NCEP Certification Review 2026/2027 |
Exam-Focused Questions and Verified
Answers with Complete Solutions (Already
Passed A+)
• 5 components of fitness -✓✓1. nutritional guidance
2. flexibility training
3. cardiovascular training
4. resistance training
5. attitude training
• Nutritional guidance -✓✓meal strategy that is healthy and result oriented
• Calorie -✓✓unit of energy
• Gram -✓✓unit of weight that measures nutrients
• Flexibility training (range of motion) -✓✓creating optimal length/ tension
relationships
• Active stretching -✓✓internal force
• Passive stretching -✓✓external force
• Static stretching -✓✓Not continuously moving
• Dynamic/ ballistic -✓✓Continuous moving
• Cardiovascular training -✓✓Stress put on the heart to improve blood pumping
through vains
• Blood pressure -✓✓amount of stressed placed on the arterial walls during
pumping and filling
• normal blood pressure -✓✓120/80 mmhg
, • high blood pressure -✓✓140/90
• resting heart rate -✓✓beats per minute at rest
• training heart rate -✓✓(220 - age) x % of max heart rate
• Resistance training -✓✓stress placed on muscular system to improve load
• Endurance -✓✓Sub-max force repeated over time
• Power -✓✓work / time
• strength -✓✓max force exerted in SPECIFIC environment
• max strength -✓✓max force exerted in ANY environment
• relative strength -✓✓max force produced BODYWEIGHT
• reactive strength -✓✓max force exerted AFTER exertion
• stabilization strength -✓✓max force produced JOINT MOVEMENT
• Attitude training -✓✓mental ability to motivate self and others during exercise
• Core -✓✓stabilize spine to transfer loads efficiently throughout the body
• Active stretch example -✓✓childs pose
• Passive stretch example -✓✓Partner stretch
• Static stretch example -✓✓Seated reach for your toes
• Dynamic/ ballistic stretch example -✓✓over the hurdle
• 5 cardiac risk factors -✓✓1. high blood pressure
2. high cholesterol
Exam-Focused Questions and Verified
Answers with Complete Solutions (Already
Passed A+)
• 5 components of fitness -✓✓1. nutritional guidance
2. flexibility training
3. cardiovascular training
4. resistance training
5. attitude training
• Nutritional guidance -✓✓meal strategy that is healthy and result oriented
• Calorie -✓✓unit of energy
• Gram -✓✓unit of weight that measures nutrients
• Flexibility training (range of motion) -✓✓creating optimal length/ tension
relationships
• Active stretching -✓✓internal force
• Passive stretching -✓✓external force
• Static stretching -✓✓Not continuously moving
• Dynamic/ ballistic -✓✓Continuous moving
• Cardiovascular training -✓✓Stress put on the heart to improve blood pumping
through vains
• Blood pressure -✓✓amount of stressed placed on the arterial walls during
pumping and filling
• normal blood pressure -✓✓120/80 mmhg
, • high blood pressure -✓✓140/90
• resting heart rate -✓✓beats per minute at rest
• training heart rate -✓✓(220 - age) x % of max heart rate
• Resistance training -✓✓stress placed on muscular system to improve load
• Endurance -✓✓Sub-max force repeated over time
• Power -✓✓work / time
• strength -✓✓max force exerted in SPECIFIC environment
• max strength -✓✓max force exerted in ANY environment
• relative strength -✓✓max force produced BODYWEIGHT
• reactive strength -✓✓max force exerted AFTER exertion
• stabilization strength -✓✓max force produced JOINT MOVEMENT
• Attitude training -✓✓mental ability to motivate self and others during exercise
• Core -✓✓stabilize spine to transfer loads efficiently throughout the body
• Active stretch example -✓✓childs pose
• Passive stretch example -✓✓Partner stretch
• Static stretch example -✓✓Seated reach for your toes
• Dynamic/ ballistic stretch example -✓✓over the hurdle
• 5 cardiac risk factors -✓✓1. high blood pressure
2. high cholesterol
