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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 should be included in a an informed consent?






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






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?






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






5. What is true regarding bone health?






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






7. Three cognitive benefits provided by exercise






8. 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






9. 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...






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?






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






12. An example of an outcome goal...


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






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






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






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


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


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






19. 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?






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






21. 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?






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






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


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






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






26. An example of an outcome goal...


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






28. 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






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






30. Three cognitive benefits provided by exercise






31. Symptoms of overtraining from resistance exercise...






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






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






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






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






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






37. 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?


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






39. 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?






40. What is true regarding bone health?






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






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


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






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






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






46. What composes total lung capacity?






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






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






49. 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?


50. What change will increase concentric force production?