CPT Practice Exam

Training progression

Training specificity

Training overload

Diminishing returns

2 to 3 times per week

3 to 4 times per week

4 to 7 times per week

Twice a day

Easier to develop power and strength

Recruits more muscles

Moves through a full range of motion

All of the above

True

False

Dispense medication

Help set realistic training goals

Collect health status information

Motivate and inspire

Frontal plane

Sagittal plane

Transverse plane

None of the above

Extend the wrist

Elevate the wrist

Rotate the wrist

Flex the wrist

Training progression

Training specificity

Training overload

Diminishing returns

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

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

Practice Exam

1. Which training principle describes the practice of gradually adding more resistance so there is enough stimulus to grow?

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

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

4. Type 11 fibers are faster and stronger.

5. Which one of these is not within your scope of responsibilities?

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

7. 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?

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

9. Which best describes a split routine?

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