NFPT Review Questions with Verified Answers (Correct Update)
Question 1: Is the condition of your current state of being, related to the absence of disease or
injury.
Answer: Health
Question 2: ADLs stands for:
Answer: Activities of Daily Living Which exercise concern(s) would you, as a personal trainer,
recommend that your client see a highly trained physiologist or physician for a determination and
prescription of an appropriate
Question 3: training regime?
Answer: Respiratory disease; Joint injury; Cardiovascular disease The point at which muscle joins the
stationary bone at the end closest to the body is the
Question 4:
Answer: origin
Question 5: The strong connective tissue that connects muscle to bone is called
Answer: tendon
Question 6: There is an average of ___ muscles in the adult human body.
Answer: 656
Question 7: The average adult has how many bones?
Answer: 206
Question 8: A tough but flexible connective tissue that covers the end of each bone is called
Answer: cartilage Blood travels away from the heart, carrying oxygenated blood to the body, through
________;
Question 9: and deoxygenated blood comes back to the heart through _____.
Answer: arteries; veins This muscle controls the overall breathing process. As it contracts it flattens,
causing air to be
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, Question 10: sucked into the lungs; and when it relaxes the air in the lungs is forced out.
Answer: Diaphragm What division of the nervous system sends and receives information, and
contains the brain and
Question 11: spinal cord?
Answer: Central Nervous System (CNS)
Question 12: What part of the digestive system does most absorption of nutrients occur?
Answer: Small intestine
Question 13: The Knee is ______ to the hip and ________ to the ankle.
Answer: distal; proximal
Question 14: A tendon;
Answer: Connects muscle to bone
Question 15: Ligaments are ____ elastic than tendons and are ____ prone to tearing than
tendons.
Answer: less; more Commonly called the 'Prime Movers', these are the muscles that contract to create
the ROM
Question 16: through the joint, they are the muscles primarily responsible for the movement.
Answer: Agonists These muscles, sometimes referred to as 'neutralizers', provide for assistance of the
prime mover/s/ by neutralizing the force of the movement through the plane of motion.
Question 17:
Answer: Synergists
Question 18: The triceps are the __________ to ______
Answer: Antagonist to biceps
Question 19: The quadratus lumborum stabilizes the spine in
Answer: all planes
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Question 1: Is the condition of your current state of being, related to the absence of disease or
injury.
Answer: Health
Question 2: ADLs stands for:
Answer: Activities of Daily Living Which exercise concern(s) would you, as a personal trainer,
recommend that your client see a highly trained physiologist or physician for a determination and
prescription of an appropriate
Question 3: training regime?
Answer: Respiratory disease; Joint injury; Cardiovascular disease The point at which muscle joins the
stationary bone at the end closest to the body is the
Question 4:
Answer: origin
Question 5: The strong connective tissue that connects muscle to bone is called
Answer: tendon
Question 6: There is an average of ___ muscles in the adult human body.
Answer: 656
Question 7: The average adult has how many bones?
Answer: 206
Question 8: A tough but flexible connective tissue that covers the end of each bone is called
Answer: cartilage Blood travels away from the heart, carrying oxygenated blood to the body, through
________;
Question 9: and deoxygenated blood comes back to the heart through _____.
Answer: arteries; veins This muscle controls the overall breathing process. As it contracts it flattens,
causing air to be
Page 1
, Question 10: sucked into the lungs; and when it relaxes the air in the lungs is forced out.
Answer: Diaphragm What division of the nervous system sends and receives information, and
contains the brain and
Question 11: spinal cord?
Answer: Central Nervous System (CNS)
Question 12: What part of the digestive system does most absorption of nutrients occur?
Answer: Small intestine
Question 13: The Knee is ______ to the hip and ________ to the ankle.
Answer: distal; proximal
Question 14: A tendon;
Answer: Connects muscle to bone
Question 15: Ligaments are ____ elastic than tendons and are ____ prone to tearing than
tendons.
Answer: less; more Commonly called the 'Prime Movers', these are the muscles that contract to create
the ROM
Question 16: through the joint, they are the muscles primarily responsible for the movement.
Answer: Agonists These muscles, sometimes referred to as 'neutralizers', provide for assistance of the
prime mover/s/ by neutralizing the force of the movement through the plane of motion.
Question 17:
Answer: Synergists
Question 18: The triceps are the __________ to ______
Answer: Antagonist to biceps
Question 19: The quadratus lumborum stabilizes the spine in
Answer: all planes
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