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






2. An example of an outcome goal...


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






4. What is true regarding bone health?






5. 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






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






7. 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?






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






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


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






11. 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...






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






13. 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?






14. 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?






15. What composes total lung capacity?






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






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






18. What change will increase concentric force production?






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


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






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






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






23. 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?






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






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






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






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






28. 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?


29. Three cognitive benefits provided by exercise






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






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






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






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






34. 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?


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


36. 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?






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






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


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






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






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






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






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






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






45. 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...






46. Symptoms of overtraining from resistance exercise...






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






48. What composes total lung capacity?






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






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