Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist Exam Questions AND Correct
Answers
1-repetition maximum (1RM) - ✔✔greatest amount of weight that can be lifted
without proper technique for only one rep
3 phases of general adaptation syndrome? - ✔✔a. Alarm: body reacts to
stresses placed on it. Performance drops
b. Resistance: body adapts to resistances/stresses placed on them. Performance
increases
c. Exhaustion: too much stress/overtraining. Performance drops again. We want
to avoid this phase.
4 steps for applying standards of practice to risk management - ✔✔1. Identify
and select standards of practice, as well as all applicable laws.
2. Develop risk management strategies re ecting standards of practice and all
applicable laws.
3. Implement the risk management plan.
4. Evaluate the risk management plan.
Acceleration - ✔✔change in velocity per unit time
Achievement Motivation - ✔✔athlete's desire to engage in competition, or
social comparison
Acromegaly - ✔✔disfiguring disease characterized by widening of bones,
arthritis, organ enlargement, and metabolic abnormalities
,Adaptive ability - ✔✔modification of action sequence upon observation or
anticipation of novel or changing conditions and situations
adenosine triphosphate (ATP) - ✔✔Allows the transfer of energy from exergonic
to endergonic reactions.
Agility - ✔✔The skills and abilities needed to explosively change movement
velocities or modes.
agonist - ✔✔The muscle most directly involved in bringing about a movement;
also called the prime mover.
Amino acid - ✔✔molecule that when combined with other amino acids will form
polypeptides and proteins
Amortization phase - ✔✔Phase II of the SSC; the time between the eccentric
and concentric phases.
Anabolic hormone - ✔✔chemical in body that helps to build up tissues, such as
muscle
Anabolic hormones - ✔✔hormones that promote tissue building. Examples are
insulin, insulin-like growth factors, testosterone, and growth hormone.
Anabolic steroid - ✔✔synthetic derivatives of the male sex hormone,
testosterone
,anabolism - ✔✔The synthesis of larger molecules from smaller molecules; can
be accomplished using the energy released from catabolic reactions. Energy is
sometimes used from a previous catabolism reaction.
Anaerobic training - ✔✔High-intensity, intermittent bouts of exercise such as
weight training; plyometric drills; and speed, agility, and interval training.
anatomy - ✔✔The study of components that make up the musculoskeletal
"machine."
angle of pennation - ✔✔The angle between the muscle fibers and an imaginary
line between the muscle's origin and insertion; 0° corresponds to no pennation.
Anorexia nervosa - ✔✔self-imposed starvation in an effort to lose weight and
achieve thinness
antagonist - ✔✔A muscle that can slow down or stop the movement.
Antagonist activation patterns - ✔✔Changes in muscle activity of the
antagonists during agonist movements
Arousal - ✔✔the intensity dimension of behavior and physiology
Arrangement of Muscle Fibers influence on force production? - ✔✔pennate
muscle: able to generate force but have a lower maximal shortening velocity
, disadvantageous, for generating eccentric, isometric, or low-speed concentric
force
Association - ✔✔monitoring oneself during a competition
Assumption of risk - ✔✔voluntarily participation in activity with knowledge of
the inherent risk(s). Athletic activities, including Strength & Conditioning,
involve certain risks. Participants must be informed of the risks of activity, and
required to sign a statement to that e ect.
Athlete - ✔✔someone who engages in a social comparison (i.e. competition)
involving psychomotor skill or physical prowess (or both) in an institutionalized
setting, typically under public scrutiny or evaluation
Attention - ✔✔processing of both environmental and internal cues that come to
awareness
attributes of the ideal performance state - ✔✔a. Absence of fear—no fear of
failure
b. No thinking about or analysis of performance (related to the motor stage of
automaticity)
c. A narrow focus of attention concentrated on the activity itself
d. A sense of effortlessness—an involuntary experience
e. A sense of personal control
f. A distortion of time and space, in which time seems to slow
Answers
1-repetition maximum (1RM) - ✔✔greatest amount of weight that can be lifted
without proper technique for only one rep
3 phases of general adaptation syndrome? - ✔✔a. Alarm: body reacts to
stresses placed on it. Performance drops
b. Resistance: body adapts to resistances/stresses placed on them. Performance
increases
c. Exhaustion: too much stress/overtraining. Performance drops again. We want
to avoid this phase.
4 steps for applying standards of practice to risk management - ✔✔1. Identify
and select standards of practice, as well as all applicable laws.
2. Develop risk management strategies re ecting standards of practice and all
applicable laws.
3. Implement the risk management plan.
4. Evaluate the risk management plan.
Acceleration - ✔✔change in velocity per unit time
Achievement Motivation - ✔✔athlete's desire to engage in competition, or
social comparison
Acromegaly - ✔✔disfiguring disease characterized by widening of bones,
arthritis, organ enlargement, and metabolic abnormalities
,Adaptive ability - ✔✔modification of action sequence upon observation or
anticipation of novel or changing conditions and situations
adenosine triphosphate (ATP) - ✔✔Allows the transfer of energy from exergonic
to endergonic reactions.
Agility - ✔✔The skills and abilities needed to explosively change movement
velocities or modes.
agonist - ✔✔The muscle most directly involved in bringing about a movement;
also called the prime mover.
Amino acid - ✔✔molecule that when combined with other amino acids will form
polypeptides and proteins
Amortization phase - ✔✔Phase II of the SSC; the time between the eccentric
and concentric phases.
Anabolic hormone - ✔✔chemical in body that helps to build up tissues, such as
muscle
Anabolic hormones - ✔✔hormones that promote tissue building. Examples are
insulin, insulin-like growth factors, testosterone, and growth hormone.
Anabolic steroid - ✔✔synthetic derivatives of the male sex hormone,
testosterone
,anabolism - ✔✔The synthesis of larger molecules from smaller molecules; can
be accomplished using the energy released from catabolic reactions. Energy is
sometimes used from a previous catabolism reaction.
Anaerobic training - ✔✔High-intensity, intermittent bouts of exercise such as
weight training; plyometric drills; and speed, agility, and interval training.
anatomy - ✔✔The study of components that make up the musculoskeletal
"machine."
angle of pennation - ✔✔The angle between the muscle fibers and an imaginary
line between the muscle's origin and insertion; 0° corresponds to no pennation.
Anorexia nervosa - ✔✔self-imposed starvation in an effort to lose weight and
achieve thinness
antagonist - ✔✔A muscle that can slow down or stop the movement.
Antagonist activation patterns - ✔✔Changes in muscle activity of the
antagonists during agonist movements
Arousal - ✔✔the intensity dimension of behavior and physiology
Arrangement of Muscle Fibers influence on force production? - ✔✔pennate
muscle: able to generate force but have a lower maximal shortening velocity
, disadvantageous, for generating eccentric, isometric, or low-speed concentric
force
Association - ✔✔monitoring oneself during a competition
Assumption of risk - ✔✔voluntarily participation in activity with knowledge of
the inherent risk(s). Athletic activities, including Strength & Conditioning,
involve certain risks. Participants must be informed of the risks of activity, and
required to sign a statement to that e ect.
Athlete - ✔✔someone who engages in a social comparison (i.e. competition)
involving psychomotor skill or physical prowess (or both) in an institutionalized
setting, typically under public scrutiny or evaluation
Attention - ✔✔processing of both environmental and internal cues that come to
awareness
attributes of the ideal performance state - ✔✔a. Absence of fear—no fear of
failure
b. No thinking about or analysis of performance (related to the motor stage of
automaticity)
c. A narrow focus of attention concentrated on the activity itself
d. A sense of effortlessness—an involuntary experience
e. A sense of personal control
f. A distortion of time and space, in which time seems to slow
