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NSCA Personal Trainer Exam

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What guidelines should the personal trainer recommend to a client to promote proper fluid intake?






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






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






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


5. What change will increase concentric force production?






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






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






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






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


11. What composes total lung capacity?






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






13. 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?






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


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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






23. 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






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






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






26. Symptoms of overtraining from resistance exercise...






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






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






29. 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?


30. 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?






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


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






33. What is true regarding bone health?






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






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






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






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






38. 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?






39. 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






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






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


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






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






44. What is true regarding bone health?






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






46. Symptoms of overtraining from resistance exercise...






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






48. 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?


49. What composes total lung capacity?






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