NCSF CPT Certification Prep 2025 – Complete Personal Training Guide with Study Notes, Q&A, and Flashcards | Exercise Physiology & Health Coaching | National Council on Strength & Fitness

NCSF CPT Certification Prep 2025
National Council on Strength & Fitness



NCSF CPT Certification Prep 2025 – Complete Personal
Training Guide with Study Notes, Q&A, and Flashcards |
Exercise Physiology & Health Coaching | National
Council on Strength & Fitness

, National Council on Strength & Fitness

Evolved concept of health

includes an individuals wellness

an evolved concept of wellness includes

Physical, mental, emotional, intellectual, social, and environmental health

4th leading risk factor for global mortality

physical inactivity

about 80%
adults who don't meet guidelines for aerobic and strength activities

80%

adolescents who don't perform enough aerobic activity

physical activity

any purposeful and repeated movement produced by voluntary skeletal muscle actions that
increase metabolism

exercise

planned, structured, repetitive movement performed to maintain or improve one or more
components of physical fitness

true exercise must produce

a stress that stimulates cellular response and generates the potential for new or sustained
adaptations
principle of overload

stress must be applied beyond that which the body is accustomed to promote adaptations

Principle of Progression
once the body has adapted to a level of stress additional stress is needed to promote further
adaptations

principle of specificity
a desired adaptation occurs in response to a specific stress placed upon the body
plastic response