Missed Questions Flashcards
A Certified Personal Trainer wants to improve a client’s outcome expectations for resistance training. What behavior change technique might they use?
Providing information on the health benefits
Active and dynamic stretching utilize which physiological action?
Reciprocal inhibition
Loaded movement training is best achieved with which training modality?
ViPR
What phase of the OPT model aims to enhance stabilization endurance and simultaneously increase prime-mover strength?
Strength Endurance
Pronation of the foot describes what multiplanar movements?
Eversion, dorsiflexion, and ankle abduction
Improved performance during a plyometric jump is dependent upon which of the following?
Rapid amortization phase
What is an example of an individual in the exhaustion stage of the general adaptation syndrome?
The person has suffered an ACL sprain.
If forward head posture is permitted during the drawing-in maneuver, what muscle may be preferentially activated, leading to poor muscle balance throughout the spine?
Sternocleidomastoid
Which muscles are typically underactive when the feet turn out?
Anterior and posterior tibialis
For which of the following populations is the floor bridge exercise contraindicated?
Clients who are in the third trimester of pregnancy
What is the scientific term that describes the nervous system’s role in the contract/relax relationship between agonists and antagonists?
Reciprocal inhibition
Asking a client to close their eyes during a balance exercise would challenge which system?
Visual system
If someone engages in a short, intense burst of activity lasting less than 30 seconds, which energy system will contribute the most to ATP production?
The ATP-PC system
Which term defines the degree to which a test specifically measures what it is intended to measure?
Validity
Which statement best describes the first stage of the sales process?
Identifying a customer’s needs
A client who has been training for 6 months has recently moved farther from the fitness facility. Which barrier should she be preparing to overcome?
Convenience
What rate of oxygen utilization defines one metabolic equivalent (MET), a value representing the amount of oxygen utilized at true rest?
3.5 mL/kg/min
During the standing cable chest press, the resistance should be positioned to do what?
Resist shoulder horizontal adduction
Proper abdominal crunches on a stability ball allows for:
Increased spinal extension due to the curvature of the ball
What is a progression for the box jump-down with stabilization?
Multiplanar jump with stabilization
What principle is hydrostatic underwater weighing based upon?
Archimedes’ principle
What step cadence is used during the YMCA 3-minute step test?
A cadence of 96 steps per minute
What are the three movements performed during the ball combo I exercise?
Scaption, shoulder abduction, and cobra
What does the first law of thermodynamics state?
Energy can neither be created nor destroyed.
