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NSCA Personal Trainer Exam

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. What change in muscle length and tension are associated with a muscle spindle and a Golgi tendon






2. 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






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






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






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






6. Symptoms of overtraining from resistance exercise...






7. Three cognitive benefits provided by exercise






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






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






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






11. 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?


12. 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?






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






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






15. 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?






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






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


18. 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?


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?






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






21. 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...






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






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






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






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


26. An example of an outcome goal...


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






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






29. 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...






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






31. 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?






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






33. What change will increase concentric force production?






34. What change will increase concentric force production?






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






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






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






38. What composes total lung capacity?






39. 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?






40. 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?






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 true regarding bone health?






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






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


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






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






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






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






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






50. Symptoms of overtraining from resistance exercise...