CPT Practice Exam

Never use a full range of motion

Always use your back when lifting from the floor

Always lock your knees

Never jerk the weight

True

False

Begin with heavy weights and a lower number of reps

Pair four or more exercises together

Pair two exercises together

Major muscle groups are split into different days or workouts

Get your clients stronger

Help them lose weight

Provide safe and effective exercise instruction

Motivate and inspire

Muscular strength and muscle size

Muscle size and power

Muscle strength and flexibility

Muscle size and flexibility

8 to 15

12 or more

6 or less

1 to 2

200 muscles

500 muscles

700 muscles

Over 1,000

Easier to develop power and strength

Recruits more muscles

Moves through a full range of motion

All of the above

Extend the wrist

Elevate the wrist

Rotate the wrist

Flex the wrist

Begin training but at a low intensity.

Talk with a doctor and seek approval for exercise.

Train at a high intensity.

Begin more physical assessments.

Practice Exam

1. Which of the following is true regarding proper weight lifting form?

2. The frontal plane explains the division of the body between front and back.

3. Which best describes a split routine?

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

5. What are the two primary physiological responses to resistance exercise?

6. How many repetitions are usually recommended for building muscular endurance?

7. How many muscles are in your body (roughly)?

8. Popular reasons why free weights are better than machines include:

9. 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?

10. 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?