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Personal Training Basics

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is the purpose of an assesment?
Creatine Monohydrate
Parasympathetic
Closed
Gather data and make goals

2. What is your aerobic exercise threshold?
Proprioceptors
Fracture of the lumbar
50-85%
Plyometric

3. What is considered hypoglycemia?
3 feet
Norm-referenced standards
Flexability
Under 65

4. What is a procedure that is required for administering a reliable test?
48-72 hours
Ligaments
Rate of perceived exertions
Test protocol

5. What is a legal doctrine by which employers can be found vigorously liable for the negligent acts of their employees?
Closed
10-22.9
Respondeat Superior
Hip extension

6. How many inches is a risk factor for male waists?
Increase depth of breathing
500-1000
40
Motor Unit

7. Does exercise increase or decrease insulin sensitivity?
Increase
Jogging - jumping rope and cycling
Closed
130

8. What are used to compare the preformance of an individual against another person in a like category?
Construct validity
Norm-referenced standards
Open
Rate of perceived exertions

9. What do you use to test a sub maximal aerobic capacity?
Closed
1.5 Mile run
800
Test retest method

10. What doesn't the norm referenced percentile scoring system not show?
Whether the score is healthy or not
40-50%
Cardiorespitory system
Par-Q

11. What is a bad waist to hip circumference for woman?
Formative evaluation
Alternated
over .90
Inside the clients hands alternated grip

12. What muscles does the bent over row target in a pronated grip?
1 min. sit up
YMCA ergometer test - 1.5 mile run and 12min. run test
Rhomboids and lower part of trapezius
Formative evaluation

13. What is speed strength training?
Muscular strength
Maximum force at high velocities
Intramuscular coordination
Loss of menstrol cycle for more than 3 months

14. What type of lipids carry large amounts of cholesterol and deposit around the body?
Neural adaptations
30-34.9
2b
LDL

15. These type of observations are seen during the workout and it is when the client is making gains - better energy - better techniques and comments on body language?
Agility test
60-75%
Subjective obsefvations
No

16. What is it called when a test is repeated with the same people within 1-3 days unless it requires maximal effort then it is 7 days?
18.5-24.9
type 2
Test retest method
under 65

17. What is the functional unit of a neuromuscular system?
Under 65
Motor Unit
8
Norm-referenced standards

18. What is a bad waist to hip circumference for men?
Par-Q
YMCA ergometer test - 1.5 mile run and 12min. run test
10-22.9
over 1.03

19. This evaluation happens before or during a workout with the client?
Formative evaluation
HRRxIntensity+Resting Heart Rate
Neural adaptations
1.5 Mile run

20. What form tells about past surgieries and risk factors for cad?
Health medical questionaire
40-50%
Amount of foot contacts
HDL over 60

21. How many inches is a risk factor for a woman's waist?
3
35
Lifestyle inventories
HRRxIntensity+Resting Heart Rate

22. What is considered hypoglycemia?
Reliable
Health medical questionaire
Validity
Under 65

23. Where are ganglion cysts normally found?
Hand and wrist
Respondeat Superior
Reliability
Flexability

24. What is it called when you eat a lot then do a lot to loose the weight?
HRRxIntensity+Resting Heart Rate
Bulimia
110
Ligaments

25. What is the 4th health appraisal test?
Make them run speeds they aren't used to...
Anabolic
Informed Consent
RPE

26. What is the best type of training for diabetics?
over .90
Cardiorespitory system
40-50%
Resistance Training

27. What is the tendacy of a muscle to assume a new and greater length after a passive stretch and after the load is removed?
Criterion Referenced Standards
Reliable
Plasicity
Gather data and make goals

28. What system calms heart rate down?
Fracture of the lumbar
Validity
40-50%
Parasympathetic

29. What type of lipids carry large amounts of cholesterol and deposit around the body?
Closed
140xintensityx50%+RHR
LDL
ip Abduction

30. What is it called when a test tests What is supposed to be tested?
Resting oxygen uptake
Stand behind client and move with client
Flexability
Coneten validity

31. What is the difference between a persons observed score and the persons true score
Increase depth of breathing
3-6
48-72 hours
Standard error of measurement

32. What is it called when a test tests What is supposed to be tested?
2 feet
Coneten validity
130
Sarcopenia

33. What age must family member die of heart attack to make it a positive risk factor?
50-85%
55
Eccentric
over 1.03

34. Is multi joint exercises closed or open kinetic chain workouts?
800
Closed
8
Plasicity

35. What is it called when the foot is inward when walking?
Over pronation
3 feet
Take 1 rep times it by .80
Parasympathetic

36. What is the best type of training for diabetics?
130
Reliable test
Resistance Training
Standard error of measurement

37. What muscles does the bent over row underhand supinated grip isolate?
Upper part of the trapezius and bicep brachii
800
Hips and thighs
Lifestyle inventories

38. What kind of lever are the applied and resistive force on opposite sides od the fulcrum?
1st class lever
YMCA ergometer test - 1.5 mile run and 12min. run test
Motor Unit
110

39. What kind of fibers show better gains in hypertrophy?
Alternated
type 2
Percentile scores
Motor Unit

40. What do you use to test a Local muscular endurance?
1 min. sit up
Under 100
500-1000
over 1.03

41. What kind of test can be repeated with accuracy?
Fracture of the lumbar
Adrenal cortex
Reliable test
300 yard run

42. How does a trainer place his hands when spotting a flat bench press?
Inside the clients hands alternated grip
HRRxIntensity+Resting Heart Rate
60-75%
Hip extension

43. Where do sprains happen?
Ligaments
Construct validity
500-1000
Resting oxygen uptake

44. What is the final evaluation made when a client compltes a specified training period?
Summative evaluation
Norm-referenced standards
Creatine Monohydrate
Ligaments

45. What can't LDL scores go over?
Resting oxygen uptake
under 65
110
130

46. What does a 1RM test for?
Eccentric
No
Muscular strength
Construct validity

47. Is a lunge closed or open kinetic chain workout?
Closed
35
Par-Q
Criterion Referenced Standards

48. How many cups of water should you have a day?
Par-Q
Increase depth of breathing
Hinge type joints
8

49. How many inches is a risk factor for a woman's waist?
Hip flexor
Athletes foot
Parasympathetic
35

50. What is the Karnonen Formula?
Under 65
Hinge type joints
140xintensityx50%+RHR
type 2