Personal Trainer Certification Exam
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Health - Correct answers✔absence of disease
Fitness - Correct answers✔degree of body functioning; ability to handle physical demands
Benefits of Fitness - Correct answers✔1) improves general health, wards off disease, slows aging
process
2) improves mental outlook and mood through the release of endorphis
3) helps one achieve a better body composition (low fat, high muscle)
4) improves stat4e of mind, promotes better mental health, improves sleep
5) helps in achieving better bone density
6) enhances self-confidence; improves appearance of person
7) helps avoid atrophy
Components of Fitness - Correct answers✔1) Cardiorespiratory Endurance
2) Muscular Strength
3) Muscular Endurance
4) Flexibility
5) Body Composition
Cardiorespiratory endurance - Correct answers✔the ability to perform prolonged large-muscle
dynamic exercises at moderate-to-high levels of intensity; trains heart, increases its efficiency
, Muscular strength - Correct answers✔amount of force a muscle can exert with a single maximum
effort; improves body alignment
Muscular endurance - Correct answers✔ability to sustain a given level of muscle tension;
important for good posture and injury prevention
Flexibility - Correct answers✔the ability of the joints to move through their full range of motion;
poor flexibility leads to stiffness, misalignment, and pain
Body composition - Correct answers✔proportion of fat-free mass (muscle, bone, water) to fat in
a body; high proportion of fat-free mass to low proportion of fat is healthy
Motor fitness - Correct answers✔Speed, agility, eye-hand and eye-foot coordination; mostly
inherited, can be developed over time
VO2 Max - Correct answers✔a measure of how much oxygen is consumed by a person per
minute of exercise; athlete wears a mask during exercise to determine; the fitter a muscle, the
more oxygen it draws from the blood
Myoglobin - Correct answers✔oxygen-storing protein in the muscle
Anterio-Venous Oxygen Difference - Correct answers✔AKA VO2 Difference; the measure of
oxygen consumed by the muscles,; the different between oxygen content of the blood in the
arteries andthe oxygen content of the blood in the veins
Only about ___% of oxygen is utilized when a person is resting, as opposed to a potential ____%
during exercise - Correct answers✔25; 80
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Health - Correct answers✔absence of disease
Fitness - Correct answers✔degree of body functioning; ability to handle physical demands
Benefits of Fitness - Correct answers✔1) improves general health, wards off disease, slows aging
process
2) improves mental outlook and mood through the release of endorphis
3) helps one achieve a better body composition (low fat, high muscle)
4) improves stat4e of mind, promotes better mental health, improves sleep
5) helps in achieving better bone density
6) enhances self-confidence; improves appearance of person
7) helps avoid atrophy
Components of Fitness - Correct answers✔1) Cardiorespiratory Endurance
2) Muscular Strength
3) Muscular Endurance
4) Flexibility
5) Body Composition
Cardiorespiratory endurance - Correct answers✔the ability to perform prolonged large-muscle
dynamic exercises at moderate-to-high levels of intensity; trains heart, increases its efficiency
, Muscular strength - Correct answers✔amount of force a muscle can exert with a single maximum
effort; improves body alignment
Muscular endurance - Correct answers✔ability to sustain a given level of muscle tension;
important for good posture and injury prevention
Flexibility - Correct answers✔the ability of the joints to move through their full range of motion;
poor flexibility leads to stiffness, misalignment, and pain
Body composition - Correct answers✔proportion of fat-free mass (muscle, bone, water) to fat in
a body; high proportion of fat-free mass to low proportion of fat is healthy
Motor fitness - Correct answers✔Speed, agility, eye-hand and eye-foot coordination; mostly
inherited, can be developed over time
VO2 Max - Correct answers✔a measure of how much oxygen is consumed by a person per
minute of exercise; athlete wears a mask during exercise to determine; the fitter a muscle, the
more oxygen it draws from the blood
Myoglobin - Correct answers✔oxygen-storing protein in the muscle
Anterio-Venous Oxygen Difference - Correct answers✔AKA VO2 Difference; the measure of
oxygen consumed by the muscles,; the different between oxygen content of the blood in the
arteries andthe oxygen content of the blood in the veins
Only about ___% of oxygen is utilized when a person is resting, as opposed to a potential ____%
during exercise - Correct answers✔25; 80
