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NSCA Personal Trainer Exam

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What guidelines should the personal trainer recommend to a client to promote proper fluid intake?
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement
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.

2. What is most likely to occur as a result of aerobic endurance overtraining?
Increased concentration of GLUT
'I want to be able to bench press more than my friend'
Decreased VO2 max
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference

3. What is most responsible for the strength gain a client would experience following three weeks of a beginning resistance training program?
'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 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
3RM hang clean

4. 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?
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force
150 mm
5
Increasing aerobic endurance

5. 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...
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh
Reliable
Increased = mitochondrial density - Decreased = submax exercise HR
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force

6. 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?
A breakdown of glycogen - it's end product is converted to lactic acid - a breakdown of glucose
Increasing aerobic endurance
Oxidative
150 mm

7. 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?
2349 kilocalories
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!'
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound

8. 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
Phosphagen
Increased concentration of GLUT
Evaluate the client's level of exercise readiness AND Discuss the client's goals for his or her exercise program.
Increasing aerobic endurance

9. A client with a high risk stratification for coronary artery disease
An inexperienced personal trainer - an injured client - testing a female client
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
Integrated
50 year old femaile who has COPD

10. What are the most influential age-related changes that may decrease a client's ability to exhibit muscular strength?
Upper body strength
9 weeks
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass
'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!'

11. What is the correct sequence of structures that the blood passes through after it leaves the left ventricle
5
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound
Sitting quietly
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium

12. What are the components of oxygen uptake (vo2)
Reliable
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference
3RM hang clean
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force

13. What change in the body's substrate use and enzyme levels is due to an adaptation to chronic aerobic exercise?
Increased concentration of GLUT
At 90 degrees of flexion - because the moment arm is at it's longest length.
Evaluate the client's level of exercise readiness AND Discuss the client's goals for his or her exercise program.
Increase pennation

14. What controls the expansion and recoil of the lungs to create air exchange during heavy breathing?
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement
Sitting quietly
Upper body strength
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago

15. What is most likely to occur as a result of aerobic endurance overtraining?
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement
9 weeks
Decreased VO2 max
Upper body strength

16. Recommended sequence of tests that promotes the most accurate results when assessing general fitness
Inconsistent or interrupted sleep - nonpurposeful decreases in lean body mass - leveled-off improvements or losses in muscular strength
Increasing aerobic endurance
9 weeks
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test

17. An example of an outcome goal...

18. 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?

19. 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
Integrated
'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!'
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity

20. What is the correct sequence of components from smallest muscle structure to largest muscle structure?
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint
Motor unit recruitment increases
'I want to be able to bench press more than my friend'
Myofilament - myofibril - fiber - fasciculus

21. What should be included in a an informed consent?
5
Greater genetic variation
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client
Increasing aerobic endurance

22. What is true regarding bone health?
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh
Type I = high endurance Type II = high force
Increasing aerobic endurance
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.

23. 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?
A breakdown of glycogen - it's end product is converted to lactic acid - a breakdown of glucose
1.5 mile run
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

24. What is true regarding bone health?
2349 kilocalories
150 mm
Sitting quietly
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.

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

26. Factors that may increase the standard error of measurement of a pushup test to assess muscular strength
Inconsistent or interrupted sleep - nonpurposeful decreases in lean body mass - leveled-off improvements or losses in muscular strength
An inexperienced personal trainer - an injured client - testing a female client
5
Increasing aerobic endurance

27. Recommended sequence of tests that promotes the most accurate results when assessing general fitness
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
1.5 mile run
Upper body strength

28. Clients possessing predominantly Type II muslce fibers in their lower body probably would perform well in which of the events
Evaluate the client's level of exercise readiness AND Discuss the client's goals for his or her exercise program.
Olympic weightlifting AND 100 meter sprint
Oxidative
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh

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

30. What is most responsible for the strength gain a client would experience following three weeks of a beginning resistance training program?
Increasing aerobic endurance
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference
Improved skill in performing the exercise

31. What energy system is capable of producing ATP at the greatest rate?
Abdominal muscle activity - diaphragm movement - ribcage movement
150 mm
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity
Phosphagen

32. What factors discovered at a preparticipation health appraisal screening reveal a client's risk of coronary artery disease?
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound
Sitting quietly
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago
150 mm

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

34. What is a point along the self-determination or regulation continuum is a client who is highly intrinsically motivated?
Increasing aerobic endurance
Integrated
9 weeks
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass

35. 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
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound
1.5 mile run
Reliable

36. What is the correct sequence of structures that the blood passes through after it leaves the left ventricle
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
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
'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!'

37. Symptoms of overtraining from resistance exercise...
Arteries - capillaries - veins - right atrium
Inconsistent or interrupted sleep - nonpurposeful decreases in lean body mass - leveled-off improvements or losses in muscular strength
5
Reliable

38. What change will increase concentric force production?
1. Skinfold measurements 2. sit and reach test 3. push-up test 4. Rockport walking test
Increase pennation
150 mm
9 weeks

39. What is a point along the self-determination or regulation continuum is a client who is highly intrinsically motivated?
9 weeks
HDLs: 33 mg/dL AND quit smoking 60 days ago
Integrated
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity

40. 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?
3RM hang clean
Increased concentration of GLUT
Evaluate the client's level of exercise readiness AND Discuss the client's goals for his or her exercise program.
Upper body strength

41. What energy systems is capable of producing the greatest amount (capacity) of ATP?
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity
Greater genetic variation
Oxidative
1.5 mile run

42. What skinfold sites should a personal trainer select when applying a three-site SKF equation to a 45 year old female client?
Myofilament - myofibril - fiber - fasciculus
Triceps - Suprailium - Thigh
Motor unit recruitment increases
Evaluate the client's level of exercise readiness AND Discuss the client's goals for his or her exercise program.

43. 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?
2349 kilocalories
Sitting quietly
'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!'
Greater genetic variation

44. Factors that may increase the standard error of measurement of a pushup test to assess muscular strength
Greater genetic variation
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference
An inexperienced personal trainer - an injured client - testing a female client
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension

45. What composes total lung capacity?
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
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity
Heart rate - Stroke volume - a-vo2 difference

46. What composes total lung capacity?
Increasing aerobic endurance
Residual lung volume AND forced vital capacity
'I want to be able to bench press more than my friend'
Back squat

47. 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
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass
1.5 mile run
5
Decreased ability to produce force rapidly AND decreased muscle mass

48. What should be included in a an informed consent?
Muscle spindle = Rapid muscle length change Golgi tendon organ = increase in muscle tension
Benefits associated with participation AND Responsibilities of the client
3RM hang clean
Greater genetic variation

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
Upper body strength
Greater genetic variation
Increasing aerobic endurance
Before Exercise - 1 pint (.5 liters) 2 hours before After exercise - 1 pint (.5 liter) for each lost pound

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