NCCPT NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR CERTIFIED PERSONAL TRAINERS FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE 2025/2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED CORRECT SOLUTIONS || 100% GUARANTEED PASS <LATEST VERSION>

NCCPT NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR CERTIFIED PERSONAL TRAINERS FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE 2025/2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED CORRECT SOLUTIONS || 100% GUARANTEED PASS &lt;LATEST VERSION&gt; 1. Personal trainer - ANSWER student/empathetic teacher of movement and functions of human body the internal and external forces that act upon it and who professionally motivates, plans, ans monitors benefits of fitness, exercise and nutrition as it is related to a client's health related goals 2. 16 characteristics of a personal trainer - ANSWER knowledge, empathetic, professional, psychology, companionship, communicator, teacher, patient, considerate, versatile, salesman, proactive, scope, visual, auditory, and kinesthetic 3. Legal concerns of personal trainers - ANSWER being prepared in emergency situations, pre-activity health screening, interpreting results, development of physical activity recommendations and parameters, instruction & supervision 4. What increases likelihood of legal claims? - ANSWER failure to perform health screening 5. Responsible and liable for actions of employees - ANSWER employers 6. What is important to use to meet legal needs - ANSWER protective documents 7. Recommended to obtain for independent contractors - ANSWER liability insurance 8. Punctuality, appearance, presentation, knowledge, & hygiene - ANSWER professionalism 9. Employers are responsible for negligent acts or omissions of employees - ANSWER Vicarious Liability 10. When a client complains about pain in joints - ANSWER Do not diagnose 11. Study of cellular functions in human body during and after exercise - ANSWER Exercise Physiology 12. Most basic unit of life - ANSWER cell 13. What are the 3 energy systems - ANSWER ATP/Creatine Phosphate System, Glycolysis, Aerobic Oxidation 14. Anaerobic energy systems - ANSWER ATP/Creatine Phosphate System, Glycolysis 15. Aerobic energy system - ANSWER Aerobic Oxidative System 16. Which energy system does not need oxygen - ANSWER anaerobic systems 17. Weight lifting, sprints, tennis - ANSWER ATP-CP system activities 18. How long should you take a client's resting heart rate? - ANSWER 60 seconds 19. Normal resting heart rate - ANSWER 60-100 bpm 20. What is normal blood pressure? - ANSWER 120/80 mmHg 21. Fat weight + lean body weight - ANSWER body composition 22. A measure of body weight relative to height, body weight (kg) / height (m2) - ANSWER BMI 23. Where do women store most fat - ANSWER Tricep, hip, and thigh 24. Whows an individuals fat distribution - ANSWER waist to hip ratio 25. What is the standard three site skin fold formula for a man? - ANSWER chest, abdomen, thigh 26. Multiple site measurements for females include a sum of __, __, and __ skinfold - ANSWER triceps, suprailiac, thigh 27. Tendency to become inhibited, high proportion of fast-twitch fibers, parallel arrangement, superficial placement, crossing of more than one joint - ANSWER Phasic muscles 28. High proportion of slow twitch fibers penniform type arrangement deep placement and crossing of one joint. low levels of innervation - ANSWER Tonic muscles 29. Distal tendons close to joint axis (aka biceps brachii) - ANSWER spurt muscle 30. Distal tendons far from joint axis - joint stabilizers - ANSWER shunt muscle 31. When a 2 joint muscle contracts (shortens) across both joints simultaneously - ANSWER active insufficiency 32. Inactive muscle of a joint is of insufficient length to permit full rom - ANSWER passive insufficiency 33. Pressure of arteries during ventricular contraction - ANSWER systolic pressure 34. Pressure of arteries during ventricular filling - ANSWER diastolic pressure 35. Legal concerns for a personal trainer - ANSWER pre-activity health screening; interpreting results; develop physical activity recommendations and parameters; instruction & supervision; emergency preparations 36. A failure to screen or even perform screening which results in client injury may actually increase likelihood of legal claims and suits based on negligence - ANSWER True 37. Employers may not be responsible for the action of their employees - ANSWER False 38. It is recommended to utilize applicable protective documents such as waivers, releases, and informed consent to meet legal duties - ANSWER True 39. It is not recommended to obtain liability insurance when working as an independent contractor - ANSWER False 40. Professionalism has nothing to do with punctuality, appearance, presentation, knowledge or hygiene - ANSWER False 41. A client complains about back pain. you should tell them to take NSAIDS and rest - ANSWER False 42. A client tells you they are thinking about refinancing their home. you should tell them to re-modify their loan - ANSWER False 43. A client tells you they're concerned about their child who is taking drugs. you should return the focus back to the workout. - ANSWER True 44. A client makes a sexual innuendo towards you; you should either report them to manager of inform them you feel uncomfortable with their sexual comments - ANSWER True 45. 4 chambers of the heart - ANSWER left and right atrium, left and right ventricle 46. Three energy systems - ANSWER ATP-CP system, glycolysis, aerobic oxidation 47. Primer mover in bench press - ANSWER pectoralis major 48. Antagonist for bench press - ANSWER rhomboids, trapezius, posterior deltoid 49. Stabilizers on bench press - ANSWER Rotator Cuff: Supraspinatus, infaspinatus, teres minor, subscapularis 50. What causes post exercise soreness and what do you do about it? - ANSWER microtrauma to muscle tissue; PRICE, light stretching, active rest, hydrate 51. Difference between slow and fast twitch muscles - ANSWER slow: slow shortening velocities, red, endurance, resistance to fatigue, large mitochondria, high myoglobin, rich capillary supply, primarily tonic 52. Fast: high shortening velocities, fatigue rapidly, large number of actin & myosin filaments, white, prime mover, phasic 53. Fat burning THR for 45 yr old RHR 60bpm - ANSWER 220-45-60=115 115x.4=46+60=106 115x.65=75+60=135 54. Define all or none theory - ANSWER when myofiber innervated by nerve cell, contracts totally or not at all 55. Difference between concentric and eccentric contractions - ANSWER concentric: shortening muscle, weakest muscle contraction eccentric: lengthening of a muscle, strongest muscle contraction 56. Name two functions of blood - ANSWER 1. transport oxygen and nutrients to cell 2. transport carbon dioxide and waste from cell 57. Define OBLA - ANSWER onset of blood lactate accumulation 58. What is the largest sesamoid bone? - ANSWER patella 59. Sensory organ situated musculotendinous junction? - ANSWER golgi tendon 60. Vitamins? - ANSWER organic compunds 61. German researches studied weight lifting in children for 60 years for children and found? - ANSWER stunted children's growth 62. What are the agonist in a narrow grip bench press? - ANSWER anterior deltoid and tricepts 63. The five stages of change? - ANSWER precomtemplation contemplation preparation action maintenance 64. 700 calories or minus 200 calories per day how much fat will he gain? - ANSWER 4 lbs 65. A muscle stretched mora than 1.5 times? - ANSWER approach passive insufficiency 66. The knee is formed by the aritculation of the distal? - ANSWER proximal femur and tibia 67. What are the prime movers at the knee when performing a squat? - ANSWER rectus femoris, vastus x3 68. When training beginners is is best to? - ANSWER train them with partial range of motion 69. Person taking calcium channel blockers? - ANSWER decreased hear rate 70. When training chilren the study fleck and kramer? - ANSWER 10-15 reps 1-3 sets 71. We commonly see active insufficiency when? - ANSWER prone leg curl 72. Torque? - ANSWER the force to rotate 73. When trying to sell your services to a client you should? - ANSWER focus on their goals 74. When pancreas detect hihg glucose? - ANSWER produces insulin 75. The primary hormones responsible for muscle growth - ANSWER testosterone, growth hormone, and insulin like growth factor 76. Fibromyalgia ? - ANSWER muscle tenderness/ pain 77. BMI of 27 - ANSWER overwieght 78. Paly, clammy, rapid weak pulse - ANSWER heat exhaustion 79. What vitamin has been most effected by companies - ANSWER C 80. What muscle fiber is best for earobic - ANSWER RED 81. While body is at rest what percentage of protien - ANSWER 15-20% 82. Normal resting heart rate - ANSWER 60-80 83. Type lla and llb muscles - ANSWER fast twitch 84. Water soluble citamins - ANSWER not stored in tissues 85. How many vertabrae are in the thorax - ANSWER 12 86. Calculate BMI - ANSWER divide body weight in lbs by weight meters squared 87. What is the difference between concentric and eccentric resistance training - ANSWER concentric= muscle shorten eccentric = muscle lengthen 88. Coplete protein - ANSWER egg 89. When doing seated row - ANSWER elevate chest as you pull 90. Long slender build - ANSWER ectomorph 91. Law of Facilitation - ANSWER When an impulse passes through a given set of neurons to the exclusion of others, it will tend to do so again, and each time it transverses this path, the resistance will be smaller. The body will then adapt and be able to respond with greater ease and increasing ability. 92. Isometric muscle contraction - ANSWER when there is no change in length of muscle under tension * 2nd strongest 93. Eccentric muscle contraction - ANSWER lengthening of the muscle fibers under tension *Strongest 94. Concentric muscle contraction - ANSWER is the shortening of the muscle fibers under tension * weakest 95. Leg Press - ANSWER Agonist: quad muscle group antagoinist: hamstring muscle group stabilizer: hip rotator 96. What are the agonists in a dumbbell lateral raise - ANSWER supraspinatus and deltoids