Chapter 13 Fitness Coaching Strategies for Weight Loss Flashcards
1 What are the three components of evidence-based practice?
Quantitative research, qualitative research, and real-world experience.
A cohort study, a double-blind study, and a meta-analysis.
Surveys, questionnaires, and, focus groups.
Research evidence, professional expertise, and client preferences
Research evidence, professional expertise, and client preferences
2 What is the purpose of the Assess step in the 5 A’s framework.
To establish a mutual agreement between the fitness professional and client on clear goals and direction.
To educate clients on suitable weight management techniques and the potential health-based incentives of weight loss.
To identify barriers to exercise and physical activity and identify how to overcome them.
To collect baseline information about the client and to identify their willingness to pursue weight loss.
To collect baseline information about the client and to identify their willingness to pursue weight loss.
3 What is the purpose of the Advise step in the 5 A’s framework?
To establish a mutual agreement between the fitness professional and client on clear goals and direction.
To collect baseline information about the client and to identify their willingness to pursue weight loss
To identify barriers to exercise and physical activity and identify how to overcome them.
To educate clients on suitable weight management techniques and the potential health-based incentives of weight loss.
To educate clients on suitable weight management techniques and the potential health-based incentives of weight loss.
4 What is the purpose of the Agree step in the 5 A’s framework?
To collect baseline information about the client and to identify their willingness to pursue weight loss.
To establish a mutual agreement between the fitness professional and client on clear goals and direction.
To identify barriers to exercise and physical activity and identify how to overcome them.
To educate clients on suitable weight management techniques and the potential health-based incentives of weight loss.
To establish a mutual agreement between the fitness professional and client on clear goals and direction.
5 What is the purpose of the Arrange step in the 5 A’s framework?
To establish accountability established through regular (weekly) follow-up on progress.
To collect baseline information about the client and to identify their willingness to pursue weight loss.
To educate clients on suitable weight management techniques and the potential health-based incentives of weight loss.
To identify barriers to exercise and physical activity and identify how to overcome them.
To establish accountability established through regular (weekly) follow-up on progress.
6 Which activity is beyond a Weight Loss Specialist’s scope of practice?
Provide education about food labels
Diagnose a psychological disorder
Perform movement and posture assessments
Identify muscle imbalances
Diagnose a psychological disorder
7 What is integrated training?
The combination of circuit training and split routines to reshape and tone the body.
A strategy that uses steady-state and interval training to elicit a caloric deficit.
A strategy that combines all forms of exercise in a systematic and progressive fashion.
The combination of Pilates, yoga, and step aerobics to improve aerobic fitness.
A strategy that combines all forms of exercise in a systematic and progressive fashion.
8 What is an open-ended question?
A true or false question
A question that cannot be answered with a yes or no and requires more detail
A question that can be answered simply with a yes or no
A multiple choice-style question
A question that cannot be answered with a yes or no and requires more detail
9 What term is used to describe muscles on each side of a joint having altered length-tension relationships.
Relative flexibility
Synergistic dominance
Autogenic inhibition
Muscle imbalance
Muscle imbalance
10 What two planes of motion do most injuries occur?
Frontal and transverse planes
Overhead and lateral planes
Sagittal and scapular planes
Frontal and scapular planes
Frontal and transverse planes
11What is an appropriate gradual increase of exercise volume per week that appears to be a safe protocol for most apparently healthy adults.
<10% per week
10 to 15% per week
> 20 per week
16 to 20% per week
<10% per week
12 Where appropriate, which type of exercise should be prioritize?
Plyometric exercises
SAQ exercises
Single-joint exercises
Multi-joint exercises
Multi-joint exercises
13 What is ambivalence?
Feeling motivated toward the goal
Having consistent feelings or ideas toward something
Sadness from not achieving the goal
A person’s state of mixed feelings about a situation
A person’s state of mixed feelings about a situation
14 What are the five kinetic chain checkpoints?
Fingers, wrists, elbows, clavicle, sternum
Feet, knees, hips, shoulders, head
Tibia, fibula, femur, ilium, sacrum
Cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacral, coccyx
Feet, knees, hips, shoulders, head
15 Which of these is an example of non-exercise activity thermogenesis (NEAT)?
Resistance Training
Sleeping
Sport competition
Fidgeting
Fidgeting
16 What condition dictates the avoidance of self-myofascial techniques.
Identified overactive muscles
Peripheral neuropathy
Identified underactive muscles
Delayed onset muscle soreness
Peripheral neuropathy
17 Stretching techniques, like static stretching, should only be performed on what types of tissues?
Tissues that have been identified as overactive during the assessment process.
Tissues that have been identified as underactive during the assessment process.
Type 2, fast twitch, muscle fibers and tendons.
Type 1, slow twitch, muscle fibers and ligaments.
Tissues that have been identified as overactive during the assessment process.
18 What is the purpose of the Activation section of NASMs Daily Exercise Template.
To increase lean muscle mass, reduce body fat, and improve numerous health markers such as reducing hypertension.
To increase joint range of motion and tissue extensibility and stretch tolerance capabilities.
To further enhance energy expenditure and develop an individual’s agility, reaction time, and overall athleticism.
To strengthen underactive muscles identified during the assessment process, which will help to reestablish ideal joint alignment, stability, and control.
To strengthen underactive muscles identified during the assessment process, which will help to reestablish ideal joint alignment, stability, and control.
19 What type of exercises are appropriate to program during the Skill Development section of NASMs Daily Exercise Template?
Core and balance exercises
Resistance and cardiovascular exercises
Self-myofascial techniques and active stretching
Plyometric and SAQ exercises
Plyometric and SAQ exercises
20 What does DOMS stand for?
Delayed onset muscle soreness
Daily occurring mental struggle
Daily ongoing muscle soreness
Delayed onset muscle strength
Delayed onset muscle soreness
21 If a client has no exercise history, then what should a fitness professional recommend?
Test the client’s one repetition maximum strength.
Perform a V02max test to determine aerobic capacity.
Gradually introduce the client to exercise and progress the workload over time.
Complete a time to exhaustion test.
Gradually introduce the client to exercise and progress the workload over time.
22 What is the righting reflex?
Always wanting to be right in any given situation
A spasm of the right arm or leg
Wanting to “make things right” when a problem is identified
A pain or tingling sensation in the right arm
Wanting to “make things right” when a problem is identified
23 What is the definition of adherence?
Observing, measuring, and evaluating one’s own behavior.
The level of commitment to a behavior or plan of action.
The ability of a person to make their own decisions.
Describes a person’s state of mixed feelings about a situation.
The level of commitment to a behavior or plan of action
