NASM CPT STUDY TERMS Latest Version 2024
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underweight: <18.5
normal: 18.5-24.9
overweight: 25-29.9
obese: >30 - ✔✔BMI ranges
140/90 - ✔✔Bad Blood Pressure (hypertension) 120 = systolic
80= diastolic - ✔✔systolic/diastolic
bad cholesterol - ✔✔LDL (low density lipoprotein) good cholesterol - ✔✔HDL (High Density Lipoprotein)
Childhood onset (less than 10% of diabetes) - ✔✔Type 1 diabetes insulin resistance - ✔✔type 2 diabetes
4/5 or 80% - ✔✔How many people experience low back pain? strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats -
✔✔SWOT analysis Product, Price, Place, Promotion - ✔✔4 P's of Marketing
1.9 from CEU's, .1 from CPR
Every 2 years - ✔✔How many CEUs are required for NASM
Describes when someone is not motivated to engage in an activity or behavior. -
✔✔Amotivation
Reward/ recognition - ✔✔extrinsic motivation
YOU feel a sense of satisfaction. (Autonomy/ control) - ✔✔intrinsic motivation
Used to change someone's thoughts or feelings about a situation or activity. -
✔✔Behaviorial change techniques
Info you get about a client through assessments.
(Body comp, cardio, performance) - ✔✔objective information
Info you get from the client
(Medical, injuries, lifestyle, physical activity readiness questionnaire) - ✔✔subjective information
precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, maintenance, termination -
✔✔Stages of Change
No plan to exercise - ✔✔Precontimplation stage Planning to in 6 months - ✔✔contemplation stage Works out but
not regularly - ✔✔preperational stage
Exercising regularly but not for 6 months - ✔✔action stage 6+ months of exercise - ✔✔maintenance stage
Never going back to dedicate lifestyle - ✔✔termination stage Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Timely -
✔✔SMART goals The intended outcome must be clearly defined - ✔✔Specific
Must be possible to achieve w/ their lifestyle - ✔✔Realistic
Must have specific time frames w/ frequent check ins - ✔✔Timely
,Must be observably measured + tracked over time w/ hard data - ✔✔Measurable Must be challenging yet
achievable by client - ✔✔Attainable
When a person creates mental images that increase energy and/or relieve stress. -
✔✔Energy imagery
When a person imagines appearance or health related outcomes - ✔✔Appearance imagery
Imagining a situation + experiences that support or enhance exercise participation -
✔✔Imagery
When individuals mentally rehearse their technique. - ✔✔Technique imagery Internal dialogue in which the
individual interprets feelings and perceptions, regulates
and changes evaluations and convictions, and gives himself or herself instructions and reinforcement. - ✔✔self-
talk
Turning negative statements into positive ones in ones own head - ✔✔Reverse lifting When people believe the
exact content of their own thoughts. - ✔✔cognitive fusion
intrinsic motivation - ✔✔I like to exercise because I enjoy taking care of my health and well-being is an example
of?
action - ✔✔Your client just started working out but hasn't been doing it for 6-months, what stage if change are
they in?
Attainable - ✔✔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) - ✔✔nervous system
consists of the brain and spinal cord - ✔✔Central Nervous System (CNS)
Everything coming out of spinal column and mechanoreceptors - ✔✔Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)
respond to touch, pressure, vibration, stretch, and itch - ✔✔Mechanoreceptors muscle spindles (think stretch)
golgi tendon organs (tension and foam rolling) joint receptors - ✔✔types of mechanoreceptors
cognitive (learning)
associative (beginning to understand)
autonomous (learned skill, no thought) - ✔✔Three stages of learning 206 bones (80 axial, 126 appendicular) -
✔✔skeletal system
Special cells that form and lay down new bone tissue. - ✔✔Osteoblasts Special cells that break down and
remove old bone tissue. - ✔✔Osteoclasts femur (thigh bone) - ✔✔Longest bone in the body
Incus, malleus, stapes; inner ear - ✔✔Smallest bone in the body Connects bone to bone (ACL) - ✔✔Ligament
Connects muscle to bone - ✔✔Tendon
, enables movement of the body and internal organs - ✔✔Muscular System
sarcomere - ✔✔basic unit of muscular system
actin thin like
myosin thick like - ✔✔Myofibrils glycogen - ✔✔glucose is stored as
A motor neuron and all of the muscle fibers it innervates - ✔✔motor unit The meeting point of each sarcomere. -
✔✔Z line
muscle contraction involving actin & myosin sliding past one another shortening muscle during concentric muscle
action - ✔✔sliding filament theory
slow-twitch, smaller and slower to produce maximal tension, more resistant to fatigue. -
✔✔Type 1 muscle fibers
fast-twitch, larger in size, quick to produce maximal tension and fatigue more quickly -
✔✔Type 2 muscle fibers
The smallest blood vessels, and the site of exchange of chemicals and water between the blood and the tissues.
- ✔✔Capillaries
cognitive - ✔✔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 - ✔✔Which connective tissue connects bone to bone?
The muscular, skeletal, and nervous systems - ✔✔The human movement system (kinetic chain) consists of the:
cell body, axons, dendrites - ✔✔Neurons are composed of
Upper chambers (atriums), lower chambers (ventricles) - ✔✔Heart Anatomy pacemaker of the heart - ✔✔SA
node
skeletal (650+ muscles, voluntary)
Smooth (lining of arteries, veins and GI tract) Cardiac (heart, involuntary) - ✔✔3 types of muscle
slow heart rate (less than 60 bpm) - ✔✔Bradycardia
Fast heart rate (HR greater than 100bpm) - ✔✔Tachycardia
55% plasma, 45% red/white blood cells and platelets - ✔✔Blood is composed of 4-6 L - ✔✔Adult heart holds
how much blood
Away - ✔✔Arteries go from the heart towards - ✔✔Veins go the heart
Small veins that drain from capillaries into larger veins - ✔✔Venues are Small arteries that eventually divide into