CPT Practice Exam

Muscular strength and muscle size

Muscle size and power

Muscle strength and flexibility

Muscle size and flexibility

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

8 to 15

12 or more

6 or less

1 to 2

True

False

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

30 to 90 seconds

30 seconds or less

30 to 60 seconds

2 to 5 minutes

An erect body position should be maintained at all times

Always check for a stable base of support

Both A and B

None of the above

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

Training progression

Training specificity

Training overload

Diminishing returns

Practice Exam

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

2. Training specificity explains what type of training?

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

4. Breathing should be performed as inhaling as the muscles lengthen and exhaling as the muscles contract.

5. Which joint action describes the movement of adduction?

6. How much rest time is recommended for power exercises?

7. Which of the following factors are important for proper body alignment?

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. Which training principle describes the practice of systematically increasing your repetitions to get stronger?