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ACE Personal Trainer Exam Practice Test
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An ACE certified personal trainer is a fitness trainer who has been certified through ACE, the American Council of Exercise. The ACE certificate is worth it if you want a mainstream, NCCA-accredited certification with an easier exam on a lower budget than NASM or ISSA. The Syllabus for the ACE Personal Trainer exam covers these topics: Anatomy, Physiology, Kinesiology, Bio mechanics, Nutrition, Health Screening, Aerobic Program Design and Implementation, Anaerobic Program Design and Implementation, Special Population, Postural assessment, Programming for Stability, Mobility and Movement,... Show more
ACE Personal Trainer Exam Practice Test
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1. You are working with a new client, and you have asked her to write down her weight loss goals using the SMART guidelines. Which is an example of a SMART goal?
2. What is the average amount of hip flexion required to perform a correct squatting motion?
3. What key coping strategy is most important for relapse prevention?
4. A client’s food log reveals she ate 40 grams of carbohydrates, 16 grams of protein, and 9 grams of fat for lunch yesterday. How many calories did your client consume during that meal?
5. Which communication form requires trust, attention, and understanding to be effective?
6. A person performing an adduction of the hip joint and engaging the adductor longus, brevis, and magus, gracilis, and pectineus is likely performing which exercise?
7. Which hormone is a by-product of endocrine system adaptations to resistance training, increases carbohydrate and fat breakdown, and also has effects on the central nervous system, facilitating motor unit activation?
8. Which type of business arrangement is popular among personal trainers, allows the trainer to work on her own, charge her own fees, and create her own schedule while being temporarily employed at a large fitness facility?
9. Which grade of musculoskeletal strain identifies many muscle fibers that are injured, severe tenderness, and muscle pain with mild swelling, possible bruising, and a noticeable loss of function?
10. You client approaches you three days after your second session together and complains of swelling, pain, and extreme soreness in the muscles targeted in the session. What injury is this client most likely suffering from?
11. A first aid kit containing a cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) micro-shield is stocked for what emergency procedure?
12. A regular member of your gym approaches you asking for advice for pain that is running along the outside of his thigh to his knee, and you recommend myofascial release. What overuse injury is he likely suffering from?
13. A client weighs 210 lbs. and has a body fat percentage of 21 percent. What is the weight of his or her lean body mass?
14. A client who has dyslipidemia has what?
15. A potential client approaches you regarding training sessions; her doctor has recommended starting a resistance training program because of her risk for osteoporosis. What concept of exercise physiology best explains this doctor’s recommendation?
16. You have completed the initial consultation with a new client. Given the information provided, you have set appropriate goals and designed a 12-week program. You prepared your client for a certain level of self-monitoring and prepped a schedule for the upcoming weeks. What important part of physical activity behavior change is missing?
17. What types of training are the most effective way to improve an athlete’s stride rate and frequency?
18. It is recommended that a personal trainer hold a minimum of what amount of professional liability insurance?
19. Which model of behavior change is dependent on the weighing of barriers to change and the perceived benefits of change?
20. Flexibility and resistance training for pregnant women in which position should be avoided after what point in pregnancy?
21. Each of the following are signs of overtraining and should signal to the trainer to decrease intensity and/or frequency of training EXCEPT
22. Which is the federal law that protects the privacy of student education records?
23. When training a client in his or her home, you can have the client provide his or her own music selection. This helps to avoid which incidence?
24. During an evaluation of the lower body’s kinetic chain, you notice an abduction of the client’s knees between the femur and tibia, and the ankles are collapsed medially. This client has which postural deviation?
25. What chronic adaptation to aerobic training would be most beneficial to a client who suffers from type II diabetes?

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