CPT Practice Exam

For good exercise technique

For safety reasons

Both A and B

None of the above

200 muscles

500 muscles

700 muscles

Over 1,000

Tell her to wait a few minutes, then try the exercise again.

Attempt to diagnose what is wrong

Recommend she seek care from a qualified physician

Offer her some medication for the pain

Increases the angle at a joint

Decreases the angle at a joint

Moves the body away from the midline

Elevates a body part

Frontal plane

Sagittal plane

Transverse plane

None of the above

True

False

2 to 3 times per week

3 to 4 times per week

4 to 7 times per week

Twice a day

1 to 2 sets

2 to 3 sets

3 to 6 sets

3 to 5 sets

Triceps

Gluteus medius

Erector spinae

Hamstrings

Frontal plane

Sagittal plane

Transverse plane

None of the above

Practice Exam

1. What are the main reasons to have a spotter?

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

3. Your client is feeling a sharp pain in her knee during exercise. What should you do?

4. Which describes the joint movement of the flexor muscles?

5. Which of the three planes of motion describe dividing the body into left and right?

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

7. How many days per week should you recommend exercise for an experienced lifter?

8. When deciding exercise volume for a new client, how many sets are recommended for muscle endurance?

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

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