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NSCA Personal Trainer Exam

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What should a personal trainer do during the initial meeting with a new client?


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






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






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






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






6. 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?


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






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






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






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






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. An example of an outcome goal...


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






15. Symptoms of overtraining from resistance exercise...






16. 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?


17. Three cognitive benefits provided by exercise






18. 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?






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






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






21. 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?






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






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






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






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






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


27. Three cognitive benefits provided by exercise






28. Symptoms of overtraining from resistance exercise...






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. 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?






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






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






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






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






35. 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?






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






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






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






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






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


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






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






43. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






50. 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?