7. 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...






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






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






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






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






13. Three cognitive benefits provided by exercise






14. An example of an outcome goal...


15. 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?






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






17. What composes total lung capacity?






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






19. 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?






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


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






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






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






24. 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?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






33. 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?


34. 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?






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






36. An example of an outcome goal...


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


38. 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






39. 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?






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






41. Three cognitive benefits provided by exercise






42. 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?






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






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






45. Symptoms of overtraining from resistance exercise...






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






47. Symptoms of overtraining from resistance exercise...






48. 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...






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


50. 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?