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ACSM Personal Trainer Certification Exam with correctanswers
ADL - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔One's ability to perform daily tasks such as self care and
chores
Physical Activity - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Transition from rest to active movement
Exercise - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Planned and structured physical activity to improve one or
more of the 5 components of fitness
5 Components of Fitness - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔1. Cardiorespiratory Endurance
2. Muscle Endurance
3. Muscle Strength
4. Flexibility
5. Body Composition
Types of Fitness Conditioning - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Health Related: Focuses on
enhancing QoL, preventing disease, moderate-intensity PA
Fitness Conditioning: Focuses on exercise regimens based on recommendations for improving
fitness
SAID - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔In order to improve the goal, you must practice the goal. Ex.
If the goal is a 5K, you must run to train for it
Rate of Remodeling - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Remodel > Damage --> increase training effort
Damage > Remodel --> decrease training effort (or may cause overuse/injury)
,Signs of Over Training - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Injury, inc resting HR, fatigued throughout
day, low performance
FITT-VP - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Frequency (how often)
Intensity (how hard)
Time (duration)
Type (mode)
Volume (overall amount)
Progression (how to advance)
ATP-CP Phosphagen System - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Anaerobic
0-30 sec high intensity work
sprints, weight lifting
Anaerobic Glycolysis/Lactic Acid - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Anaerobic
Glucose & lactic acid
:30-3 mins high intensity work
400-800m sprint, 100m swim
Oxidation System - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Fat oxidation
3+ minutes
important for endurance
capacity limited by O2 and Cals available
*Unfit client has decreased ability to deliver O2 from dec capillary density preventing delivery
O2 Physiological Adaptations - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔1. Oxygen Deficit - initial stages of CV
training bout referred to as lag in O2 consumption, relying on anaerobic metabolism
2. Steady State - achieved w/ sustained CV once O2 supplied equals O2 demanded. Inc fit, reach SS
faster and endurance depends how long you stay here.
, 3. EPOC - O2 debt, uptake remained elevated post exercise for several minutes (or house if longer
bout); EPOC effect is to restore CP/ATP in muscles and O2 in blood; "after burn" effect
Sino Atrial Node - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Pacemaker of the heart, in RA, initiates
contraction
Atrioventricular Node - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Slows down the heart contracting
Right Chambers - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔RA receives deoxy blood from vena cava. Blood
travels to RV through tricuspid valve. Leaves RV via pulmonary semilunar valve to pulmonary
system.
Left Chambers - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔LA receives oxy blood from veins. Travels to LV
through bicuspid valve then to aorta through the aortic semilunar valve where it then travels
through the body's arteries to deliver oxygen.
Pulse Sights - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Carotid (not recommended to perform on someone)
Brachial
Femoral
Radial (most recommended)
Heart Rate - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Avg is 72bpm resting (normal is 60-100bpm)
Good gauge for clients to see how fit they are becoming
Tachycardia/Bradychardia - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Faster than normal heart rate, >100 bpm
Slower than normal heart rate, < 60 bpm
Stroke Volume (SV) - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔The amount of blood pumped from the left
ventricle in one beat
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