CanFitPro Personal Training Specialist Theory
TEST STUDY GUIDE 2025/2026 ACCURATE QUESTIONS
AND VERIFIED CORRECT SOLUTIONS WITH RATIONALES
|| 100% GUARANTEED PASS
<RECENT VERSION>
1. How would you help a visual learner? - ANSWER ✓ Demonstrate exercises,
use a mirror, use analogies, use facial expressions
2. How would you help an auditory learner? - ANSWER ✓ coach exercises,
use sounds to cue tempo, rep, etc, use tone of voice
3. How would you help a kinesthetics learner? - ANSWER ✓ Use terms that
connect the movement to a feeling, explain exercises by using analogies
4. What is motivational interviewing? - ANSWER ✓ Arranging conversations
and questions to allow a client to talk themselves into change
5. What does the 'O' in OARS stand for? - ANSWER ✓ Ask open ended
questions
6. What does the 'A' in OARS stand for? - ANSWER ✓ Affirm the clients
interests and values
7. What does the 'R' in OARS stand for? - ANSWER ✓ Reflective responding
8. What does the 'S' in OARS stand for? - ANSWER ✓ summarizing results
9. What is the concept of intersectionality? - ANSWER ✓ When factors of a
clients health and experience overlap
10.What is the OARS concept of interviewing for? - ANSWER ✓ Motivational
interviewing
,11.How can you make a client feel comfortable with their goals? - ANSWER ✓
Talk about past achievements, track their success, discuss motivational
factors, teach them
12.What are the four steps to client fulfillment? - ANSWER ✓ Explain
exercise, Demo exercise, coach to motivate with purpose, empower clients
belief and ability
13.What is the precontemplation stage? - ANSWER ✓ no intention to change
14.What is the contemplation stage? - ANSWER ✓ Someone is considering
change in the next 6 months
15.What is the preparation stage? - ANSWER ✓ making formal plan of action
for change
16.What is the action stage? - ANSWER ✓ Actively engaged in strategies to
change behavior; lasts up to 6 months
17.What is the maintenance stage? - ANSWER ✓ working to prevent relapse,
more committed than action, lasts 6 months to 5 years
18.How to motivate clients? - ANSWER ✓ Use future states visual descriptors
19.what is sensory acuity? - ANSWER ✓ Using the senses to describe what a
client will feel like when they complete their goals.
20.What are the 5 stages of behavioural change? - ANSWER ✓
Precontemplation, Contemplation, Preparation, Action, Maintenance
21.In which stage of change would a PTS discuss health risks, myths and fears,
and provide client with general education? - ANSWER ✓ Precontemplation
22.In which stage of change would a PTS make a list of advantages related to
regular exercise, provide clear recommendations, and build the client's self-
confidence? - ANSWER ✓ Contemplation
,23.In which stage of change would a PTS provide a personalized exercise
design and work on goal setting and action plans? - ANSWER ✓ Preparation
24.In which stage of change would a PTS provide encouragement, talk to the
client about self monitoring, and prepare for relapses? - ANSWER ✓ Action
25.In which stage of change would a PTS review and revise goals, address
concerns, set new fitness goals, and provide social support? - ANSWER ✓
Maintenance
26.What does PFITT stand for? - ANSWER ✓ Purpose, Frequency, Intensity,
Time and Type of exercise
27.This principle suggests that program design must accommodate every
client's individual needs - ANSWER ✓ Individualization
28.This principle suggests that if clients want to improve a particular aspect of
their performance, they have to train that specifically - ANSWER ✓
Specificity
29.This principle suggests that clients must continually challenge their fitness to
see significant improvement over time - ANSWER ✓ Progressive overload
30.This principle becomes increasingly important as clients' workouts become
more successful, and should be a mandatory principle of training -
ANSWER ✓ Recovery
31.This principle suggests that the strengthening of joints will result in the
ability to sustain subsequently greater stresses in training and have greater
resistance to injury - ANSWER ✓ Structural Tolerance
32.This principle suggests that people who are well developed through all
components of fitness are less prone to injury and more likely to perform
better in sport and life - ANSWER ✓ All-around development
33.This principle suggests that when training ceases, the body will gradually
return to its pre-training state - ANSWER ✓ Reversibility
, 34.This principle suggests that after a level of fitness has been achieved, it can
be maintained with less work than was needed to attain it - ANSWER ✓
Maintenance
35.The main energy source of the anaerobic (glycolytic) system is - ANSWER
✓ Carbohydrates
36.The main energy source of the aerobic (glycolytic) system is - ANSWER ✓
Carbohydrates
37.The main energy source of the aerobic fatty acid oxidation system is -
ANSWER ✓ Fat
38.What are the four systems the human body uses when forming ATP? -
ANSWER ✓ 1. ATP-CP
2. Anaerobic (glycolytic) system
3. Aerobic (glycolytic) system
4. Fatty acid oxidation system
39.Anaerobic - ANSWER ✓ The __________ systems are limited and efficient
for only short bouts of activity
40.Aerobic - ANSWER ✓ The ________ system uses an abundant supply of fat
and carbohydrate to create ATP to fuel long bouts of activity
41.What terminology best describes the point at which the aerobic system
cannot supply enough ATP for the needs of the body, forcing the anaerobic
systems to increase their contribution of ATP? - ANSWER ✓ Lactate
Threshold
42.Which are the smallest and most numerous of blood vessels? - ANSWER ✓
Capillaries
43.What is the average BP (Blood Pressure) of a healthy person at rest? -
ANSWER ✓ 120/80
TEST STUDY GUIDE 2025/2026 ACCURATE QUESTIONS
AND VERIFIED CORRECT SOLUTIONS WITH RATIONALES
|| 100% GUARANTEED PASS
<RECENT VERSION>
1. How would you help a visual learner? - ANSWER ✓ Demonstrate exercises,
use a mirror, use analogies, use facial expressions
2. How would you help an auditory learner? - ANSWER ✓ coach exercises,
use sounds to cue tempo, rep, etc, use tone of voice
3. How would you help a kinesthetics learner? - ANSWER ✓ Use terms that
connect the movement to a feeling, explain exercises by using analogies
4. What is motivational interviewing? - ANSWER ✓ Arranging conversations
and questions to allow a client to talk themselves into change
5. What does the 'O' in OARS stand for? - ANSWER ✓ Ask open ended
questions
6. What does the 'A' in OARS stand for? - ANSWER ✓ Affirm the clients
interests and values
7. What does the 'R' in OARS stand for? - ANSWER ✓ Reflective responding
8. What does the 'S' in OARS stand for? - ANSWER ✓ summarizing results
9. What is the concept of intersectionality? - ANSWER ✓ When factors of a
clients health and experience overlap
10.What is the OARS concept of interviewing for? - ANSWER ✓ Motivational
interviewing
,11.How can you make a client feel comfortable with their goals? - ANSWER ✓
Talk about past achievements, track their success, discuss motivational
factors, teach them
12.What are the four steps to client fulfillment? - ANSWER ✓ Explain
exercise, Demo exercise, coach to motivate with purpose, empower clients
belief and ability
13.What is the precontemplation stage? - ANSWER ✓ no intention to change
14.What is the contemplation stage? - ANSWER ✓ Someone is considering
change in the next 6 months
15.What is the preparation stage? - ANSWER ✓ making formal plan of action
for change
16.What is the action stage? - ANSWER ✓ Actively engaged in strategies to
change behavior; lasts up to 6 months
17.What is the maintenance stage? - ANSWER ✓ working to prevent relapse,
more committed than action, lasts 6 months to 5 years
18.How to motivate clients? - ANSWER ✓ Use future states visual descriptors
19.what is sensory acuity? - ANSWER ✓ Using the senses to describe what a
client will feel like when they complete their goals.
20.What are the 5 stages of behavioural change? - ANSWER ✓
Precontemplation, Contemplation, Preparation, Action, Maintenance
21.In which stage of change would a PTS discuss health risks, myths and fears,
and provide client with general education? - ANSWER ✓ Precontemplation
22.In which stage of change would a PTS make a list of advantages related to
regular exercise, provide clear recommendations, and build the client's self-
confidence? - ANSWER ✓ Contemplation
,23.In which stage of change would a PTS provide a personalized exercise
design and work on goal setting and action plans? - ANSWER ✓ Preparation
24.In which stage of change would a PTS provide encouragement, talk to the
client about self monitoring, and prepare for relapses? - ANSWER ✓ Action
25.In which stage of change would a PTS review and revise goals, address
concerns, set new fitness goals, and provide social support? - ANSWER ✓
Maintenance
26.What does PFITT stand for? - ANSWER ✓ Purpose, Frequency, Intensity,
Time and Type of exercise
27.This principle suggests that program design must accommodate every
client's individual needs - ANSWER ✓ Individualization
28.This principle suggests that if clients want to improve a particular aspect of
their performance, they have to train that specifically - ANSWER ✓
Specificity
29.This principle suggests that clients must continually challenge their fitness to
see significant improvement over time - ANSWER ✓ Progressive overload
30.This principle becomes increasingly important as clients' workouts become
more successful, and should be a mandatory principle of training -
ANSWER ✓ Recovery
31.This principle suggests that the strengthening of joints will result in the
ability to sustain subsequently greater stresses in training and have greater
resistance to injury - ANSWER ✓ Structural Tolerance
32.This principle suggests that people who are well developed through all
components of fitness are less prone to injury and more likely to perform
better in sport and life - ANSWER ✓ All-around development
33.This principle suggests that when training ceases, the body will gradually
return to its pre-training state - ANSWER ✓ Reversibility
, 34.This principle suggests that after a level of fitness has been achieved, it can
be maintained with less work than was needed to attain it - ANSWER ✓
Maintenance
35.The main energy source of the anaerobic (glycolytic) system is - ANSWER
✓ Carbohydrates
36.The main energy source of the aerobic (glycolytic) system is - ANSWER ✓
Carbohydrates
37.The main energy source of the aerobic fatty acid oxidation system is -
ANSWER ✓ Fat
38.What are the four systems the human body uses when forming ATP? -
ANSWER ✓ 1. ATP-CP
2. Anaerobic (glycolytic) system
3. Aerobic (glycolytic) system
4. Fatty acid oxidation system
39.Anaerobic - ANSWER ✓ The __________ systems are limited and efficient
for only short bouts of activity
40.Aerobic - ANSWER ✓ The ________ system uses an abundant supply of fat
and carbohydrate to create ATP to fuel long bouts of activity
41.What terminology best describes the point at which the aerobic system
cannot supply enough ATP for the needs of the body, forcing the anaerobic
systems to increase their contribution of ATP? - ANSWER ✓ Lactate
Threshold
42.Which are the smallest and most numerous of blood vessels? - ANSWER ✓
Capillaries
43.What is the average BP (Blood Pressure) of a healthy person at rest? -
ANSWER ✓ 120/80
