ACE FINAL TEST. Verified Questions and
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Why is it important to understand your scope of practice? - answer1. to ensure client safety
2. to avoid legal action taken against you
Ace Code of Ethics: - answerProvide safe and effective instruction
Provide equal and fair treatment
Stay up to...
Why is it important to understand your scope of practice? - answer✔✔1. to ensure client safety
2. to avoid legal action taken against you
Ace Code of Ethics: - answer✔✔Provide safe and effective instruction
Provide equal and fair treatment
Stay up to date on health and fitness research
Current CPR/AED cert.
Comply with all applicable laws
Maintain client confidentiality
Refer clients when appropriate
Uphold and enhance public appreciation and trust
Maintain clear professional boundaries
SCOPE OF PRACTICE: Nutrition: meal planning: qualified v not qualified. - answer✔✔-
qualified to educate about nutrition,
-but outside scope/NOT qualified to provide with meal plans, or even to tell them what to eat.
Use USDA resources on choosemyplate.gov.
SCOPE OF PRACTICE: If a client is looking for a meal plan or has specific nutritional needs... -
answer✔✔-refer to a registered dietician
SCOPE OF PRACTICE: Supplements: - answer✔✔-Outside scope of practice to recommend,
prescribe, sell, or supply nutritional supplements.
SCOPE OF PRACTICE: If a client wishes to take supplements... - answer✔✔refer them to a
registered dietician or even a medical doctor.
If you're required by your employer to sell supplements... - answer✔✔-make sure your employer
has adequate insurance coverage for you, should something negative happen, such as a client
having an adverse reaction.
-Your personal training liability insurance will NOT protect you in this case since selling
supplements is not within your scope of practice.
Benefits and Components of Physical Fitness: Becoming physically improves... - answer✔✔-
physical state
-mental state
-emotional state
In addition to weight management and weight loss, physical activity has been shown to reduce
the risk of... - answer✔✔various diseases.
The 4 components of physical fitness: (and sometimes the 5th) - answer✔✔1. Muscular Fitness
2. Cardiovascular endurance
3. Flexibility
4. Body Composition
5. Mind/Body Vitality
Define the 4 components of physical fitness:
Muscular Fitness:
Cardiovascular Endurance:
Flexibility:
Body Composition:
Mind Body Vitality: - answer✔✔-Muscular fitness:
oMuscular strength: how much weight a person can lift at one time. 1RM.
oMuscular endurance: contracting muscle against force for an extended amount of time.
(performing many push-ups, or sit-ups for 1 minute)
-Cardiovascular endurance: the ability to efficiently use the heart and the lungs to pump blood to
all working muscles.
-Flexibility: the ability to move joints through normal range of motion
-Body Composition: the makeup of the body in terms of relative percentage of fat free mass and
body fat.
-Mind body vitality: (sometimes added to this list) stresses the importance of mental and
emotional health and overall well-being.
Vasopressin: - answer✔✔-antidiuretic hormone
-helps reduce urinary excretion of water in response to dehydrating effects of sweating.
Aldosterone: - answer✔✔-acts to limit sodium excretion in the urine to help maintain electrolyte
balance during exercise
Cortisol: - answer✔✔helps maintain blood glucose levels during prolonged exercise.
Testosterone: - answer✔✔the primary male sex hormone and has muscle building effects.
In general, the hormonal response _______ with regular endurance exercise (increases or
decreases) - answer✔✔decreases
______ and ______ levels can be maintained in aerobically trained individuals: -
answer✔✔insulin
glucagon
growth hormone levels ______ in endurance trained individuals. (increase or decrease) -
answer✔✔decrease
_______ training in combination with _______ ______ improves muscle insulin sensitivity more
than aerobic training alone. - answer✔✔resistance training
aerobic conditioning
Research shows that a combo of aerobic conditioning and resistance training is beneficial in
helping control blood glucose levels in patients with... - answer✔✔diabetes.
Norepinephrine increases until intensity reaches approx... - answer✔✔50% VO2 max.
During exercise, _____ is suppressed. - answer✔✔insulin
Diabetics who participate in regular exercise programs can often... - answer✔✔reduce their
medication levels.
______ has the opposite effect of insulin. - answer✔✔Glucagon
Cortisol increases with exercise intensity and increased levels of... - answer✔✔physiological
stress.
What kind of state do we try to maintain during aerobic exercise? - answer✔✔steady state.
During aerobic exercise, low intensity will allow the body to achieve... - answer✔✔steady state.
If the body cannot achieve a steady state, anaerobic metabolism will continue to produce...
at this point, the exerciser will have reached their... - answer✔✔-ATP
-anaerobic threshold.
When someone exceeds their anaerobic threshold, ______ progressively accumulates in the
blood.
The oxygen deficit and EPOC are extremely high and exercise cannot be performed for more
than a few minutes, and also the point when _________ begins to occur. - answer✔✔-lactate
-hyperventilation
Define: VT1 - answer✔✔the first change in breathing, and occurs at approximately the first time
that lactate begins to accumulate in the blood. talking becomes uncomfortable at this point.
Define: VT2: - answer✔✔lactate production is very high. talking at this point is definitely not
comfortable.
Increase in body temp during exercise leads to increase in ________ rate - answer✔✔metabolic
With every ____ degrees Celsius increase in body temperature, the metabolic rate doubles. -
answer✔✔10
As the body returns to normal temperature, the metabolic rate... - answer✔✔also returns to
normal levels.
4 phases in the cardiorespiratory training components of the ACE IFT model: - answer✔✔1.
aerobic base training
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