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Personal Training Basics

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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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. What is tinea pedis?






2. How many calories is a Very Low Calorie Diet (VLCD)?






3. What releses cortisol?






4. What type of lipids carry large amounts of cholesterol and deposit around the body?






5. What does a non fatigue test test?






6. What is a normal BMI?






7. What is the communication between 2 nerves?






8. What is it called when the foot is inward when walking?






9. What is a cerebrovascular accident?






10. What is autonomic dysreflexia?






11. Where is the superiliac?






12. What is a legal doctrine by which employers can be found vigorously liable for the negligent acts of their employees?






13. What does the gluteus medius do for the hips?






14. What form tells about past surgieries and risk factors for cad?






15. What tell body What is going on when not looking?






16. How much room between machines?






17. What is it called when a measurement of the same trait under the same conditions yields the same results from one trial to another?






18. What is the purpose of an assesment?






19. What is it called when you eat a lot then do a lot to loose the weight?






20. How many months of strength training should you do before doing plyometrics?






21. What is a bad waist to hip circumference for woman?






22. What intensity should clients with hypertension train at?






23. What is the difference between a persons observed score and the persons true score






24. What is a bad waist to hip circumference for men?






25. What is the 3rd health appraisal test?






26. What is a bad waist to hip circumference for men?






27. What do you use to test an anaerobic capacity test?






28. What tell body What is going on when not looking?






29. Which hand position should a spotter hold the bar in a lying tricep extension?






30. How many months of strength training should you do before doing plyometrics?






31. How many inches is a risk factor for a woman's waist?






32. Are leg raise and curls open or closed kinetic chain workouts?






33. What muscles does the bent over row underhand supinated grip isolate?






34. What movement do injuries happen most?






35. What is spondylolysis?






36. How do you figure out 8 rep max?






37. How many exercises should you give a beginning client?






38. What puts the curve into the lumbar and pulls the spine into position?






39. How much room should you have between olympic weight lifting barbells?






40. What is the loss of muscle mass called?






41. What can't LDL scores go over?






42. What kind of fibers show better gains in hypertrophy?






43. Which hand position should a spotter hold the bar in a lying tricep extension?






44. What is a negative risk factor?






45. What age must family member die of heart attack to make it a positive risk factor?






46. How much is resting metabolic rate use energy per day?






47. What is the 4th health appraisal test?






48. What part of the shoulder is blown during arm raises?






49. What are general warm ups?






50. What system are the lungs in?