NASM CPT FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

NASM CPT FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE UPDATED
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

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1. Proprioception
Answer:
The body's ability to to sense the relative position of adjacent parts of the body
Ex: when walking our feet give us proprioception about the type of surface we are on.

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2. Mechanoreceptors
Answer:
specialized structures that recognize pressure in tissue and transmit signals to sensory nerves.

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3. Muscle Spindles
Answer:
sensory receptors in the muscles that are parallel to the muscle fibers and are sensitive to change in muscle
length. Spindles stretch with muscle and sends information to CNS.
helps to prevent muscles from stretching too far or too fast

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4. Golgi Tendon Organs
Answer:
sensory receptors that are located at the point where the skeletal muscle fibers insert into the tendon.
Sensitive to change in tension at the rate of change
causes the muscle to relax

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5. Epimysium
Answer:
connective tissue UNDER fascia that acts as an outer layer of the whole muscle

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6. Perimysium
Answer:
connective tissue acts as an outer layer of fascicles

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7. Endomysium
Answer:
between the individual muscle fibers

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8. Type 1 Muscle Fiber

,Answer:
"slow-twitch", smaller in size, lessforce produced, long-term contractions (stabilization)

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9. Type 2 Muscle Fiber
Answer:
fast twitch, larger, quick to fatigue, force and power exercises

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10. Agonist
Answer:
PRIME MOVER, main muscles ex: chest press-> pectoralis major

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11. Synergist
Answer:
ASSIST PRIME MOVER, ex: chest press -> ant deltoid, triceps

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12. Stabilizer
Answer:
stabilizes while prime mover and assist work. chest press -> rotator cuff

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13. Antagonist
Answer:
Oppose Prime mover, chest press -> posterior delt

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14. Right Atrium
Answer:
gather DEOXGENATED blood returning to the heart from ENTIRE BODY

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15. Left Atrium
Answer:
gathers OXYGENATED blood coming from the LUNGS

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16. Right Ventricle
Answer:
thin walls pumps under low pressure. Pumps to lungs

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17. Left Ventricle

, Answer:
thick walls, pumps under high pressure to rest of body

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18. Metabolism
Answer:
all of the chemical reactions that happen in our body to maintain itself. Nutrients are acquired, transported
and used by the body.

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19. Exercise Metabolism
Answer:
bioenergetics as it relates to the unique physiologic changes and demands on body during exercise

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20. Substrates
Answer:
where enzymes act

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21. Carbohydrates
Answer:
Sugars, starches, and fiber. Provide the body with a source of fuel and energy required for all daily
activities

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22. Glucose
Answer:
a simple sugar that comes from the digestion of carbs that is transported through the blood and is used or
stored as energy

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23. Glycogen
Answer:
the stored form of carbs, when needed it converts to glucose and used

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24. Fat
Answer:
a secondary source of energy

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25. Trigylcerides
Answer:
come from fats, when calories are consumed but not used they are converted and stored in fat cells