CPT Practice Exam

Origin and insertion

Function

Number of origins

All of the above

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

Get your clients stronger

Help them lose weight

Provide safe and effective exercise instruction

Motivate and inspire

Erector Spinae

Triceps

Gluteus Maximus

Latissimus Dorsi

Extend the wrist

Elevate the wrist

Rotate the wrist

Flex the wrist

Muscular strength and muscle size

Muscle size and power

Muscle strength and flexibility

Muscle size and flexibility

True

False

To assist the primary mover

To be the primary mover

To control posture

To prevent injuries

Training progression

Training specificity

Training overload

Diminishing returns

Triceps

Gluteus medius

Erector spinae

Hamstrings

Practice Exam

1. Skeletal muscles are often named by what factors?

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

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

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

5. Some muscles are named after the function they perform in the body. As an example, forearm muscles are called flexors because they perform this action?

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

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

8. What is the role of an agonist muscle?

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

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