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NSCA Personal Trainer Exam

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client
Sitting quietly
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference
Increasing aerobic endurance

2. 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?
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
Upper body strength
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference
2349 kilocalories

3. A client with a high risk stratification for coronary artery disease
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client
50 year old femaile who has COPD
Oxidative
A breakdown of glycogen - it's end product is converted to lactic acid - a breakdown of glucose

4. What excercise mode requires the client to produce the most power?
Increased concentration of GLUT
3RM hang clean
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement
Greater genetic variation

5. What is the correct sequence of components from smallest muscle structure to largest muscle structure?
'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 ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass
Myofilament - myofibril - fiber - fasciculus
Motor unit recruitment increases

6. A client with a high risk stratification for coronary artery disease
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
50 year old femaile who has COPD
Oxidative

7. What composes total lung capacity?
9 weeks
Improved skill in performing the exercise
50 year old femaile who has COPD
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity

8. What are the components of oxygen uptake (vo2)
150 mm
2349 kilocalories
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference

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

10. What factors discovered at a preparticipation health appraisal screening reveal a client's risk of coronary artery disease?
Decreased VO2 max
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago
150 mm
Improved skill in performing the exercise

11. What is most likely to occur as a result of aerobic endurance overtraining?
Increasing aerobic endurance
Phosphagen
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh
Decreased VO2 max

12. 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?
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
Sitting quietly
'I want to be able to bench press more than my friend'
150 mm

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

14. What energy systems is capable of producing the greatest amount (capacity) of ATP?
Increase pennation
An inexperienced personal trainer - an injured client - testing a female client
Oxidative
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference

15. What guidelines should the personal trainer recommend to a client to promote proper fluid intake?
Motor unit recruitment increases
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound
Increase pennation
Increase pennation

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

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

18. What composes total lung capacity?
Oxidative
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension
Integrated

19. 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?
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity
Increased = mitochondrial density - Decreased = submax exercise HR
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement
A breakdown of glycogen - it's end product is converted to lactic acid - a breakdown of glucose

20. 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?
Integrated
Oxidative
1.5 mile run
Motor unit recruitment increases

21. 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
An inexperienced personal trainer - an injured client - testing a female client
Integrated
5
Integrated

22. 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?
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound
Back squat
Upper body strength
2349 kilocalories

23. 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
Evaluate the client's level of exercise readiness AND Discuss the client's goals for his or her exercise program.
Phosphagen
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference
Increasing aerobic endurance

24. 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.
An inexperienced personal trainer - an injured client - testing a female client
Myofilament - myofibril - fiber - fasciculus
50 year old femaile who has COPD

25. What change in the body's substrate use and enzyme levels is due to an adaptation to chronic aerobic exercise?
Increasing aerobic endurance
Increased concentration of GLUT
Decreased VO2 max
Increased = mitochondrial density - Decreased = submax exercise HR

26. This describes the properties of Type I and Type II muscle fibers
Myofilament - myofibril - fiber - fasciculus
Evaluate the client's level of exercise readiness AND Discuss the client's goals for his or her exercise program.
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force
150 mm

27. 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
9 weeks
Myofilament - myofibril - fiber - fasciculus
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint

28. What guidelines should the personal trainer recommend to a client to promote proper fluid intake?
5
3RM hang clean
Reliable
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound

29. What is most likely to occur as a result of aerobic endurance overtraining?
2349 kilocalories
Oxidative
5
Decreased VO2 max

30. Describe what a client would be doing to allow the oxidative system to contribute the greatest percentage toward total ATP production.
Sitting quietly
3RM hang clean
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

31. What should be included in a an informed consent?
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound
Integrated
Myofilament - myofibril - fiber - fasciculus
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client

32. What skinfold sites should a personal trainer select when applying a three-site SKF equation to a 45 year old female client?
9 weeks
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium

33. Three cognitive benefits provided by exercise
50 year old femaile who has COPD
50 year old femaile who has COPD
At 90 degrees of flexion - because the moment arm is at it's longest length.
Greater genetic variation

34. What change in muscle length and tension are associated with a muscle spindle and a Golgi tendon
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension
At 90 degrees of flexion - because the moment arm is at it's longest length.
Increased = mitochondrial density - Decreased = submax exercise HR

35. What are the components of oxygen uptake (vo2)
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference
Increase pennation
Integrated
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity

36. 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
Back squat
Inconsistent or interrupted sleep - nonpurposeful decreases in lean body mass - leveled-off improvements or losses in muscular strength
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement

37. What is the correct sequence of components from smallest muscle structure to largest muscle structure?
Integrated
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago
Myofilament - myofibril - fiber - fasciculus
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity

38. Factors that may increase the standard error of measurement of a pushup test to assess muscular strength
'I want to be able to bench press more than my friend'
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
An inexperienced personal trainer - an injured client - testing a female client
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test

39. What change in the body's substrate use and enzyme levels is due to an adaptation to chronic aerobic exercise?
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
2349 kilocalories
Increased concentration of GLUT

40. What skinfold sites should a personal trainer select when applying a three-site SKF equation to a 45 year old female client?
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh
Phosphagen
3RM hang clean
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago

41. What change will increase concentric force production?
Increase pennation
Greater genetic variation
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force
Evaluate the client's level of exercise readiness AND Discuss the client's goals for his or her exercise program.

42. 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?

43. What is the correct sequence of structures that the blood passes through after it leaves the left ventricle
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
Oxidative
A breakdown of glycogen - it's end product is converted to lactic acid - a breakdown of glucose
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force

44. What is most likely to occur during a se of 10 reps at 75% of the 1RM for the squat exercise?
A breakdown of glycogen - it's end product is converted to lactic acid - a breakdown of glucose
Greater genetic variation
Motor unit recruitment increases
'I want to be able to bench press more than my friend'

45. 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
Upper body strength
Sitting quietly
2349 kilocalories

46. Recommended sequence of tests that promotes the most accurate results when assessing general fitness
Reliable
Motor unit recruitment increases
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
3RM hang clean

47. What controls the expansion and recoil of the lungs to create air exchange during heavy breathing?
3RM hang clean
Reliable
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement

48. What is a point along the self-determination or regulation continuum is a client who is highly intrinsically motivated?
2349 kilocalories
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity
Integrated
5

49. What is the correct sequence of structures that the blood passes through after it leaves the left ventricle
3RM hang clean
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension

50. Clients possessing predominantly Type II muslce fibers in their lower body probably would perform well in which of the events
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint
Oxidative
Upper body strength