CANFITPRO PTS CERTIFICATION EXAM
QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE
ANSWERS { GUARANTEED A+}
Name the first regression of a squat? - ✔✔Leg press
What is PROM and APROM? - ✔✔passive range of motion (someone
helps you do the movement) and active range of motion (you do the
movement on your own)
What are the two protein filaments that slide over each other during a
muscle contraction (sliding filament theory) - ✔✔actin (thin filaments)
and myosin (thick filaments)
Where is the biceps femoris located? Name an opposing muscle -
✔✔located in the lateral side of hamstring, rectus femoris
,Name the different types of bones - ✔✔Long bones (femur/humerus),
short bones (tarsals/carpals), flat bones (ribs/scapulae), irregular bones
(ischium/pubis/vertebrae)
Going at high intensity for 10 seconds - 2 minutes would utilize
primarily which energy system? - ✔✔Anaerobic System
What's EPOC? What does it do? - ✔✔excess post-exercise oxygen
consumption, the uptake of oxygen your body continues to take in after
your workout is complete
What is progressive overload? - ✔✔to improve, clients must
continually challenge their fitness. Gradually increasing the volume or
intensity of the program to realize ongoing adaptions.
Someone that isn't thinking of starting an exercise program is part of
what stage of change? - ✔✔Pre-contemplation
After the first year of Personal Training, how much of your business
should be coming from referrals? - ✔✔75%
,Name the two types of pain and the two types of injury -
✔✔Mechanical pain (pain caused by mechanical movement) and
systemic pain (result of disease/medical condition), acute injury and
overuse injury
What are the main synovial joints? - ✔✔hinge (elbow/knee), condyloid
(knuckles/wrist), ball and socket (shoulder/hips)
Which muscles make up the cour four stretch sequence? - ✔✔glutes,
quadratus lumborum, hip flexors, latissimus dorsi
What kind of postural distortions do we usually see with lower cross
syndrome (lordosis)? - ✔✔increased lumbar curve, forward sway of
upper femur, depressed sternum, forward head posture, rounded
shoulders
Where does oxygenated blood go after it leaves the Left Atrium? -
✔✔travels through the bicuspid valve into the left ventricle
, What bones make up the Axial skeleton? - ✔✔skull, vertebral column
and thorax
What attaches muscle to bone? Bone to bone? - ✔✔muscle to bone:
tendon
bone to bone: ligament
What is Adduction/Abduction? - ✔✔Adduction- moving toward the
midline of body (medial movement))
Abduction- moving away from the midline of body (lateral movement)
Name the agonist/antagonist for bicep curl, knee extension, calf raises,
crunch Chest Press and Lat pulldown and their functions - ✔✔bicep
curl- bicep brachii, tricep brachii -elbow flexion
knee extension- rectus femoris, bicep femoris -knee extension, flexion
calf raises- gastrocnemius, tibialis anterior - plantar flexion, knee flexion
crunch- rectus abdominis, erector spinae - spinal flexion
QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE
ANSWERS { GUARANTEED A+}
Name the first regression of a squat? - ✔✔Leg press
What is PROM and APROM? - ✔✔passive range of motion (someone
helps you do the movement) and active range of motion (you do the
movement on your own)
What are the two protein filaments that slide over each other during a
muscle contraction (sliding filament theory) - ✔✔actin (thin filaments)
and myosin (thick filaments)
Where is the biceps femoris located? Name an opposing muscle -
✔✔located in the lateral side of hamstring, rectus femoris
,Name the different types of bones - ✔✔Long bones (femur/humerus),
short bones (tarsals/carpals), flat bones (ribs/scapulae), irregular bones
(ischium/pubis/vertebrae)
Going at high intensity for 10 seconds - 2 minutes would utilize
primarily which energy system? - ✔✔Anaerobic System
What's EPOC? What does it do? - ✔✔excess post-exercise oxygen
consumption, the uptake of oxygen your body continues to take in after
your workout is complete
What is progressive overload? - ✔✔to improve, clients must
continually challenge their fitness. Gradually increasing the volume or
intensity of the program to realize ongoing adaptions.
Someone that isn't thinking of starting an exercise program is part of
what stage of change? - ✔✔Pre-contemplation
After the first year of Personal Training, how much of your business
should be coming from referrals? - ✔✔75%
,Name the two types of pain and the two types of injury -
✔✔Mechanical pain (pain caused by mechanical movement) and
systemic pain (result of disease/medical condition), acute injury and
overuse injury
What are the main synovial joints? - ✔✔hinge (elbow/knee), condyloid
(knuckles/wrist), ball and socket (shoulder/hips)
Which muscles make up the cour four stretch sequence? - ✔✔glutes,
quadratus lumborum, hip flexors, latissimus dorsi
What kind of postural distortions do we usually see with lower cross
syndrome (lordosis)? - ✔✔increased lumbar curve, forward sway of
upper femur, depressed sternum, forward head posture, rounded
shoulders
Where does oxygenated blood go after it leaves the Left Atrium? -
✔✔travels through the bicuspid valve into the left ventricle
, What bones make up the Axial skeleton? - ✔✔skull, vertebral column
and thorax
What attaches muscle to bone? Bone to bone? - ✔✔muscle to bone:
tendon
bone to bone: ligament
What is Adduction/Abduction? - ✔✔Adduction- moving toward the
midline of body (medial movement))
Abduction- moving away from the midline of body (lateral movement)
Name the agonist/antagonist for bicep curl, knee extension, calf raises,
crunch Chest Press and Lat pulldown and their functions - ✔✔bicep
curl- bicep brachii, tricep brachii -elbow flexion
knee extension- rectus femoris, bicep femoris -knee extension, flexion
calf raises- gastrocnemius, tibialis anterior - plantar flexion, knee flexion
crunch- rectus abdominis, erector spinae - spinal flexion
