NASM CES STUDY 2026 EXAM GUIDE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔What movement predominantly occurs in the transverse plane - ✔✔Rotation
✔✔Examples of transverse plane movements - ✔✔Throwing motions, swinging a
baseball bat, a hockey slapshot, and cable rotations
✔✔Contact phase of the gait cycle - ✔✔The subtalar joint pronates creating obligatory
internal rotation of the tibia, femur, and pelvis
✔✔Mid-stance phase of the gait cycle - ✔✔The subtalar joint supinates leading to
obligatory external rotation of the tibia, femur, and pelvis
✔✔What does it mean that pelvic motion and lower extremity motion are bidirectional? -
✔✔Pelvic motion can create lower extremity motion and lower extremity motion can
create pelvic motion
✔✔What is the purpose of the eccentric action exerted by muscles in resistance
training? - ✔✔Prevents the resistance from accelerating in an uncontrolled manner
downward due to gravity
✔✔Force-velocity curve - ✔✔The relationship of muscle's ability to produce tension at
differing shortening velocities
✔✔First class lever - ✔✔The fulcrum is located between the load and effort
✔✔Second class lever - ✔✔The load is located between the effort and fulcrum
✔✔Third class lever - ✔✔The effort is located between the fulcrum and load
✔✔Local musculature system (LMS) - ✔✔Muscles that are predominantly involved in
joint support or stabilization
✔✔Muscles of the LMS - ✔✔Transverse abdominis, multifidus, internal oblique,
diaphragm, and the pelvic floor muscles
✔✔Global muscular system (Movement System) - ✔✔Muscles responsible
predominantly for movement, important in transferring and absorbing forces form the
upper and lower extremities to to the pelvis, and consist of more superficial musculature
that originates from the pelvis to the rib cage, the lower extremities, or both
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔What movement predominantly occurs in the transverse plane - ✔✔Rotation
✔✔Examples of transverse plane movements - ✔✔Throwing motions, swinging a
baseball bat, a hockey slapshot, and cable rotations
✔✔Contact phase of the gait cycle - ✔✔The subtalar joint pronates creating obligatory
internal rotation of the tibia, femur, and pelvis
✔✔Mid-stance phase of the gait cycle - ✔✔The subtalar joint supinates leading to
obligatory external rotation of the tibia, femur, and pelvis
✔✔What does it mean that pelvic motion and lower extremity motion are bidirectional? -
✔✔Pelvic motion can create lower extremity motion and lower extremity motion can
create pelvic motion
✔✔What is the purpose of the eccentric action exerted by muscles in resistance
training? - ✔✔Prevents the resistance from accelerating in an uncontrolled manner
downward due to gravity
✔✔Force-velocity curve - ✔✔The relationship of muscle's ability to produce tension at
differing shortening velocities
✔✔First class lever - ✔✔The fulcrum is located between the load and effort
✔✔Second class lever - ✔✔The load is located between the effort and fulcrum
✔✔Third class lever - ✔✔The effort is located between the fulcrum and load
✔✔Local musculature system (LMS) - ✔✔Muscles that are predominantly involved in
joint support or stabilization
✔✔Muscles of the LMS - ✔✔Transverse abdominis, multifidus, internal oblique,
diaphragm, and the pelvic floor muscles
✔✔Global muscular system (Movement System) - ✔✔Muscles responsible
predominantly for movement, important in transferring and absorbing forces form the
upper and lower extremities to to the pelvis, and consist of more superficial musculature
that originates from the pelvis to the rib cage, the lower extremities, or both
