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NSCA Personal Trainer Exam

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. which of the following describes the process of fast glycolysis?


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






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






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






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






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






7. 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






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






9. 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?


10. 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






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


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






13. An example of an outcome goal...


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






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






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






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


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






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






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






21. What is true regarding bone health?






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






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






24. What change will increase concentric force production?






25. 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?


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


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






28. Symptoms of overtraining from resistance exercise...






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






30. 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?






31. Three cognitive benefits provided by exercise






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






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






34. 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...






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






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






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






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






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






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


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






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






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






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






45. An example of an outcome goal...


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






47. Three cognitive benefits provided by exercise






48. 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






49. Symptoms of overtraining from resistance exercise...






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