NSCA CPSS Exam | Certified Personal Strength Specialist Test Prep & Study Guide
Understand the relevant theory and principles that underpin training. - (answer)Training Load model,
Periodization, Parallel training model, Sequential Training Model,
Periodization vs Programming - (answer)Periodization is a a macro-management strategy that serves as
a training blueprint, from which periods of time are assigned that target specific skills, fitness, or
performance related factors. Volume and intensity are inversely related. 1-3 peaks/macrocycles per year
Programming is an operation of strategic thinking which is best accomplished when ongoing monitoring
is integrated into the periodization process.
How is biological adaptation achieved? - (answer)by disturbing the current capacity of the system
What is supercompensation? - (answer)Supercompensation is the effect whereby performance is
enhanced if the body is able/allowed to adapt.
What syndrome is supercompensation related to? - (answer)General adaptation syndrome
What is general adaptation syndrome? - (answer)The framework of interaction between the imposed
training stress, acute fatigue response, adaptation, and a new level of homeostasis/performance.
How does overtraining syndrome develop? - (answer)After continued high volume, high intensity
training or both when an athlete is over-reached.
Which training model is when performance of a positive fitness effect and a negative fatigue effect
decay exponentially over time but at different rates? - (answer)Fitness-fatigue model
What is the dose-response relationship? - (answer)relationship between the size of an administered
dose and the intensity of the response produced
What qualifies as external load? - (answer)Amount of weight lifted, distance/speed of running, its what
an athlete has done.
, NSCA CPSS Exam | Certified Personal Strength Specialist Test Prep & Study Guide
What is it called when an athlete has responded to an external load? - (answer)Internal load
How is external load measured? - (answer)camera systems, global positioning systems, local positioning
systems, often in conjunction with other sensors such as accelerometers and power meters.
What is the principle that the energy cost of acceleration is equivalent to running at a constant speed up
an "equivalent slope"? - (answer)Metabolic Power
What is the most appropriate equation for quantifying resistance training load? - (answer)Number of
sets x number of repetitions x percent repetition max
What is performance? - (answer)A function of the difference between fitness and fatigue
Which central and peripheral sites contribute to fatigue? - (answer)Activation of the motor command
(brain)
Propagation of the action potential through the descending motor pathway
Myofilament excitation-contraction coupling
Status of the intracellular milieu
What is Psychobiological model of fatigue? - (answer)Modification of intensity whereby fatigue occurs
when the effort required exceeds maximal effort the athlete is willing to exert or when the athlete
believes the effort has been maximal and it feels impossible to continue.
What is the Integrative governor theory? - (answer)Suggests both psychological and physiological factors
limit performance with a particular focus on subconscious avoidance of catastrophic failure due to
severe disruptions in homeostasis.
what is the deterministic model of training? - (answer)a model of sports performance wherein there is a
unique consequence or or outcome to every input or state
What is a dynamic systems theory of training? - (answer)a model of sports performance used to
describe complex behavior across complex and dynamic systems
Understand the relevant theory and principles that underpin training. - (answer)Training Load model,
Periodization, Parallel training model, Sequential Training Model,
Periodization vs Programming - (answer)Periodization is a a macro-management strategy that serves as
a training blueprint, from which periods of time are assigned that target specific skills, fitness, or
performance related factors. Volume and intensity are inversely related. 1-3 peaks/macrocycles per year
Programming is an operation of strategic thinking which is best accomplished when ongoing monitoring
is integrated into the periodization process.
How is biological adaptation achieved? - (answer)by disturbing the current capacity of the system
What is supercompensation? - (answer)Supercompensation is the effect whereby performance is
enhanced if the body is able/allowed to adapt.
What syndrome is supercompensation related to? - (answer)General adaptation syndrome
What is general adaptation syndrome? - (answer)The framework of interaction between the imposed
training stress, acute fatigue response, adaptation, and a new level of homeostasis/performance.
How does overtraining syndrome develop? - (answer)After continued high volume, high intensity
training or both when an athlete is over-reached.
Which training model is when performance of a positive fitness effect and a negative fatigue effect
decay exponentially over time but at different rates? - (answer)Fitness-fatigue model
What is the dose-response relationship? - (answer)relationship between the size of an administered
dose and the intensity of the response produced
What qualifies as external load? - (answer)Amount of weight lifted, distance/speed of running, its what
an athlete has done.
, NSCA CPSS Exam | Certified Personal Strength Specialist Test Prep & Study Guide
What is it called when an athlete has responded to an external load? - (answer)Internal load
How is external load measured? - (answer)camera systems, global positioning systems, local positioning
systems, often in conjunction with other sensors such as accelerometers and power meters.
What is the principle that the energy cost of acceleration is equivalent to running at a constant speed up
an "equivalent slope"? - (answer)Metabolic Power
What is the most appropriate equation for quantifying resistance training load? - (answer)Number of
sets x number of repetitions x percent repetition max
What is performance? - (answer)A function of the difference between fitness and fatigue
Which central and peripheral sites contribute to fatigue? - (answer)Activation of the motor command
(brain)
Propagation of the action potential through the descending motor pathway
Myofilament excitation-contraction coupling
Status of the intracellular milieu
What is Psychobiological model of fatigue? - (answer)Modification of intensity whereby fatigue occurs
when the effort required exceeds maximal effort the athlete is willing to exert or when the athlete
believes the effort has been maximal and it feels impossible to continue.
What is the Integrative governor theory? - (answer)Suggests both psychological and physiological factors
limit performance with a particular focus on subconscious avoidance of catastrophic failure due to
severe disruptions in homeostasis.
what is the deterministic model of training? - (answer)a model of sports performance wherein there is a
unique consequence or or outcome to every input or state
What is a dynamic systems theory of training? - (answer)a model of sports performance used to
describe complex behavior across complex and dynamic systems
