ACE-PERSONAL-TRAINER Online Practice Questions and Answers

Following four weeks of free-weight instruction and demonstrations, a client is not improving and frequently makes the same mistakes even after repeated corrections. The ACE certified Personal Trainer is currently using verbal cues to instruct him through the exercise. Which of the following teaching methods would be MOST effective to help the client gain a better understanding of what the trainer wants him to do?

A. Continue to demonstrate proper strength-training techniques to the client.

B. Incorporate a kinesthetic method to guide the client through effective execution.

C. Use the same words and methods every time for consistency and to reduce confusion.

D. Continue to praise the client for progress even when the execution is not correct.

An ACE certified Personal Trainer is educating a client on how to read a food label. On the label, there are 260 calories per serving, with three servings per package. There are 15 grams of carbohydrates and 10 grams of fat in each serving size. How many calories from fat are in the entire package?

A. 90

B. 120

C. 200

D. 270

What effect does taking beta-blockers have on an individual's cardiovascular assessment result?

A. Increases heart rate recovery time

B. Produces an elevated heart rate

C. Decreases heart rate recovery time

D. Produces a lower heart rate

During a training session, a client suddenly feels pain radiating down the left shoulder and arm, up the neck, and around the back, accompanied by excessive sweating and difficulty in breathing. Which of the following precautions should the ACE certified Personal Trainer take?

A. Have the client sit and rest for five minutes, and then take the client's blood pressure.

B. initiate CPR because the client is clearly having a heart attack.

C. Have the client stop all activity and contact EMS.

D. Remove any shoulder and arm exercises to rule out nerve impingement.

When assessing a client's hip flexion using a passive supine straight-leg raise, an ACE certified Personal Trainer discovers there is less than 80 degrees of motion on both the right and left sides. This MOST likely indicates tightness in which muscles?

A. Iliopsoas

B. Hamstrings

C. Adductor magnus and brevis

D. Gluteus medius and minimus

A 40-year-old female client comes to work with an ACE certified Personal Trainer to lose body fat. The trainer designs a program that includes one session per week and four sessions per week on her own After three weeks, she Informs the trainer that she enjoys working with the trainer but has made it into the gym only once a week to work out independently. Which of the following would be MOST effective to motivate her to adhere to her program?

A. Work with her to develop a reward system for adhering to her program.

B. Sign her up for the club's frequent participant rewards program.

C. increase the level of difficulty of her session with the trainer to make up for sessions missed on her own.

D. Agree to spend an hour with her doing all core work to reward her for participating in all her sessions.

Which cue would be MOST appropriate to help the client perform this exercise properly?

A. Instruct the client to perform this exercise with feet elevated.

B. instruct the client to lift the hips as high as possible while engaging the glutes.

C. Tell the client: "Great job. That looks good. Make sure to squeeze your glutes at the top!"

D. Tell the client: "Try to keep the spine in neutral alignment Brace the core and engage the glutes."

A new female client's health history reveals the following Information:

Using the client's health history, how many positive risk factors are present?

A. 0

B. 1

C. 2

D. 3

A personal trainer has begun working at a new fitness facility where the personal training manager strongly encourages selling nutritional supplements in combination with personal training sessions. What is an appropriate position for the ACE personal trainer?

A. Advise clients against these products because research has identified better products.

B. Tell the facility that the personal trainer is not comfortable with this practice.

C. Ensure the facility has adequate liability insurance coverage for the personal trainer.

D. Agree to sell the products because the commission is a great addition to a training income

Which of the following falls within the recommended percentage of nutrient intake for proteins (P), carbohydrates (C), and fats (F)?

A. P = 12% to 20%, C = 60% to 80%, F = 0% to 10%

B. P = 12% to 20%. C = 55% to 60%. F = 25% to 30%

C. P = 20% to 30%, C = 30% to 40%, F = 0% to 10%

D. P = 40%. C = 40%. F = 20%