WITS Personal Training Questions with Verified Answers (Correct
Update)
Question 1: F.I.T.T. Principle
Answer: frequency, intensity, time, type
Question 2: Avoidance of disease training
Answer: F: 5 days a week
I: moderate
T: 0.5 hr per day
T: walk 6~12 mi per week
Question 3: Fitness training
Answer: F: 3-4 days per week
I: vigorous/hard
T: 0.5-0.75 hr per day
T: Jog ~10 mi per week
Question 4: Performance
training
Answer: F: 7 days per week
I: very hard
T: 2 hr per day
T: Run ~ 100 mi per week
Question 5: Top two leading
causes of death
Answer: heart disease and cancer
Question 6: Major risk factors In
affecting health
and disease
Answer: nherited/Biological: age, sex, race, susceptibility to disease
Environmental: physical (air, water, noise), socioeconomic (income, housing, employment,
education), family (divorce, death of a loved one)
Behavioral: smoking, drinking, inactivity, poor nutrition, stress
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, Question 7: Effects of healthy
eating and physical activity
Answer: lowers risk for heart disease, reduces risk for certain cancers, lowers blood
pressure, improves lipid profile, builds healthy bones
Question 8: Health impact of
regular physical
activity
Answer: cardiorespiratory health, metabolic health, musculoskeletal health, cancer, mental
health
Question 9: ACSM guidelines for strength
training and improving muscular fitness
Answer: Perform 8-10 exercises for the major muscle groups: legs, hips, back, chest,
shoulders, and arms
Use resistance that produces muscular fatigue after 8-12 reps
Do 1 to 3 sets of each exercise
do resistance training at least 2 non-consecutive days per week
Question 10: Goals of training:
functional performance
Answer: cardiorespiratory fitness, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, body leanness,
task-specific needs
Question 11: Goals of training: sports performance
Answer: agility, balance, coordination, power, speed
Question 12: Health risk appraisal
Answer: health status, as it relates to physical activity, must be determined prior to taking
on a new client
Question 13: ACSM recommended pre-activity screening
Answer: identified high-risk participants
initiates new participants
builds rapport and trust, foundations for the trainer-client relationship
provides information and tools for exercise prescription and programming
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Update)
Question 1: F.I.T.T. Principle
Answer: frequency, intensity, time, type
Question 2: Avoidance of disease training
Answer: F: 5 days a week
I: moderate
T: 0.5 hr per day
T: walk 6~12 mi per week
Question 3: Fitness training
Answer: F: 3-4 days per week
I: vigorous/hard
T: 0.5-0.75 hr per day
T: Jog ~10 mi per week
Question 4: Performance
training
Answer: F: 7 days per week
I: very hard
T: 2 hr per day
T: Run ~ 100 mi per week
Question 5: Top two leading
causes of death
Answer: heart disease and cancer
Question 6: Major risk factors In
affecting health
and disease
Answer: nherited/Biological: age, sex, race, susceptibility to disease
Environmental: physical (air, water, noise), socioeconomic (income, housing, employment,
education), family (divorce, death of a loved one)
Behavioral: smoking, drinking, inactivity, poor nutrition, stress
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, Question 7: Effects of healthy
eating and physical activity
Answer: lowers risk for heart disease, reduces risk for certain cancers, lowers blood
pressure, improves lipid profile, builds healthy bones
Question 8: Health impact of
regular physical
activity
Answer: cardiorespiratory health, metabolic health, musculoskeletal health, cancer, mental
health
Question 9: ACSM guidelines for strength
training and improving muscular fitness
Answer: Perform 8-10 exercises for the major muscle groups: legs, hips, back, chest,
shoulders, and arms
Use resistance that produces muscular fatigue after 8-12 reps
Do 1 to 3 sets of each exercise
do resistance training at least 2 non-consecutive days per week
Question 10: Goals of training:
functional performance
Answer: cardiorespiratory fitness, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, body leanness,
task-specific needs
Question 11: Goals of training: sports performance
Answer: agility, balance, coordination, power, speed
Question 12: Health risk appraisal
Answer: health status, as it relates to physical activity, must be determined prior to taking
on a new client
Question 13: ACSM recommended pre-activity screening
Answer: identified high-risk participants
initiates new participants
builds rapport and trust, foundations for the trainer-client relationship
provides information and tools for exercise prescription and programming
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