CPT Practice Exam

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

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

True

False

Muscle soreness

Fatigue

Weakness

All of the above

Training progression

Training specificity

Training overload

Diminishing returns

1 to 2 sets

2 to 3 sets

3 to 6 sets

3 to 5 sets

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

8 to 15

12 or more

6 or less

1 to 2

Frontal plane

Sagittal plane

Transverse plane

None of the above

Practice Exam

1. Training specificity explains what type of training?

2. Which training principle describes the practice of gradually adding more resistance so there is enough stimulus to grow?

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

4. Exercise volume refers to the amount of intensity a client has.

5. What are the most common signs of Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS)?

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

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

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

9. How many repetitions are usually recommended for building muscular endurance?

10. Which of the three planes of motion describe dividing the body into left and right?