NASM WOMES FITNESS STUDY EXAMS GUIDE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Heart Rate, weight, body composition, BMI, waist circumference - ✔✔Example of an
objective assessment
✔✔Iliac crest, biceps, triceps & subscapular - ✔✔Site for skin fold measurements
✔✔.86 - ✔✔Risk of CVD increases with a waist to hip ratio of greater than ____
✔✔Radial & Carotid - ✔✔Places to take a pulse
✔✔Subjective Assessments - ✔✔Health history, occupation, exercise experience, social
habits, PAR-Q,
✔✔Rockport walk test - ✔✔Cardiorespiratory Assessment, Time and ending HR, calc
VO2 then use chart
✔✔HR zone one - ✔✔65-75% of HR max
✔✔HR zone two - ✔✔76-85% of HR max
, ✔✔HR zone three - ✔✔86-95% of HR max
✔✔Strength Assessments - ✔✔Partial curl up and modified push up test
✔✔Dynamic postural assessment - ✔✔Overhead squat test
✔✔Anterior squat assessment imbalances - ✔✔Feet flatten, knees turn in, feet turn out,
knees move outward
✔✔Lateral squat assessment imbalances - ✔✔LPHC excessive forward lean, low back
arches, shoulders, arms fall forward
✔✔Posterior squat assessment imbalances - ✔✔Heels rise
✔✔Plantar Flexion - ✔✔High-heeled shoes place the foot into a prolonged state of?
✔✔SMR & Active isolated - ✔✔Active flexibility uses which two modalities of flexibility
training?
✔✔Back lying - ✔✔Which body position should a client who is pregnant avoid one she
enters the third trimester?
✔✔Self myofascial release - ✔✔Which technique is contraindicated for clients who have
osteoporosis?
✔✔SMR & dynamic stretching - ✔✔Functional flexibility combines which forms of
flexibility training?
✔✔EPOC - ✔✔Extra calories burned after a bout of high intensity exercise is known as
what?
✔✔History of premature labor - ✔✔Which of the following is an absolute
contraindication to exercise for women who are pregnant?
✔✔Resting Heart Rate - ✔✔The Karvonen method incorporates information from what
to establish training intensity
✔✔Increase in submaximal heart rate - ✔✔The Borg Rating of Perceived Exertion is a
method used with prenatal clients for what reason?
✔✔1:3 - ✔✔Interval training should start with which of the following work-to-rest ratios?
✔✔Medium - ✔✔When working with a client who is pregnant, what tempo is the most
appropriate to use with isotonic exercise?
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Heart Rate, weight, body composition, BMI, waist circumference - ✔✔Example of an
objective assessment
✔✔Iliac crest, biceps, triceps & subscapular - ✔✔Site for skin fold measurements
✔✔.86 - ✔✔Risk of CVD increases with a waist to hip ratio of greater than ____
✔✔Radial & Carotid - ✔✔Places to take a pulse
✔✔Subjective Assessments - ✔✔Health history, occupation, exercise experience, social
habits, PAR-Q,
✔✔Rockport walk test - ✔✔Cardiorespiratory Assessment, Time and ending HR, calc
VO2 then use chart
✔✔HR zone one - ✔✔65-75% of HR max
✔✔HR zone two - ✔✔76-85% of HR max
, ✔✔HR zone three - ✔✔86-95% of HR max
✔✔Strength Assessments - ✔✔Partial curl up and modified push up test
✔✔Dynamic postural assessment - ✔✔Overhead squat test
✔✔Anterior squat assessment imbalances - ✔✔Feet flatten, knees turn in, feet turn out,
knees move outward
✔✔Lateral squat assessment imbalances - ✔✔LPHC excessive forward lean, low back
arches, shoulders, arms fall forward
✔✔Posterior squat assessment imbalances - ✔✔Heels rise
✔✔Plantar Flexion - ✔✔High-heeled shoes place the foot into a prolonged state of?
✔✔SMR & Active isolated - ✔✔Active flexibility uses which two modalities of flexibility
training?
✔✔Back lying - ✔✔Which body position should a client who is pregnant avoid one she
enters the third trimester?
✔✔Self myofascial release - ✔✔Which technique is contraindicated for clients who have
osteoporosis?
✔✔SMR & dynamic stretching - ✔✔Functional flexibility combines which forms of
flexibility training?
✔✔EPOC - ✔✔Extra calories burned after a bout of high intensity exercise is known as
what?
✔✔History of premature labor - ✔✔Which of the following is an absolute
contraindication to exercise for women who are pregnant?
✔✔Resting Heart Rate - ✔✔The Karvonen method incorporates information from what
to establish training intensity
✔✔Increase in submaximal heart rate - ✔✔The Borg Rating of Perceived Exertion is a
method used with prenatal clients for what reason?
✔✔1:3 - ✔✔Interval training should start with which of the following work-to-rest ratios?
✔✔Medium - ✔✔When working with a client who is pregnant, what tempo is the most
appropriate to use with isotonic exercise?
