ACE GROUP FITNESS INSTRUCTOR 2025/2026 QUESTIONS
WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔The ___________ style of teaching provides opportunities for individualization and
one-on-one instructor feedback, while still effectively providing instruction. Participants
often work on the same task and at their own intensity to guarantee success -
✔✔Practice
✔✔The __________style of teaching relies on participants to provide their own
feedback. Record results, comparing their performance - examples of instructors who
emphasize Target Heart rate or recovery heart rate - gauge measures Ratings of
perceived exertion talk test incorporate this style into teaching. Rowers, treadmills,and
cycling machines. - ✔✔Self-Check
✔✔Describes the brains ability to gather and retain information and knowledge -
patterns of choreography. Applying knowledge positively affects motivation. -
✔✔Cognitive Domain
✔✔Describes emotional behaviors, beliefs, and attitudes. Overall feelings regarding
health and motivational attitudes in general will shape a person's feelings about
exercise. - ✔✔Affective Domain
✔✔Refers to those activities requiring movement. Learning new motor skills forms the
basic foundation of most group fitness classes. - ✔✔Psychomotor Domain
✔✔Motivation is a complex topic, but one that directly relates to long term adherence to
physical activity will need to have one of two types of motivation. Motivation that comes
from and external source outside of oneself is a ________? Examples water bottles or a
type of prize. - ✔✔Extrinsic
✔✔To be motivated in an exercise content that the participant inherent pleasure and
experience that comes from the engagement in itself. activity associated with a positive
attitude and emotions. - ✔✔Intrinsic
✔✔Movements are new to the participant, who acts as novice. Errors and imperfect
form maybe the norm. Correct breathing can be an issue in this stage. - ✔✔Cognitive
Stage of Learning
✔✔Includes improvements in the basic fundamentals of the skill. More consistent and
the individual is less likely to make errors. - ✔✔Associative Stage of Learning
, ✔✔The skill becomes autonomic or habitual. Learners can perform without following an
instructor and can detect their own errors. SKILL BECOMES A HABIT! -
✔✔Autonomous Stage of Learning
✔✔Guidelines for Hydration during exercise is to drink approximately _______ before
starting exercise? - ✔✔500-600 ML
✔✔Guidelines for Hydration during exercise is to drink approximately _______ during
exercise? - ✔✔200-300 ML consumed every 10 to 20 minutes
✔✔Guidelines for Hydration during exercise is to drink approximately _______ after
exercise? - ✔✔for every .05 kg of body weight loss, approximately 500 ML of fluid
should be consumed to replace lost fluids.
✔✔Participants who are aware of how they position their bodies in space is known as? -
✔✔Spatial Awareness
✔✔An instructor using the ___________ style of teaching makes all the decisions about
posture, rhythm, and duration, seeking imitation by all participants. Warming up and
cooling down. Pre-Choreographed class - still offering pro/re-gressions. - ✔✔Command
✔✔Occurs in a grapevine when, instead of the normal four count grapevine, instructors
hold the first leg for 2 counts and then rush the rest of the movement with counts, in
which case the traveling leg crosses behind the lead leg quickly and the movement
returns to normal. - ✔✔Syncopation
✔✔What is the MOST important consideration when using the simple-to-complex
teaching strategy? - ✔✔Progressively challenging the participants
✔✔Instruction is a more advanced teaching strategy that treats a sequence of
movement patterns as a whole, teaching small changes or providing increases in
complexity in order to progressively challenge the class. - ✔✔Simple to Complex
(Layering)
✔✔Introduce movement patterns so that participants are first performing them slower
than the the desired speed. Often includes rhythmic variation, using half-time of the
music. - ✔✔Slow to Fast
✔✔Involves reducing the number of repetitions that make up a movement sequence.
Example, 4 alternating grapevines followed by 8 alternating hamstring curls reducing
the amount till you get to your exercise goal. - ✔✔Repetition-Reduction
WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔The ___________ style of teaching provides opportunities for individualization and
one-on-one instructor feedback, while still effectively providing instruction. Participants
often work on the same task and at their own intensity to guarantee success -
✔✔Practice
✔✔The __________style of teaching relies on participants to provide their own
feedback. Record results, comparing their performance - examples of instructors who
emphasize Target Heart rate or recovery heart rate - gauge measures Ratings of
perceived exertion talk test incorporate this style into teaching. Rowers, treadmills,and
cycling machines. - ✔✔Self-Check
✔✔Describes the brains ability to gather and retain information and knowledge -
patterns of choreography. Applying knowledge positively affects motivation. -
✔✔Cognitive Domain
✔✔Describes emotional behaviors, beliefs, and attitudes. Overall feelings regarding
health and motivational attitudes in general will shape a person's feelings about
exercise. - ✔✔Affective Domain
✔✔Refers to those activities requiring movement. Learning new motor skills forms the
basic foundation of most group fitness classes. - ✔✔Psychomotor Domain
✔✔Motivation is a complex topic, but one that directly relates to long term adherence to
physical activity will need to have one of two types of motivation. Motivation that comes
from and external source outside of oneself is a ________? Examples water bottles or a
type of prize. - ✔✔Extrinsic
✔✔To be motivated in an exercise content that the participant inherent pleasure and
experience that comes from the engagement in itself. activity associated with a positive
attitude and emotions. - ✔✔Intrinsic
✔✔Movements are new to the participant, who acts as novice. Errors and imperfect
form maybe the norm. Correct breathing can be an issue in this stage. - ✔✔Cognitive
Stage of Learning
✔✔Includes improvements in the basic fundamentals of the skill. More consistent and
the individual is less likely to make errors. - ✔✔Associative Stage of Learning
, ✔✔The skill becomes autonomic or habitual. Learners can perform without following an
instructor and can detect their own errors. SKILL BECOMES A HABIT! -
✔✔Autonomous Stage of Learning
✔✔Guidelines for Hydration during exercise is to drink approximately _______ before
starting exercise? - ✔✔500-600 ML
✔✔Guidelines for Hydration during exercise is to drink approximately _______ during
exercise? - ✔✔200-300 ML consumed every 10 to 20 minutes
✔✔Guidelines for Hydration during exercise is to drink approximately _______ after
exercise? - ✔✔for every .05 kg of body weight loss, approximately 500 ML of fluid
should be consumed to replace lost fluids.
✔✔Participants who are aware of how they position their bodies in space is known as? -
✔✔Spatial Awareness
✔✔An instructor using the ___________ style of teaching makes all the decisions about
posture, rhythm, and duration, seeking imitation by all participants. Warming up and
cooling down. Pre-Choreographed class - still offering pro/re-gressions. - ✔✔Command
✔✔Occurs in a grapevine when, instead of the normal four count grapevine, instructors
hold the first leg for 2 counts and then rush the rest of the movement with counts, in
which case the traveling leg crosses behind the lead leg quickly and the movement
returns to normal. - ✔✔Syncopation
✔✔What is the MOST important consideration when using the simple-to-complex
teaching strategy? - ✔✔Progressively challenging the participants
✔✔Instruction is a more advanced teaching strategy that treats a sequence of
movement patterns as a whole, teaching small changes or providing increases in
complexity in order to progressively challenge the class. - ✔✔Simple to Complex
(Layering)
✔✔Introduce movement patterns so that participants are first performing them slower
than the the desired speed. Often includes rhythmic variation, using half-time of the
music. - ✔✔Slow to Fast
✔✔Involves reducing the number of repetitions that make up a movement sequence.
Example, 4 alternating grapevines followed by 8 alternating hamstring curls reducing
the amount till you get to your exercise goal. - ✔✔Repetition-Reduction
