NFPT Exam Questions With Complete
Answers
EUNICE
[COMPANY NAME] [Company address]
,Health - Answers:condition of your current state of being, related to the absence of
disease or injury
ADL - Answers:Activities of Daily Living
Respiratory Disease, Joint Injury, and Cardiovascular disease - Answers:Which of the
following exercise concern/s/ would you as a personal trainer, recommend that your
client see a highly trained psychologist or physician for a determination and prescription
of an appropriate training regime?
Reinforcing Factors - Answers:As a personal trainer, you play a part in motivating
positive behavior in your clients. When you give praise, rewards, encouragement and/or
recognition, which of the following influential aspects are being used to motivate positive
outcomes?
5 Components of Fitness - Answers:Physical Health is commonly identified, and can be
measured, by:
Origin - Answers:The point at which muscle joins the stationary bone at the end closest
to the body is the
Tendon - Answers:The strong connective tissue that connects muscle to bone, which
pulls on the bones and causes our limbs to move, is called
656 - Answers:There is an average of ______ muscles in the adult human body.
206 - Answers:The average adult has how many bones?
Cartilage - Answers:A tough but flexible connective tissue that covers the end of each
bone is called
Arteries; veins - Answers:Blood travels away from the heart, carrying oxygenated blood
to the body, through ____________; and deoxygenated blood comes back to the heart
through ____________
Diaphragm - Answers:This muscle controls the overall breathing process. As it contracts
it flattens, causing air to be sucked into the lungs; and when it relaxes the air in the
lungs is forced out.
Central Nervous System (CNS) - Answers:Which division of the nervous system sends
and receives information, and contains the brain and spinal cord?
Small Intestine - Answers:What part of the digestive system does most absorption of
nutrients occur?
,False - Answers:Glands, located in many regions of the body, release chemical
messengers called enzymes into the bloodstream. These enzymes transport signals
from one cell to another for the purpose of soliciting a specific bodily response and/or
function.
Peripheral Nervous System (PNS) and the Central Nervous System (CNS) -
Answers:The Nervous System is divided into what two (2) parts?
12-15 - Answers:In a healthy adult, the respiration process occurs approximately how
many times per minute?
Synovial Fluid - Answers:The cartilage-coated ends of bones are kept apart by a thin
film that keeps the bones from scratching against each other. This is called _______.
Endocrine System - Answers:Which system of the body is made up of glands that use
hormones to send information from one cell to another for the purpose of generating a
specific bodily response - such as mood, sleep, growth and development, and
metabolism.
Abduction - Answers:Movement away from the body or body part's midline; lifting your
arm up to the horizontal position at your side
Adduction - Answers:Movement toward the body or body part's midline; lowering your
arm from the horizontal position back down to your side
Extension - Answers:The straightening of a joint that increases the angle; reaching out
your arm, straightening at elbow
Flexion - Answers:The bending of a joint that decreases the angle; bending at elbow
Internal Rotation - Answers:Movement of body part towards the axis/towards center of
body
External Rotation - Answers:Movement of body part away from axis/away from center of
body
Retraction - Answers:Backward (posterior) movement of a body part; generally referring
to scapulae and skull/cervical spine
Protraction - Answers:Forward (anterior) movement of a body part; generally referring to
scapulae and skull/cervical spine
Hyperextension - Answers:Extension beyond normal limits, over extended; a body part
or joint is bent backwards too far
, Hypoextension - Answers:Extension that is less than normal, under-extended; not being
able to extend at the knee because of a tight hamstring
Gliding - Answers:Movement of non-angular joints over each other
Deviation - Answers:Departure from the midline
Pronation - Answers:Palm of hand turning downward into a posterior position when arm
is down at side; the inward roll of the foot/arch decreased during normal walking motion
Supination - Answers:Palm of hand turning upward into an anterior position when arm is
down at side; the outward roll of the foot/arch heightened during normal walking motion
Inversion - Answers:Turning both feet inward so the soles face each other
Eversion - Answers:Turning both feet outward so the soles face away from each other
Plantarflexion - Answers:Pointing foot downward (e.g. going up on tiptoes)
Dorsiflexion - Answers:Pointing foot up towards the shin
True - Answers:The ankle is distal to the hip
Elbow - Answers:The wrist is distal to the shoulder. The ______ is proximal to the wrist.
distal; proximal - Answers:The knee is _____ to the hip and _____ to the ankle.
Isotonic - Answers:Where the load on the muscle is less than the generated tension,
resulting in movement
Isokinetic - Answers:Where the muscle contracts and shortens at a constant rate of
speed
Isometric - Answers:Where the load on the muscle is greater than the generated
tension, no movement takes place
Eccentric - Answers:Referred to by the increase in the length of the muscle during
isotonic contraction; the "negative" part of the contraction
Concentric - Answers:Referred to by the decrease in the length of the muscle during
isotonic contraction; the "positive" part of the contraction
SAGITTAL PLANE: - Answers:Vertical Plane & Divides: right and left sides
FRONTAL PLANE: - Answers:Motion = abduction and adduction & Divides: front half
and back half
Answers
EUNICE
[COMPANY NAME] [Company address]
,Health - Answers:condition of your current state of being, related to the absence of
disease or injury
ADL - Answers:Activities of Daily Living
Respiratory Disease, Joint Injury, and Cardiovascular disease - Answers:Which of the
following exercise concern/s/ would you as a personal trainer, recommend that your
client see a highly trained psychologist or physician for a determination and prescription
of an appropriate training regime?
Reinforcing Factors - Answers:As a personal trainer, you play a part in motivating
positive behavior in your clients. When you give praise, rewards, encouragement and/or
recognition, which of the following influential aspects are being used to motivate positive
outcomes?
5 Components of Fitness - Answers:Physical Health is commonly identified, and can be
measured, by:
Origin - Answers:The point at which muscle joins the stationary bone at the end closest
to the body is the
Tendon - Answers:The strong connective tissue that connects muscle to bone, which
pulls on the bones and causes our limbs to move, is called
656 - Answers:There is an average of ______ muscles in the adult human body.
206 - Answers:The average adult has how many bones?
Cartilage - Answers:A tough but flexible connective tissue that covers the end of each
bone is called
Arteries; veins - Answers:Blood travels away from the heart, carrying oxygenated blood
to the body, through ____________; and deoxygenated blood comes back to the heart
through ____________
Diaphragm - Answers:This muscle controls the overall breathing process. As it contracts
it flattens, causing air to be sucked into the lungs; and when it relaxes the air in the
lungs is forced out.
Central Nervous System (CNS) - Answers:Which division of the nervous system sends
and receives information, and contains the brain and spinal cord?
Small Intestine - Answers:What part of the digestive system does most absorption of
nutrients occur?
,False - Answers:Glands, located in many regions of the body, release chemical
messengers called enzymes into the bloodstream. These enzymes transport signals
from one cell to another for the purpose of soliciting a specific bodily response and/or
function.
Peripheral Nervous System (PNS) and the Central Nervous System (CNS) -
Answers:The Nervous System is divided into what two (2) parts?
12-15 - Answers:In a healthy adult, the respiration process occurs approximately how
many times per minute?
Synovial Fluid - Answers:The cartilage-coated ends of bones are kept apart by a thin
film that keeps the bones from scratching against each other. This is called _______.
Endocrine System - Answers:Which system of the body is made up of glands that use
hormones to send information from one cell to another for the purpose of generating a
specific bodily response - such as mood, sleep, growth and development, and
metabolism.
Abduction - Answers:Movement away from the body or body part's midline; lifting your
arm up to the horizontal position at your side
Adduction - Answers:Movement toward the body or body part's midline; lowering your
arm from the horizontal position back down to your side
Extension - Answers:The straightening of a joint that increases the angle; reaching out
your arm, straightening at elbow
Flexion - Answers:The bending of a joint that decreases the angle; bending at elbow
Internal Rotation - Answers:Movement of body part towards the axis/towards center of
body
External Rotation - Answers:Movement of body part away from axis/away from center of
body
Retraction - Answers:Backward (posterior) movement of a body part; generally referring
to scapulae and skull/cervical spine
Protraction - Answers:Forward (anterior) movement of a body part; generally referring to
scapulae and skull/cervical spine
Hyperextension - Answers:Extension beyond normal limits, over extended; a body part
or joint is bent backwards too far
, Hypoextension - Answers:Extension that is less than normal, under-extended; not being
able to extend at the knee because of a tight hamstring
Gliding - Answers:Movement of non-angular joints over each other
Deviation - Answers:Departure from the midline
Pronation - Answers:Palm of hand turning downward into a posterior position when arm
is down at side; the inward roll of the foot/arch decreased during normal walking motion
Supination - Answers:Palm of hand turning upward into an anterior position when arm is
down at side; the outward roll of the foot/arch heightened during normal walking motion
Inversion - Answers:Turning both feet inward so the soles face each other
Eversion - Answers:Turning both feet outward so the soles face away from each other
Plantarflexion - Answers:Pointing foot downward (e.g. going up on tiptoes)
Dorsiflexion - Answers:Pointing foot up towards the shin
True - Answers:The ankle is distal to the hip
Elbow - Answers:The wrist is distal to the shoulder. The ______ is proximal to the wrist.
distal; proximal - Answers:The knee is _____ to the hip and _____ to the ankle.
Isotonic - Answers:Where the load on the muscle is less than the generated tension,
resulting in movement
Isokinetic - Answers:Where the muscle contracts and shortens at a constant rate of
speed
Isometric - Answers:Where the load on the muscle is greater than the generated
tension, no movement takes place
Eccentric - Answers:Referred to by the increase in the length of the muscle during
isotonic contraction; the "negative" part of the contraction
Concentric - Answers:Referred to by the decrease in the length of the muscle during
isotonic contraction; the "positive" part of the contraction
SAGITTAL PLANE: - Answers:Vertical Plane & Divides: right and left sides
FRONTAL PLANE: - Answers:Motion = abduction and adduction & Divides: front half
and back half
