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NSCA Personal Trainer Exam

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What guidelines should the personal trainer recommend to a client to promote proper fluid intake?






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






3. 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...






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






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


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


7. Symptoms of overtraining from resistance exercise...






8. 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?






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






10. An example of an outcome goal...


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






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






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






14. What is true regarding bone health?






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






16. 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?






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


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






19. Three cognitive benefits provided by exercise






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


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






22. What change will increase concentric force production?






23. 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?






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






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






26. 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?






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






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






29. What composes total lung capacity?






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






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






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






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






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






35. 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?






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






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






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






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






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






41. An example of an outcome goal...


42. What change will increase concentric force production?






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






44. What is true regarding bone health?






45. 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?






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






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






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






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






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