NASM Final Exam Questions With
Correct Answers
Which term refers to a position on or toward the back of the body?
Select one:
a. Posterior
b. Lateral
c. Anterior
d. Ipsilateral - answerPosterior
Which of the following physiological characteristics should a personal trainer be aware of when
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Which term refers to a position on or toward the back of the body?
Select one:
a. Posterior
b. Lateral
c. Anterior
d. Ipsilateral - answer✔✔Posterior
Which of the following physiological characteristics should a personal trainer be aware of when
working with a senior client?
Select one:
a. Decreased lean body mass
b. Decreased risk of arteriosclerosis
c. Increased connective tissue elasticity
d. Decreased blood pressure - answer✔✔Decreased lean body mass
How does metabolism behave during EPOC?
Select one:
a. Remains elevated
b. Increases
c. Remains unaffected
d. Fluctuates - answer✔✔Remains elevated
What is the gastrocnemius responsible for eccentrically decelerating?
Select one:
a. Hip extension
b. Dorsiflexion
c. Hip flexion
d. Plantarflexion - answer✔✔Dorsiflexion
What refers to a position away from the center of the body or the point of reference?
Select one:
a. Contralateral
b. Ipsilateral
c. Distal
d. Inferior - answer✔✔Distal
Large doses of beta-carotene intake can cause an increased risk for which of the following?
Select one:
a. Hip fractures in older women
b. Alzheimer's disease in the elderly
c. Lung cancer in smokers
d. Birth defects if taken early in pregnancy - answer✔✔Lung cancer in smokers
Which of the following is true of type I, or slow-twitch, muscle fibers?
Select one:
a. They are faster than type II muscle fibers to produce maximal tension.
b. They have a low oxidative capacity and fatigue quickly.
c. They contain more capillaries, mitochondria, and myoglobin than type II muscle fibers.
d. They are larger in size than type II muscle fibers and are referred to as white fibers. -
answer✔✔They contain more capillaries, mitochondria, and myoglobin than type II muscle
fibers.
In which of the following scenarios would energy be mostly derived from anaerobic
metabolism?
Select one:
a. When an athlete is in a steady state or at rest
b. When an athlete begins an activity
c. When an athlete reduces the duration of an activity
d. When an athlete experiences temporary fatigue - answer✔✔When an athlete begins an activity
What is blood pressure (BP)?
Select one:
a. It is the pressure within the atria after the heart contracts.
b. It is the pressure created by the heart each time it interrupts blood flow.
c. It is the pressure within the ventricles before the heart contracts.
d. It is the pressure of the circulating blood against the walls of the blood vessels. - answer✔✔It
is the pressure of the circulating blood against the walls of the blood vessels.
Adduction is a movement back toward the midline of the body in which of the following planes?
Select one:
a. Sagittal plane
b. Transverse plane
c. Frontal plane
d. Median plane - answer✔✔Frontal Plane
Practicing self-myofascial release through the use of a foam roller creates autogenic inhibition by
which of the following?
Select one:
a. Stimulating the Golgi tendon organ
b. Exciting the muscle spindle
c. Decreasing signal to the motor neurons
d. Inhibiting signal to the interneurons - answer✔✔Stimulating the Golgi tendon organ
If a client exhibits increased force output of his hamstrings and adductor magnus to compensate
for a weakened gluteus maximus during hip extension, this is an example of which of the
following?
Select one:
a. Arthrokinetic dysfunction
b. Reciprocal inhibition
c. Synergistic dominance
d. Pattern overload - answer✔✔Synergistic dominance
Which movements is the gluteus maximus responsible for?
Select one:
a. Concentrically accelerating hip flexion and internal rotation
b. Concentrically accelerating hip extension and external rotation
c. Concentrically accelerating hip adduction and medial rotation
d. Concentrically accelerating hip supination and lateral rotation - answer✔✔Concentrically
accelerating hip extension and external rotation
What is a life-sustaining fluid that supplies the body's organs and cells with oxygen and nutrients
and helps regulate body temperature, fight infections, and remove waste products?
Select one:
a. Bile
b. Exudate
c. Blood
d. Rheum - answer✔✔Blood
When performing a squat, an overactive hip flexor complex can decrease neural drive to the
gluteus maximus; what is this an example of?
Select one:
a. Relative flexibility
b. Autogenic inhibition
c. Altered reciprocal inhibition
d. Synergistic dominance - answer✔✔Altered reciprocal inhibition
What refers to a position on the same side of the body?
Select one:
a. Proximal
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