Practice Exam

1. What is your most important role as a personal trainer?

2. Which muscle is the prime mover in spine/trunk flexion?

3. Which contraction involves muscle length variations with no change in tension?

4. When answering the Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire (PAR-Q), your client answers “yes” to a bone or joint problem that could be made worse by exercise. What should you recommend?

5. Which one of these is not within your scope of responsibilities?

6. Some muscles are named after the function they perform in the body. As an example, forearm muscles are called flexors because they perform this action?

7. Which of the three planes of motion describe dividing the body into top and bottom?

8. Why does the American Diabetes Association recommend aerobic and strength training for managing diabetes?

9. Skeletal muscles are often named by what factors?

10. Which of the following muscles is not part of the quad muscles?

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