NFPT EXAM UPDATED ACTUAL Exam
Question and Answer (2026/2027) | A+
Verified
• What are the 6 components of wellness? -✓✓ Social Health- Relationships, etc.
Physical Health-See 5 components
Intellectual Health- Capacity for new info
Cognitive Health- Mental health, way we see world
Emotional Health- self-esteem, self awareness, etc.
Spiritual Health-connection with higher power
• 5 components of fitness -✓✓ Cardiorespiratory Conditioning (endurance
Muscular conditioning
Muscular Strength
Flexibility (ROM)
Body Composition
• The condition of your current state of being, related to absence of disease or injury. -
✓✓ Health
• ADL -✓✓ Activities of Daily Living
• 3 influential aspects of behavior that will contribute to positivity. -✓✓ Predisposing
factors, ex knowledge
Enabling factors, ex. skills, resources
Reinforcing factors, ex praise from others.
• Muscular System -✓✓ Produces force, maintains posture, allows for movement,
produces heat
• Skeletal System -✓✓ Body's structural support and protection
• Circulatory System -✓✓ Pumps blood to/from body. Sustained by heart and lungs.
• Respiratory System -✓✓ Deals with breathing. O in CO2 out
• Nervous System -✓✓ Communicates all autonomic and voluntary messages to all
body parts with the brain, spinal chord, and nerves.
• Digestive system -✓✓ Takes in, breaks down, transports, potentially transforms, and
eliminates all food substances so that they can provide energy.
,• Immune System -✓✓ Protects body from attacks by pathogens. One of smallest
systems, but one of most spread out and important.
• Endocrine System -✓✓ System of glands that communicate and maintain homeostasis
using specific hormone secretions into the blood stream.
• Integymentary System -✓✓ Protects the body. Ex. Fat, skin,m hair, nails.
• Urinary system. -✓✓ Renal system. Elimination of waste, regulation of blood volunme,
controls electrolytes and metabolites.
• Origin -✓✓ Proximal. Point at which the muscle joins the stationary bone at the end
closest to the body.
• Insertion -✓✓ Distal. Point at which muscle joins the bone that will be moved.
• How many muscles in adult human body? -✓✓ 656
• How many bones? -✓✓ 206
• Tough, connective tissue that covers the end of each bone -✓✓ Cartilage
• Blood travels away from the heart, carrying oxygenated blood to the bodsy though
________-; deoxygentaed blood comes back to the heart through _____________. -✓✓
Arteries, veins.
• Which muscle controls overal breathing process. -✓✓ Diaphram
• Division of nervous system that sends and receives information, and contains the brain
and spinal cord. -✓✓ CNS
• In which part of digestive system does most absorption of nutrients occur? -✓✓ Small
Intestine
• Glands release what into the blood stream that transport signals from one cell to
another for the purpose of soliciting a specific bodily response and/or function. -✓✓
Hormones
• Superior -✓✓ Above
• Inferior -✓✓ Belowe
• Anterior (Ventral) -✓✓ In front, toward front
, • Posterior (Dorsal) -✓✓ behind, toward back
• Proximal -✓✓ Closest to point of origin from center of body
• Distal -✓✓ Furthest from point of origin from center of body.
• Medial -✓✓ Toward middle of body
• Lateral -✓✓ Away from middle of body
• Bilateral -✓✓ Both sides of body
• Unilateral -✓✓ One side of body
• Peripheral -✓✓ Toward the extermites
• Superficial -✓✓ Toward outer surface
• Deep muscles -✓✓ Toward inner bodY
• Abduction -✓✓ MOvement away from body or body part's midline
• Adduction -✓✓ Movement toward body or body's midline
• Flexion -✓✓ Bending of a joint that decreases the angle
• Extension -✓✓ Straightening of a joint increasing the angle
• Circumduction -✓✓ MOTION OF A CIRCULAR MOVEMENT. Includes abduction,
adduction, flexion, and extension movements. Ex rotating foot in a circle.
• Internal Rotation -✓✓ Movement of body part around its axis, turning inward
• External Rotation -✓✓ Movement of body part turning outward
• Protraction -✓✓ Forward (anterior) movement of a body part
• Retraction -✓✓ Backward (posterior) movement of a body part
• Hypoextension -✓✓ extension less than normal, under-extended
• Hyperextension -✓✓ Extension beyond normal, over extended
Question and Answer (2026/2027) | A+
Verified
• What are the 6 components of wellness? -✓✓ Social Health- Relationships, etc.
Physical Health-See 5 components
Intellectual Health- Capacity for new info
Cognitive Health- Mental health, way we see world
Emotional Health- self-esteem, self awareness, etc.
Spiritual Health-connection with higher power
• 5 components of fitness -✓✓ Cardiorespiratory Conditioning (endurance
Muscular conditioning
Muscular Strength
Flexibility (ROM)
Body Composition
• The condition of your current state of being, related to absence of disease or injury. -
✓✓ Health
• ADL -✓✓ Activities of Daily Living
• 3 influential aspects of behavior that will contribute to positivity. -✓✓ Predisposing
factors, ex knowledge
Enabling factors, ex. skills, resources
Reinforcing factors, ex praise from others.
• Muscular System -✓✓ Produces force, maintains posture, allows for movement,
produces heat
• Skeletal System -✓✓ Body's structural support and protection
• Circulatory System -✓✓ Pumps blood to/from body. Sustained by heart and lungs.
• Respiratory System -✓✓ Deals with breathing. O in CO2 out
• Nervous System -✓✓ Communicates all autonomic and voluntary messages to all
body parts with the brain, spinal chord, and nerves.
• Digestive system -✓✓ Takes in, breaks down, transports, potentially transforms, and
eliminates all food substances so that they can provide energy.
,• Immune System -✓✓ Protects body from attacks by pathogens. One of smallest
systems, but one of most spread out and important.
• Endocrine System -✓✓ System of glands that communicate and maintain homeostasis
using specific hormone secretions into the blood stream.
• Integymentary System -✓✓ Protects the body. Ex. Fat, skin,m hair, nails.
• Urinary system. -✓✓ Renal system. Elimination of waste, regulation of blood volunme,
controls electrolytes and metabolites.
• Origin -✓✓ Proximal. Point at which the muscle joins the stationary bone at the end
closest to the body.
• Insertion -✓✓ Distal. Point at which muscle joins the bone that will be moved.
• How many muscles in adult human body? -✓✓ 656
• How many bones? -✓✓ 206
• Tough, connective tissue that covers the end of each bone -✓✓ Cartilage
• Blood travels away from the heart, carrying oxygenated blood to the bodsy though
________-; deoxygentaed blood comes back to the heart through _____________. -✓✓
Arteries, veins.
• Which muscle controls overal breathing process. -✓✓ Diaphram
• Division of nervous system that sends and receives information, and contains the brain
and spinal cord. -✓✓ CNS
• In which part of digestive system does most absorption of nutrients occur? -✓✓ Small
Intestine
• Glands release what into the blood stream that transport signals from one cell to
another for the purpose of soliciting a specific bodily response and/or function. -✓✓
Hormones
• Superior -✓✓ Above
• Inferior -✓✓ Belowe
• Anterior (Ventral) -✓✓ In front, toward front
, • Posterior (Dorsal) -✓✓ behind, toward back
• Proximal -✓✓ Closest to point of origin from center of body
• Distal -✓✓ Furthest from point of origin from center of body.
• Medial -✓✓ Toward middle of body
• Lateral -✓✓ Away from middle of body
• Bilateral -✓✓ Both sides of body
• Unilateral -✓✓ One side of body
• Peripheral -✓✓ Toward the extermites
• Superficial -✓✓ Toward outer surface
• Deep muscles -✓✓ Toward inner bodY
• Abduction -✓✓ MOvement away from body or body part's midline
• Adduction -✓✓ Movement toward body or body's midline
• Flexion -✓✓ Bending of a joint that decreases the angle
• Extension -✓✓ Straightening of a joint increasing the angle
• Circumduction -✓✓ MOTION OF A CIRCULAR MOVEMENT. Includes abduction,
adduction, flexion, and extension movements. Ex rotating foot in a circle.
• Internal Rotation -✓✓ Movement of body part around its axis, turning inward
• External Rotation -✓✓ Movement of body part turning outward
• Protraction -✓✓ Forward (anterior) movement of a body part
• Retraction -✓✓ Backward (posterior) movement of a body part
• Hypoextension -✓✓ extension less than normal, under-extended
• Hyperextension -✓✓ Extension beyond normal, over extended
