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NSCA Personal Trainer Exam

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is most responsible for the strength gain a client would experience following three weeks of a beginning resistance training program?






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






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






4. 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?






5. What is true regarding bone health?






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


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


8. Symptoms of overtraining from resistance exercise...






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






10. 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?






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






12. An example of an outcome goal...


13. What composes total lung capacity?






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






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


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






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






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






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






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






21. 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






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






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






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






25. 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?






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






27. Symptoms of overtraining from resistance exercise...






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






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


30. 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?


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






32. 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?






33. 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?






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






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






36. What composes total lung capacity?






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






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






39. 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






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






41. An example of an outcome goal...


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






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






44. 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?






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






46. What is true regarding bone health?






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






48. What change will increase concentric force production?






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






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