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NSCA Personal Trainer Exam

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What are the most influential age-related changes that may decrease a client's ability to exhibit muscular strength?






2. What is most likely to occur during a se of 10 reps at 75% of the 1RM for the squat exercise?






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






4. 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?


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






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






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






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






9. 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?


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






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


12. What is true regarding bone health?






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


14. 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






15. 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






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






17. Symptoms of overtraining from resistance exercise...






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






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






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


21. 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?






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






23. Three cognitive benefits provided by exercise






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






25. What change will increase concentric force production?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






36. What is most likely to occur during a se of 10 reps at 75% of the 1RM for the squat exercise?






37. 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?






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


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






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






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






42. Three cognitive benefits provided by exercise






43. An example of an outcome goal...


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






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






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






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






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






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






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