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NFPT Exam study guide Questions With
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The five components of physical health - answer✔Cardiorespiratory conditioning, muscular
endurance, muscular strength, flexibility, body composition
SPICES - answer✔Social health, physical health, intellectual Health, cognitive health, emotional
health, spiritual health
Cardiorespiratory conditioning - answer✔Endurance
Muscular endurance - answer✔The amount of strength that can be repeated several times
Muscular strength - answer✔The amount of strength in one repetition
Flexibility - answer✔The range of motion in given joints
Body composition - answer✔The amount of body fat relative to the total weight or as compared
to the lean mass
What are three additional factors that are specific to the fitness regimens of athletes and sports
teams? - answer✔Agility, speed and Mobility
Intellectual health - answer✔The capacity to assimilate and integrate new information into one's
thinking and thought processes
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Cognitive health - answer✔Often grouped with mental health as it has mostly to do with how we
process information in the brain. It includes the way we see, or conceptualized, the world around
it includes brain functioning in the areas of conceptual and perceptual skill, language learning as
well as many other brain development functions
Emotional health - answer✔Includes self-esteem, self-awareness, self-acceptance, self-image and
our capacities to deal with adversity and stress. This includes our ability to intimate, not just
sexual, with a significant other.
Spiritual health - answer✔This is focused on the connection of ourselves with a higher power, a
sense of purpose, self-actualization, and an inner Joy. It is often described as self-acceptance,
repentance for misdeeds, a willingness to give to and forgive others and a desire to seek peace
with the community and World overall
Why is it important to touch on all things spices related as a personal trainer? - answer✔Think
about it and perhaps write a blog post
What are the three categories of motivating factors for positive behavior - answer✔Predisposing
factors, enabling factors and reinforcing factors
Predisposing factors include - answer✔Knowledge, attitude, believe, values and perceptions
Enabling factors - answer✔Skills, resources, physical and mental capabilities
Reinforcing factors - answer✔Praise from others comma rewards, encouragement and
recognition
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Which factors does the personal trainer typically fall into - answer✔Reinforcing factors. We can
recognize how the other two factors promote or inhibit positive behavior and we can work to
reinforce positive behavior with forms of encouragement
What are some things that can be added to life to invoke positive change? - answer✔Taking time
for Meaningful reflection, reading a book, being creative, socializing with friends and family,
adding a physical component and healthy eating to daily living
What areas of exercise therapy would require a highly trained exercise physiologist or physician
to prescribe appropriate regimens - answer✔Cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, joint
injury, or obesity / metabolic disorders which include diabetes and hypertension
What is the purpose of muscles - answer✔To produce Force, maintain posture, allow for
movement and produces Heat
All muscle action originates and is controlled by what? - answer✔The brain which sends and
receives signals through the nervous system
What gets pulled during a muscle contraction? - answer✔Tendons, the strong connective tissue
that connects muscles to bones
What are the two points of muscle - answer✔Origin and insertion
Define muscle origin - answer✔The origin is considered the point at which the muscle joins the
stationary bone at the end closest to the center of the body
