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ACE personal training certification
Questions & 100% Correct Answers
Define intrinsic and extrinsic motivation
✓ :~~ 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
✓ :~~ Intrinsic: Client adjusts his own workout based on his perception of
difficulty
✓ Extrinsic: Trainer gives performance feedback
Define situational and contextual motivation
✓ :~~ 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
✓ :~~ 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
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✓ :~~ People with poor time management skills, lack of social support, busy
schedules
5 personal attributes influencing exercise participation and adherence
✓ :~~ 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
✓ :~~ Access to facilities: Location
Time: Lack of time is the most common excuse for not exercising
Social interactions that influence exercise participation and adherence
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✓ :~~ 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
✓ :~~ 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)
✓ :~~ 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.
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Define motivational interviewing.
✓ :~~ 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?
✓ :~~ 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
✓ :~~ Preaching: lecture type = bad
Educating: informational
Counseling: working together to find and solve problems
Directing: during exercise directing works
Master01 | September, 2024/2025 | Latest update
ACE personal training certification
Questions & 100% Correct Answers
Define intrinsic and extrinsic motivation
✓ :~~ 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
✓ :~~ Intrinsic: Client adjusts his own workout based on his perception of
difficulty
✓ Extrinsic: Trainer gives performance feedback
Define situational and contextual motivation
✓ :~~ 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
✓ :~~ 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
Master01 | September, 2024/2025 | Latest update
, 2 | P a g e | © copyright 2024/2025 | Grade A+
✓ :~~ People with poor time management skills, lack of social support, busy
schedules
5 personal attributes influencing exercise participation and adherence
✓ :~~ 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
✓ :~~ Access to facilities: Location
Time: Lack of time is the most common excuse for not exercising
Social interactions that influence exercise participation and adherence
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✓ :~~ 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
✓ :~~ 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)
✓ :~~ 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.
Master01 | September, 2024/2025 | Latest update
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Define motivational interviewing.
✓ :~~ 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?
✓ :~~ 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
✓ :~~ Preaching: lecture type = bad
Educating: informational
Counseling: working together to find and solve problems
Directing: during exercise directing works
Master01 | September, 2024/2025 | Latest update
