ACE personal training certification Questions & Answers

ACE personal training certification Questions & Answers Define intrinsic and extrinsic motivation - ANSWER-Intrinsic is exercising for the pure joy of working out. Extrinsic is exercising for any other reason. Give an example of intrinsic and extrinsic feedback - ANSWER-Intrinsic: Client adjusts his own workout based on his perception of difficulty Extrinsic: Trainer gives performance feedback Define situational and contextual motivation - ANSWER-Situational: How the client feels during exercise Contextual: How the client feels, sees, thinks about exercise Name 5 strategies for dealing with negative social influencers - ANSWER-Avoid, deal with person after workout, explain to the person how the negativity affects your workout, anticipate responding to the nsi, get that person involved with your struggle Name 3 types of high risk relapsers - ANSWER-People with poor time management skills, lack of social support, busy schedules 5 personal attributes influencing exercise participation and adherence - ANSWER-Demographic: Age, education, income, gender Health status: sick people or people with heart disease diabetes ect exercise less Activity history: past exercise participation Psychological traits: self motivated Knowledge attitudes and beliefs: health perception 2 Environmental factors that influence exercise participation and adherence - ANSWER-Access to facilities: Location Time: Lack of time is the most common excuse for not exercising Social interactions that influence exercise participation and adherence - ANSWER-If a spouse or a friend is on board the client will be more likely to stick with the program 2 Physical activity factors that influence exercise participation and adherence - ANSWER-Intensity of program: drop pout rate is 2x higher with vigorous activity Injury: program drop out is directly related to injury. 4 stages of the client trainer relationship (RIPA) - ANSWER-Rapport: 1st impression of trainer. client evaluates Apperance, environment, interaction, posture, communication ect. Investigation: Trainer evaluates client using health and fitness data, medical history, exercise history ect. Planning: Give and take. Client and trainer work together to set SMART goals, generate and discuss alternatives, formulate a plan, and evaluate the exercise program. Action: Start working out. Usually a combination of exercises for the client to do with the trainer and at home. Define motivational interviewing. - ANSWER-A way of speaking with people that motivates them to change their behavior. Usually this is used when clients are not ready to commit to an exercise program. Describe how voice quality, eye contact, facial expression, hand gestures, and body positions should looks and what kind of communication are they? - ANSWER-They are non-verbal communication. Eye contact: Direct but friendly. Voice quality: confident but not too loud Facial expression: genuine emotion Hand gestures: flexed, not fidgeting Body position: open *Aggressive= hands on hips* 4 Styles of communication - ANSWER-Preaching: lecture type = bad Educating: informational Counseling: working together to find and solve problems Directing: during exercise directing works Give an example of each interviewing technique: Minimal encourager, paraphrasing, reflecting, probing, clarifying, informing, confronting, questioning, deflecting. - ANSWER-Minimal encourager: "Explain what you mean by.." Paraphrasing: "I understand your ideal wright is.." Reflecting: "it sounds like.." Restate the main points Probing: Ask additional questions to gather more info Clarifying: Verifying what the client is saying Confronting: Using mild to strong feedback Questioning: Open ended questions to information given Deflecting: Changing the focus to another person if it relates Define SMART goals. When do you make SMART goals? - A...