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Personal Trainer Certification Exam
Questions and Correct Answers
Health— Ans: — absence of disease
Fitness— Ans: — degree of body functioning; ability to handle
physical demands
Benefits of Fitness— Ans: — 1) improves general health, wards off
disease, slows aging process
2) improves mental outlook and mood through the release of
endorphis
3) helps one achieve a better body composition (low fat, high
muscle)
4) improves stat4e of mind, promotes better mental health,
improves sleep
5) helps in achieving better bone density
6) enhances self-confidence; improves appearance of person
7) helps avoid atrophy
Components of Fitness— Ans: — 1) Cardiorespiratory Endurance
2) Muscular Strength
3) Muscular Endurance
4) Flexibility
5) Body Composition
Cardiorespiratory endurance— Ans: — the ability to perform
prolonged large-muscle dynamic exercises at moderate-to-high
levels of intensity; trains heart, increases its efficiency
Muscular strength— Ans: — amount of force a muscle can exert
with a single maximum effort; improves body alignment
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Muscular endurance— Ans: — ability to sustain a given level of
muscle tension; important for good posture and injury prevention
Flexibility— Ans: — the ability of the joints to move through their
full range of motion; poor flexibility leads to stiffness,
misalignment, and pain
Body composition— Ans: — proportion of fat-free mass (muscle,
bone, water) to fat in a body; high proportion of fat-free mass to
low proportion of fat is healthy
Motor fitness— Ans: — Speed, agility, eye-hand and eye-foot
coordination; mostly inherited, can be developed over time
VO2 Max— Ans: — a measure of how much oxygen is consumed
by a person per minute of exercise; athlete wears a mask during
exercise to determine; the fitter a muscle, the more oxygen it
draws from the blood
Myoglobin— Ans: — oxygen-storing protein in the muscle
Anterio-Venous Oxygen Difference— Ans: — AKA VO2 Difference;
the measure of oxygen consumed by the muscles,; the different
between oxygen content of the blood in the arteries andthe oxygen
content of the blood in the veins
Only about ___% of oxygen is utilized when a person is resting, as
opposed to a potential ____% during exercise— Ans: — 25; 80
Calculating max heart rate— Ans: — 220-age
Calculating lower limit of exercise heart rate range— Ans: —
maximum heart rate times 0.5
Calculating upper limit of exercise heart rate range— Ans: —
maximum heart rate times 0.85
Anaerobic activity— Ans: — activities undertaken in the absence
of oxygen; cannot be sustained for long periods of time; rely on
fast-twitch muscle fibers; ex: weight lifting, sprinting; tested with
the Anaerobic capacity test or the Wingate cycle test
Aerobic/Cardiovascular activity— Ans: — ability of the body to
perform exercise over an extended period of time in the presence
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Personal Trainer Certification Exam
Questions and Correct Answers
Health— Ans: — absence of disease
Fitness— Ans: — degree of body functioning; ability to handle
physical demands
Benefits of Fitness— Ans: — 1) improves general health, wards off
disease, slows aging process
2) improves mental outlook and mood through the release of
endorphis
3) helps one achieve a better body composition (low fat, high
muscle)
4) improves stat4e of mind, promotes better mental health,
improves sleep
5) helps in achieving better bone density
6) enhances self-confidence; improves appearance of person
7) helps avoid atrophy
Components of Fitness— Ans: — 1) Cardiorespiratory Endurance
2) Muscular Strength
3) Muscular Endurance
4) Flexibility
5) Body Composition
Cardiorespiratory endurance— Ans: — the ability to perform
prolonged large-muscle dynamic exercises at moderate-to-high
levels of intensity; trains heart, increases its efficiency
Muscular strength— Ans: — amount of force a muscle can exert
with a single maximum effort; improves body alignment
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Muscular endurance— Ans: — ability to sustain a given level of
muscle tension; important for good posture and injury prevention
Flexibility— Ans: — the ability of the joints to move through their
full range of motion; poor flexibility leads to stiffness,
misalignment, and pain
Body composition— Ans: — proportion of fat-free mass (muscle,
bone, water) to fat in a body; high proportion of fat-free mass to
low proportion of fat is healthy
Motor fitness— Ans: — Speed, agility, eye-hand and eye-foot
coordination; mostly inherited, can be developed over time
VO2 Max— Ans: — a measure of how much oxygen is consumed
by a person per minute of exercise; athlete wears a mask during
exercise to determine; the fitter a muscle, the more oxygen it
draws from the blood
Myoglobin— Ans: — oxygen-storing protein in the muscle
Anterio-Venous Oxygen Difference— Ans: — AKA VO2 Difference;
the measure of oxygen consumed by the muscles,; the different
between oxygen content of the blood in the arteries andthe oxygen
content of the blood in the veins
Only about ___% of oxygen is utilized when a person is resting, as
opposed to a potential ____% during exercise— Ans: — 25; 80
Calculating max heart rate— Ans: — 220-age
Calculating lower limit of exercise heart rate range— Ans: —
maximum heart rate times 0.5
Calculating upper limit of exercise heart rate range— Ans: —
maximum heart rate times 0.85
Anaerobic activity— Ans: — activities undertaken in the absence
of oxygen; cannot be sustained for long periods of time; rely on
fast-twitch muscle fibers; ex: weight lifting, sprinting; tested with
the Anaerobic capacity test or the Wingate cycle test
Aerobic/Cardiovascular activity— Ans: — ability of the body to
perform exercise over an extended period of time in the presence
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