Neta Personal Training Certification Exam Questions and Answers

Neta Personal Training Certification Exam Questions and Answers What is the anatomical position? - Answer- palms forward, standing erect, hip width apart Median divides the body into... - Answer- (midline) right and left halves Medial - Answer- Closer to midline Lateral - Answer- Further from midline Superior - Answer- upstairs Inferior - Answer- downstairs Proximal - Answer- Closer to attached limb Distal - Answer- Further from attached limb Anterior - Answer- Front Posterior - Answer- Back Superficial - Answer- surface Deep - Answer- away from surface of body Sagittal plane - Answer- divides body into right and left sides (extends from median or midline of body) Frontal plane - Answer- divides body into anterior and posterior Transverse plan - Answer- dives body into upper (superior) and lower (inferior) Skeletal system has # bones - Answer- 206 Bones do the following four tasks: - Answer- 1- levers for muscles, 2- protect vital organs, 3- storage for essential minerals, 4-produces blood cells in the bone marrow Axial skeleton - Answer- (80 bones) skull, spinal column, sternum and ribs Appendicular Skeleton - Answer- (126 bones) upper and lower extremeties as well as shoulder and pelvic girdles Arm - Answer- Radius/Ulna/Humerus Leg - Answer- Tibia/Fibula/Femur Vertebral Column - Answer- 33 of the bones in the axial skeleton Top and bottom of vert column - Answer- top connects to cranium and bottom connects to sacrum... sacrum, lumbar, thorasic, cervical, cranium Sacrum - Answer- transmits body weight to hip joints through articulations with pelvic girdle Three Regions of Vert Column - Answer- cervical connects to cranium and has pivotal joint (7), thorasic (12) connects to ribs to provide support for thorax, lumbar (5) 4 types of bones - Answer- long, short, flat and irregular Articulation - Answer- junction between two adjacent bones Three types of joints - Answer- Synarthrodial, diarthrodial, amphiarthrodial Synarthrodial joints - Answer- tought fibrous connective tissue #immovable joint amphiarthrodial joints - Answer- pad or disk (between two vert for example) #slightly movable joint diarthrodial joint - Answer- also called synovial and freely move- also contain articular cartilage and joint capsule (shoulder, elbow, hip and knee) Ligaments - Answer- connect bone to bone and provide support for joints 6 Types of joints - Answer- gliding, hinge, saddle, pivot, ball and socket, ellipsoid Shoulder has three main bones - Answer- humerus, scapula, and clavicle Three types of muscle tissue - Answer- cardiac, smooth and skeletal Cardiac - Answer- walls of the heart (involuntary) Smooth - Answer- lines the internal organs (involuntary) Skeletal - Answer- accel, deccel, stabilize (voluntary)... 75 percent water, 20 percent contractile proteins, 5 percent high energy phosphates... over 600 different skeletal muscles Muscle fibers are made up of... - Answer- myofibrils- sacroplasm surrounds these and contains the mitochondria (powerhouse of the muscle) Myofilaments are... - Answer- within the myofribils in the muscle fibers... The two myofilaments are actin and myosin. Sarcomere are... - Answer- the smallest functional unit of the skeletal muscle fibers- overlap of the myofilaments