FREE NASM CES Study Guide + Practice Test + Flashcards for 2021

Q1: How much of the adult population is affected by low back pain?
A1: nearly 80%
 
Q2: What’s the most common sports related injury
A2: ankle sprain
 
Q3: What is known as the study that uses principles of physics to quantitatively study how forces interact within the body?
A3: biomechanics
 
Q4: Torque is a force that…
A4: produces rotation
 
Q5: During an overhead squat you notice an asymmetrical weight shift, which muscles could be underactive?
A5: gluteus medius on the side of the shift
 
Q6: The LPHC has approximately how many muscles attached to it?
A6: 29
 
Q7: The bending of a joint, causing the angle of the joint to decrease is termed what?
A7: flexion
 
Q8: A cellular structure that supplies energy for many biomechanical cellular processes by undergoing enzymatic hydrolysis is known as?
A8: ATP
 
Q9: Which of the following sensory receptors can cause a muscle to relax when excited?
A9: Ruffini endings
 
Q10: Which is a muscle that is prone to lengthening?
A10: infraspinatus
 
Q11: Which levers are the most common in the body and have pull between the fulcrum and resistance?
A11: third class levers
 
Q12: A new client reveals that she had knee replacement surgery two years ago and failed to comply with her rehabilitation program. During the assessment, she displayed limited range of motion in the affected knee. Which of the following is most likely to have caused this current lack of mobility?
A12: Formed scar tissue
 
Q13: During the overhead squat assessment, which view is ideal when observing the existence of an asymmetrical weight shift?
A13: Posterior view
 
Q14: Which muscle isometrically stabilizes the lumbo-pelvic-hip complex (LPHC) and knee
A14: Sartorius
 
Q15: Which subsystem consists of force-couple relationships that primarily control the pelvis, and femur in the frontal plane during single-leg functional movements such as gait, lunges, or stair climbing?
A15: Lateral subsystem
 
Q16: The vastus lateralis primarily stabilizes the:
A16: Knee
 
Q17: What lower body movement should the coach be concerned with during the top pull of the snatch?
A17: Triple extension
 
Q18: During the single leg squat assessment, the compensation of “outward trunk rotation” is mostly attributed by underactivity of which muscles?
A18: Internal Oblique (same side as stance leg)
 
Q19: Most healthy adults should hold a static stretch for a minimum duration of:
A19: 20-30 secs
 
Q20: Low back pain is a major form of degeneration affecting nearly how many people?
A20: 80% of all adults
 
Q21: What hip muscle has been shown to become weaker after an ankle sprain?
A21: gluteus medius
 
Q22:  ______________________ is a multiplanar, synchronized joint motion that occurs with eccentric muscle function.
A22: Pronation
 
Q23: The ______________________ bisects the body to create upper and lower halves, and primarily includes internal rotation and external rotation for the limbs, right and left rotation for the head and trunk, and radioulnar pronation and supination.
A23: transverse plane
 
Q24: Research demonstrated that optimum stride length at maximum velocity is
A24: 2.1-2.5 times leg length
 
Q25: A runner who experiences reoccurring episodes of plantar fasciitis, shin splints and patellar tendonitis is most likely affected by which of the following postural distortion syndromes?
Q25: pronation distortion syndrome
 
Q26: Which class of lever is most common in the HMS?
A26: Third
 
Q27: During which part of the gait does pronation occur?
A27: Contact
 
Q28: What percentage of the population is estimated to be obese?
A28: 33.8%
 
Q29: Type 1 muscle fibers are considered to be ..?
Q29: slow-twitch
 
Q30: An estimated ____________ ACL injuries occur annually in the general U.S. population.
A30: 80,000 to 100,000
 
Q31: Which section of the heart receives deoxygenated blood from the rest of the body?
A31: right atrium
 
Q32: What is Corrective Exercise?
A32: The systematic process of identifying a neuromusculoskeletal dysfunction, developing a plan of action and implementing an integrated corrective strategy
 
Q33: In what plane of motion does lateral flexion occur?
A33: frontal plane
 
Q34: The ability of the body to repeatedly produce high levels of force for prolonged periods is known as ..?
A34: strength endurance
 
Q35: What is another name for ankle flexion?
A35: dorsiflexion
 
Q36: Which self-myofascial release tool is most appropriate for a new client who has not experienced forms of ischemic pressure?
A36: Foam roll
 
Q37: What part of the nervous system is designed to optimize muscle synergies?
A37: Central
 
Q38: Which of the following in a primary reason for using self-myofascial release?
A38: To alleviate the side effects of latent trigger points
 
Q39: What is the recommended duration for each repetition during integrated dynamic movement?
A39: 2 second isometric hold at end range and 4 seconds on the eccentric
 
Q40: The core stabilizer muscles are predominantly made up of what muscle fiber type?
A40: type I