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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 client with a high risk stratification for coronary artery disease






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






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






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






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






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






8. 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?






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






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






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






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






14. Three cognitive benefits provided by exercise






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






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






17. An example of an outcome goal...

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18. An example of an outcome goal...

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






20. 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...






21. What is true regarding bone health?






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

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






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






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






26. 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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27. What composes total lung capacity?






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






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






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






31. 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?






32. 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?






33. 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?

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






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






36. Clients possessing predominantly Type II muslce fibers in their lower body probably would perform well in which of the events






37. 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?






38. What composes total lung capacity?






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






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






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






42. 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?

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






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






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






46. Symptoms of overtraining from resistance exercise...






47. 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






48. What change will increase concentric force production?






49. What change will increase concentric force production?






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?







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