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NSCA Personal Trainer Exam

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What energy system is capable of producing ATP at the greatest rate?
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound
Oxidative
50 year old femaile who has COPD
Phosphagen

2. 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?

3. A client with a high risk stratification for coronary artery disease
Back squat
50 year old femaile who has COPD
Oxidative
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference

4. What composes total lung capacity?
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity
Back squat
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force
9 weeks

5. What composes total lung capacity?
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity
50 year old femaile who has COPD
50 year old femaile who has COPD

6. This describes the properties of Type I and Type II muscle fibers
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force
1.5 mile run
Decreased VO2 max
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.

7. What skinfold sites should a personal trainer select when applying a three-site SKF equation to a 45 year old female client?
Improved skill in performing the exercise
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client

8. What is a point along the self-determination or regulation continuum is a client who is highly intrinsically motivated?
Integrated
3RM hang clean
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client

9. 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?
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint
150 mm

10. What guidelines should the personal trainer recommend to a client to promote proper fluid intake?
Sitting quietly
9 weeks
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound
1.5 mile run

11. 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
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension
50 year old femaile who has COPD
Increasing aerobic endurance
Oxidative

12. Three cognitive benefits provided by exercise
Greater genetic variation
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass
Increased concentration of GLUT
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago

13. What is the correct sequence of structures that the blood passes through after it leaves the left ventricle
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference
Back squat

14. Recommended sequence of tests that promotes the most accurate results when assessing general fitness
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference
50 year old femaile who has COPD

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

16. What should be included in a an informed consent?
Decreased VO2 max
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client
150 mm
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound

17. 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...
Oxidative
'I want to be able to bench press more than my friend'
Reliable
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago

18. What excercise mode requires the client to produce the most power?
Reliable
3RM hang clean
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity
Sitting quietly

19. What change in the body's substrate use and enzyme levels is due to an adaptation to chronic aerobic exercise?
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass
At 90 degrees of flexion - because the moment arm is at it's longest length.
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension
Increased concentration of GLUT

20. What are the most influential age-related changes that may decrease a client's ability to exhibit muscular strength?
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass
2349 kilocalories
Integrated
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force

21. What change will increase concentric force production?
Improved skill in performing the exercise
Phosphagen
Increase pennation
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement

22. Three cognitive benefits provided by exercise
1.5 mile run
Increased concentration of GLUT
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity
Greater genetic variation

23. What is most likely to occur as a result of aerobic endurance overtraining?
Upper body strength
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass
Decreased VO2 max
5

24. 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
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client
Oxidative
5
2349 kilocalories

25. What is the correct sequence of components from smallest muscle structure to largest muscle structure?
Increased = mitochondrial density - Decreased = submax exercise HR
Increase pennation
Myofilament - myofibril - fiber - fasciculus
2349 kilocalories

26. What should be included in a an informed consent?
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity
Decreased VO2 max
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client
150 mm

27. What factors discovered at a preparticipation health appraisal screening reveal a client's risk of coronary artery disease?
Sitting quietly
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago

28. 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?
150 mm
Upper body strength
Sitting quietly
Inconsistent or interrupted sleep - nonpurposeful decreases in lean body mass - leveled-off improvements or losses in muscular strength

29. 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?
1.5 mile run
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity

30. What change will increase concentric force production?
5
Myofilament - myofibril - fiber - fasciculus
Increase pennation
50 year old femaile who has COPD

31. Using 220 lb for each and allowing 90 degrees of knee flexion at the bottom of each movement - what excercise produces the most work?
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement
Back squat
A breakdown of glycogen - it's end product is converted to lactic acid - a breakdown of glucose
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh

32. 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
50 year old femaile who has COPD
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension
Increasing aerobic endurance
Greater genetic variation

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

34. What are the most influential age-related changes that may decrease a client's ability to exhibit muscular strength?
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass
150 mm
50 year old femaile who has COPD
1.5 mile run

35. 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
150 mm
Oxidative
5
Improved skill in performing the exercise

36. What guidelines should the personal trainer recommend to a client to promote proper fluid intake?
An inexperienced personal trainer - an injured client - testing a female client
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement
Motor unit recruitment increases
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound

37. What excercise mode requires the client to produce the most power?
3RM hang clean
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
Upper body strength

38. What is the correct sequence of structures that the blood passes through after it leaves the left ventricle
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
3RM hang clean
50 year old femaile who has COPD

39. 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
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension
2349 kilocalories
Greater genetic variation

40. 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
50 year old femaile who has COPD
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint
Phosphagen

41. What are the components of oxygen uptake (vo2)
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference
A breakdown of glycogen - it's end product is converted to lactic acid - a breakdown of glucose
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
150 mm

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

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?
Increasing aerobic endurance
Phosphagen
Integrated
150 mm

44. Factors that may increase the standard error of measurement of a pushup test to assess muscular strength
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
An inexperienced personal trainer - an injured client - testing a female client
Increase pennation
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client

45. Symptoms of overtraining from resistance exercise...
Inconsistent or interrupted sleep - nonpurposeful decreases in lean body mass - leveled-off improvements or losses in muscular strength
Oxidative
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement
Reliable

46. What is true regarding bone health?
Improved skill in performing the exercise
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago
An inexperienced personal trainer - an injured client - testing a female client
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.

47. What change in the body's substrate use and enzyme levels is due to an adaptation to chronic aerobic exercise?
Sitting quietly
Increased = mitochondrial density - Decreased = submax exercise HR
Increased concentration of GLUT
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.

48. What is a point along the self-determination or regulation continuum is a client who is highly intrinsically motivated?
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force
2349 kilocalories
A breakdown of glycogen - it's end product is converted to lactic acid - a breakdown of glucose
Integrated

49. What energy systems is capable of producing the greatest amount (capacity) of ATP?
Increase pennation
Increased = mitochondrial density - Decreased = submax exercise HR
Inconsistent or interrupted sleep - nonpurposeful decreases in lean body mass - leveled-off improvements or losses in muscular strength
Oxidative

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