ACE GROUP FITNESS INSTRUCTOR STUDY EXAM 2025/2026
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔VT1/VT2 - ✔✔First/second ventilatory threshold ch3
✔✔ACE IFT - ✔✔ACE Integrated Fitness Training Model ch3
✔✔IFT Cardioresp Phases - ✔✔P1: aerobic base, talk test, P2: aerobic efficiency VT1
P3: anaerobic endurance VT2 - 3zone CRT model, P4: anaerobic power training ch3
✔✔IFT Continuum - ✔✔function, health, fitness, performance ch3
✔✔Interpersonal piece of IFT - ✔✔Rapport ch3
✔✔ACE IFT Components - ✔✔Cardioresp, Flexibility, Resistance ch3
✔✔Phases of functional movement and resistance training IFT - ✔✔P1: Stability-
Mobility - posture, balance, joint stab/mob
P2: 5-primary Movements
P3: Load volume and periodization
P4: Performance - Power, speed, agility, quickness ch3
✔✔Performance (4 components) - ✔✔Power, speed, agility, quickness ch3
✔✔Teaching Strategies - ✔✔slow to fast, repetition reduction, part to whole, simple to
complex ch 8
✔✔Part-to-Whole teaching strategy - ✔✔A teaching strategy involving breaking a skill
down into its component parts and practicing each skill in its simplest form before
placing several skills in a sequence. ch8
✔✔Exercise intensity variables - ✔✔lever length, external resistance, balance, speed
✔✔Simple-to-complex teaching Strategy (Layering) - ✔✔Offering additional options to
try out for variety and progression/regression ch 8
✔✔4 cue types - ✔✔anticipatory, instructional, follow-up, motivational ch8
✔✔Directions of teaching x2 - ✔✔Mirroring, Matching ch8
✔✔DRILLS - progression and regression options - ✔✔Direction, Rhythm-ROM-
Resistance-Repetitions, Intensity-Impact, Lever length, Stability
✔✔Teaching styles - ✔✔command, practice, self-check
, ✔✔Models of behavior change - ✔✔Transtheoretical model
Health belief model
Ecological model
✔✔Motivational Techniques x2 - ✔✔Intrinsic Extrinsic
✔✔"Gatekeeper" of the Allied Healthcare Continuum - ✔✔Physician/NP/PA ch 1
✔✔ADL - ✔✔activities of daily living ch 2
✔✔Major muscle groups - ✔✔calves, thighs, hips, torso, back, chest, shoulders ch 2
✔✔Static stretch durations - ✔✔10-30 secs (30-60 secs for older) ch 2
✔✔static stretch reps - ✔✔2-4 reps per muscle group - min 1/muscle group ch 2
✔✔Power - ✔✔rate at which work can be performed - muscle contractions at high
velocity ch 2
✔✔coordination - ✔✔ability to smoothly and accurately perform complex movements ch
2
✔✔agility - ✔✔rapidly and accurately change position of body ch 2
✔✔speed - ✔✔ability to perform movement in a short period of time ch 2
✔✔reaction time - ✔✔elapsed time between stim and beginning of movement ch 2
✔✔Cardiovascular Endurance Exercise Recs - Time, intensity, frequency - ✔✔30-60
min/day, 150 min/week if mod, 20-60/day, 75/week vig, Mod 40-60% HRR, Vig 60-90
HRR, Min 3 days/week ch 2
✔✔Resistance Recs - Time, intensity, frequency - ✔✔60-70% 1-RM for 8-12 reps to
improve fitness, training each major group min 2 days/week ch 2
✔✔Flexibility recs - Time, intensity, frequency - ✔✔10-30 secs (30-60 secs elderly)
static 2-3 days/week, to the point of feeling tightness or slight discomfort ch 2
✔✔Glenohumeral - Mob or Stab? - ✔✔shoulder joint - mobility ch3
✔✔Scapulothoracic - Mob or Stab? - ✔✔stability ch3
✔✔Thoracic Spine - mob or stab? - ✔✔Mobility ch3
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔VT1/VT2 - ✔✔First/second ventilatory threshold ch3
✔✔ACE IFT - ✔✔ACE Integrated Fitness Training Model ch3
✔✔IFT Cardioresp Phases - ✔✔P1: aerobic base, talk test, P2: aerobic efficiency VT1
P3: anaerobic endurance VT2 - 3zone CRT model, P4: anaerobic power training ch3
✔✔IFT Continuum - ✔✔function, health, fitness, performance ch3
✔✔Interpersonal piece of IFT - ✔✔Rapport ch3
✔✔ACE IFT Components - ✔✔Cardioresp, Flexibility, Resistance ch3
✔✔Phases of functional movement and resistance training IFT - ✔✔P1: Stability-
Mobility - posture, balance, joint stab/mob
P2: 5-primary Movements
P3: Load volume and periodization
P4: Performance - Power, speed, agility, quickness ch3
✔✔Performance (4 components) - ✔✔Power, speed, agility, quickness ch3
✔✔Teaching Strategies - ✔✔slow to fast, repetition reduction, part to whole, simple to
complex ch 8
✔✔Part-to-Whole teaching strategy - ✔✔A teaching strategy involving breaking a skill
down into its component parts and practicing each skill in its simplest form before
placing several skills in a sequence. ch8
✔✔Exercise intensity variables - ✔✔lever length, external resistance, balance, speed
✔✔Simple-to-complex teaching Strategy (Layering) - ✔✔Offering additional options to
try out for variety and progression/regression ch 8
✔✔4 cue types - ✔✔anticipatory, instructional, follow-up, motivational ch8
✔✔Directions of teaching x2 - ✔✔Mirroring, Matching ch8
✔✔DRILLS - progression and regression options - ✔✔Direction, Rhythm-ROM-
Resistance-Repetitions, Intensity-Impact, Lever length, Stability
✔✔Teaching styles - ✔✔command, practice, self-check
, ✔✔Models of behavior change - ✔✔Transtheoretical model
Health belief model
Ecological model
✔✔Motivational Techniques x2 - ✔✔Intrinsic Extrinsic
✔✔"Gatekeeper" of the Allied Healthcare Continuum - ✔✔Physician/NP/PA ch 1
✔✔ADL - ✔✔activities of daily living ch 2
✔✔Major muscle groups - ✔✔calves, thighs, hips, torso, back, chest, shoulders ch 2
✔✔Static stretch durations - ✔✔10-30 secs (30-60 secs for older) ch 2
✔✔static stretch reps - ✔✔2-4 reps per muscle group - min 1/muscle group ch 2
✔✔Power - ✔✔rate at which work can be performed - muscle contractions at high
velocity ch 2
✔✔coordination - ✔✔ability to smoothly and accurately perform complex movements ch
2
✔✔agility - ✔✔rapidly and accurately change position of body ch 2
✔✔speed - ✔✔ability to perform movement in a short period of time ch 2
✔✔reaction time - ✔✔elapsed time between stim and beginning of movement ch 2
✔✔Cardiovascular Endurance Exercise Recs - Time, intensity, frequency - ✔✔30-60
min/day, 150 min/week if mod, 20-60/day, 75/week vig, Mod 40-60% HRR, Vig 60-90
HRR, Min 3 days/week ch 2
✔✔Resistance Recs - Time, intensity, frequency - ✔✔60-70% 1-RM for 8-12 reps to
improve fitness, training each major group min 2 days/week ch 2
✔✔Flexibility recs - Time, intensity, frequency - ✔✔10-30 secs (30-60 secs elderly)
static 2-3 days/week, to the point of feeling tightness or slight discomfort ch 2
✔✔Glenohumeral - Mob or Stab? - ✔✔shoulder joint - mobility ch3
✔✔Scapulothoracic - Mob or Stab? - ✔✔stability ch3
✔✔Thoracic Spine - mob or stab? - ✔✔Mobility ch3
