Practice Exam

1. Why should you use a PAR-Q with your clients in the initial visit?

To see if the client needs to lose weight

To assess a client’s interest in working out

As a pre exercise screening tool to uncover any medical concerns

A PAR-Q is not required prior to working out

2. If the hip adductor is the prime mover in an exercise, what is the antagonist?

Triceps

Gluteus medius

Erector spinae

Hamstrings

3. 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?

Extend the wrist

Elevate the wrist

Rotate the wrist

Flex the wrist

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

8 to 15

12 or more

6 or less

1 to 2

5. Training specificity explains what type of training?

Pay attention to target muscles for a specific sport or training purpose

Lift heavy no matter what

Push through plateaus

Always overload on your resistance

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

Never use a full range of motion

Always use your back when lifting from the floor

Always lock your knees

Never jerk the weight

7. Which joint action describes the movement of adduction?

Decreases the angle at a joint

Moves the body away from the midline

Moves the body toward the midline

Increases the angle at a joint

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

Vastus medialis

Rectus femoris

Vastus lateralis

Soleus

9. Skeletal muscles are often named by what factors?

Origin and insertion

Function

Number of origins

All of the above

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

Easier to develop power and strength

Recruits more muscles

Moves through a full range of motion

All of the above

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