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NSCA Personal Trainer Exam

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Recommended sequence of tests that promotes the most accurate results when assessing general fitness






2. 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?






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


4. 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...






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






6. Symptoms of overtraining from resistance exercise...






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






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






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






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






11. 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?






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






13. An example of an outcome goal...


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






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






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


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






18. 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






19. 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...






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






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






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






23. Three cognitive benefits provided by exercise






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






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






26. What composes total lung capacity?






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






28. What is true regarding bone health?






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






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






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






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






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






34. What composes total lung capacity?






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






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






38. Three cognitive benefits provided by exercise






39. What change will increase concentric force production?






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






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


42. 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






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






44. 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?


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






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






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






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






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






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