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Personal Training Basics

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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 a specific minimal standard that trainers can use on clients to let them know whether their score was average enough to be considered healthy?






2. What type of flexability is the knee and elbow joints?






3. What intensity should clients with hypertension train at?






4. What is amenorrhea?






5. What is the best type of training for diabetics?






6. How many months should you loose 10% of your weight?






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






8. How many calories should you drop a day to loose 1-2 pounds a week?






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






10. How does a trainer place his hands when spotting a flat bench press?






11. What can't LDL scores go over?






12. How many calories should you drop a day to loose 1-2 pounds a week?






13. What is the communication between 2 nerves?






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






15. What do you use to test muscular strength?






16. A trainer does a test and gets the same results 2 days later this test is?






17. Where do sprains happen?






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






19. What is the correct age for people to do plyometrics?






20. How many months should you loose 10% of your weight?






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






22. What is a specific minimal standard that trainers can use on clients to let them know whether their score was average enough to be considered healthy?






23. What shouldn't your fasting glucose be over?






24. What is hyperpnea?






25. What is MET?






26. How should you test a pregnant woman's intensity?






27. What do you use to test a Local muscular endurance?






28. Which energy system makes the most ATP?






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






30. Does exercise increase or decrease insulin sensitivity?






31. How high should mirrors be placed above floor?






32. What does a non fatigue test test?






33. What part of the shoulder is targeted during seated front press?






34. What type of fast twitch fiber deals with anaerobic activity?






35. What type of scores show the best - worst and inbetween scores of the participants by rankings?






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






37. What replenishes ATP?






38. What is a test that can differientiate the fit and non fit clients?






39. What type of flexability is the knee and elbow joints?






40. How many sets should you do for a hypertrophy goal?






41. What is the synchronization of motor units?






42. What do you use to test a Local muscular endurance?






43. What is your aerobic exercise threshold?






44. What is a good RPE to work old people out at?






45. What type of scores show the best - worst and inbetween scores of the participants by rankings?






46. What is speed strength training?






47. Is multi joint exercises closed or open kinetic chain workouts?






48. What 3 assesments shouldn't you have old people do?






49. How long should you hold static stretches for?






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