NASM/AFAA GROUP FITNESS INSTRUCTOR EXAM
LATEST ACTUAL EXAM 440 QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS|AGRADE
Interrelation of nervous, muscular, and skeletal systems to create movement -
✔✔ANSW✔✔..Kinetic chain
brain and spinal cord, coordinates activity of body parts - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Central
nervous system
all nerves branching off spinal cord, extending out to the body -
✔✔ANSW✔✔..Peripheral nervous system
created by single person, business, or organization; connecting theme, brand, or
experience - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..pre-choreographed
template provides overall direction while allowing manipulation of other variables -
✔✔ANSW✔✔..pre-designed
choreography based on instructor's personal preference, skills, and knowledge -
✔✔ANSW✔✔..freestyle
class vision, outcome and objective considerations, SMART goals, flow, pre-class set
up - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..class planning
clearly defined intention of class experience, from participant perspective, drives
outcome and components of complete class - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..class vision
participant expectations, movements to support expectations, available equipment,
available time, intensity manipulation, arrangement, and sequencing -
✔✔ANSW✔✔..outcome and objective considerations
specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, timely - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..SMART goals
create a seamless experience from start to finish - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..flow
,arrive 15 minutes early, evaluate equipment, ensure sound system function, resolve
technical difficulties - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..pre-class set up
design class blueprint - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..checklist - pre-class planning
greet participants, be available before class to orient participants, have background
music on or cued-up when class starts, provide equipment recommendations, formally
introduce self and class format, quickly explain options for modifications -
✔✔ANSW✔✔..checklist - intro
begin general or specific movement prep, demonstrate movement selection with proper
technique, transition movement into body of workout - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..checklist -
movement prep
build movement sequences logically, gradually, and progressively; use all three planes
of motion and balance muscle groups; monitor intensity using training zones, talk test,
or RPE scales - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..checklist - body of workout
create motivating and educational environment, conduct transition with body awareness
exercises - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..check list- transition
give specific praise to group on effort and progress, invite participants to come back
again, request feedback or questions after class - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..check list- outro
staggered, row, circuit, circle - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..participant arrangements
instructor teaches from front while viewing all particpants - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..staggered
participants
instructor can move through room to coach participants using large equipment -
✔✔ANSW✔✔..row participants
instructor can move from station to station, coaching specifically to exercises at each -
✔✔ANSW✔✔..circuit participant arrangements
allows circular jogging and forward-backward movement toward center of room -
✔✔ANSW✔✔..circle participant arrangements
strength and resistance, HIIT and interval, boot camp, mind body, cycle, specialty
formats - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..group fitness formats
increase muscular strength and endurance using an opposing force for resistance -
✔✔ANSW✔✔..strength and resistance format
, alternate higher intensity work periods with moderate to low intensity recovery periods -
✔✔ANSW✔✔..HIIT and interval format
combination of resistance and cardio; total-body workout; military-style presentation -
✔✔ANSW✔✔..boot camp
yoga, pilates, tai chi, slow controlled movements, combines strength, stability, flexibility,
balance and breathing techniques - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..mind-body
stationary bicycles designed to simulate outdoor cycling - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..cycle
seat should be at hip height, handlebar should support proper alignment of the upper
body - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..proper bike fit
sense distortion in body tissues - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..mechanoreceptors
mechanoreceptor that senses changes in tension - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Golgi tendon organs
mechanoreceptor that senses changes in length - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..muscle spindles
cumulative sensory input to the CNS from all mechanoreceptors -
✔✔ANSW✔✔..proprioception
connect muscle to bone, anchor to produce force, limited blood flow, slow to repair -
✔✔ANSW✔✔..tendons
individual contractile units, actin and myosin filaments - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..sarcomeres
slow twitch - more aerobic, slower to reach maximal contraction, resistant to fatigue -
✔✔ANSW✔✔..type I muscles
more anaerobic, produce more speed and strength, faster to fatigue -
✔✔ANSW✔✔..type ii muscles
extensibility, elasticity, irritability, ability to develop tension - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..behavioral
properties of muscles
stabilization muscles - core - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..transverse abdominus
stabilization - core - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..multifidus
stabilization - core - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..internal obliques
