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ISSA FINAL EXAM (REALISTIC PRACTICE)
PART 1: QUESTIONS 1–25 (WITH ANSWERS + DETAILED
EXPLANATIONS)
1. What is the primary goal of personal training?
Answer: To improve a client’s overall health, fitness, and
well-being through structured exercise programming.
Explanation:
Personal training focuses on individualized exercise plans
that enhance strength, endurance, flexibility, body
composition, and health outcomes while reducing injury
risk.
,2. What is progressive overload?
Answer: Gradually increasing stress placed on the body
during exercise.
Explanation:
Muscles adapt to stress. To continue improving strength or
endurance, intensity, volume, or resistance must increase
over time.
3. What is the FITT principle?
Answer: Frequency, Intensity, Time, and Type.
Explanation:
This principle guides exercise program design by controlling
how often, how hard, how long, and what type of exercise is
performed.
4. What energy system is primarily used during sprinting?
Answer: ATP-PC system.
,Explanation:
This system provides immediate energy for high-intensity,
short-duration activities lasting up to ~10 seconds.
5. What is BMI used for?
Answer: Estimating body fat based on height and weight.
Explanation:
BMI helps classify underweight, normal, overweight, and
obesity but does not distinguish fat from muscle mass.
6. What is the normal resting heart rate range for adults?
Answer: 60–100 bpm.
Explanation:
A lower resting heart rate often indicates better
cardiovascular fitness.
, 7. What is hypertrophy?
Answer: Increase in muscle size.
Explanation:
Hypertrophy occurs when muscle fibers repair and grow
after resistance training.
8. What is the prime mover in a movement?
Answer: The main muscle responsible for producing
movement.
Explanation:
For example, the biceps are the prime mover in a bicep curl.
9. What is a synergist muscle?
Answer: A muscle that assists the prime mover.
Explanation: