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NSCA Personal Trainer Exam

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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...






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






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






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






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






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






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






8. 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?






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






10. 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?






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






12. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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


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






21. This describes the properties of Type I and Type II muscle fibers






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






23. 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?






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






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


26. What is true regarding bone health?






27. 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?






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






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






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


31. What composes total lung capacity?






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






33. An example of an outcome goal...


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






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


36. 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






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


38. Symptoms of overtraining from resistance exercise...






39. An example of an outcome goal...


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






41. 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






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






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






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






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






46. What composes total lung capacity?






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






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


49. 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. How many weeks will it take a 220 lb client to reach a goal weight of 200 lbs?