NASM BODYBUILDING EXAM NEWEST 2024 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
(LATEST UPDATE)GRADE A+ ASSURED
Which phase of the Optimum Performance Training (OPT) model is designed to improve muscle imbalances,
stabilization of the core musculature and prepare muscles, tendons and ligaments for higher intensity
training protocols?
Select one: - (correct answer) a. Stabilization Endurance Training
Type II muscle fibers are identified by which characteristic?
Select one: - (correct answer) b. Greater potential for growth
Which phase of the Optimum Performance Training (OPT) model focuses on high levels of volume with
modest rest periods to force cellular changes that result in an overall increase in muscle size?
Select one: - (correct answer) c. Hypertrophy Training
Which of the following forms of exercise has the greatest impact on muscle damage?
Select one: - (correct answer) c. Eccentric exercise
What is a function of satellite cells in the development of muscle hypertrophy?
Select one: - (correct answer) a. Donate nuclei to existing muscle fibers
What are the three mechanisms involved in exercise-induced muscle hypertrophy?
Select one: - (correct answer) a. Mechanical tension, muscle damage and metabolic stress
Bodybuilders tend to demonstrate weakness of which muscle group?
Select one: - (correct answer) c. Rotator cuff
A bodybuilder has tight (overactive) chest, hip flexors and calves and weak (underactive) rotator cuff,
rhomboids and gluteals. Which statement is correct?
Select one: - (correct answer) b. The bodybuilder should stretch his chest, hip flexors and calves
Which of the following training systems involves the completion of a number of carefully-selected resistance
exercises arranged sequentially, with a short recovery between the exercises (stations)?
Select one: - (correct answer) b. Circuit training
Which of the following statements is correct regarding the implementation of core training into a
hypertrophy training program?
Select one: - (correct answer) b. Perform a low-volume of core exercises prior to resistance training
What muscles are intimately involved in the arm-curl exercise besides the biceps brachii to carry out the
movement?
Select one: - (correct answer) a. Brachialis and brachioradialis
Ted begins a running regimen and subsequently over the next 30 days improves his cardiorespiratory
endurance, but does not increase upper-body muscularity. His body's adaptation in this situation is best
defined by which principle?
Select one: - (correct answer) c. Principle of specificity
(LATEST UPDATE)GRADE A+ ASSURED
Which phase of the Optimum Performance Training (OPT) model is designed to improve muscle imbalances,
stabilization of the core musculature and prepare muscles, tendons and ligaments for higher intensity
training protocols?
Select one: - (correct answer) a. Stabilization Endurance Training
Type II muscle fibers are identified by which characteristic?
Select one: - (correct answer) b. Greater potential for growth
Which phase of the Optimum Performance Training (OPT) model focuses on high levels of volume with
modest rest periods to force cellular changes that result in an overall increase in muscle size?
Select one: - (correct answer) c. Hypertrophy Training
Which of the following forms of exercise has the greatest impact on muscle damage?
Select one: - (correct answer) c. Eccentric exercise
What is a function of satellite cells in the development of muscle hypertrophy?
Select one: - (correct answer) a. Donate nuclei to existing muscle fibers
What are the three mechanisms involved in exercise-induced muscle hypertrophy?
Select one: - (correct answer) a. Mechanical tension, muscle damage and metabolic stress
Bodybuilders tend to demonstrate weakness of which muscle group?
Select one: - (correct answer) c. Rotator cuff
A bodybuilder has tight (overactive) chest, hip flexors and calves and weak (underactive) rotator cuff,
rhomboids and gluteals. Which statement is correct?
Select one: - (correct answer) b. The bodybuilder should stretch his chest, hip flexors and calves
Which of the following training systems involves the completion of a number of carefully-selected resistance
exercises arranged sequentially, with a short recovery between the exercises (stations)?
Select one: - (correct answer) b. Circuit training
Which of the following statements is correct regarding the implementation of core training into a
hypertrophy training program?
Select one: - (correct answer) b. Perform a low-volume of core exercises prior to resistance training
What muscles are intimately involved in the arm-curl exercise besides the biceps brachii to carry out the
movement?
Select one: - (correct answer) a. Brachialis and brachioradialis
Ted begins a running regimen and subsequently over the next 30 days improves his cardiorespiratory
endurance, but does not increase upper-body muscularity. His body's adaptation in this situation is best
defined by which principle?
Select one: - (correct answer) c. Principle of specificity
