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NSCA Personal Trainer Exam

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






2. Symptoms of overtraining from resistance exercise...






3. A 35 year old female began an exercise program four months ago in which she has been running on a treadmill four days per week. What describes the adaptations that are most likely to occur with this program?






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






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






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






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






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






9. 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?






10. Three cognitive benefits provided by exercise






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






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






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






14. What composes total lung capacity?






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






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






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






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

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






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






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 responsible for the strength gain a client would experience following three weeks of a beginning resistance training program?






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






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






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






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

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






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






29. Symptoms of overtraining from resistance exercise...






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






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






32. 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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33. 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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34. What factors discovered at a preparticipation health appraisal screening reveal a client's risk of coronary artery disease?






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






36. What is true regarding bone health?






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






38. An example of an outcome goal...

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






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






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






42. 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?






43. 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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44. 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?






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






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






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






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






49. An example of an outcome goal...

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







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