NSCA Personal Trainer Exam

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1. 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...
Oxidative
Increasing aerobic endurance
Upper body strength
Reliable


2. What are the components of oxygen uptake (vo2)
150 mm
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference
50 year old femaile who has COPD


3. What change in muscle length and tension are associated with a muscle spindle and a Golgi tendon
9 weeks
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension
150 mm
Decreased VO2 max


4. Symptoms of overtraining from resistance exercise...
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago
Inconsistent or interrupted sleep - nonpurposeful decreases in lean body mass - leveled-off improvements or losses in muscular strength
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension
Reliable


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
Decreased VO2 max
Inconsistent or interrupted sleep - nonpurposeful decreases in lean body mass - leveled-off improvements or losses in muscular strength
Increasing aerobic endurance
5


6. How many weeks will it take a 220 lb client to reach a goal weight of 200 lbs?
9 weeks
Inconsistent or interrupted sleep - nonpurposeful decreases in lean body mass - leveled-off improvements or losses in muscular strength
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound
5


7. Using 220 lb for each and allowing 90 degrees of knee flexion at the bottom of each movement - what excercise produces the most work?
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference
At 90 degrees of flexion - because the moment arm is at it's longest length.
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint
Back squat


8. What change in the body's substrate use and enzyme levels is due to an adaptation to chronic aerobic exercise?
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension
3RM hang clean
Increased concentration of GLUT
Oxidative


9. What is most likely to occur during a se of 10 reps at 75% of the 1RM for the squat exercise?
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
Sitting quietly
Motor unit recruitment increases
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test


10. What is most likely to occur during a se of 10 reps at 75% of the 1RM for the squat exercise?
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
Motor unit recruitment increases
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh
An inexperienced personal trainer - an injured client - testing a female client


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

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12. Recommended sequence of tests that promotes the most accurate results when assessing general fitness
A breakdown of glycogen - it's end product is converted to lactic acid - a breakdown of glucose
Increased concentration of GLUT
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
Increase pennation


13. What guidelines should the personal trainer recommend to a client to promote proper fluid intake?
Increasing aerobic endurance
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
Upper body strength


14. What factors discovered at a preparticipation health appraisal screening reveal a client's risk of coronary artery disease?
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint
Phosphagen
Decreased VO2 max


15. What is most responsible for the strength gain a client would experience following three weeks of a beginning resistance training program?
Improved skill in performing the exercise
50 year old femaile who has COPD
2349 kilocalories
An inexperienced personal trainer - an injured client - testing a female client


16. What controls the expansion and recoil of the lungs to create air exchange during heavy breathing?
Increasing aerobic endurance
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement
Motor unit recruitment increases


17. An example of an outcome goal...

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18. 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
Increasing aerobic endurance
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
5
Myofilament - myofibril - fiber - fasciculus


19. 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?
'Good job! Next month - you do not have to take the time to fill out your own walking workout card - I'll do it for you!'
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass
2349 kilocalories
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension


20. What is a point along the self-determination or regulation continuum is a client who is highly intrinsically motivated?
Greater genetic variation
50 year old femaile who has COPD
Integrated
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago


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

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22. What excercise mode requires the client to produce the most power?
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force
Sitting quietly
3RM hang clean


23. 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?
Integrated
Decreased bone mineral density is related to an increased risk of fracture.AND Bone mineral density is promoted by chronic participation in a physically-active lifestyle.
Back squat
1.5 mile run


24. What should be included in a an informed consent?
3RM hang clean
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client
At 90 degrees of flexion - because the moment arm is at it's longest length.
'I want to be able to bench press more than my friend'


25. What composes total lung capacity?
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity
3RM hang clean
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test


26. What guidelines should the personal trainer recommend to a client to promote proper fluid intake?
Inconsistent or interrupted sleep - nonpurposeful decreases in lean body mass - leveled-off improvements or losses in muscular strength
Decreased VO2 max
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client


27. What is most likely to occur as a result of aerobic endurance overtraining?
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound
Decreased VO2 max
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
Increased concentration of GLUT


28. Factors that may increase the standard error of measurement of a pushup test to assess muscular strength
An inexperienced personal trainer - an injured client - testing a female client
Increased concentration of GLUT
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement
Improved skill in performing the exercise


29. Three cognitive benefits provided by exercise
Myofilament - myofibril - fiber - fasciculus
Greater genetic variation
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium


30. What is the correct sequence of structures that the blood passes through after it leaves the left ventricle
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago
5
At 90 degrees of flexion - because the moment arm is at it's longest length.
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium


31. What change in the body's substrate use and enzyme levels is due to an adaptation to chronic aerobic exercise?
Increased concentration of GLUT
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago
'Good job! Next month - you do not have to take the time to fill out your own walking workout card - I'll do it for you!'


32. What should be included in a an informed consent?
Upper body strength
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client
Inconsistent or interrupted sleep - nonpurposeful decreases in lean body mass - leveled-off improvements or losses in muscular strength
Inconsistent or interrupted sleep - nonpurposeful decreases in lean body mass - leveled-off improvements or losses in muscular strength


33. What is the correct sequence of structures that the blood passes through after it leaves the left ventricle
150 mm
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
Increase pennation
'Good job! Next month - you do not have to take the time to fill out your own walking workout card - I'll do it for you!'


34. What factors discovered at a preparticipation health appraisal screening reveal a client's risk of coronary artery disease?
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago
Increased = mitochondrial density - Decreased = submax exercise HR
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium


35. What is true regarding bone health?
Integrated
'I want to be able to bench press more than my friend'
Decreased bone mineral density is related to an increased risk of fracture.AND Bone mineral density is promoted by chronic participation in a physically-active lifestyle.
Increased = mitochondrial density - Decreased = submax exercise HR


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

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37. What are the components of oxygen uptake (vo2)
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference
Evaluate the client's level of exercise readiness AND Discuss the client's goals for his or her exercise program.
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client


38. What skinfold sites should a personal trainer select when applying a three-site SKF equation to a 45 year old female client?
Upper body strength
9 weeks
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh


39. What energy system is capable of producing ATP at the greatest rate?
Greater genetic variation
Phosphagen
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension


40. 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?

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41. What controls the expansion and recoil of the lungs to create air exchange during heavy breathing?
2349 kilocalories
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium


42. 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...
Phosphagen
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension
3RM hang clean
Reliable


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

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44. Clients possessing predominantly Type II muslce fibers in their lower body probably would perform well in which of the events
2349 kilocalories
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint
At 90 degrees of flexion - because the moment arm is at it's longest length.
1.5 mile run


45. What energy systems is capable of producing the greatest amount (capacity) of ATP?
150 mm
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound
3RM hang clean
Oxidative


46. What change in muscle length and tension are associated with a muscle spindle and a Golgi tendon
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
Motor unit recruitment increases
Decreased bone mineral density is related to an increased risk of fracture.AND Bone mineral density is promoted by chronic participation in a physically-active lifestyle.
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension


47. What is true regarding bone health?
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
Decreased bone mineral density is related to an increased risk of fracture.AND Bone mineral density is promoted by chronic participation in a physically-active lifestyle.
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago


48. 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?
Upper body strength
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension
2349 kilocalories


49. Describe what a client would be doing to allow the oxidative system to contribute the greatest percentage toward total ATP production.
2349 kilocalories
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint
Sitting quietly


50. What are the most influential age-related changes that may decrease a client's ability to exhibit muscular strength?
Sitting quietly
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass