NASM WOMES FITNESS LATEST EXAMS SCRIPT
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔What is the first step of helping older adults achieve lifestyle changes? - ✔✔Develop
rapport
✔✔What is the feeling that the health professional will not understand the older clients
goals? - ✔✔Fear of intolerance
✔✔What requires an internal focus of control to help clients move towards a goal? -
✔✔Belief
✔✔What is one example of subjective assessment? - ✔✔PAR-Q
✔✔What are examples of an objective assessment? - ✔✔Blood pressure, Heart rate,
Body composition, Movement quality
✔✔What is the method of establishing training intensity based on the difference
between predicted and resting heart rate? - ✔✔Karvonen
✔✔What is the range of the modified BORG scale for seniors? - ✔✔0-10
, ✔✔How many questions answered "yes" on the PAR-Q will require physician release? -
✔✔1
✔✔The inability to see close objects of small print is being? - ✔✔Farsightedness
✔✔Age that visual acuity is at its highest? - ✔✔Late adolescence/early twenties
✔✔The inability to transfer sound waves from the outer to the inner ear? - ✔✔Cognitive
hearing loss
✔✔The percentage of adult population experiencing some type of hearing loss? -
✔✔30-39%
✔✔Thermoregulation for senior clients is important because? - ✔✔Decrease sweat
✔✔Medicine ball rotation is an example of what type of stretching? - ✔✔Dynamic
✔✔What types of training focuses on the neural and fascial systems in the body and
concentrates on alleviating myofascial trigger points? - ✔✔SMR
✔✔Senior clients should hold stretches for? - ✔✔30 seconds
✔✔What form of flexibility training uses autogenic inhibition to improve soft tissue
extensibility? - ✔✔Static
✔✔What is a contraindication for the foam roller? - ✔✔Osteoporosis
✔✔What is a series of strength training exercises that clients perform consistently with
minimal rest? - ✔✔Circuit training
✔✔What is a known benefit of cardiorespiratory training? - ✔✔Decrease systolic blood
pressure
✔✔The appropriate intensity range for seniors to improve cardio respiratory function is?
- ✔✔40-85%
✔✔Respiratory training typically has how many phases? - ✔✔3
✔✔NASM recommends seen your clients participate in cardiorespiratory fitness training
session for at least? - ✔✔30 mins
✔✔What percentage of Americans over the age of 65 experience of fall annually? -
✔✔33%
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔What is the first step of helping older adults achieve lifestyle changes? - ✔✔Develop
rapport
✔✔What is the feeling that the health professional will not understand the older clients
goals? - ✔✔Fear of intolerance
✔✔What requires an internal focus of control to help clients move towards a goal? -
✔✔Belief
✔✔What is one example of subjective assessment? - ✔✔PAR-Q
✔✔What are examples of an objective assessment? - ✔✔Blood pressure, Heart rate,
Body composition, Movement quality
✔✔What is the method of establishing training intensity based on the difference
between predicted and resting heart rate? - ✔✔Karvonen
✔✔What is the range of the modified BORG scale for seniors? - ✔✔0-10
, ✔✔How many questions answered "yes" on the PAR-Q will require physician release? -
✔✔1
✔✔The inability to see close objects of small print is being? - ✔✔Farsightedness
✔✔Age that visual acuity is at its highest? - ✔✔Late adolescence/early twenties
✔✔The inability to transfer sound waves from the outer to the inner ear? - ✔✔Cognitive
hearing loss
✔✔The percentage of adult population experiencing some type of hearing loss? -
✔✔30-39%
✔✔Thermoregulation for senior clients is important because? - ✔✔Decrease sweat
✔✔Medicine ball rotation is an example of what type of stretching? - ✔✔Dynamic
✔✔What types of training focuses on the neural and fascial systems in the body and
concentrates on alleviating myofascial trigger points? - ✔✔SMR
✔✔Senior clients should hold stretches for? - ✔✔30 seconds
✔✔What form of flexibility training uses autogenic inhibition to improve soft tissue
extensibility? - ✔✔Static
✔✔What is a contraindication for the foam roller? - ✔✔Osteoporosis
✔✔What is a series of strength training exercises that clients perform consistently with
minimal rest? - ✔✔Circuit training
✔✔What is a known benefit of cardiorespiratory training? - ✔✔Decrease systolic blood
pressure
✔✔The appropriate intensity range for seniors to improve cardio respiratory function is?
- ✔✔40-85%
✔✔Respiratory training typically has how many phases? - ✔✔3
✔✔NASM recommends seen your clients participate in cardiorespiratory fitness training
session for at least? - ✔✔30 mins
✔✔What percentage of Americans over the age of 65 experience of fall annually? -
✔✔33%
