ACE GROUP FITNESS INSTRUCTOR 2026 QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Which personal factor is MOST likely to facilitate long-term exercise adherence? -
✔✔prior participation
✔✔SMART goals - ✔✔Specific
Measurable
Attainable
Relevant
Time based
✔✔Stagger arrangement - ✔✔aquatics, indoor cycling, dance based, yoga classes
✔✔Parallel rows - ✔✔circuit classes with stations, large pilates, partner classes
✔✔circle arrangement - ✔✔older, youth, circuit training, boot camp
✔✔horizontal line - ✔✔kettle bell, suspension training, barre
✔✔3 stages of learning - ✔✔1. cognitive
2. associative
3. autonomous
✔✔Cognitive Stage of learning - ✔✔movements are new, errors and imperfect form
✔✔Associative stage of learning - ✔✔improvements in basic fundamentals of skills, can
concentrate on occasional cues
✔✔Autonomous stage of learning - ✔✔skills becomes habitual
✔✔Diastolic mmHg - ✔✔<80 normal
, 90-99 stage 1
>100 stage 2
✔✔Systolic - ✔✔<120 normal
120-139 prehypertension
140-159 stage 1
>160 hypertension
✔✔______ exercises elicit significant rise in BP - ✔✔Isometric
✔✔Hyperglycemia - ✔✔too much glucose, eating too many calories
✔✔Hypoglycemia - ✔✔not enough calories, blood sugar below 70mg/dl
✔✔5 teaching principles - ✔✔1. set up
2. execution
3. transitioning
4. cueing
5. rhythm
✔✔Set up - ✔✔naming the exercise and positioning the equipment or body for the
exercise movement
✔✔execution - ✔✔involves performing the movement or exercise through full ROM
✔✔Transitions - ✔✔flowing exercises so they connect
✔✔3 transitions - ✔✔1. Matching
2. Mending
3. Patching
✔✔Matching - ✔✔where one exercise ends, another starts
ex. barbell front squat followed by an overhead press
✔✔Mending - ✔✔stringing 2 exercises/movements together
ex. including thrusters (a squat and overhead press in unison)
✔✔Patching - ✔✔performing an additional movement between 2 exercises or
movements for a seamless transition
✔✔Cueing - ✔✔using as few words as possible to deliver directions and desired
outcomes
✔✔Rhythm - ✔✔defined as tempo of the movement
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Which personal factor is MOST likely to facilitate long-term exercise adherence? -
✔✔prior participation
✔✔SMART goals - ✔✔Specific
Measurable
Attainable
Relevant
Time based
✔✔Stagger arrangement - ✔✔aquatics, indoor cycling, dance based, yoga classes
✔✔Parallel rows - ✔✔circuit classes with stations, large pilates, partner classes
✔✔circle arrangement - ✔✔older, youth, circuit training, boot camp
✔✔horizontal line - ✔✔kettle bell, suspension training, barre
✔✔3 stages of learning - ✔✔1. cognitive
2. associative
3. autonomous
✔✔Cognitive Stage of learning - ✔✔movements are new, errors and imperfect form
✔✔Associative stage of learning - ✔✔improvements in basic fundamentals of skills, can
concentrate on occasional cues
✔✔Autonomous stage of learning - ✔✔skills becomes habitual
✔✔Diastolic mmHg - ✔✔<80 normal
, 90-99 stage 1
>100 stage 2
✔✔Systolic - ✔✔<120 normal
120-139 prehypertension
140-159 stage 1
>160 hypertension
✔✔______ exercises elicit significant rise in BP - ✔✔Isometric
✔✔Hyperglycemia - ✔✔too much glucose, eating too many calories
✔✔Hypoglycemia - ✔✔not enough calories, blood sugar below 70mg/dl
✔✔5 teaching principles - ✔✔1. set up
2. execution
3. transitioning
4. cueing
5. rhythm
✔✔Set up - ✔✔naming the exercise and positioning the equipment or body for the
exercise movement
✔✔execution - ✔✔involves performing the movement or exercise through full ROM
✔✔Transitions - ✔✔flowing exercises so they connect
✔✔3 transitions - ✔✔1. Matching
2. Mending
3. Patching
✔✔Matching - ✔✔where one exercise ends, another starts
ex. barbell front squat followed by an overhead press
✔✔Mending - ✔✔stringing 2 exercises/movements together
ex. including thrusters (a squat and overhead press in unison)
✔✔Patching - ✔✔performing an additional movement between 2 exercises or
movements for a seamless transition
✔✔Cueing - ✔✔using as few words as possible to deliver directions and desired
outcomes
✔✔Rhythm - ✔✔defined as tempo of the movement
