Senior Fitness Instruction Practice Exam

Low impact activities or walking

Light to medium intensities

Teach proper warm up and cool down

All of the above

1 to 5%

5 to 10%

10 to 15%

More than 15%

Concentrate on moving through a full range of motion

Teach proper breathing

Heart rate shouldn’t exceed 11 to 14 on the Borg scale

All of the above

Focus on joint mobility

Work on building duration

Teach a proper warm up and cool down

All of the above

A healthy diet

Being at an appropriate weight

Both A and B

None of the above

True

False

Focus on weight loss

Check blood glucose levels before and after exercise

Should exercise at the same time each day

All of the above

1 to 5 reps

6 to 8 reps

8 to 12 reps

15 to 20 reps

Behind your ears

Behind your knee caps

At your wrist

At the bottom of your foot

1 to 2 days a week

2 to 3 days a week

5 to 6 days a week

They should diet only

Practice Exam

1. When training clients who have had cancer, focus on which key aspects of training?

2. You can lower your risk of heart disease by losing as little as how much of your current body weight?

3. When training someone with heart disease, where should you place your exercise focus?

4. When training someone with osteoarthritis, where should you place your exercise focus?

5. What factors can have an effect on osteoarthritis?

6. Lifestyle factors are known contributors to metabolic syndrome.

7. When training someone with type 2 diabetes, where should you place your exercise focus?

8. When training a client with type 2 diabetes, how many reps should you generally recommend per exercise?

9. Use two fingers together to measure your heart rate at what body location?

10. How many days a week should a person exercise if they are overweight?