CPT Practice Exam

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

Training progression

Training specificity

Training overload

Diminishing returns

Get your clients stronger

Help them lose weight

Provide safe and effective exercise instruction

Motivate and inspire

Pay attention to target muscles for a specific sport or training purpose

Lift heavy no matter what

Push through plateaus

Always overload on your resistance

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

Type 1 and Type 2

Type 4 and Type 5

Cells and Organs

Glycogen and Free Fatty Acids

Rectus abdominis

Erector spinae

Hamstrings

Quadriceps

Easier to develop power and strength

Recruits more muscles

Moves through a full range of motion

All of the above

1 to 2 sets

2 to 3 sets

3 to 6 sets

3 to 5 sets

True

False

Practice Exam

1. Which best describes a split routine?

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

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

4. Training specificity explains what type of training?

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

6. Name the two types of muscle fibers.

7. Which muscle is the prime mover in spine/trunk flexion?

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

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

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