Senior Fitness Instruction Practice Exam

Easy

Medium

Difficult

Very difficult

Flexibility

Balance

Strength

All of the above

1 to 5

5 to 10

11 to 16

20 to 25

Focus on joint mobility

Work on building duration

Teach a proper warm up and cool down

All of the above

True

False

1 to 5 reps

6 to 8 reps

8 to 12 reps

15 to 20 reps

3

6

9

12

Behind your ears

Behind your knee caps

At your wrist

At the bottom of your foot

1 to 5%

5 to 10%

10 to 15%

More than 15%

To see if they like the exercise

To make sure they are not holding their breath

To make sure they are concentrating on the exercises

None of the above

Practice Exam

1. A rating of 6 or 7 on the Borg scale is considered at what difficulty level?

2. What factors are most important to consider in senior fitness?

3. For type 2 diabetes, which exercise level on the Borg scale is most appropriate?

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

5. The only way to measure heart rate is through a heart rate monitor.

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

7. When you measure heart rate with two fingers, you multiply the heart beat by what number?

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

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

10. What must you watch for when training someone with heart disease?