NASM VIRTUAL COACHING PRACTICE EXAM 2025/2026
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Is it possible that trainers/coaches can lead to burn out - ✔✔TRUE; work and life
needs to balanced (virtual coaches should set working hours while reserving time for
personal and professional development
✔✔How to set a positive example for clients? - ✔✔Setting boundaries can help virtual
coaches stay healthy and set examples doe clients
✔✔What are the pros to virtual coaching? - ✔✔1. Allows any fitness professional to
reach a global audience
2. Can be more affordable for clients than in-person training (especially without a gym
membership and travel considerations), increasing the potential of acquiring new clients
3. More opportunities in geographical locations with few fitness facilities to work at
4. Same coach for clients no matter the location, providing the opportunity to build
greater, longer lasting client-coach relationships
✔✔What are the cons to virtual coaching? - ✔✔1. Clients lacking understanding for the
value of virtual coaching and preferring in-person training or coaching, making it hard to
sell the benefits of virtual services
2. Fitness goals requiring the fitness professional to be present with the client to
minimize the risk of injury
3. Technology obstacles such as Internet connection, device requirements, and
technical support sometimes making it difficult to ensure a seamless and effective
virtual session
4. Allocating appropriate space for virtual sessions challenging for fitness professionals
who do not or cannot stage a designated personal training or coaching space in their
home
✔✔Ch. 1 Q: Whether providing services in-person or virtually, a certified nutrition coach
does not engage in which two practices? - ✔✔Meal Planning and Nutritional Therapy
✔✔Ch.1 Q: What might a virtual coach need to keep in mind when transitioning from in-
person programming to virtual? - ✔✔Available space, access to equipment, and
scheduling
✔✔Ch.1 Q: How does the virtual format impact a virtual coach's scope of practice? -
✔✔Offering virtual services does not impact the scope of practice
✔✔Ch: 1 Q: Although not required, which courses are recommended before venturing
into virtual coaching? - ✔✔NASM-CPT or NASM-CNC
,✔✔Ch. 1 Q: How can virtual coaches be proactive about maintaining work-life balance?
- ✔✔Set consistent working hours
✔✔Ch. 1 Q: What information should virtual coaches obtain from clients in case of
emergency? - ✔✔Address, emergency contact, and local police department phone
number
✔✔Ch. 1 Q:Which virtual service adds accountability, consistency, and a sense of
support to the client-coach relationship? - ✔✔Virtual check-ins
✔✔Ch.1 Q: Which is a common initial challenge for fitness professionals transitioning or
augmenting current services with virtual coaching? - ✔✔Communication
✔✔Ch.1 Q: Creative marketing, social media presence, networking, referral programs,
innovative promotion ideas, and gated content are all ideas to help virtual coaches do
what? - ✔✔Gain new clients
✔✔Ch.1 Q: Which current trend in virtual coaching integrates virtual strategies with in-
person training methods? - ✔✔Hybrid training
✔✔Ch.1 Q: What is an appropriate first step for fitness professionals to take when
beginning the transition to providing virtual coaching services? - ✔✔Leveraging
technology to track and communicate client progress
✔✔Ch.1 Q: In order to provide effective virtual coaching, fitness professionals must
understand how to gauge and measure what? - ✔✔Client engagement
✔✔Ch. 1 Q: Working with shift workers or those with demanding work schedules may
require the virtual coach to provide which accommodation? - ✔✔Non-traditional hours
for coaching
✔✔Ch. 1 Q: Whether in-person or virtual, a personal trainer does not engage in which
two practices? - ✔✔Diagnosing injuries and providing counseling services
✔✔Ch.1 Q: Which services can a virtual coach provide? - ✔✔The services found within
their credentials
✔✔Ch.1 Q: Which service is often used to complement the virtual coaching experience?
- ✔✔Predesigned workouts
✔✔Ch. 1 Q: The virtual training system uses what tool to deliver personal trainer-like
services to those who experienced barriers to frequenting a fitness center? -
✔✔Emerging technology
,✔✔Ch. 1 Q: Working with shift workers or those with demanding work schedules may
require the virtual coach to provide which accommodation? - ✔✔Non-traditional hours
for coaching
✔✔Ch. 1 Q: The virtual training system uses what tool to deliver personal trainer-like
services to those who experienced barriers to frequenting a fitness center? -
✔✔Emerging technology
✔✔Building a business requires: - ✔✔time, perseverance, hard work and patience
✔✔Business's purpose and direction can change overtime - ✔✔true
✔✔What can be a risk in the business industry? - ✔✔economic downturn; keep in mind
✔✔clients are looking for ____ into the virtual world? - ✔✔integrate health and fitness
✔✔a business owner typically spends most of their time working IN their business
instead of ON their business - ✔✔TRUE
✔✔define entrepreneur? - ✔✔A business owner who develops systematic, repeatable,
scalable, and teachable processes to grow a business
✔✔define business owner? - ✔✔An individual or group who owns a business entity and
has final decision-making authority as well as first right to profits
✔✔What is working IN the business? - ✔✔Training clients, responding to customer
service e-mails, and book keeping
✔✔What is working ON the business? - ✔✔developing training protocols, creating and
testing marketing strategies, crafting customer service policies, structuring corporate
guidelines, and building financial projections
✔✔What will happen in the early stages in the life of a business and entrepreneur? -
✔✔The business owner will be focused primarily on working in the business. However,
as a business grows, the entrepreneur will need to shift much of their focus to working
on the business.
✔✔Define a solopreneur? - ✔✔An entrepreneur who runs a business on their own
✔✔What should you do overtime with an instruction manual? - ✔✔reviewed, updated,
and rewritten as a business evolves and changes
, ✔✔Executive Fitness (example company) - ✔✔Goal: Provide online fitness coaching to
busy office professionals who do not have time to visit a gym on a consistent basis
✔✔a business plan should be treated as:____? - ✔✔living document; It should be
reviewed, referenced, and updated regularly
✔✔What is the executive summary? - ✔✔A section of the business plan that provides
an overview (purpose) of what will be covered in the document (business)
✔✔What is a mission statement? - ✔✔A mission statement is the entrepreneur's reason
for wanting to start this business and should convey a meaning that resonates (and
motivates) with the founder, employees, and clients
✔✔What is a vision statement? - ✔✔What the business will look like in the long-term,
over the next 5 to 10 years or more.
✔✔Who is the target audience? - ✔✔busy business professionals who want to give
their health, fitness, and nutrition a higher priority but have difficulty finding a
sustainable path to achieve their goals
✔✔What is a Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC)? - ✔✔How much a new customer costs
a business - typically, the cost is determined through money spent on advertising
✔✔What is Unique Selling Proposition? - ✔✔The unique benefit or feature of a product
or service that differentiates a business from other businesses offering a similar service
or product
✔✔What does the fitness professional need to bring to their clients? - ✔✔Unique selling
proposition (USP)
✔✔What is a Minimum Viable Product (MVP)? - ✔✔A product that provides the bare
minimum features to satisfy customer demand - this is the foundation for a product that
will be developed and modified based on market feedback
✔✔define features? - ✔✔features are descriptions of what a product or service offers
customers
✔✔define benefits? - ✔✔Benefits are how those features help solve a customer's
problem
✔✔define overchoice? - ✔✔Is when there are so many options in the marketplace that
a buyer is overwhelmed and may choose to not purchase anything at all
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Is it possible that trainers/coaches can lead to burn out - ✔✔TRUE; work and life
needs to balanced (virtual coaches should set working hours while reserving time for
personal and professional development
✔✔How to set a positive example for clients? - ✔✔Setting boundaries can help virtual
coaches stay healthy and set examples doe clients
✔✔What are the pros to virtual coaching? - ✔✔1. Allows any fitness professional to
reach a global audience
2. Can be more affordable for clients than in-person training (especially without a gym
membership and travel considerations), increasing the potential of acquiring new clients
3. More opportunities in geographical locations with few fitness facilities to work at
4. Same coach for clients no matter the location, providing the opportunity to build
greater, longer lasting client-coach relationships
✔✔What are the cons to virtual coaching? - ✔✔1. Clients lacking understanding for the
value of virtual coaching and preferring in-person training or coaching, making it hard to
sell the benefits of virtual services
2. Fitness goals requiring the fitness professional to be present with the client to
minimize the risk of injury
3. Technology obstacles such as Internet connection, device requirements, and
technical support sometimes making it difficult to ensure a seamless and effective
virtual session
4. Allocating appropriate space for virtual sessions challenging for fitness professionals
who do not or cannot stage a designated personal training or coaching space in their
home
✔✔Ch. 1 Q: Whether providing services in-person or virtually, a certified nutrition coach
does not engage in which two practices? - ✔✔Meal Planning and Nutritional Therapy
✔✔Ch.1 Q: What might a virtual coach need to keep in mind when transitioning from in-
person programming to virtual? - ✔✔Available space, access to equipment, and
scheduling
✔✔Ch.1 Q: How does the virtual format impact a virtual coach's scope of practice? -
✔✔Offering virtual services does not impact the scope of practice
✔✔Ch: 1 Q: Although not required, which courses are recommended before venturing
into virtual coaching? - ✔✔NASM-CPT or NASM-CNC
,✔✔Ch. 1 Q: How can virtual coaches be proactive about maintaining work-life balance?
- ✔✔Set consistent working hours
✔✔Ch. 1 Q: What information should virtual coaches obtain from clients in case of
emergency? - ✔✔Address, emergency contact, and local police department phone
number
✔✔Ch. 1 Q:Which virtual service adds accountability, consistency, and a sense of
support to the client-coach relationship? - ✔✔Virtual check-ins
✔✔Ch.1 Q: Which is a common initial challenge for fitness professionals transitioning or
augmenting current services with virtual coaching? - ✔✔Communication
✔✔Ch.1 Q: Creative marketing, social media presence, networking, referral programs,
innovative promotion ideas, and gated content are all ideas to help virtual coaches do
what? - ✔✔Gain new clients
✔✔Ch.1 Q: Which current trend in virtual coaching integrates virtual strategies with in-
person training methods? - ✔✔Hybrid training
✔✔Ch.1 Q: What is an appropriate first step for fitness professionals to take when
beginning the transition to providing virtual coaching services? - ✔✔Leveraging
technology to track and communicate client progress
✔✔Ch.1 Q: In order to provide effective virtual coaching, fitness professionals must
understand how to gauge and measure what? - ✔✔Client engagement
✔✔Ch. 1 Q: Working with shift workers or those with demanding work schedules may
require the virtual coach to provide which accommodation? - ✔✔Non-traditional hours
for coaching
✔✔Ch. 1 Q: Whether in-person or virtual, a personal trainer does not engage in which
two practices? - ✔✔Diagnosing injuries and providing counseling services
✔✔Ch.1 Q: Which services can a virtual coach provide? - ✔✔The services found within
their credentials
✔✔Ch.1 Q: Which service is often used to complement the virtual coaching experience?
- ✔✔Predesigned workouts
✔✔Ch. 1 Q: The virtual training system uses what tool to deliver personal trainer-like
services to those who experienced barriers to frequenting a fitness center? -
✔✔Emerging technology
,✔✔Ch. 1 Q: Working with shift workers or those with demanding work schedules may
require the virtual coach to provide which accommodation? - ✔✔Non-traditional hours
for coaching
✔✔Ch. 1 Q: The virtual training system uses what tool to deliver personal trainer-like
services to those who experienced barriers to frequenting a fitness center? -
✔✔Emerging technology
✔✔Building a business requires: - ✔✔time, perseverance, hard work and patience
✔✔Business's purpose and direction can change overtime - ✔✔true
✔✔What can be a risk in the business industry? - ✔✔economic downturn; keep in mind
✔✔clients are looking for ____ into the virtual world? - ✔✔integrate health and fitness
✔✔a business owner typically spends most of their time working IN their business
instead of ON their business - ✔✔TRUE
✔✔define entrepreneur? - ✔✔A business owner who develops systematic, repeatable,
scalable, and teachable processes to grow a business
✔✔define business owner? - ✔✔An individual or group who owns a business entity and
has final decision-making authority as well as first right to profits
✔✔What is working IN the business? - ✔✔Training clients, responding to customer
service e-mails, and book keeping
✔✔What is working ON the business? - ✔✔developing training protocols, creating and
testing marketing strategies, crafting customer service policies, structuring corporate
guidelines, and building financial projections
✔✔What will happen in the early stages in the life of a business and entrepreneur? -
✔✔The business owner will be focused primarily on working in the business. However,
as a business grows, the entrepreneur will need to shift much of their focus to working
on the business.
✔✔Define a solopreneur? - ✔✔An entrepreneur who runs a business on their own
✔✔What should you do overtime with an instruction manual? - ✔✔reviewed, updated,
and rewritten as a business evolves and changes
, ✔✔Executive Fitness (example company) - ✔✔Goal: Provide online fitness coaching to
busy office professionals who do not have time to visit a gym on a consistent basis
✔✔a business plan should be treated as:____? - ✔✔living document; It should be
reviewed, referenced, and updated regularly
✔✔What is the executive summary? - ✔✔A section of the business plan that provides
an overview (purpose) of what will be covered in the document (business)
✔✔What is a mission statement? - ✔✔A mission statement is the entrepreneur's reason
for wanting to start this business and should convey a meaning that resonates (and
motivates) with the founder, employees, and clients
✔✔What is a vision statement? - ✔✔What the business will look like in the long-term,
over the next 5 to 10 years or more.
✔✔Who is the target audience? - ✔✔busy business professionals who want to give
their health, fitness, and nutrition a higher priority but have difficulty finding a
sustainable path to achieve their goals
✔✔What is a Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC)? - ✔✔How much a new customer costs
a business - typically, the cost is determined through money spent on advertising
✔✔What is Unique Selling Proposition? - ✔✔The unique benefit or feature of a product
or service that differentiates a business from other businesses offering a similar service
or product
✔✔What does the fitness professional need to bring to their clients? - ✔✔Unique selling
proposition (USP)
✔✔What is a Minimum Viable Product (MVP)? - ✔✔A product that provides the bare
minimum features to satisfy customer demand - this is the foundation for a product that
will be developed and modified based on market feedback
✔✔define features? - ✔✔features are descriptions of what a product or service offers
customers
✔✔define benefits? - ✔✔Benefits are how those features help solve a customer's
problem
✔✔define overchoice? - ✔✔Is when there are so many options in the marketplace that
a buyer is overwhelmed and may choose to not purchase anything at all
