NSCA Personal Trainer Exam

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• Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What factors discovered at a preparticipation health appraisal screening reveal a client's risk of coronary artery disease?
Improved skill in performing the exercise
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension
Back squat
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago


2. What is most responsible for the strength gain a client would experience following three weeks of a beginning resistance training program?
Improved skill in performing the exercise
Integrated
1.5 mile run
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement


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


4. What change will increase concentric force production?
Increase pennation
5
Phosphagen
Improved skill in performing the exercise


5. What is the correct sequence of components from smallest muscle structure to largest muscle structure?
Myofilament - myofibril - fiber - fasciculus
Evaluate the client's level of exercise readiness AND Discuss the client's goals for his or her exercise program.
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force
Back squat


6. What composes total lung capacity?
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity
Increased = mitochondrial density - Decreased = submax exercise HR
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension


7. 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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8. What guidelines should the personal trainer recommend to a client to promote proper fluid intake?
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh
Sitting quietly
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound


9. What energy system is capable of producing ATP at the greatest rate?
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client
Increase pennation
Phosphagen
Decreased VO2 max


10. An example of an outcome goal...

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11. What are the components of oxygen uptake (vo2)
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference
Phosphagen
2349 kilocalories


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

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13. An example of an outcome goal...

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14. What change in the body's substrate use and enzyme levels is due to an adaptation to chronic aerobic exercise?
150 mm
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound
Increased concentration of GLUT


15. What is most likely to occur as a result of aerobic endurance overtraining?
Integrated
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement
Motor unit recruitment increases
Decreased VO2 max


16. What is most likely to occur during a se of 10 reps at 75% of the 1RM for the squat exercise?
At 90 degrees of flexion - because the moment arm is at it's longest length.
'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!'
Motor unit recruitment increases
3RM hang clean


17. This describes the properties of Type I and Type II muscle fibers
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force
Increased concentration of GLUT
50 year old femaile who has COPD
Sitting quietly


18. 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
Motor unit recruitment increases
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
5


19. What is the correct sequence of structures that the blood passes through after it leaves the left ventricle
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.
'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!'
9 weeks
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium


20. A client with a high risk stratification for coronary artery disease
Myofilament - myofibril - fiber - fasciculus
50 year old femaile who has COPD
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
Greater genetic variation


21. 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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22. What excercise mode requires the client to produce the most power?
3RM hang clean
150 mm
Back squat
Motor unit recruitment increases


23. 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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24. A client with a high risk stratification for coronary artery disease
50 year old femaile who has COPD
Increased = mitochondrial density - Decreased = submax exercise HR
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference
Increased concentration of GLUT


25. 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?
150 mm
1.5 mile run
A breakdown of glycogen - it's end product is converted to lactic acid - a breakdown of glucose
Greater genetic variation


26. Clients possessing predominantly Type II muslce fibers in their lower body probably would perform well in which of the events
Increased concentration of GLUT
50 year old femaile who has COPD
At 90 degrees of flexion - because the moment arm is at it's longest length.
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint


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

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28. 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?
Motor unit recruitment increases
An inexperienced personal trainer - an injured client - testing a female client
Upper body strength
2349 kilocalories


29. What excercise mode requires the client to produce the most power?
Reliable
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound
3RM hang clean
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement


30. Three cognitive benefits provided by exercise
Phosphagen
Greater genetic variation
Increased concentration of GLUT
Sitting quietly


31. What energy system is capable of producing ATP at the greatest rate?
A breakdown of glycogen - it's end product is converted to lactic acid - a breakdown of glucose
Increase pennation
Phosphagen
Sitting quietly


32. What is the correct sequence of structures that the blood passes through after it leaves the left ventricle
Sitting quietly
1.5 mile run
Inconsistent or interrupted sleep - nonpurposeful decreases in lean body mass - leveled-off improvements or losses in muscular strength
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium


33. 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?
Improved skill in performing the exercise
Upper body strength
Integrated
Decreased VO2 max


34. Describe what a client would be doing to allow the oxidative system to contribute the greatest percentage toward total ATP production.
Motor unit recruitment increases
Sitting quietly
Reliable
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint


35. What is most responsible for the strength gain a client would experience following three weeks of a beginning resistance training program?
50 year old femaile who has COPD
Improved skill in performing the exercise
An inexperienced personal trainer - an injured client - testing a female client
Increased = mitochondrial density - Decreased = submax exercise HR


36. What are the most influential age-related changes that may decrease a client's ability to exhibit muscular strength?
Improved skill in performing the exercise
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.
Increasing aerobic endurance
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass


37. How many weeks will it take a 220 lb client to reach a goal weight of 200 lbs?
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity
9 weeks
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client
Increased concentration of GLUT


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?
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference
Increased = mitochondrial density - Decreased = submax exercise HR
3RM hang clean
Improved skill in performing the exercise


39. Using 220 lb for each and allowing 90 degrees of knee flexion at the bottom of each movement - what excercise produces the most work?
Back squat
5
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement
9 weeks


40. What is the correct sequence of components from smallest muscle structure to largest muscle structure?
Evaluate the client's level of exercise readiness AND Discuss the client's goals for his or her exercise program.
2349 kilocalories
Myofilament - myofibril - fiber - fasciculus
Increasing aerobic endurance


41. 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
150 mm
5
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago
Improved skill in performing the exercise


42. What energy systems is capable of producing the greatest amount (capacity) of ATP?
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
Increasing aerobic endurance
Oxidative
Integrated


43. What controls the expansion and recoil of the lungs to create air exchange during heavy breathing?
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force
150 mm


44. What change in the body's substrate use and enzyme levels is due to an adaptation to chronic aerobic exercise?
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client
2349 kilocalories
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force
Increased concentration of GLUT


45. 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?
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement
2349 kilocalories


46. What change will increase concentric force production?
At 90 degrees of flexion - because the moment arm is at it's longest length.
Increase pennation
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound
Oxidative


47. What are the components of oxygen uptake (vo2)
'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!'
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference
Sitting quietly


48. What should be included in a an informed consent?
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.
Phosphagen
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client


49. 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
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
Increasing aerobic endurance


50. Factors that may increase the standard error of measurement of a pushup test to assess muscular strength
Upper body strength
At 90 degrees of flexion - because the moment arm is at it's longest length.
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity
An inexperienced personal trainer - an injured client - testing a female client