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ACE GFI Questions with Detailed Verified
Answers
Q: PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION
Ans: A voluntary process by which a non-governmental body grants a
time-limited recognition and use of a credential to individuals who
have demonstrated that they have met the criteria for required
knowledge, skills, or competencies for safe and effective practice in a
specific job role
Q: CERTIFICATES
Ans: Education or training program on a specific topic for which
participants receive a certificate after attendance and/or completion
of the coursework.
Q: KNOWLEDGE BASED CERTIFICATES
Ans: Recognizes a relatively narrowed scope of specialized
knowledge used in performing duties and tasks as part of a certain
professional occupation. This is issued when an individual passes an
assessment instrument. Example: continuing education.
Q: CURRICULUM BASED CERTIFICATES
Ans: Issues after individual completes a course or series of courses and
passes an assessment instrument.
Q: CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION OR PARTICIPATION
Ans: Issues after an individual attends or participates in a particular
learning events. No knowledge assessments. Not a credential.
Q: LICENSURE
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Ans: A mandatory process in which a governmental agency grants a
time limited permission to an individual to engage in a given
occupation after verifying that he/she has met standardized criteria
and offers title protection for those who meet the criteria
Q: REGISTRATION
Ans: Either the profession designation defined by the governmental
entity in professional regulations or rules, or to a listing, or registry of
practitioner
Q: Basic components of group fitness class
Ans: 1. pre-class preparation
2. warm-up
3. Conditioning segment
4. cool down
Q: Warm up components of group fitness class
Ans: 1. dynamic movements
2. raised internal body temperature
3. increase blood flow to muscles
4. rehearsal movements
5.all major muscle group addressed through dynamic range of motion
Q: conditioning segment
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Ans: -promote independence/ self responsibility
-gradually increase intensity
-give progression and regression options
-build sequences logically and progressively
-monitor intensity using talk test, HR, and RPE
-incorporate a post-conditioning cool-down/stretch segment
Q: cool down
Ans: low-level activity that prepares your body to return to a resting
state
Q: benefits of warm up
Ans: increase metabolic rate
gradual increase of blood flow to working muscles
decrease muscle relaxation time following contraction
increase speed and force of muscle contraction
increase muscle, tendon, and ligament elasticity
gradual increase in energy production which limits lactate build up
reduce risk of abnormal heart rhythm
Q: skill related fitness
Ans: agility, balance, coordination, power, reaction time, speed
Q: health-related fitness
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Ans: cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular strength, muscular
endurance, flexibility, body composition
Q: aerobic recommendations: frequency
Ans: 1. 5 or more days/week of moderate intensity
2. 3 or more days/week of vigorous intensity
3.3-5 days or more/of combo of moderate to vigorous
Q: aerobic recommendations: time
Ans: 30-60 min/day of moderate intensity
20-60 min/day of vigorous intensity
at least 20 minutes of any exercise
Q: Frequency of resistance training
Ans: 2-3 days/week
Q: intensity for novice to improve strength
Ans: 60-70% 1RM
Q: INTENSITY for experienced individual to improve strength
Ans: >80% 1RM
Q: INTENSITY for older individual to improve strength
Ans: 40-50% 1 RM
Q: intensity for sedentary individual beginning resistance training
Ans: 40-50% 1 RM
ACE GFI Questions with Detailed Verified
Answers
Q: PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION
Ans: A voluntary process by which a non-governmental body grants a
time-limited recognition and use of a credential to individuals who
have demonstrated that they have met the criteria for required
knowledge, skills, or competencies for safe and effective practice in a
specific job role
Q: CERTIFICATES
Ans: Education or training program on a specific topic for which
participants receive a certificate after attendance and/or completion
of the coursework.
Q: KNOWLEDGE BASED CERTIFICATES
Ans: Recognizes a relatively narrowed scope of specialized
knowledge used in performing duties and tasks as part of a certain
professional occupation. This is issued when an individual passes an
assessment instrument. Example: continuing education.
Q: CURRICULUM BASED CERTIFICATES
Ans: Issues after individual completes a course or series of courses and
passes an assessment instrument.
Q: CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION OR PARTICIPATION
Ans: Issues after an individual attends or participates in a particular
learning events. No knowledge assessments. Not a credential.
Q: LICENSURE
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Ans: A mandatory process in which a governmental agency grants a
time limited permission to an individual to engage in a given
occupation after verifying that he/she has met standardized criteria
and offers title protection for those who meet the criteria
Q: REGISTRATION
Ans: Either the profession designation defined by the governmental
entity in professional regulations or rules, or to a listing, or registry of
practitioner
Q: Basic components of group fitness class
Ans: 1. pre-class preparation
2. warm-up
3. Conditioning segment
4. cool down
Q: Warm up components of group fitness class
Ans: 1. dynamic movements
2. raised internal body temperature
3. increase blood flow to muscles
4. rehearsal movements
5.all major muscle group addressed through dynamic range of motion
Q: conditioning segment
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Ans: -promote independence/ self responsibility
-gradually increase intensity
-give progression and regression options
-build sequences logically and progressively
-monitor intensity using talk test, HR, and RPE
-incorporate a post-conditioning cool-down/stretch segment
Q: cool down
Ans: low-level activity that prepares your body to return to a resting
state
Q: benefits of warm up
Ans: increase metabolic rate
gradual increase of blood flow to working muscles
decrease muscle relaxation time following contraction
increase speed and force of muscle contraction
increase muscle, tendon, and ligament elasticity
gradual increase in energy production which limits lactate build up
reduce risk of abnormal heart rhythm
Q: skill related fitness
Ans: agility, balance, coordination, power, reaction time, speed
Q: health-related fitness
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Ans: cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular strength, muscular
endurance, flexibility, body composition
Q: aerobic recommendations: frequency
Ans: 1. 5 or more days/week of moderate intensity
2. 3 or more days/week of vigorous intensity
3.3-5 days or more/of combo of moderate to vigorous
Q: aerobic recommendations: time
Ans: 30-60 min/day of moderate intensity
20-60 min/day of vigorous intensity
at least 20 minutes of any exercise
Q: Frequency of resistance training
Ans: 2-3 days/week
Q: intensity for novice to improve strength
Ans: 60-70% 1RM
Q: INTENSITY for experienced individual to improve strength
Ans: >80% 1RM
Q: INTENSITY for older individual to improve strength
Ans: 40-50% 1 RM
Q: intensity for sedentary individual beginning resistance training
Ans: 40-50% 1 RM
