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ACE Personal Trainer Questions &
100% Correct Answers
Effective communication strategies
✓ :~~ active listening, verbal, nonverbal
Active listening (pg. 107)
✓ :~~ Listening carefully, empathetically, and with an open mind, engaging
communication. Takes a great deal of attention
verbal communication (pg. 100)
✓ :~~ speak clearly and use language easily understood
Nonverbal communication (pg. 100)
✓ :~~ Voice quality, eye contact, facial expression, hand gestures, body
position
Impact of age, culture, and other demographic factors on the ability to build
rapport and gather relevant health and lifestyle information
✓ :~~ Age:
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Culture: take time to learn about client's beliefs, attitudes, values, lifestyles-
ability to communicate and work effectively with people from different cultures
(person-centered care)
Tools and methods used to gather information required for program design and
implementation
✓ :~~ pre-participation health screening, motivational interviewing, waivers
pre-participation health screening (pg. 137)
✓ :~~ -New health screening process is based on 3 factors that have been
identified as important risk modulators of exercise-related cardiovascular
events:
1. Individual's current level of physical activity
2. Diagnosed disease or signs or symptoms of disease
3/. Desired exercise intensity
-Goal of process is to identify individuals-
1. Who should receive medical clearance before initiating exercise program
2. With clinically significant diseases who may benefit from medically supervised
exercise program
3. With medical conditions that may require exclusion from exercise programs until
conditions are resolved
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-Recognize scenarios in which a client should receive further evaluation from a
qualified healthcare professional prior to engaging in increased activity
motivational interviewing (pg. 107)
✓ :~~ -Show supportive concern while challenging a client's current behavior;
uses guiding style; may help clients feel the need to become more active
and make a decision to start exercising
-Guiding style- PT encourages, supports, and assists the client in the process of
change
waivers
✓ :~~
Spirit of Motivational Interviewing (4 key components)
✓ :~~ collaboration, acceptance, compassion, evocation
OARS (page 112-113)
✓ :~~ a key aspect of motivational interviewing
-Offering affirmations
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-Reflective listening
-Summarizing
OARS is put into practice by these overlapping processes
-Engaging
-Focusing
-Evoking
-Planning
Appropriate dietary evaluation methods
✓ :~~ dietary recall, food logs, questionnaires
Appropriate dietary evaluation purposes
✓ :~~
Appropriate dietary evaluation inherent risks
✓ :~~
Appropriate dietary evaluation benefits
✓ :~~
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ACE Personal Trainer Questions &
100% Correct Answers
Effective communication strategies
✓ :~~ active listening, verbal, nonverbal
Active listening (pg. 107)
✓ :~~ Listening carefully, empathetically, and with an open mind, engaging
communication. Takes a great deal of attention
verbal communication (pg. 100)
✓ :~~ speak clearly and use language easily understood
Nonverbal communication (pg. 100)
✓ :~~ Voice quality, eye contact, facial expression, hand gestures, body
position
Impact of age, culture, and other demographic factors on the ability to build
rapport and gather relevant health and lifestyle information
✓ :~~ Age:
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Culture: take time to learn about client's beliefs, attitudes, values, lifestyles-
ability to communicate and work effectively with people from different cultures
(person-centered care)
Tools and methods used to gather information required for program design and
implementation
✓ :~~ pre-participation health screening, motivational interviewing, waivers
pre-participation health screening (pg. 137)
✓ :~~ -New health screening process is based on 3 factors that have been
identified as important risk modulators of exercise-related cardiovascular
events:
1. Individual's current level of physical activity
2. Diagnosed disease or signs or symptoms of disease
3/. Desired exercise intensity
-Goal of process is to identify individuals-
1. Who should receive medical clearance before initiating exercise program
2. With clinically significant diseases who may benefit from medically supervised
exercise program
3. With medical conditions that may require exclusion from exercise programs until
conditions are resolved
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-Recognize scenarios in which a client should receive further evaluation from a
qualified healthcare professional prior to engaging in increased activity
motivational interviewing (pg. 107)
✓ :~~ -Show supportive concern while challenging a client's current behavior;
uses guiding style; may help clients feel the need to become more active
and make a decision to start exercising
-Guiding style- PT encourages, supports, and assists the client in the process of
change
waivers
✓ :~~
Spirit of Motivational Interviewing (4 key components)
✓ :~~ collaboration, acceptance, compassion, evocation
OARS (page 112-113)
✓ :~~ a key aspect of motivational interviewing
-Offering affirmations
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-Reflective listening
-Summarizing
OARS is put into practice by these overlapping processes
-Engaging
-Focusing
-Evoking
-Planning
Appropriate dietary evaluation methods
✓ :~~ dietary recall, food logs, questionnaires
Appropriate dietary evaluation purposes
✓ :~~
Appropriate dietary evaluation inherent risks
✓ :~~
Appropriate dietary evaluation benefits
✓ :~~
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