CPT Practice Exam

Get your clients stronger

Help them lose weight

Provide safe and effective exercise instruction

Motivate and inspire

Extend the wrist

Elevate the wrist

Rotate the wrist

Flex the wrist

Origin and insertion

Function

Number of origins

All of the above

Pointing the toes inward

Leaning too far forward

Not keeping a stable spine

All of the above

1 to 2 sets

2 to 3 sets

3 to 6 sets

3 to 5 sets

Easier to develop power and strength

Recruits more muscles

Moves through a full range of motion

All of the above

Increases the angle at a joint

Decreases the angle at a joint

Moves the body away from the midline

Elevates a body part

Isokinetic

Isotonic

Isometric

None of the above

2 to 3 times per week

3 to 4 times per week

4 to 7 times per week

Twice a day

True

False

Practice Exam

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

2. 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?

3. Skeletal muscles are often named by what factors?

4. What are some common mistakes with body alignment?

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

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

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

8. Which contraction involves muscle length variations with no change in tension?

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

10. The frontal plane explains the division of the body between front and back.