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NSCA Personal Trainer Exam
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. What is most responsible for the strength gain a client would experience following three weeks of a beginning resistance training program?
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
'I want to be able to bench press more than my friend'
9 weeks
Improved skill in performing the exercise
2. What change will increase concentric force production?
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force
Increase pennation
5
Phosphagen
3. 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?
Upper body strength
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity
9 weeks
Reliable
4. A client with a high risk stratification for coronary artery disease
Increased = mitochondrial density - Decreased = submax exercise HR
3RM hang clean
50 year old femaile who has COPD
Myofilament - myofibril - fiber - fasciculus
5. This describes the properties of Type I and Type II muscle fibers
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client
3RM hang clean
150 mm
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force
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?
150 mm
2349 kilocalories
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint
7. 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?
Oxidative
2349 kilocalories
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference
8. What is true regarding bone health?
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension
An inexperienced personal trainer - an injured client - testing a 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.
Decreased VO2 max
9. What is a point along the self-determination or regulation continuum is a client who is highly intrinsically motivated?
Greater genetic variation
Sitting quietly
Upper body strength
Integrated
10. What change will increase concentric force production?
Increase pennation
An inexperienced personal trainer - an injured client - testing a female client
Greater genetic variation
150 mm
11. Describe what a client would be doing to allow the oxidative system to contribute the greatest percentage toward total ATP production.
1.5 mile run
At 90 degrees of flexion - because the moment arm is at it's longest length.
Sitting quietly
Greater genetic variation
12. What are the components of oxygen uptake (vo2)
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference
Improved skill in performing the exercise
Increased = mitochondrial density - Decreased = submax exercise HR
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement
13. 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
Increasing aerobic endurance
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
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
14. 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.
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
Back squat
15. 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?
Greater genetic variation
Increasing aerobic endurance
Improved skill in performing the exercise
1.5 mile run
16. 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?
Increase pennation
Increased = mitochondrial density - Decreased = submax exercise HR
Reliable
9 weeks
17. What should be included in a an informed consent?
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension
150 mm
18. What change in the body's substrate use and enzyme levels is due to an adaptation to chronic aerobic exercise?
Increasing aerobic endurance
Upper body strength
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh
Increased concentration of GLUT
19. 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
1.5 mile run
Increasing aerobic endurance
2349 kilocalories
Greater genetic variation
20. What energy system is capable of producing ATP at the greatest rate?
'I want to be able to bench press more than my friend'
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client
Phosphagen
A breakdown of glycogen - it's end product is converted to lactic acid - a breakdown of glucose
21. What are the most influential age-related changes that may decrease a client's ability to exhibit muscular strength?
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference
An inexperienced personal trainer - an injured client - testing a female client
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass
Increasing aerobic endurance
22. What controls the expansion and recoil of the lungs to create air exchange during heavy breathing?
1.5 mile run
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement
Decreased VO2 max
Oxidative
23. What are the components of oxygen uptake (vo2)
1.5 mile run
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference
Increased = mitochondrial density - Decreased = submax exercise HR
Myofilament - myofibril - fiber - fasciculus
24. Factors that may increase the standard error of measurement of a pushup test to assess muscular strength
Back squat
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
An inexperienced personal trainer - an injured client - testing a female client
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement
25. Recommended sequence of tests that promotes the most accurate results when assessing general fitness
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force
Reliable
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
50 year old femaile who has COPD
26. What is most likely to occur as a result of aerobic endurance overtraining?
Decreased VO2 max
Integrated
Increase pennation
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago
27. What should a personal trainer do during the initial meeting with a new client?
28. 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...
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client
Reliable
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago
Motor unit recruitment increases
29. An example of an outcome goal...
30. 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?
Increased = mitochondrial density - Decreased = submax exercise HR
Upper body strength
50 year old femaile who has COPD
'I want to be able to bench press more than my friend'
31. Factors that may increase the standard error of measurement of a pushup test to assess muscular strength
5
'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!'
An inexperienced personal trainer - an injured client - testing a female client
Reliable
32. What is the correct sequence of components from smallest muscle structure to largest muscle structure?
Increased = mitochondrial density - Decreased = submax exercise HR
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
Myofilament - myofibril - fiber - fasciculus
33. What is the correct sequence of structures that the blood passes through after it leaves the left ventricle
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
Motor unit recruitment increases
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference
34. 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...
Increase pennation
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
Reliable
35. What change in muscle length and tension are associated with a muscle spindle and a Golgi tendon
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension
Motor unit recruitment increases
5
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago
36. 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?
37. 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
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
Inconsistent or interrupted sleep - nonpurposeful decreases in lean body mass - leveled-off improvements or losses in muscular strength
5
38. What is most likely to occur as a result of aerobic endurance overtraining?
Greater genetic variation
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force
Decreased VO2 max
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago
39. How many weeks will it take a 220 lb client to reach a goal weight of 200 lbs?
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago
Greater genetic variation
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client
9 weeks
40. At what point during the upward movement phase of the standing barbell curl exercise can the biceps brachii muscles produce the greatest torque?
41. What are the most influential age-related changes that may decrease a client's ability to exhibit muscular strength?
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity
Reliable
Improved skill in performing the exercise
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass
42. Using 220 lb for each and allowing 90 degrees of knee flexion at the bottom of each movement - what excercise produces the most work?
Improved skill in performing the exercise
Back squat
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension
Greater genetic variation
43. 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?
Decreased VO2 max
5
Motor unit recruitment increases
150 mm
44. What skinfold sites should a personal trainer select when applying a three-site SKF equation to a 45 year old female client?
3RM hang clean
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.
Evaluate the client's level of exercise readiness AND Discuss the client's goals for his or her exercise program.
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh
45. What is true regarding bone health?
Phosphagen
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.
Inconsistent or interrupted sleep - nonpurposeful decreases in lean body mass - leveled-off improvements or losses in muscular strength
Sitting quietly
46. What should be included in a an informed consent?
Increased = mitochondrial density - Decreased = submax exercise HR
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint
47. What composes total lung capacity?
9 weeks
50 year old femaile who has COPD
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity
1.5 mile run
48. What skinfold sites should a personal trainer select when applying a three-site SKF equation to a 45 year old female client?
Back squat
An inexperienced personal trainer - an injured client - testing a female client
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh
49. This describes the properties of Type I and Type II muscle fibers
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint
150 mm
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh
50. Describe what a client would be doing to allow the oxidative system to contribute the greatest percentage toward total ATP production.
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound
Sitting quietly
At 90 degrees of flexion - because the moment arm is at it's longest length.
Upper body strength