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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 amenorrhea?






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






3. What is the purpose of an assesment?






4. What is amenorrhea?






5. What is it called when a test is repeated with the same people within 1-3 days unless it requires maximal effort then it is 7 days?






6. What kind of lever are the applied and resistive force on opposite sides od the fulcrum?






7. What is the Karnonen Formula?






8. What is a normal LDL?






9. What system are the lungs in?






10. What releses cortisol?






11. This evaluation happens before or during a workout with the client?






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






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






14. What is a normal MET rating?






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






16. How long should you hold static stretches for?






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






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






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






20. What muscles does the bent over row target in a pronated grip?






21. How much room between machines?






22. What does a 1RM test for?






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






24. What replenishes ATP?






25. What system are the lungs in?






26. What is a procedure that is required for administering a reliable test?






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






28. What are used to compare the preformance of an individual against another person in a like category?






29. When does HDL become a risk factor?






30. What can't LDL scores go over?






31. What does a non fatigue test test?






32. When does HDL become a risk factor?






33. How do you figure out 8 rep max?






34. What do you use to test a sub maximal aerobic capacity?






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






36. How high should mirrors be placed above floor?






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






38. What is the 3rd health appraisal test?






39. With a disc problem should you do squats or deadlifts?






40. Where is gynoid obesity targeted at?






41. What does a non fatigue test test?






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






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






44. Where is the superiliac?






45. What is tinea pedis?






46. Is a lunge closed or open kinetic chain workout?






47. What is the communication between 2 nerves?






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






49. What does RPE stand for?






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