Practice Exam

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

2. When is the only time you shouldn’t use a spotter?

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

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

5. 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?

6. Resistance training machines are best suited for experienced weight lifters.

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

8. Quadriceps are a primary mover (agonist) in a leg extension. What is the antagonist muscle?

9. Which joint action describes the movement of adduction?

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

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