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NSCA Personal Trainer Exam

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What change will increase concentric force production?
Evaluate the client's level of exercise readiness AND Discuss the client's goals for his or her exercise program.
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass
Increase pennation
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity

2. What excercise mode requires the client to produce the most power?
Increased concentration of GLUT
5
Motor unit recruitment increases
3RM hang clean

3. What is most responsible for the strength gain a client would experience following three weeks of a beginning resistance training program?
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension
50 year old femaile who has COPD
Improved skill in performing the exercise
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound

4. 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?
An inexperienced personal trainer - an injured client - testing a female client
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference
'I want to be able to bench press more than my friend'
1.5 mile run

5. What is most likely to occur as a result of aerobic endurance overtraining?
Integrated
2349 kilocalories
At 90 degrees of flexion - because the moment arm is at it's longest length.
Decreased VO2 max

6. What is a point along the self-determination or regulation continuum is a client who is highly intrinsically motivated?
'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!'
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago
Integrated
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass

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

8. What composes total lung capacity?
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity
Integrated
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint

9. How many weeks will it take a 220 lb client to reach a goal weight of 200 lbs?
1.5 mile run
9 weeks
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference
3RM hang clean

10. What energy system is capable of producing ATP at the greatest rate?
5
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago
Phosphagen

11. Symptoms of overtraining from resistance exercise...
Inconsistent or interrupted sleep - nonpurposeful decreases in lean body mass - leveled-off improvements or losses in muscular strength
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
Evaluate the client's level of exercise readiness AND Discuss the client's goals for his or her exercise program.

12. How many weeks will it take a 220 lb client to reach a goal weight of 200 lbs?
Myofilament - myofibril - fiber - fasciculus
Motor unit recruitment increases
At 90 degrees of flexion - because the moment arm is at it's longest length.
9 weeks

13. What is most responsible for the strength gain a client would experience following three weeks of a beginning resistance training program?
Back squat
Myofilament - myofibril - fiber - fasciculus
Improved skill in performing the exercise
Decreased VO2 max

14. What is true regarding bone health?
Oxidative
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force
'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.

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

16. Recommended sequence of tests that promotes the most accurate results when assessing general fitness
'I want to be able to bench press more than my friend'
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
Greater genetic variation
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test

17. Using 220 lb for each and allowing 90 degrees of knee flexion at the bottom of each movement - what excercise produces the most work?
'I want to be able to bench press more than my friend'
Back squat
50 year old femaile who has COPD
Evaluate the client's level of exercise readiness AND Discuss the client's goals for his or her exercise program.

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

19. What are the components of oxygen uptake (vo2)
Inconsistent or interrupted sleep - nonpurposeful decreases in lean body mass - leveled-off improvements or losses in muscular strength
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement
Increasing aerobic endurance

20. What guidelines should the personal trainer recommend to a client to promote proper fluid intake?
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint
Sitting quietly
A breakdown of glycogen - it's end product is converted to lactic acid - a breakdown of glucose
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound

21. An example of an outcome goal...

22. Three cognitive benefits provided by exercise
Greater genetic variation
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client
Upper body strength
Inconsistent or interrupted sleep - nonpurposeful decreases in lean body mass - leveled-off improvements or losses in muscular strength

23. What is most likely to occur during a se of 10 reps at 75% of the 1RM for the squat exercise?
Motor unit recruitment increases
At 90 degrees of flexion - because the moment arm is at it's longest length.
5
Sitting quietly

24. What energy system is capable of producing ATP at the greatest rate?
Inconsistent or interrupted sleep - nonpurposeful decreases in lean body mass - leveled-off improvements or losses in muscular strength
Greater genetic variation
2349 kilocalories
Phosphagen

25. What controls the expansion and recoil of the lungs to create air exchange during heavy breathing?
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago
Improved skill in performing the exercise
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement
Phosphagen

26. 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...
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
Phosphagen
Reliable
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force

27. 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
3RM hang clean
Back squat
An inexperienced personal trainer - an injured client - testing a female client
Increasing aerobic endurance

28. 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?

29. What change in muscle length and tension are associated with a muscle spindle and a Golgi tendon
Integrated
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension
2349 kilocalories
A breakdown of glycogen - it's end product is converted to lactic acid - a breakdown of glucose

30. 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
Increasing aerobic endurance
150 mm
Greater genetic variation
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement

31. 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?
50 year old femaile who has COPD
Reliable
Increased = mitochondrial density - Decreased = submax exercise HR
1.5 mile run

32. Recommended sequence of tests that promotes the most accurate results when assessing general fitness
'I want to be able to bench press more than my friend'
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
5
Greater genetic variation

33. What is most likely to occur as a result of aerobic endurance overtraining?
Phosphagen
Increased concentration of GLUT
Decreased VO2 max
Evaluate the client's level of exercise readiness AND Discuss the client's goals for his or her exercise program.

34. 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
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
Improved skill in performing the exercise
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client

35. What is the correct sequence of components from smallest muscle structure to largest muscle structure?
Myofilament - myofibril - fiber - fasciculus
Phosphagen
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force

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

37. What skinfold sites should a personal trainer select when applying a three-site SKF equation to a 45 year old female client?
Increase pennation
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass
2349 kilocalories
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh

38. Symptoms of overtraining from resistance exercise...
Greater genetic variation
Integrated
150 mm
Inconsistent or interrupted sleep - nonpurposeful decreases in lean body mass - leveled-off improvements or losses in muscular strength

39. Clients possessing predominantly Type II muslce fibers in their lower body probably would perform well in which of the events
Back squat
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint
'I want to be able to bench press more than my friend'

40. What energy systems is capable of producing the greatest amount (capacity) of ATP?
Oxidative
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
'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!'

41. What are the components of oxygen uptake (vo2)
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference
Decreased VO2 max
Upper body strength
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint

42. What are the most influential age-related changes that may decrease a client's ability to exhibit muscular strength?
2349 kilocalories
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass
Myofilament - myofibril - fiber - fasciculus
9 weeks

43. What is the correct sequence of structures that the blood passes through after it leaves the left ventricle
'I want to be able to bench press more than my friend'
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound

44. Using 220 lb for each and allowing 90 degrees of knee flexion at the bottom of each movement - what excercise produces the most work?
At 90 degrees of flexion - because the moment arm is at it's longest length.
Increase pennation
Back squat
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force

45. What change in muscle length and tension are associated with a muscle spindle and a Golgi tendon
Evaluate the client's level of exercise readiness AND Discuss the client's goals for his or her exercise program.
Oxidative
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension
Inconsistent or interrupted sleep - nonpurposeful decreases in lean body mass - leveled-off improvements or losses in muscular strength

46. What excercise mode requires the client to produce the most power?
3RM hang clean
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound

47. What is a point along the self-determination or regulation continuum is a client who is highly intrinsically motivated?
Increased concentration of GLUT
Increase pennation
Motor unit recruitment increases
Integrated

48. 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?
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint
Upper body strength
Increased concentration of GLUT

49. Factors that may increase the standard error of measurement of a pushup test to assess muscular strength
An inexperienced personal trainer - an injured client - testing a female client
50 year old femaile who has COPD
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint
A breakdown of glycogen - it's end product is converted to lactic acid - a breakdown of glucose

50. What composes total lung capacity?
2349 kilocalories
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity
At 90 degrees of flexion - because the moment arm is at it's longest length.
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint