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NSCA Personal Trainer Exam

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What composes total lung capacity?
Evaluate the client's level of exercise readiness AND Discuss the client's goals for his or her exercise program.
Decreased VO2 max
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound

2. What excercise mode requires the client to produce the most power?
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension
3RM hang clean
Back squat

3. Three cognitive benefits provided by exercise
Increasing aerobic endurance
Evaluate the client's level of exercise readiness AND Discuss the client's goals for his or her exercise program.
Greater genetic variation
Increased = mitochondrial density - Decreased = submax exercise HR

4. What skinfold sites should a personal trainer select when applying a three-site SKF equation to a 45 year old female client?
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.
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh
Increase pennation

5. What energy system is capable of producing ATP at the greatest rate?
Phosphagen
Integrated
Improved skill in performing the exercise
Upper body strength

6. What change in the body's substrate use and enzyme levels is due to an adaptation to chronic aerobic exercise?
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
Motor unit recruitment increases
Increased concentration of GLUT
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force

7. What excercise mode requires the client to produce the most power?
3RM hang clean
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound

8. What energy systems is capable of producing the greatest amount (capacity) of ATP?
Oxidative
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass
Increasing aerobic endurance
Phosphagen

9. Clients possessing predominantly Type II muslce fibers in their lower body probably would perform well in which of the events
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
Phosphagen
'I want to be able to bench press more than my friend'
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint

10. What is true regarding bone health?
Back squat
150 mm
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.
Increase pennation

11. What controls the expansion and recoil of the lungs to create air exchange during heavy breathing?
Increased = mitochondrial density - Decreased = submax exercise HR
3RM hang clean
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension

12. What change in the body's substrate use and enzyme levels is due to an adaptation to chronic aerobic exercise?
Greater genetic variation
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension
Decreased VO2 max
Increased concentration of GLUT

13. Describe what a client would be doing to allow the oxidative system to contribute the greatest percentage toward total ATP production.
Sitting quietly
At 90 degrees of flexion - because the moment arm is at it's longest length.
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity
9 weeks

14. What is most likely to occur during a se of 10 reps at 75% of the 1RM for the squat exercise?
Motor unit recruitment increases
Inconsistent or interrupted sleep - nonpurposeful decreases in lean body mass - leveled-off improvements or losses in muscular strength
Decreased VO2 max
9 weeks

15. What controls the expansion and recoil of the lungs to create air exchange during heavy breathing?
Decreased VO2 max
Inconsistent or interrupted sleep - nonpurposeful decreases in lean body mass - leveled-off improvements or losses in muscular strength
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement
Back squat

16. What is most likely to occur as a result of aerobic endurance overtraining?
1.5 mile run
Increase pennation
Decreased VO2 max
Increased concentration of GLUT

17. What is a point along the self-determination or regulation continuum is a client who is highly intrinsically motivated?
Integrated
2349 kilocalories
Upper body strength
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity

18. What energy systems is capable of producing the greatest amount (capacity) of ATP?
Increasing aerobic endurance
Myofilament - myofibril - fiber - fasciculus
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension
Oxidative

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

20. What is the correct sequence of structures that the blood passes through after it leaves the left ventricle
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
9 weeks
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension
'I want to be able to bench press more than my friend'

21. 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?
Inconsistent or interrupted sleep - nonpurposeful decreases in lean body mass - leveled-off improvements or losses in muscular strength
Upper body strength
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement
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.

22. 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
'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!'
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
Increase pennation

23. What is true regarding bone health?
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
150 mm
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension

24. What is most likely to occur as a result of aerobic endurance overtraining?
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity
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.
Decreased VO2 max
Inconsistent or interrupted sleep - nonpurposeful decreases in lean body mass - leveled-off improvements or losses in muscular strength

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

26. How many weeks will it take a 220 lb client to reach a goal weight of 200 lbs?
9 weeks
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force
Reliable
'I want to be able to bench press more than my friend'

27. 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?
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client
Integrated
Upper body strength
Oxidative

28. What are the most influential age-related changes that may decrease a client's ability to exhibit muscular strength?
9 weeks
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago

29. How many weeks will it take a 220 lb client to reach a goal weight of 200 lbs?
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement
9 weeks
Oxidative
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.

30. What are the components of oxygen uptake (vo2)
Phosphagen
Increased = mitochondrial density - Decreased = submax exercise HR
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint

31. An example of an outcome goal...

32. What change in muscle length and tension are associated with a muscle spindle and a Golgi tendon
Evaluate the client's level of exercise readiness AND Discuss the client's goals for his or her exercise program.
9 weeks
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension

33. 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...
Integrated
Reliable
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint
Increasing aerobic endurance

34. Symptoms of overtraining from resistance exercise...
Inconsistent or interrupted sleep - nonpurposeful decreases in lean body mass - leveled-off improvements or losses in muscular strength
Evaluate the client's level of exercise readiness AND Discuss the client's goals for his or her exercise program.
Reliable
Oxidative

35. What are the components of oxygen uptake (vo2)
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint
Reliable
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference

36. An example of an outcome goal...

37. What factors discovered at a preparticipation health appraisal screening reveal a client's risk of coronary artery disease?
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass
1.5 mile run

38. 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?
Increased concentration of GLUT
At 90 degrees of flexion - because the moment arm is at it's longest length.
Increased = mitochondrial density - Decreased = submax exercise HR
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client

39. What guidelines should the personal trainer recommend to a client to promote proper fluid intake?
150 mm
At 90 degrees of flexion - because the moment arm is at it's longest length.
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound
'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!'

40. What is most responsible for the strength gain a client would experience following three weeks of a beginning resistance training program?
An inexperienced personal trainer - an injured client - testing a female client
Improved skill in performing the exercise
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh
Inconsistent or interrupted sleep - nonpurposeful decreases in lean body mass - leveled-off improvements or losses in muscular strength

41. A client with a high risk stratification for coronary artery disease
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference
Sitting quietly
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint
50 year old femaile who has COPD

42. Recommended sequence of tests that promotes the most accurate results when assessing general fitness
Back squat
Evaluate the client's level of exercise readiness AND Discuss the client's goals for his or her exercise program.
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
Motor unit recruitment increases

43. What guidelines should the personal trainer recommend to a client to promote proper fluid intake?
Integrated
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound
Reliable

44. What is the correct sequence of components from smallest muscle structure to largest muscle structure?
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint
Phosphagen
50 year old femaile who has COPD
Myofilament - myofibril - fiber - fasciculus

45. 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
Increased concentration of GLUT
Sitting quietly
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound
Increasing aerobic endurance

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

47. What change will increase concentric force production?
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound
'I want to be able to bench press more than my friend'
Phosphagen
Increase pennation

48. Recommended sequence of tests that promotes the most accurate results when assessing general fitness
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago

49. 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?
'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!'
A breakdown of glycogen - it's end product is converted to lactic acid - a breakdown of glucose
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force
1.5 mile run

50. What is the correct sequence of structures that the blood passes through after it leaves the left ventricle
150 mm
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
Evaluate the client's level of exercise readiness AND Discuss the client's goals for his or her exercise program.