AFAA PERSONAL TRAINER CERTIFICATION EXAM AND
PRACTICE EXAM ACTUAL EXAM 300 QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWER
Practice of wellness - ANSWER: Prevention and holism
6 dimensions of wellbeing - ANSWER: Physical occupational social intellectual
emotional spiritual
List 2 lifestyle factors for osteoporosis - ANSWER: Physical activity and calcium
List 2 lifestyle factors for osteoarthritis - ANSWER: Avoid obesity and exercise
List 2 lifestyle factors for back pain - ANSWER: Proper posture and proper lifting
List 2 lifestyle factors for metabolic syndrome - ANSWER: Physical activity, body
mass index
What are 6 strategies for optimal well being - ANSWER: Become fit, become active,
eat proper, don't smoke, minimize stress, practice self care
List tests for men and women that should be checked regularly ages 20-50 years old -
ANSWER: Cholesterol, bp, breast cancer, colon cancer
Myocardial infarction (MI) - ANSWER: Heart attack (lack of blood flow)
Ischemia - ANSWER: Lack of blood flow thru coronary arteries to heart
Stroke volume - ANSWER: The amount of blood pumped with each beat
Cardiac output - ANSWER: Heart rate x blood volume
Venous return - ANSWER: Returns blood back to the heart
Valsalva maneuver - ANSWER: Holding breath due to strenuous activity
Minute ventilation - ANSWER: The total amount of air breathed per minute
Residual lung volume - ANSWER: Amount of air remaining I lungs after complete
forced exhale
Forced vital capacity - ANSWER: Amount of air that can be forcefully exhaled after
max inhale
, Total lung capacity - ANSWER: Sum of residual volume and forced vital capacity
adenosine triphosphate - ANSWER: Molecule found in every cell of body that is
composed of adenosine,ribose and 3 phosphate groups. The form of which food
energy is stored in your cells
3 metabolic pathway or energy systems - ANSWER: Phosphagen (Atp-pc) ,anaerobic
glycolytic (lactic acid) , aerobic (oxidative)
Which energy system uses glucose,fat and protein for fuel - ANSWER: Aerobic
Which energy system has a limiting factor of a small supply of stored CP - ANSWER:
Phosphate
List activities that rely primarily on the aerobic system - ANSWER: Daily living,
sleeping, low-moderate activity
List activities that rely primarily on the anaerobic glycolytic system - ANSWER: High
intensity, short duration 400-800 meter runs. Effort 1-2 minutes
List activities that rely primarily on the phosphagen system - ANSWER: Requires
energy very quickly, 15-20 seconds, jumping, throwing,lifting heavy weights
glucose - ANSWER: The bodies usable form of carbs
lactic acid - ANSWER: Produced in muscles when glucose is broken down (soreness)
from anaerobic glycolytic fatigue
glycolysis - ANSWER: A sub cellular structure where oxidation takes place
mitochondria - ANSWER: Organelle in the cytoplasm of cell that functions in energy
production
beta oxidation - ANSWER: Getting ready for second component in aerobic system
process which results in conversion into acetyl CoA
Krebs cycle - ANSWER: Citric acid cycle in aerobic system
Electron transport system - ANSWER: Final sequence of reactions in aerobic
production of ATP
Anaerobic threshold - ANSWER: Point at which exercise where work becomes so
intense that the muscle can't produce additional energy aerobically so it begins to
rely on anaerobic glycolytic system to produce ATP
(VO2max - ANSWER: Max O2 consumption consumed and utilized by the body
during an all out effort to exhaustion
PRACTICE EXAM ACTUAL EXAM 300 QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWER
Practice of wellness - ANSWER: Prevention and holism
6 dimensions of wellbeing - ANSWER: Physical occupational social intellectual
emotional spiritual
List 2 lifestyle factors for osteoporosis - ANSWER: Physical activity and calcium
List 2 lifestyle factors for osteoarthritis - ANSWER: Avoid obesity and exercise
List 2 lifestyle factors for back pain - ANSWER: Proper posture and proper lifting
List 2 lifestyle factors for metabolic syndrome - ANSWER: Physical activity, body
mass index
What are 6 strategies for optimal well being - ANSWER: Become fit, become active,
eat proper, don't smoke, minimize stress, practice self care
List tests for men and women that should be checked regularly ages 20-50 years old -
ANSWER: Cholesterol, bp, breast cancer, colon cancer
Myocardial infarction (MI) - ANSWER: Heart attack (lack of blood flow)
Ischemia - ANSWER: Lack of blood flow thru coronary arteries to heart
Stroke volume - ANSWER: The amount of blood pumped with each beat
Cardiac output - ANSWER: Heart rate x blood volume
Venous return - ANSWER: Returns blood back to the heart
Valsalva maneuver - ANSWER: Holding breath due to strenuous activity
Minute ventilation - ANSWER: The total amount of air breathed per minute
Residual lung volume - ANSWER: Amount of air remaining I lungs after complete
forced exhale
Forced vital capacity - ANSWER: Amount of air that can be forcefully exhaled after
max inhale
, Total lung capacity - ANSWER: Sum of residual volume and forced vital capacity
adenosine triphosphate - ANSWER: Molecule found in every cell of body that is
composed of adenosine,ribose and 3 phosphate groups. The form of which food
energy is stored in your cells
3 metabolic pathway or energy systems - ANSWER: Phosphagen (Atp-pc) ,anaerobic
glycolytic (lactic acid) , aerobic (oxidative)
Which energy system uses glucose,fat and protein for fuel - ANSWER: Aerobic
Which energy system has a limiting factor of a small supply of stored CP - ANSWER:
Phosphate
List activities that rely primarily on the aerobic system - ANSWER: Daily living,
sleeping, low-moderate activity
List activities that rely primarily on the anaerobic glycolytic system - ANSWER: High
intensity, short duration 400-800 meter runs. Effort 1-2 minutes
List activities that rely primarily on the phosphagen system - ANSWER: Requires
energy very quickly, 15-20 seconds, jumping, throwing,lifting heavy weights
glucose - ANSWER: The bodies usable form of carbs
lactic acid - ANSWER: Produced in muscles when glucose is broken down (soreness)
from anaerobic glycolytic fatigue
glycolysis - ANSWER: A sub cellular structure where oxidation takes place
mitochondria - ANSWER: Organelle in the cytoplasm of cell that functions in energy
production
beta oxidation - ANSWER: Getting ready for second component in aerobic system
process which results in conversion into acetyl CoA
Krebs cycle - ANSWER: Citric acid cycle in aerobic system
Electron transport system - ANSWER: Final sequence of reactions in aerobic
production of ATP
Anaerobic threshold - ANSWER: Point at which exercise where work becomes so
intense that the muscle can't produce additional energy aerobically so it begins to
rely on anaerobic glycolytic system to produce ATP
(VO2max - ANSWER: Max O2 consumption consumed and utilized by the body
during an all out effort to exhaustion
