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NSCA Personal Trainer Exam

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. At what point during the upward movement phase of the standing barbell curl exercise can the biceps brachii muscles produce the greatest torque?


2. What excercise mode requires the client to produce the most power?






3. Clients possessing predominantly Type II muslce fibers in their lower body probably would perform well in which of the events






4. What composes total lung capacity?






5. An example of an outcome goal...


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






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






8. What guidelines should the personal trainer recommend to a client to promote proper fluid intake?






9. 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?






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






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






12. What energy systems is capable of producing the greatest amount (capacity) of ATP?






13. Symptoms of overtraining from resistance exercise...






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






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






16. 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?






17. 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






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






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






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






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


22. An example of an outcome goal...


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






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






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






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






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






28. 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?






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






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






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






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






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






34. 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






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






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






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






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






39. 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?






40. What excercise mode requires the client to produce the most power?






41. Three cognitive benefits provided by exercise






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


43. What composes total lung capacity?






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






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






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...






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






48. 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?






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






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