NSCA CPSS EXAM Questions with Correct Answers
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1. Understand the relevant theory and principles that underpin training.
Answer: Train- ing Load model, Periodization, Parallel training model, Sequential Training
Model,
2. Periodization vs Programming
Answer: Periodization is a a macro-management strat- egy that serves as a training
blueprint, from which periods of time are assigned that target specific skills, fitness, or
performance related factors. Volume and intensity are inversely related. 1-3
peaks/macrocycles per year
Programming is an operation of strategic thinking which is best accomplished when ongoing
monitoring is integrated into the periodization process.
3. How is biological adaptation achieved?
Answer: by disturbing the current capacity of the system
4. What is supercompensation?
Answer: Supercompensation is the effect whereby per- formance is enhanced if the body
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,is able/allowed to adapt.
5. What syndrome is supercompensation related to?
Answer: General adaptation syn- drome
6. What is general adaptation syndrome?
Answer: The framework of interaction between the imposed training stress, acute fatigue
response, adaptation, and a new level of homeostasis/performance.
7. How does overtraining syndrome develop?
Answer: After continued high volume, high intensity training or both when an athlete is
over-reached.
8. Which training model is when performance of a positive fitness effect and a
negative fatigue effect decay exponentially over time but at different rates?
Answer: Fitness-fatigue model
9. What is the dose-response relationship?
Answer: relationship between the size of an administered dose and the intensity of the
response produced
10. What qualifies as external load?
Answer: Amount of weight lifted, distance/speed of running, its what an athlete has done.
11. What is it called when an athlete has responded to an external load?
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, Answer: In- ternal load
12. How is external load measured?
Answer: camera systems, global positioning sys- tems, local positioning systems, often
in conjunction with other sensors such as accelerometers and power meters.
13. What is the principle that the energy cost of acceleration is equivalent to running at
a constant speed up an "equivalent slope"?
Answer: Metabolic Power
14. What is the most appropriate equation for quantifying resistance training load?
Answer: Number of sets x number of repetitions x percent repetition max
15. What is performance?
Answer: A function of the difference between fitness and fatigue
16. Which central and peripheral sites contribute to fatigue?
Answer: Activation of the motor command (brain)
Propagation of the action potential through the descending motor pathway Myofilament
excitation-contraction coupling
Status of the intracellular milieu
17. What is Psychobiological model of fatigue?
Answer: Modification of intensity where- by fatigue occurs when the effort required
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100% Verified Graded A+
1. Understand the relevant theory and principles that underpin training.
Answer: Train- ing Load model, Periodization, Parallel training model, Sequential Training
Model,
2. Periodization vs Programming
Answer: Periodization is a a macro-management strat- egy that serves as a training
blueprint, from which periods of time are assigned that target specific skills, fitness, or
performance related factors. Volume and intensity are inversely related. 1-3
peaks/macrocycles per year
Programming is an operation of strategic thinking which is best accomplished when ongoing
monitoring is integrated into the periodization process.
3. How is biological adaptation achieved?
Answer: by disturbing the current capacity of the system
4. What is supercompensation?
Answer: Supercompensation is the effect whereby per- formance is enhanced if the body
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,is able/allowed to adapt.
5. What syndrome is supercompensation related to?
Answer: General adaptation syn- drome
6. What is general adaptation syndrome?
Answer: The framework of interaction between the imposed training stress, acute fatigue
response, adaptation, and a new level of homeostasis/performance.
7. How does overtraining syndrome develop?
Answer: After continued high volume, high intensity training or both when an athlete is
over-reached.
8. Which training model is when performance of a positive fitness effect and a
negative fatigue effect decay exponentially over time but at different rates?
Answer: Fitness-fatigue model
9. What is the dose-response relationship?
Answer: relationship between the size of an administered dose and the intensity of the
response produced
10. What qualifies as external load?
Answer: Amount of weight lifted, distance/speed of running, its what an athlete has done.
11. What is it called when an athlete has responded to an external load?
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, Answer: In- ternal load
12. How is external load measured?
Answer: camera systems, global positioning sys- tems, local positioning systems, often
in conjunction with other sensors such as accelerometers and power meters.
13. What is the principle that the energy cost of acceleration is equivalent to running at
a constant speed up an "equivalent slope"?
Answer: Metabolic Power
14. What is the most appropriate equation for quantifying resistance training load?
Answer: Number of sets x number of repetitions x percent repetition max
15. What is performance?
Answer: A function of the difference between fitness and fatigue
16. Which central and peripheral sites contribute to fatigue?
Answer: Activation of the motor command (brain)
Propagation of the action potential through the descending motor pathway Myofilament
excitation-contraction coupling
Status of the intracellular milieu
17. What is Psychobiological model of fatigue?
Answer: Modification of intensity where- by fatigue occurs when the effort required
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