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NFPT Exam Questions and Correct Answers Already Passed The Five Components of Physical Health - Answers cardiorespiratory conditioning, muscular strength, muscular endurance, flexibility, body composition SPICES - Answers Social Health, Physical Health, Intellectual Health, Cognitive Health, Emotional Health, Spiritual Health Endurance - Answers Cardiorespiratory Conditioning Muscular Endurance - Answers The amount of strength that can be repeated multiple times Muscular Strength - Answers The amount of strength in one repetition Flexibility - Answers The ROM in given joints Body Composition - Answers Amount of body fat relative to total weight or as compared to lean mass What are three additional factors specific to fitness of athletes? - Answers Agility, Speed, and Mobility Intellectual Health - Answers The capacity to integrate and assimilate new information into one's thinking and thought processes Cognitive Health - Answers Often grouped with mental health, has to do with how we process information in the brain. Includes the way we see, or conceptualize, the world around. Includes brain functioning in areas of conceptual and perceptual skill, language learning, and there brain development functions. Emotional Health - Answers Includes self-esteem, self-awareness, self-acceptance, self-image, and capacities to deal with adversity and stress. Includes ability to intimate with significant other. Spiritual Health - Answers Focused on connection of self with higher power. Sense of purpose, self-actualization, and inner joy. Described as self-acceptance, repentance for misdeeds, a willingness to give to and forgive others and a desire to seek peace with the community and the world overall. Why is important to touch on all things SPICES related as a personal trainer? - Answers Explain. What are the three categories of motivating factors for positive behavior? - Answers Predisposing factors, enabling factors, reinforcing factors Predisposing factors include? - Answers Knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and perceptions Enabling factors include? - Answers Skills, resources, physical and mental capabilities Reinforcing factors include? - Answers Praise from others, rewards, encouragement and recognition Which factors does the PT usually fall into? - Answers Reinforcing factors. We can recognize how the other two factors promote or inhibit positive behavior and we can work to reinforce positive behavior with forms of encouragement. What are some things that can be added to life to invoke positive change? - Answers Taking time for meaningful reflection, reading a book, being creative, socializing with friends and family, adding physical component and healthy eating to daily living. What areas of exercise therapy would require a highly trained exercise physiologist or physician to prescribe appropriate regimens? - Answers Cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, joint injury, or obesity/metabolic disorders which include diabetes and hypertension. What is the purpose of muscles? - Answers To produce Force, maintain posture, allow for movement, and produce heat. All muscle action originates and is controlled by what? - Answers The brain, which sends and receives signals through the nervous system. What gets pulled during a muscle contraction? - Answers Tendons, the strong connective tissue that connects muscles to bones. What are the two points of muscle? - Answers Origin and Insertion Define muscle origin. - Answers The origin is the point at which the muscle joins the stationary bone at the end closest to the center of the body. Define Muscle Insertion. - Answers The point at which the muscle joins ... When the muscle contracts the insertion point moves toward the origin. How many muscles in the average adult body? - Answers 656 TRUE OR FALSE: Muscles are joined together to form muscle groups to execute bodily movement. They can get shorter and pull but they cannot push. - Answers True TRUE OR FALSE: In muscle groups, when one group pulls the other group pulls back and as one team pulls the other one relaxes. - Answers True What are the three muscles types? - Answers Cardiac, Smooth, and Skeletal What are the two subtypes of muscles? - Answers Involuntary and Voluntary How many muscles are voluntary and how many bones do they control? - Answers 430 are voluntary, controlling 206 bones. Which type of muscles are voluntary? - Answers Skeletal muscles Which types of muscles are involuntary? - Answers Smooth and cardiac, which include the cardiovascular tissue, heart and blood vessels, and the lining of the intestinal and respiratory tracts. What internal system supplies muscles with the necessary oxygen and nutrients to survive? - Answers Cardiorespiratory System How many bones are in the adult body? - Answers 206. We are born with 350. What are the five major functions of the skeleton? - Answers Protect vital organs, support body framework (gives us upright, vertical shape); produces red and white blood cells in bone marrow; stores minerals and fats; regulates mineral balance, release minerals in to the blood as needed. What is the largest bone in the body? - Answers The femur. Allows us to walk. What are the rounded nodules, or outgrowths, on bones that generally act as sites for muscle insertions? - Answers Tubercles; for example, the tibial tuberosity creates an attachment point for the patellar ligament. What is a joint? - Answers A joint is a location at which two or more bones come together for movement and mechanical support. What is a ligament? - Answers Strong stretchy bands of fibrous tissue that hold joints together. What is cartilage? - Answers Cartilage covers the end of each bone and is a tough flexible connective tissue that has a smooth, shiny surface. What is the name of the thin film of slippery fluid located between the bones? - Answers Synovial fluid, keeps the bones from scratching and bumping against each other during movement. Tendon - Answers Connects muscle to bone Ligament - Answers Connects bone to bone How many liters of blood does the human body contain? - Answers 4-5 liters TRUE OR FALSE: Blood is the transport system by which oxygen and nutrients reach the body cells and waste materials are carried away. - Answers True Define hormones - Answers Regulatory substances transported in tissue fluids for stimulating specific cells that control the specific body process On which side of the heart does blood enter and what color is it? - Answers Right side, dark red, almost bluish and low in oxygen NAME THIS SYSTEM: Blood enters from the right side of the heart along the pulmonary arteries to the lungs, receive fresh supplies of oxygen and becomes bright red. It then flows along pulmonary veins to the left side of the heart. Blood leaves the left side and travels to the rest of the body through arteries, going away from the heart, and gradually divides into capillaries. - Answers Circulatory System. In relation to the heart, blood travels in which direction through the arteries? - Answers Away from the heart. In relation to the heart, blood travels in which direction through the veins? - Answers Toward the heart. What occurs in the capillaries? - Answers Food and O2 are release into the body's cells, and CO2 and other waste products are returned to the blood stream. Blood returns to the heart and begins process again. When we breathe, the body takes in O2 and removes what? - Answers CO2 What is the technical term for the windpipe and what purpose does it serve? - Answers Trachea; allows passage of air into lungs What is the name for the tubes that carry air into each lung? - Answers Bronchi Bronchi divide into even smaller tubes called what? - Answers Bronchioles What is the name for the small air sacs located at the end of each bronchiole and is wrapped up by capillaries? - Answers Alveoli What is the respiratory system? - Answers The body system that deals with breathing Our breathing process is controlled by which muscle? - Answers The diaphragm; located in the Torso underneath the lungs. As the diaphragm contracts, does it expand or flatten? - Answers It flattens, causing the chest to expand and air to be sucked into the lungs. What test can you perform to determine an individual's maximum O2 intake in one breath? - Answers VO2 max Which part of the nervous system is responsible for sending and receiving information to and from the entire body, and consists of the brain and spinal cord? - Answers CNS (central nervous system); processing hub Which nervous system consist of nerves that attach the CNS to the body's organs and extremities and acts as a messenger between the brain and the body? - Answers PNS (peripheral nervous system)