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