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NSCA Personal Trainer Exam

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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?






2. 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






3. What change will increase concentric force production?






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






5. 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?






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






7. Three cognitive benefits provided by exercise






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






9. Symptoms of overtraining from resistance exercise...






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






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






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






13. What is true regarding bone health?






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






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






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






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






18. 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?






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






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






21. What composes total lung capacity?






22. Symptoms of overtraining from resistance exercise...






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






30. An example of an outcome goal...


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


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






33. What composes total lung capacity?






34. 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?






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


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






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






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






39. 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?


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. 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






42. 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?






43. What change will increase concentric force production?






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






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






46. 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?






47. 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...






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






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






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?