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NSCA Personal Trainer Exam

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity

2. 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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3. 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?
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
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago
1.5 mile run

4. What factors discovered at a preparticipation health appraisal screening reveal a client's risk of coronary artery disease?
An inexperienced personal trainer - an injured client - testing a female client
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago
5
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement

5. What is most likely to occur during a se of 10 reps at 75% of the 1RM for the squat exercise?
'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
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client
Motor unit recruitment increases

6. What excercise mode requires the client to produce the most power?
An inexperienced personal trainer - an injured client - testing a female client
Increased concentration of GLUT
3RM hang clean
A breakdown of glycogen - it's end product is converted to lactic acid - a breakdown of glucose

7. What guidelines should the personal trainer recommend to a client to promote proper fluid intake?
150 mm
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
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh

8. What is a point along the self-determination or regulation continuum is a client who is highly intrinsically motivated?
9 weeks
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
Integrated

9. How many weeks will it take a 220 lb client to reach a goal weight of 200 lbs?
Phosphagen
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference
9 weeks
2349 kilocalories

10. 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?
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass
A breakdown of glycogen - it's end product is converted to lactic acid - a breakdown of glucose
150 mm

11. What is the correct sequence of structures that the blood passes through after it leaves the left ventricle
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
Improved skill in performing the exercise
9 weeks
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium

12. Using 220 lb for each and allowing 90 degrees of knee flexion at the bottom of each movement - what excercise produces the most work?
50 year old femaile who has COPD
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass
Back squat
A breakdown of glycogen - it's end product is converted to lactic acid - a breakdown of glucose

13. How many weeks will it take a 220 lb client to reach a goal weight of 200 lbs?
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound
Greater genetic variation
A breakdown of glycogen - it's end product is converted to lactic acid - a breakdown of glucose
9 weeks

14. An example of an outcome goal...

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15. What is most likely to occur as a result of aerobic endurance overtraining?
Increased concentration of GLUT
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint
3RM hang clean
Decreased VO2 max

16. What change in muscle length and tension are associated with a muscle spindle and a Golgi tendon
5
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension

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

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18. 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
Back squat
Reliable
9 weeks

19. Three cognitive benefits provided by exercise
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound
Greater genetic variation
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force
5

20. What change in muscle length and tension are associated with a muscle spindle and a Golgi tendon
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
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh
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.

21. What energy systems is capable of producing the greatest amount (capacity) of ATP?
At 90 degrees of flexion - because the moment arm is at it's longest length.
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint
Oxidative
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass

22. What should be included in a an informed consent?
9 weeks
2349 kilocalories
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client
3RM hang clean

23. What change will increase concentric force production?
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.
150 mm
Increasing aerobic endurance
Increase pennation

24. Recommended sequence of tests that promotes the most accurate results when assessing general fitness
50 year old femaile who has COPD
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
2349 kilocalories
2349 kilocalories

25. 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
Evaluate the client's level of exercise readiness AND Discuss the client's goals for his or her exercise program.
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass

26. What controls the expansion and recoil of the lungs to create air exchange during heavy breathing?
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement
Upper body strength
Greater genetic variation

27. 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?
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force
150 mm
Sitting quietly

28. Three cognitive benefits provided by exercise
Greater genetic variation
Upper body strength
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago
150 mm

29. What is the correct sequence of components from smallest muscle structure to largest muscle structure?
Myofilament - myofibril - fiber - fasciculus
At 90 degrees of flexion - because the moment arm is at it's longest length.
'I want to be able to bench press more than my friend'
Increased = mitochondrial density - Decreased = submax exercise HR

30. 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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31. What skinfold sites should a personal trainer select when applying a three-site SKF equation to a 45 year old female client?
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference
Integrated
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh
At 90 degrees of flexion - because the moment arm is at it's longest length.

32. Symptoms of overtraining from resistance exercise...
Upper body strength
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
Inconsistent or interrupted sleep - nonpurposeful decreases in lean body mass - leveled-off improvements or losses in muscular strength
3RM hang clean

33. What are the components of oxygen uptake (vo2)
150 mm
9 weeks
Oxidative
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference

34. What is true regarding bone health?
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.
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint

35. What is most likely to occur as a result of aerobic endurance overtraining?
5
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
Evaluate the client's level of exercise readiness AND Discuss the client's goals for his or her exercise program.
Decreased VO2 max

36. A client with a high risk stratification for coronary artery disease
An inexperienced personal trainer - an injured client - testing a female client
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
50 year old femaile who has COPD
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client

37. Factors that may increase the standard error of measurement of a pushup test to assess muscular strength
50 year old femaile who has COPD
A breakdown of glycogen - it's end product is converted to lactic acid - a breakdown of glucose
An inexperienced personal trainer - an injured client - testing a female client
Increasing aerobic endurance

38. 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?
2349 kilocalories
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.
Reliable
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement

39. 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
Increased concentration of GLUT
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force
Inconsistent or interrupted sleep - nonpurposeful decreases in lean body mass - leveled-off improvements or losses in muscular strength

40. What composes total lung capacity?
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.
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago
Decreased VO2 max
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity

41. A client with a high risk stratification for coronary artery disease
Upper body strength
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client
2349 kilocalories
50 year old femaile who has COPD

42. Factors that may increase the standard error of measurement of a pushup test to assess muscular strength
Back squat
An inexperienced personal trainer - an injured client - testing a female client
Upper body strength
'I want to be able to bench press more than my friend'

43. What is true regarding bone health?
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement
Increase pennation
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 ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass

44. What energy system is capable of producing ATP at the greatest rate?
Phosphagen
Sitting quietly
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound
Evaluate the client's level of exercise readiness AND Discuss the client's goals for his or her exercise program.

45. What are the components of oxygen uptake (vo2)
Increasing aerobic endurance
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint
Myofilament - myofibril - fiber - fasciculus
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference

46. What factors discovered at a preparticipation health appraisal screening reveal a client's risk of coronary artery disease?
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
Greater genetic variation
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago

47. This describes the properties of Type I and Type II muscle fibers
3RM hang clean
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force

48. 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?
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension
5
1.5 mile run
Improved skill in performing the exercise

49. What controls the expansion and recoil of the lungs to create air exchange during heavy breathing?
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement
Phosphagen
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass

50. What skinfold sites should a personal trainer select when applying a three-site SKF equation to a 45 year old female client?
Oxidative
'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
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh