NASM CPT CERTIFICATION EXAM STUDY GUIDE 2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS || 100% GUARANTEED PASS RECENT VERSION

NASM CPT STUDY GUIDE 2026/2027
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Name the structures that make up the
lumbo-pelvic-hip complex (LPHC). - ANSWER ✅Lumbar spine, pelvic girdle, abdomen,
and hip joint

Dysfunction within the connective
tissue of the kinetic chain that is
treated by the body as an injury,
initiating this repair process. - ANSWER ✅Cumulative injury cycle

Name four core-strength exercises. - ANSWER ✅Ball Crunch, Back Extensions,
Reverse
Crunch, Cable Rotations

The type of flexibility training that
applies gentle force to an adhesion,
altering the elastic muscle fibers from
a bundled position to a straighter
alignment with the direction of the
muscle and/or fascia. - ANSWER ✅Self-myofascial release

Exercises in the core-stabilization level
are identified through these
characteristics. - ANSWER ✅They involve little motion through the
spine and pelvis

What are four common ways a stressor
causes breakdown or injury? - ANSWER ✅Stress fractures, muscle strains, joint
pain, emotional fatigue

Name four core-stabilization exercises. - ANSWER ✅Marching, Floor Bridge, Floor
Prone

,Cobra, Prone Iso-abs

Law stating that soft tissue models
along the lines of stress. - ANSWER ✅Davis's law

Referred to as a co-contraction of
global muscles, such as the rectus
abdominis, external obliques, and
quadratus lumborum. - ANSWER ✅Bracing

It is critical that the core training
program is designed to achieve these
three functional outcomes in the right
order. - ANSWER ✅1. Intervertebral stability, 2. Lumbo-pelvic stability, 3. Movement
efficiency.

What are the proper backside
mechanics during sprinting? - ANSWER ✅Ankle plantar flexion, knee extension,
hip extension, and neutral pelvis

What are the proper frontside
mechanics during sprinting? - ANSWER ✅Ankle dorsiflexion, knee flexion, hip
flexion, and neutral pelvis

The ability to accelerate, decelerate,
stabilize, and change direction quickly,
while maintaining proper posture. - ANSWER ✅Agility

The ability to react and change body
position with maximum rate for force
production, in all planes of motion and
from all body positions, during
functional activities. - ANSWER ✅Quickness

The ability to move the body in one
intended direction as fast as possible. - ANSWER ✅Speed

Name four core-power exercises. - ANSWER ✅Rotation Chest Pass, Ball Medicine
Pullover Throw, Front Medicine Ball
Oblique Throw, Soccer Throw

The ability of the body to produce high
levels of force for prolonged periods of
time. - ANSWER ✅Muscular endurance

,What is a component of core-power
exercises that make them easy to
identify? - ANSWER ✅Explosive movements with medicine
balls

Name five balance-stabilization
exercises. - ANSWER ✅Single-leg Balance, Single-leg Balance
Reach, Single-leg Hip Internal and
External Rotation, Single-leg Lift and
Chop, Single-leg Throw and Catch

Name five balance-strength exercises. - ANSWER ✅Single-leg Squat, Single-leg Squat
Touchdown, Single-leg Romanian
Deadlift, Step-up to Balance,
Multiplanar Lunge to Balance

Name three balance-power exercises. - ANSWER ✅Multiplanar Hop with Stabilization,
Multiplanar Single-leg Box Hop-up with
Stabilization, Multiplanar Single-leg
Box Hop-down with Stabilization

What are four plyometric-stabilization
exercises? - ANSWER ✅SQUAT JUMP WITH STABILIZATION, BOX JUMP-UP WITH
STABILIZATION, BOX JUMP-DOWN WITH STABILIZATION, MULTIPLANAR JUMP
WITH STABILIZATION.

Name four plyometric-strength
exercises. - ANSWER ✅Squat Jump, Tuck Jump, Butt Kick,
Power Step-up

Name three plyometric-power
exercises. - ANSWER ✅Ice Skater, Single-leg Power Step-up,
Proprioceptive Plyometrics

Exercises that use quick powerful
movements involving an eccentric
action immediately followed by an
explosive concentric contraction. - ANSWER ✅Plyometric training

Body position progressions in balance
training. - ANSWER ✅TWO-LEG STABLE, SINGLE-LEG STABLE, TWO-LEG
UNSTABLE, SINGLE-LEG

Give examples of chest exercises used
in the Stabilization Level of the OPT

, model. - ANSWER ✅Ball Dumbbell Chest Press, Push-up,
Ball Push-up: hands on the ball,
Standing Cable Chest Press

What are the two techniques used in
corrective flexibility according to the
integrated flexibility continuum? - ANSWER ✅SMR (self-myofascial release) and
static stretching

Give examples of total-body power
exercises - ANSWER ✅Two-arm Push Press, Barbell Clean,
Dumbbell Snatch, Squat Thrust,
Kettlebell Hang, Clean and Jerk

What is the minimum amount of time
static stretches should be held? - ANSWER ✅30 seconds

Name two different leg-stabilization
exercises. - ANSWER ✅Ball Squat and Multiplanar Step-up to
Balance

What are three things that a client
should have established prior to
incorporating a dynamic stretching
program? - ANSWER ✅Good levels of tissue extensibility, core
stability, and balance capabilities

Name two strength level exercises for
the legs. - ANSWER ✅Leg Press and Barbell Squat

Name two power level exercises for
the legs. - ANSWER ✅Squat Jump and Tuck Jump

Give 3 examples of shoulder power exercises. - ANSWER ✅Front Medicine Ball
Oblique Throw,
Overhead Medicine Ball Throw, Speed
Tubing Shoulder Press

Give examples of total-body strength
exercises. - ANSWER ✅Lunge to Two-arm Dumbbell Press;
Squat, Curl, to Two-arm Press; Step-up
to Overhead Press: sagittal plane;
Romanian Deadlift, Shrug to Calf Raise

Based on the exercise selection