NFPT Exam Questions with Verified Answers (Correct Update)
Question 1: Health
Answer: condition of your current state of being, related to the absence of disease or injury
Question 2: ADL
Answer: Activities of Daily Living
Question 3: Respiratory Disease, Joint Injury, and Cardiovascular disease
Answer: Which of the following exercise concern/s/ would you as a personal trainer, recommend that
your client see a highly trained psychologist or physician for a determination and prescription of an
appropriate training regime?
Question 4: Reinforcing Factors
Answer: As a personal trainer, you play a part in motivating positive behavior in your clients. When
you give praise, rewards, encouragement and/or recognition, which of the following influential
aspects are being used to motivate positive outcomes?
Question 5: 5 Components of Fitness
Answer: Physical Health is commonly identified, and can be measured, by:
Question 6: Origin
Answer: The point at which muscle joins the stationary bone at the end closest to the body is the
Question 7: Tendon
Answer: The strong connective tissue that connects muscle to bone, which pulls on the bones and
causes our limbs to move, is called
Question 8: 656
Answer: There is an average of ______ muscles in the adult human body.
Question 9: 206
Answer: The average adult has how many bones?
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, Question 10: Cartilage
Answer: A tough but flexible connective tissue that covers the end of each bone is called
Question 11: Arteries; veins
Answer: Blood travels away from the heart, carrying oxygenated blood to the body, through
____________; and deoxygenated blood comes back to the heart through ____________
Question 12: Diaphragm
Answer: This muscle controls the overall breathing process. As it contracts it flattens, causing air to be
sucked into the lungs; and when it relaxes the air in the lungs is forced out.
Question 13: Central Nervous System (CNS)
Answer: Which division of the nervous system sends and receives information, and contains the brain
and spinal cord?
Question 14: Small Intestine
Answer: What part of the digestive system does most absorption of nutrients occur?
Question 15: False
Answer: Glands, located in many regions of the body, release chemical messengers called enzymes
into the bloodstream. These enzymes transport signals from one cell to another for the purpose of
soliciting a specific bodily response and/or function.
Question 16: Peripheral Nervous System (PNS) and the Central Nervous System (CNS)
Answer: The Nervous System is divided into what two (2) parts?
Question 17: 12-15
Answer: In a healthy adult, the respiration process occurs approximately how many times per minute?
Question 18: Synovial Fluid
Answer: The cartilage-coated ends of bones are kept apart by a thin film that keeps the bones from
scratching against each other. This is called _______.
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Question 1: Health
Answer: condition of your current state of being, related to the absence of disease or injury
Question 2: ADL
Answer: Activities of Daily Living
Question 3: Respiratory Disease, Joint Injury, and Cardiovascular disease
Answer: Which of the following exercise concern/s/ would you as a personal trainer, recommend that
your client see a highly trained psychologist or physician for a determination and prescription of an
appropriate training regime?
Question 4: Reinforcing Factors
Answer: As a personal trainer, you play a part in motivating positive behavior in your clients. When
you give praise, rewards, encouragement and/or recognition, which of the following influential
aspects are being used to motivate positive outcomes?
Question 5: 5 Components of Fitness
Answer: Physical Health is commonly identified, and can be measured, by:
Question 6: Origin
Answer: The point at which muscle joins the stationary bone at the end closest to the body is the
Question 7: Tendon
Answer: The strong connective tissue that connects muscle to bone, which pulls on the bones and
causes our limbs to move, is called
Question 8: 656
Answer: There is an average of ______ muscles in the adult human body.
Question 9: 206
Answer: The average adult has how many bones?
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, Question 10: Cartilage
Answer: A tough but flexible connective tissue that covers the end of each bone is called
Question 11: Arteries; veins
Answer: Blood travels away from the heart, carrying oxygenated blood to the body, through
____________; and deoxygenated blood comes back to the heart through ____________
Question 12: Diaphragm
Answer: This muscle controls the overall breathing process. As it contracts it flattens, causing air to be
sucked into the lungs; and when it relaxes the air in the lungs is forced out.
Question 13: Central Nervous System (CNS)
Answer: Which division of the nervous system sends and receives information, and contains the brain
and spinal cord?
Question 14: Small Intestine
Answer: What part of the digestive system does most absorption of nutrients occur?
Question 15: False
Answer: Glands, located in many regions of the body, release chemical messengers called enzymes
into the bloodstream. These enzymes transport signals from one cell to another for the purpose of
soliciting a specific bodily response and/or function.
Question 16: Peripheral Nervous System (PNS) and the Central Nervous System (CNS)
Answer: The Nervous System is divided into what two (2) parts?
Question 17: 12-15
Answer: In a healthy adult, the respiration process occurs approximately how many times per minute?
Question 18: Synovial Fluid
Answer: The cartilage-coated ends of bones are kept apart by a thin film that keeps the bones from
scratching against each other. This is called _______.
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