AFAA GFI LATEST EXAM TEST QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
SURE A+
✔✔Five components of class design - ✔✔Intro
Movement prep
body of workout
transition
outro
✔✔Semilunar (SL) valves - ✔✔valves that allow for proper blood flow away from the
heart to the lungs and body
✔✔Atrioventricular (AV) node - ✔✔A small mass of specialized cardiac muscle fibers,
located in the wall of the right atrium of the heart, that receives heartbeat impulses from
the sinoatrial node and directs them to the walls of the ventricles.
✔✔Obesity - ✔✔Individuals with a BMI of 30 or above
✔✔Hypertension - ✔✔Chronically high blood pressure above 140/90
✔✔Exercise guidelines for participants with hypertension - ✔✔50-85% HR max
Indoor cycling, low-impact cardio, dance, group rowing
3-7 days per week/30-60 mins per day
avoid laying down or lifting anything heavy
✔✔Exercise guidelines for Obese participants - ✔✔60-80% HR max
Indoor cycling, dance, resistance, aquatics
5 days a week
40-60 minutes per day
Exercise performed in a standing or seated position
obtain medical release
✔✔Exercise guidelines for Cardiovascular disease participants - ✔✔40-60% peak of
work capacity
Indoor cycling, low impact cardio, dance
3-5 days a week
20-45 minutes
upper body exercise may cause increased dyspena
Allow for rest between sets
✔✔Exercise guidelines for recovering stroke participants - ✔✔50-80% HR max
large muscle group activities
3-7 days a week
20-60 mins
Standing or seated exercises advised
,✔✔Exercise guidelines for cancer participants - ✔✔50-70% HR max
Low impact cardio, circuit-style
classes with plenty of options, balance and core training
3-5 days a week
15-30 mins per day
no heavy lifting
Progress slowly
Use SMR if tolerated
✔✔Anatomic position - ✔✔Body stands upright with the arms at the side and palms and
head forward
✔✔exercise guidelines for osteoporosis participants - ✔✔40-85% of peak VO2
Stationary or recumbent cycling, aquatics, low intensity yoga
2-5 days moderate exercise or 3 days vigorous exercise
20-60 mins per day
progression slow and monitored twisting motions slowly or not at al.
✔✔Exercise guidelines for Seniors/Older adults - ✔✔40-85% peak VO2
Aquatics, chair based resistance, cycle, basic or beginner yoga
3-5 days per week
30-60 mins per day
Progress slow and monitored
Progress to free sitting (no support) or standing
✔✔Hypothermia symptoms - ✔✔Shivering, slow shallow-breathing, pale skin, blue lips,
hands, and feet.
✔✔Heat stroke symptoms - ✔✔Sudden collapse and unconsciousness, flushed hot
skin, reduced sweating, shallow breathing, further increased heart rate, death can occur
if core temp goes over 107.
✔✔Exercise guidelines for Youth - ✔✔Circuit style class with a lot of variety
5-7 days a week
60 mins per day
Moderate to vigorous activity
Progression should be based on postural control not weights
✔✔Atria (right and left atrium) - ✔✔The superior or top chambers of the heart that
receive blood from the veins
✔✔Exercise guidelines for Diabetes participants - ✔✔50-90% HR max
Cycle, low impact or step aerobics
,✔✔Exercise guidelines for arthritis participants - ✔✔60-80% HR max
Cycle, low impact, or step aerobics
✔✔Exercise guidelines for pregnancy - ✔✔Light to moderate.
Cycle, low impact cardio, light resistance, aquatics
5-7 days a week
20-30 per day
Avoid prone or supine after 12 weeks
no plyometric movement after first trimester
✔✔heat exhaustion symptoms - ✔✔profuse sweating, dizziness, headache, shortness
of breath, weak rapid pulse, lack of saliva, extreme fatigue
✔✔Ventricles (pumping chambers) - ✔✔Inferior chambers of the heart that receive
blood from their corresponding atrium and force blood out of the heart into arteries
✔✔Veins - ✔✔Vessels that transport blood from the extremities back to the heart
✔✔Arteries - ✔✔Vessels that transport blood away from the heart
✔✔Anterior Tibialis - ✔✔What muscle is this?
✔✔Isolated function of the Anterior tibialis - ✔✔Concentrically accelerates dorsiflexion
and inversion
✔✔Integrated function of anterior tibialis - ✔✔1. Eccentrically decelerates plantarflexion
and eversion of the foot.
2. Isometrically stabilizes the arch of the foot.
✔✔posterior tibialis - ✔✔What muscle is this?
✔✔Isolated function of the posterior tibialis muscle - ✔✔Concentrically accelerates
plantarflexion and inversion of the foot
✔✔Integrated function of the posterior tibialis - ✔✔1. Eccentrically Decelerates the
dorsiflexion and eversion of the foot.
2. Isometrically stabilizes the arch of the foot.
✔✔Soleus - ✔✔What muscle is this?
✔✔Isolated function of the soleus - ✔✔Concentrically accelerates plantarflexion
✔✔Integrated function of the soleus - ✔✔1. Decelerates ankle dorsiflexion
2. Isometrically stabilizes the arch of the foot.
, ✔✔Gastrocnemius - ✔✔What muscle is this?
✔✔Isolated function of the Gastrocnemius muscle - ✔✔Concentrically accelerates
plantarflexion
✔✔Integrated function of the gastrocnemius muscle - ✔✔Decelerates ankle dorsiflexion
Isometrically stabilizes the foot and ankle complex
✔✔Peroneus longus - ✔✔What muscle is this?
✔✔Isolated function of the peroneus longus - ✔✔Concentrically plantarflexes and
everts the foot
✔✔Integrated function of peroneus longus - ✔✔Decelerates ankle dorsiflexion
Isometrically stabilizes the foot and ankle complex
✔✔Biceps femoris long head - ✔✔What muscle is this?
✔✔Isolated function of biceps femoris: long head - ✔✔Concentrically accelerates knee
flexion and hip extension
Tibial external rotation
✔✔Integrated function of the biceps femoris: long head - ✔✔Eccentrically decelerates
knee extension
Eccentrically decelerates hip flexion
Eccentrically decelerates tibial internal rotation at midstance of the gait cycle
Isometrically stabilizes the LPHC and knee
✔✔Biceps femoris: short head - ✔✔What muscle is this? (yellow highlighted)
✔✔Isolated function of the Biceps femoris: Short head muscle - ✔✔Concentrically
accelerates knee flexion and tibial external rotation
✔✔Integrated function of the Biceps Femoris: Short Head muscle - ✔✔Eccentrically
decelerates knee extension
Eccentrically decelerates tibial internal rotation
Isometrically stabilizes the knee
✔✔Semimembranousus - ✔✔What muscle is this?
✔✔Isolated function of the Semimembranousus muscle - ✔✔Concentrically accelerates
knee flexion, hip extension, and tibial internal rotation.
SURE A+
✔✔Five components of class design - ✔✔Intro
Movement prep
body of workout
transition
outro
✔✔Semilunar (SL) valves - ✔✔valves that allow for proper blood flow away from the
heart to the lungs and body
✔✔Atrioventricular (AV) node - ✔✔A small mass of specialized cardiac muscle fibers,
located in the wall of the right atrium of the heart, that receives heartbeat impulses from
the sinoatrial node and directs them to the walls of the ventricles.
✔✔Obesity - ✔✔Individuals with a BMI of 30 or above
✔✔Hypertension - ✔✔Chronically high blood pressure above 140/90
✔✔Exercise guidelines for participants with hypertension - ✔✔50-85% HR max
Indoor cycling, low-impact cardio, dance, group rowing
3-7 days per week/30-60 mins per day
avoid laying down or lifting anything heavy
✔✔Exercise guidelines for Obese participants - ✔✔60-80% HR max
Indoor cycling, dance, resistance, aquatics
5 days a week
40-60 minutes per day
Exercise performed in a standing or seated position
obtain medical release
✔✔Exercise guidelines for Cardiovascular disease participants - ✔✔40-60% peak of
work capacity
Indoor cycling, low impact cardio, dance
3-5 days a week
20-45 minutes
upper body exercise may cause increased dyspena
Allow for rest between sets
✔✔Exercise guidelines for recovering stroke participants - ✔✔50-80% HR max
large muscle group activities
3-7 days a week
20-60 mins
Standing or seated exercises advised
,✔✔Exercise guidelines for cancer participants - ✔✔50-70% HR max
Low impact cardio, circuit-style
classes with plenty of options, balance and core training
3-5 days a week
15-30 mins per day
no heavy lifting
Progress slowly
Use SMR if tolerated
✔✔Anatomic position - ✔✔Body stands upright with the arms at the side and palms and
head forward
✔✔exercise guidelines for osteoporosis participants - ✔✔40-85% of peak VO2
Stationary or recumbent cycling, aquatics, low intensity yoga
2-5 days moderate exercise or 3 days vigorous exercise
20-60 mins per day
progression slow and monitored twisting motions slowly or not at al.
✔✔Exercise guidelines for Seniors/Older adults - ✔✔40-85% peak VO2
Aquatics, chair based resistance, cycle, basic or beginner yoga
3-5 days per week
30-60 mins per day
Progress slow and monitored
Progress to free sitting (no support) or standing
✔✔Hypothermia symptoms - ✔✔Shivering, slow shallow-breathing, pale skin, blue lips,
hands, and feet.
✔✔Heat stroke symptoms - ✔✔Sudden collapse and unconsciousness, flushed hot
skin, reduced sweating, shallow breathing, further increased heart rate, death can occur
if core temp goes over 107.
✔✔Exercise guidelines for Youth - ✔✔Circuit style class with a lot of variety
5-7 days a week
60 mins per day
Moderate to vigorous activity
Progression should be based on postural control not weights
✔✔Atria (right and left atrium) - ✔✔The superior or top chambers of the heart that
receive blood from the veins
✔✔Exercise guidelines for Diabetes participants - ✔✔50-90% HR max
Cycle, low impact or step aerobics
,✔✔Exercise guidelines for arthritis participants - ✔✔60-80% HR max
Cycle, low impact, or step aerobics
✔✔Exercise guidelines for pregnancy - ✔✔Light to moderate.
Cycle, low impact cardio, light resistance, aquatics
5-7 days a week
20-30 per day
Avoid prone or supine after 12 weeks
no plyometric movement after first trimester
✔✔heat exhaustion symptoms - ✔✔profuse sweating, dizziness, headache, shortness
of breath, weak rapid pulse, lack of saliva, extreme fatigue
✔✔Ventricles (pumping chambers) - ✔✔Inferior chambers of the heart that receive
blood from their corresponding atrium and force blood out of the heart into arteries
✔✔Veins - ✔✔Vessels that transport blood from the extremities back to the heart
✔✔Arteries - ✔✔Vessels that transport blood away from the heart
✔✔Anterior Tibialis - ✔✔What muscle is this?
✔✔Isolated function of the Anterior tibialis - ✔✔Concentrically accelerates dorsiflexion
and inversion
✔✔Integrated function of anterior tibialis - ✔✔1. Eccentrically decelerates plantarflexion
and eversion of the foot.
2. Isometrically stabilizes the arch of the foot.
✔✔posterior tibialis - ✔✔What muscle is this?
✔✔Isolated function of the posterior tibialis muscle - ✔✔Concentrically accelerates
plantarflexion and inversion of the foot
✔✔Integrated function of the posterior tibialis - ✔✔1. Eccentrically Decelerates the
dorsiflexion and eversion of the foot.
2. Isometrically stabilizes the arch of the foot.
✔✔Soleus - ✔✔What muscle is this?
✔✔Isolated function of the soleus - ✔✔Concentrically accelerates plantarflexion
✔✔Integrated function of the soleus - ✔✔1. Decelerates ankle dorsiflexion
2. Isometrically stabilizes the arch of the foot.
, ✔✔Gastrocnemius - ✔✔What muscle is this?
✔✔Isolated function of the Gastrocnemius muscle - ✔✔Concentrically accelerates
plantarflexion
✔✔Integrated function of the gastrocnemius muscle - ✔✔Decelerates ankle dorsiflexion
Isometrically stabilizes the foot and ankle complex
✔✔Peroneus longus - ✔✔What muscle is this?
✔✔Isolated function of the peroneus longus - ✔✔Concentrically plantarflexes and
everts the foot
✔✔Integrated function of peroneus longus - ✔✔Decelerates ankle dorsiflexion
Isometrically stabilizes the foot and ankle complex
✔✔Biceps femoris long head - ✔✔What muscle is this?
✔✔Isolated function of biceps femoris: long head - ✔✔Concentrically accelerates knee
flexion and hip extension
Tibial external rotation
✔✔Integrated function of the biceps femoris: long head - ✔✔Eccentrically decelerates
knee extension
Eccentrically decelerates hip flexion
Eccentrically decelerates tibial internal rotation at midstance of the gait cycle
Isometrically stabilizes the LPHC and knee
✔✔Biceps femoris: short head - ✔✔What muscle is this? (yellow highlighted)
✔✔Isolated function of the Biceps femoris: Short head muscle - ✔✔Concentrically
accelerates knee flexion and tibial external rotation
✔✔Integrated function of the Biceps Femoris: Short Head muscle - ✔✔Eccentrically
decelerates knee extension
Eccentrically decelerates tibial internal rotation
Isometrically stabilizes the knee
✔✔Semimembranousus - ✔✔What muscle is this?
✔✔Isolated function of the Semimembranousus muscle - ✔✔Concentrically accelerates
knee flexion, hip extension, and tibial internal rotation.
