Practice Exam

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

2. Free weights can help in developing the smaller synergistic muscles.

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

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

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

6. Type 11 fibers are faster and stronger.

7. What are the two primary physiological responses to resistance exercise?

8. If the hip adductor is the prime mover in an exercise, what is the antagonist?

9. When is the only time you shouldn’t use a spotter?

10. Biceps are a primary mover (agonist) in a bicep curl. What is the antagonist muscle?

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