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GFI Exam Official questions withcomplete solutions
Standard of care - correct answer ✔✔appropriateness of an exercise professional's actions in light of
current professional standards and based on the age, condition, and knowledge of the participant.
ACE Code of Ethics - correct answer ✔✔- Provide safe and effective instruction
-Provide equal and fair treatment to all clients/participants
-Stay up-to-date on the latest health and fitness research and understand its practical application
-Maintain current CPR and knowledge of first-aid services
-Comply with all applicable business, employment, and intellectual property laws
- Maintain the confidentiality of all client information
-Refer clients to more qualified health or medical professionals when appropriate
-Uphold and enhance public appreciation and trust for the health and fitness industry
-Establish and maintain clear professional boundries
Scope of Practice - correct answer ✔✔The legal range of services that professionals in a given field can
provide, the settings in which those services can be provided, and the guidelines or parameters that
must be followed.
GFI do NOT
-Diagnose
-Prescribe
-Prescribe diets or recommend specific supplements
-Treat injury or disease
-Monitor progress for medically referred clients
-Rehabilitate
-Counsel
-Work with patients (they work with clients)
,Who are the members of the "allied health care team" do?
Nutritional Support
Rehabilitation Professionals
"Gatekeeper"
Mental Health
Trainers/Coaches/Instructors
Alternative Healthcare (licensed profs only) - correct answer ✔✔*Nutritional Support*: registered
dietician, clinical weight loss program, bariatric services team- meal planning, recipes, food prep, etc
*Rehabilitation Profs*: PT, OT, Cardiac Rehab, Pulmonary rehabilitation-- lead pts through therapeutic
exercises and teach them how to do them at home
*Gatekeeper*: Physicians, NPs
*Mental Health*: Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Social worker, Support groups
*Alternative care*: Chiropractor, acupuncture, massage therapist
*athletic trainers/coaches*: Us! Athletic trainers, Personal trainers, Health coaches, GFIs. Athletic
trainers specifically work w/ athletes though and help them prevent injury
__________ are the gatekeepers of allied healthcare - correct answer ✔✔Physicians and NPs
Credentialing Terminology - correct answer ✔✔
Professional certification - correct answer ✔✔A voluntary process (not required by law) by which a
private organization grants a *time-limited* recognition and use of a credential to individuals who have
demonstrated that they have met the criteria for required knowledge, skills, or competencies for safe
and effective practice in a specific job role.
- done for self-recognition (to make you more alluring to jobs and participants)
- does *NOT* provide a legal mechanism to practice an otherwise government-regulated program
- Usually requires CE or recertification exam in certain periods of time
-*ACE GFI IS THIS!*
If you obtain professional certification, you are called a *Certificant*
,Certificates - correct answer ✔✔- much confusion in the past years with this terminology, *certificates
should really be called continuing education*
- They are education or training programs on a *specific topic* for which participants receive a certificate
after attendance and/or completion of the coursework. If you complete this you are a *certificate
holder*.
- Three types
- You *DO NOT* get a professional certification after these, they are primarily used to maintain prof
certification
What are the 3 types of certificates you can receive? - correct answer ✔✔1. Knowledge based: Small
knowledge (like a webinar), then you take a small quiz. This says you passed.
2. Curriculum based: Passing a class after longer study, like a speciality training for a fitness modality
3. Completion/Participation based: no assessment done, only live attending and then a certificate that
you attended it
Example - correct answer ✔✔You can attend a cycle weekend workshop and get a "certificate of
completion" for the class but it does not mean that you are certified to teach the class
What is registration in terms of credentialing? - correct answer ✔✔either...
1) the professional designation defined by a governmental entity in professional regulations
or rules
***or
2) the professional designation defined by a listing, or registry, of practitioners.
Licensure - correct answer ✔✔the *mandatory* (NOT voluntary) process by which a *government
organization (federal, state, or local)* grants a time-limited permission to an individual *to engage in a
given occupation/profession* after verifying that he or she has met standardized criteria and offers title
protection for those who meet the criteria
- usually mandates that people complete education, examination, experience, etc. Like a RN license.
, *CHAPTER 2: GETTING TO THE CORE OF THE CLASS* - correct answer ✔✔
*class formats* - correct answer ✔✔
What are the types of class formats? - correct answer ✔✔1. Pre-choreographed
2. Pre-planned
3. Freestyle
Pros of Pre-choreographed classes - correct answer ✔✔- the predictability of a pre-choreographed class
helps participants gauge their intensity more effectively (can measure improvements since they know
the format).
- consistency with instructors
Ex: Body Pump- pre choreographed moves and music
Pre-planned class format - correct answer ✔✔instructors receive guidelines and suggestions for what a
class should include, but the instructors have more freedom because they can pick moves from a list
Cons of Pre-choreographed classes - correct answer ✔✔- With a script, there is little room for
customizing specific progressions (hard) and regressions (easy) as appropriate for the individuals in each
class
Freestyle class format - correct answer ✔✔GFI choses music, class design, and specific choreography
Advantages of freestyle class format - correct answer ✔✔- always changing environment that reduces
boredom for instructors and participants
Disadvantage of freestyle class format - correct answer ✔✔- participants are unaware of what to expect
class to class, making it challenging to improve on certain skills overtime because they're changing
*Basic class components* (5) - correct answer ✔✔
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