WITS FINAL EXAM PAPER 2025/2026 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Which statement is true of resting metabolic rate (RMR)?
A) RMR increases with age
B) RMR is 20-30% of the daily caloric need
C) RMR is not sex specific
D) RMR is proportional to body size - ✔✔RMR is proportional to body size
✔✔What is the percentage of adults classified as obese in the US?
A) 15.4%
B) 26.8%
C) 34.9%
D) 45.9% - ✔✔34.9%
✔✔Which term refers to when less energy is consumed than expended?
A) Negative caloric balance
B) Thermic effect
C) Daily caloric need
D) Resting metabolic rate - ✔✔Negative caloric balance
✔✔Which term refers to how much of an effect results from a change in dose?
A) Slope
B) Maximal effect
C) Potency
D) Variability - ✔✔Slope
✔✔Your client notices that after working out with you their gains are made continuously
over time. This is known as a/an:
A) Acute response
B) Rapid response
C) Linear response
D) Delayed response - ✔✔Linear response
✔✔Target heart rate relates to which part of the FITT principle?
A) Intensity
B) Type
C) Time
D) Frequency - ✔✔Intensity
✔✔Aerobic versus Anaerobic relates to which part of the FITT principle?
A) Time
B) Type
C) Frequency
,D) Intensity - ✔✔Type
✔✔A variety of physiological responses occur when an individual begins an exercise
program. Which two physiological responses are most immediate?
A) Blood pressure and insulin sensitivity
B) VO2 max and resting heart rate
C) Serum lipid changes and increases in HDL
D) Resting heart rate and decreases in HDL - ✔✔Blood pressure and insulin sensitivity
✔✔How is the percentage of heart rate reserve (HRR) calculated?
A) Add resting HR to maximal HR
B) Subtract THR from maximal HR
C) Add THR to maximal HR
D) Subtract resting HR from maximal HR - ✔✔Subtract resting HR from maximal HR
✔✔When determining your clients target heart rate. Which is considered the most direct
method?
A) HRR method
B) % HR max method
C) Maximal GXT method
D) Rate of perceived exertion method - ✔✔Maximal GXT method
✔✔Your client is a 46 year old typical healthy male. What is the optimal intensity
threshold?
A) 75-90% of HR Max
B) 60-80% of HR Max
C) 75-90% of VO2 Max
D) 60-80% of RHR - ✔✔75-90% of HR Max
✔✔What can the rate of perceived exertion (RPE) can be as?
A) Indicator of duration
B) Indicator of intensity
C) Indicator of type
D) Indicator of frequency - ✔✔Indicator of intensity
✔✔The Tanaka formula for maximal heart rate (MHR) is:
A) HR = 220 - Age
B) HR = 208 x 8
C) HR = 207 - (0.8 x Age)
D) HR = 208 - (0.7 x Age) - ✔✔HR = 208 - (0.7 x Age)
✔✔Your client is travelling and has to spend 2 weeks training in a high altitude location.
In order for them to stay within their THR range what is your recommendation?
A) They decrease the intensity of their exercise
, B) They increase the intensity of their exercise
C) They increase the frequency of their exercise
D) They decrease the frequency of their exercise - ✔✔They decrease the intensity of
their exercise
✔✔Exercising for 7-14 days in the heat to increase the capacity to sweat is known as:
A) Assimilation
B) Acclimatization
C) Adaptation
D) Conditioning - ✔✔Acclimatization
✔✔Your client had to stop their weight training routine due to an injury. During that time
his muscles decreased in size. What is this known as?
A) Atrophy
B) Hypertrophy
C) Amortization
D) Hypertriton - ✔✔Atrophy
✔✔Your client is a high school athlete on the basketball team. You decide to take him
through a plyometric workout. What would this entail?
A) Muscular actions performed at a constant angular limb velocity
B) Quick powerful movements that involve rapid stretching of a muscle followed by rapid
shortening
C) Movements where the muscle tension increases with no change in much length
D) Weight lifted and lowered through a predetermined ROM - ✔✔Quick powerful
movements that involved rapid stretching of a muscle followed by rapid shortening
✔✔Your client is a runner and you have decided to have her perform leg exercises to
improve her running speed and endurance. This is an example of which principle?
A) Progression
B) Overload
C) Regularity
D) Specificity - ✔✔Specificity
✔✔Which mode of resistance training provides more options for training through
multiple planes of motion?
A) Balls
B) Weight machines
C) Free weights
D) Elastic resistance - ✔✔Free weights
✔✔What does a general warm up include?
A) 15-20 minutes of moderate to high intensity aerobic activities
B) 5-10 minutes of low to moderate intensity of anaerobic activities
C) 5-10 minutes of moderate to high intensity aerobic activities
ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Which statement is true of resting metabolic rate (RMR)?
A) RMR increases with age
B) RMR is 20-30% of the daily caloric need
C) RMR is not sex specific
D) RMR is proportional to body size - ✔✔RMR is proportional to body size
✔✔What is the percentage of adults classified as obese in the US?
A) 15.4%
B) 26.8%
C) 34.9%
D) 45.9% - ✔✔34.9%
✔✔Which term refers to when less energy is consumed than expended?
A) Negative caloric balance
B) Thermic effect
C) Daily caloric need
D) Resting metabolic rate - ✔✔Negative caloric balance
✔✔Which term refers to how much of an effect results from a change in dose?
A) Slope
B) Maximal effect
C) Potency
D) Variability - ✔✔Slope
✔✔Your client notices that after working out with you their gains are made continuously
over time. This is known as a/an:
A) Acute response
B) Rapid response
C) Linear response
D) Delayed response - ✔✔Linear response
✔✔Target heart rate relates to which part of the FITT principle?
A) Intensity
B) Type
C) Time
D) Frequency - ✔✔Intensity
✔✔Aerobic versus Anaerobic relates to which part of the FITT principle?
A) Time
B) Type
C) Frequency
,D) Intensity - ✔✔Type
✔✔A variety of physiological responses occur when an individual begins an exercise
program. Which two physiological responses are most immediate?
A) Blood pressure and insulin sensitivity
B) VO2 max and resting heart rate
C) Serum lipid changes and increases in HDL
D) Resting heart rate and decreases in HDL - ✔✔Blood pressure and insulin sensitivity
✔✔How is the percentage of heart rate reserve (HRR) calculated?
A) Add resting HR to maximal HR
B) Subtract THR from maximal HR
C) Add THR to maximal HR
D) Subtract resting HR from maximal HR - ✔✔Subtract resting HR from maximal HR
✔✔When determining your clients target heart rate. Which is considered the most direct
method?
A) HRR method
B) % HR max method
C) Maximal GXT method
D) Rate of perceived exertion method - ✔✔Maximal GXT method
✔✔Your client is a 46 year old typical healthy male. What is the optimal intensity
threshold?
A) 75-90% of HR Max
B) 60-80% of HR Max
C) 75-90% of VO2 Max
D) 60-80% of RHR - ✔✔75-90% of HR Max
✔✔What can the rate of perceived exertion (RPE) can be as?
A) Indicator of duration
B) Indicator of intensity
C) Indicator of type
D) Indicator of frequency - ✔✔Indicator of intensity
✔✔The Tanaka formula for maximal heart rate (MHR) is:
A) HR = 220 - Age
B) HR = 208 x 8
C) HR = 207 - (0.8 x Age)
D) HR = 208 - (0.7 x Age) - ✔✔HR = 208 - (0.7 x Age)
✔✔Your client is travelling and has to spend 2 weeks training in a high altitude location.
In order for them to stay within their THR range what is your recommendation?
A) They decrease the intensity of their exercise
, B) They increase the intensity of their exercise
C) They increase the frequency of their exercise
D) They decrease the frequency of their exercise - ✔✔They decrease the intensity of
their exercise
✔✔Exercising for 7-14 days in the heat to increase the capacity to sweat is known as:
A) Assimilation
B) Acclimatization
C) Adaptation
D) Conditioning - ✔✔Acclimatization
✔✔Your client had to stop their weight training routine due to an injury. During that time
his muscles decreased in size. What is this known as?
A) Atrophy
B) Hypertrophy
C) Amortization
D) Hypertriton - ✔✔Atrophy
✔✔Your client is a high school athlete on the basketball team. You decide to take him
through a plyometric workout. What would this entail?
A) Muscular actions performed at a constant angular limb velocity
B) Quick powerful movements that involve rapid stretching of a muscle followed by rapid
shortening
C) Movements where the muscle tension increases with no change in much length
D) Weight lifted and lowered through a predetermined ROM - ✔✔Quick powerful
movements that involved rapid stretching of a muscle followed by rapid shortening
✔✔Your client is a runner and you have decided to have her perform leg exercises to
improve her running speed and endurance. This is an example of which principle?
A) Progression
B) Overload
C) Regularity
D) Specificity - ✔✔Specificity
✔✔Which mode of resistance training provides more options for training through
multiple planes of motion?
A) Balls
B) Weight machines
C) Free weights
D) Elastic resistance - ✔✔Free weights
✔✔What does a general warm up include?
A) 15-20 minutes of moderate to high intensity aerobic activities
B) 5-10 minutes of low to moderate intensity of anaerobic activities
C) 5-10 minutes of moderate to high intensity aerobic activities
