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NSCA Personal Trainer Exam
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. which of the following describes the process of fast glycolysis?
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2. A client with a high risk stratification for coronary artery disease
50 year old femaile who has COPD
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago
Evaluate the client's level of exercise readiness AND Discuss the client's goals for his or her exercise program.
Increasing aerobic endurance
3. 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?
Increase pennation
Increased concentration of GLUT
Increased = mitochondrial density - Decreased = submax exercise HR
Phosphagen
4. What is most likely to occur during a se of 10 reps at 75% of the 1RM for the squat exercise?
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh
Increased concentration of GLUT
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension
Motor unit recruitment increases
5. What composes total lung capacity?
At 90 degrees of flexion - because the moment arm is at it's longest length.
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound
6. 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
Increase pennation
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
7. 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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8. 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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9. Describe what a client would be doing to allow the oxidative system to contribute the greatest percentage toward total ATP production.
'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!'
Sitting quietly
Inconsistent or interrupted sleep - nonpurposeful decreases in lean body mass - leveled-off improvements or losses in muscular strength
At 90 degrees of flexion - because the moment arm is at it's longest length.
10. What is most responsible for the strength gain a client would experience following three weeks of a beginning resistance training program?
Decreased VO2 max
Improved skill in performing the exercise
Myofilament - myofibril - fiber - fasciculus
2349 kilocalories
11. What is true regarding bone health?
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference
5
'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!'
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.
12. What is the correct sequence of structures that the blood passes through after it leaves the left ventricle
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension
Improved skill in performing the exercise
Upper body strength
13. What skinfold sites should a personal trainer select when applying a three-site SKF equation to a 45 year old female client?
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh
5
Integrated
14. 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?
Upper body strength
Increased = mitochondrial density - Decreased = submax exercise HR
9 weeks
Reliable
15. Using 220 lb for each and allowing 90 degrees of knee flexion at the bottom of each movement - what excercise produces the most work?
Increased = mitochondrial density - Decreased = submax exercise HR
Back squat
'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!'
9 weeks
16. What guidelines should the personal trainer recommend to a client to promote proper fluid intake?
Inconsistent or interrupted sleep - nonpurposeful decreases in lean body mass - leveled-off improvements or losses in muscular strength
Improved skill in performing the exercise
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound
17. What is the correct sequence of components from smallest muscle structure to largest muscle structure?
Myofilament - myofibril - fiber - fasciculus
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
'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!'
18. 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?
Increased = mitochondrial density - Decreased = submax exercise HR
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago
Back squat
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
19. What energy systems is capable of producing the greatest amount (capacity) of ATP?
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.
Improved skill in performing the exercise
Oxidative
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
20. which of the following describes the process of fast glycolysis?
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21. A client with a high risk stratification for coronary artery disease
50 year old femaile who has COPD
Upper body strength
Sitting quietly
Greater genetic variation
22. Three cognitive benefits provided by exercise
Greater genetic variation
'I want to be able to bench press more than my friend'
1.5 mile run
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
23. 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
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint
5
3RM hang clean
24. 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?
150 mm
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound
50 year old femaile who has COPD
2349 kilocalories
25. What is true regarding bone health?
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh
'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!'
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.
26. What is the correct sequence of structures that the blood passes through after it leaves the left ventricle
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
Sitting quietly
'I want to be able to bench press more than my friend'
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint
27. Factors that may increase the standard error of measurement of a pushup test to assess muscular strength
Evaluate the client's level of exercise readiness AND Discuss the client's goals for his or her exercise program.
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force
An inexperienced personal trainer - an injured client - testing a female client
28. What change in the body's substrate use and enzyme levels is due to an adaptation to chronic aerobic exercise?
A breakdown of glycogen - it's end product is converted to lactic acid - a breakdown of glucose
Increased concentration of GLUT
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh
29. 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?
Upper body strength
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh
Inconsistent or interrupted sleep - nonpurposeful decreases in lean body mass - leveled-off improvements or losses in muscular strength
Myofilament - myofibril - fiber - fasciculus
30. Clients possessing predominantly Type II muslce fibers in their lower body probably would perform well in which of the events
Increased concentration of GLUT
Increased = mitochondrial density - Decreased = submax exercise HR
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client
31. What is a point along the self-determination or regulation continuum is a client who is highly intrinsically motivated?
Integrated
At 90 degrees of flexion - because the moment arm is at it's longest length.
Myofilament - myofibril - fiber - fasciculus
'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!'
32. An example of an outcome goal...
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33. Three cognitive benefits provided by exercise
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force
Increased concentration of GLUT
'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!'
Greater genetic variation
34. What excercise mode requires the client to produce the most power?
3RM hang clean
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
9 weeks
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?
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint
2349 kilocalories
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference
3RM hang clean
36. What is most likely to occur as a result of aerobic endurance overtraining?
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 VO2 max
A breakdown of glycogen - it's end product is converted to lactic acid - a breakdown of glucose
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass
37. What change in muscle length and tension are associated with a muscle spindle and a Golgi tendon
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension
Improved skill in performing the exercise
Myofilament - myofibril - fiber - fasciculus
Increased concentration of GLUT
38. What should a personal trainer do during the initial meeting with a new client?
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39. What are the most influential age-related changes that may decrease a client's ability to exhibit muscular strength?
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh
Decreased VO2 max
Back squat
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass
40. This describes the properties of Type I and Type II muscle fibers
Increased = mitochondrial density - Decreased = submax exercise HR
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force
Sitting quietly
50 year old femaile who has COPD
41. What should be included in a an informed consent?
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client
Integrated
9 weeks
Motor unit recruitment increases
42. What excercise mode requires the client to produce the most power?
9 weeks
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
3RM hang clean
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint
43. 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?
150 mm
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago
Increased concentration of GLUT
A breakdown of glycogen - it's end product is converted to lactic acid - a breakdown of glucose
44. How many weeks will it take a 220 lb client to reach a goal weight of 200 lbs?
5
9 weeks
Integrated
Back squat
45. Describe what a client would be doing to allow the oxidative system to contribute the greatest percentage toward total ATP production.
Sitting quietly
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension
Increasing aerobic endurance
Increased = mitochondrial density - Decreased = submax exercise HR
46. 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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47. Clients possessing predominantly Type II muslce fibers in their lower body probably would perform well in which of the events
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint
Sitting quietly
'I want to be able to bench press more than my friend'
Greater genetic variation
48. What change in muscle length and tension are associated with a muscle spindle and a Golgi tendon
3RM hang clean
Increase pennation
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension
150 mm
49. What is the correct sequence of components from smallest muscle structure to largest muscle structure?
Myofilament - myofibril - fiber - fasciculus
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint
Increased concentration of GLUT
Improved skill in performing the exercise
50. Symptoms of overtraining from resistance exercise...
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago
A breakdown of glycogen - it's end product is converted to lactic acid - a breakdown of glucose
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference
Inconsistent or interrupted sleep - nonpurposeful decreases in lean body mass - leveled-off improvements or losses in muscular strength
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