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NSCA Personal Trainer Exam

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is true regarding bone health?






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






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






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






5. 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






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






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?


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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






21. An example of an outcome goal...


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






23. What composes total lung capacity?






24. 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






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






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






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






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






29. 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?






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


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






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






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






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


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






36. What composes total lung capacity?






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


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






39. 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?






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






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






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






43. 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?






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






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






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






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






48. 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?


49. 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?






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?