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NSCA Personal Trainer Exam

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What excercise mode requires the client to produce the most power?






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






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






4. 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






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






6. 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?






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






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






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






10. 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






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






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






13. Three cognitive benefits provided by exercise






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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


23. What is true regarding bone health?






24. An example of an outcome goal...


25. 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...






26. 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?






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






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






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






30. Symptoms of overtraining from resistance exercise...






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






32. 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?






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






34. What change will increase concentric force production?






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






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






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






38. What change will increase concentric force production?






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






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






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






42. 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?






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






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 excercise mode requires the client to produce the most power?






46. What composes total lung capacity?






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






48. What composes total lung capacity?






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


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