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NASM CPT study terms
Underweight: <18.5
normal: 18.5-24.9
overweight: 25-29.9
obese: >30 - answer✔✔BMI ranges
140/90 - answer✔✔Bad Blood Pressure (hypertension)
120 = systolic
80= diastolic - answer✔✔systolic/diastolic
bad cholesterol - answer✔✔LDL (low density lipoprotein)
good cholesterol - answer✔✔HDL (High Density Lipoprotein)
Childhood onset (less than 10% of diabetes) - answer✔✔Type 1 diabetes
insulin resistance - answer✔✔type 2 diabetes
4/5 or 80% - answer✔✔How many people experience low back pain?
strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats - answer✔✔SWOT analysis
Product, Price, Place, Promotion - answer✔✔4 P's of Marketing
1.9 from CEU's, .1 from CPR
Every 2 years - answer✔✔How many CEUs are required for NASM
Describes when someone is not motivated to engage in an activity or behavior. -
answer✔✔Amotivation
Reward/ recognition - answer✔✔extrinsic motivation
YOU feel a sense of satisfaction. (Autonomy/ control) - answer✔✔intrinsic motivation
Used to change someone's thoughts or feelings about a situation or activity. -
answer✔✔Behaviorial change techniques
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Info you get about a client through assessments.
(Body comp, cardio, performance) - answer✔✔objective information
Info you get from the client
(Medical, injuries, lifestyle, physical activity readiness questionnaire) - answer✔✔subjective
information
precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, maintenance, termination -
answer✔✔Stages of Change
No plan to exercise - answer✔✔Precontimplation stage
Planning to in 6 months - answer✔✔contemplation stage
Works out but not regularly - answer✔✔preperational stage
Exercising regularly but not for 6 months - answer✔✔action stage
6+ months of exercise - answer✔✔maintenance stage
Never going back to dedicate lifestyle - answer✔✔termination stage
Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Timely - answer✔✔SMART goals
The intended outcome must be clearly defined - answer✔✔Specific
Must be possible to achieve w/ their lifestyle - answer✔✔Realistic
Must have specific time frames w/ frequent check ins - answer✔✔Timely
Must be observably measured + tracked over time w/ hard data - answer✔✔Measurable
Must be challenging yet achievable by client - answer✔✔Attainable
When a person creates mental images that increase energy and/or relieve stress. -
answer✔✔Energy imagery
When a person imagines appearance or health related outcomes - answer✔✔Appearance
imagery
Imagining a situation + experiences that support or enhance exercise participation -
answer✔✔Imagery
When individuals mentally rehearse their technique. - answer✔✔Technique imagery
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Internal dialogue in which the individual interprets feelings and perceptions, regulates and
changes evaluations and convictions, and gives himself or herself instructions and reinforcement.
- answer✔✔self-talk
Turning negative statements into positive ones in ones own head - answer✔✔Reverse lifting
When people believe the exact content of their own thoughts. - answer✔✔cognitive fusion
intrinsic motivation - answer✔✔I like to exercise because I enjoy taking care of my health and
well-being is an example of?
action - answer✔✔Your client just started working out but hasn't been doing it for 6-months,
what stage if change are they in?
Attainable - answer✔✔Your client wants to lose 10lbs in 5 days, this isn't a SMART goal due
to...
the network of nerve cells and fibers that transmits nerve impulses between parts of the body.
Basic unit neuron (dendrite, axon, cell body) - answer✔✔nervous system
consists of the brain and spinal cord - answer✔✔Central Nervous System (CNS)
Everything coming out of spinal column and mechanoreceptors - answer✔✔Peripheral Nervous
System (PNS)
respond to touch, pressure, vibration, stretch, and itch - answer✔✔Mechanoreceptors
muscle spindles (think stretch)
golgi tendon organs (tension and foam rolling)
joint receptors - answer✔✔types of mechanoreceptors
cognitive (learning)
associative (beginning to understand)
autonomous (learned skill, no thought) - answer✔✔Three stages of learning
206 bones (80 axial, 126 appendicular) - answer✔✔skeletal system
Special cells that form and lay down new bone tissue. - answer✔✔Osteoblasts
Special cells that break down and remove old bone tissue. - answer✔✔Osteoclasts
femur (thigh bone) - answer✔✔Longest bone in the body
Incus, malleus, stapes; inner ear - answer✔✔Smallest bone in the body
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Connects bone to bone (ACL) - answer✔✔Ligament
Connects muscle to bone - answer✔✔Tendon
enables movement of the body and internal organs - answer✔✔Muscular System
sarcomere - answer✔✔basic unit of muscular system
actin thin like
myosin thick like - answer✔✔Myofibrils
glycogen - answer✔✔glucose is stored as
A motor neuron and all of the muscle fibers it innervates - answer✔✔motor unit
The meeting point of each sarcomere. - answer✔✔Z line
muscle contraction involving actin & myosin sliding past one another shortening muscle during
concentric muscle action - answer✔✔sliding filament theory
slow-twitch, smaller and slower to produce maximal tension, more resistant to fatigue. -
answer✔✔Type 1 muscle fibers
fast-twitch, larger in size, quick to produce maximal tension and fatigue more quickly -
answer✔✔Type 2 muscle fibers
The smallest blood vessels, and the site of exchange of chemicals and water between the blood
and the tissues. - answer✔✔Capillaries
cognitive - answer✔✔Your client just performed 1-set of 20-reps during the stabilization
endurance phase on a bosu ball. They looked down at the ground the entire time and had a fixed
stare. What phase of learning are they in?
ligament - answer✔✔Which connective tissue connects bone to bone?
The muscular, skeletal, and nervous systems - answer✔✔The human movement system (kinetic
chain) consists of the:
cell body, axons, dendrites - answer✔✔Neurons are composed of
Upper chambers (atriums), lower chambers (ventricles) - answer✔✔Heart Anatomy
pacemaker of the heart - answer✔✔SA node
skeletal (650+ muscles, voluntary)
Smooth (lining of arteries, veins and GI tract)
