NETA test bank Personal Trainer Exam
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Roles of the Fitness Professional - ✔✔-Instructor
Coach
Facilitator
Leader
Role Model
Referral Source
Instructor - ✔✔-Provides
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NETA test bank Personal Trainer Exam
Question and answers, latest update.
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Roles of the Fitness Professional - ✔✔-Instructor
Coach
Facilitator
Leader
Role Model
Referral Source
Instructor - ✔✔-Provides info and explanation
Coach - ✔✔-Asks questions, facilitates self directed change
Facilitator - ✔✔-Maintains focus, establishes environment
Leader - ✔✔-Provides optimism, sets the course
Role Model - ✔✔-Demonstrates habits of healthy living
Referral Source - ✔✔-Established multidisciplinary network of health care professionals
Ideal Qualities and Characteristics - ✔✔-Empathy
Respectfulness
Enthusiasm
Lifelong learner
Genuineness
Empathy - ✔✔-The ability to understand and share the feelings of another
Respectfulness - ✔✔-Honoring differences of others and treating others how you wish to be treated
Enthusiasm - ✔✔-Intense and eager enjoyment, interest, or approval
Lifelong Learner - ✔✔-Pursuing personal and professional development
Genuineness - ✔✔-Being honest, direct, not using a facade
Ethics - ✔✔-The principles of right and wrong that guide an individual in making decisions
Code of Ethics - ✔✔-- Respect rights and privacy
- Safe training environment
- Equal treatment
- Comply with laws
- Appropriate docs
- Scope of practice
- Do not diagnose
- Up to date certs and education
- Appropriate certs
- Clear professional boundaires
- Avoid angry behavior
- Positivity
- Protection from misrepresentation
Cert is valid for? - ✔✔-2 years
How many CE hours do you need? - ✔✔-20 over the 2 year period
How many CE hours need to be through NETA? - ✔✔-6
Credible source characteristics - ✔✔-Source
Review
Author
References
Facts
Date
The NETA Group Exercise and Personal Trainer certification are valid for _____ years from the date of
cert. NETA certified professionals must complete a minimum of ______ CEs prior to recert? - ✔✔-2, 20
Which of the following is considered to be a violation of NETA's personal Code of Ethics? - ✔✔-Enter
into an intimate sexual relationship with an emotionally vulnerable personal training client
Which of the following roles or hats of a fitness professional is best represented by asking thoughtful
questions to facilitate self directed behavior? - ✔✔-Coach
According to the US Dep of Labor, employment opportunities for fitness professionals are expected to
______ over the current decade. - ✔✔-Increase
Which of the following is a set of guidelines established by professional organizations to direct the
conduct and actions related to common business practice within a given profession? - ✔✔-Code of
Ethics
Successfully obtaining a/an ___________ indicates that an individual has passed a written exam and
demonstrated the minimum level of knowledge to safely perform the basic duties of a personal trainer
or group exercise instructor. - ✔✔-Certification
Rapport - ✔✔-A positive relationship
6 ways to make people like you - ✔✔-Become genuinely interested in other people
Smile
Remember the person's name
Be a good listener and encourage others to talk about themselves
Talk in terms of the other person's interest
Make the other person feel important and do it sincerely
First impression strategies - ✔✔-Attire
Personal hygiene
Listen
Speech
Courteous
Attentiveness
Body language
Professionalism
What % of a message may be attributed to each of the following elements?
What you say, How you say it, Body language - ✔✔-7%
38%
55%
Active Listening Skill components - ✔✔-Paraphrasing
Reflecting
Repeating
Summarizing
Encouraging
Questioning
Paraphrasing - ✔✔-Putting into words the ideas or feelings you have perceived from the message
Reflecting - ✔✔-Repeating in your own words what you think was said
Repeating - ✔✔-The use of nonverbal cues to convey the same meaning as the verbal message
Summarizing - ✔✔-Briefly stating the main points and key details of a work in your own words
Encouraging - ✔✔-Giving someone support or confidence; supportive
Questioning - ✔✔-A listening response in which the receiver seeks additional information from the
sender
Open Position (Relaxed) - ✔✔-Indicates openness and willingness to communicate
Closed Position (Arms crossed, scowling) - ✔✔-Indicates a defensive posture, not listening or
communicating
Rubbing Nose - ✔✔-Puzzlement
Finger Tapping - ✔✔-This common gesture possibly means: impatience, nervousness
Hand on chin - ✔✔-Processing information, thoughtful
Fidgeting - ✔✔-Nervously moving about or twitching
Simple reflection - ✔✔-Reflections that identify the emotions of clients without interpretation or action
Complex reflection - ✔✔-Reflections that add substantial meaning or emphasis to convey a more
complex picture
Amplified Reflection - ✔✔-A technique that exaggerates what a client has said with the hope that the
client will present the other side of ambivalence
Double sided reflection - ✔✔-Reflections that capture both sides of a dilemma that is fostering
ambivalence
Feeling reflection - ✔✔-Repeating back, acknowledging, focusing on the helpee's expressed emotions
Reframing Reflection - ✔✔-Offers an alternate meaning
Which of the following is considered to be an open ended question? - ✔✔-How do you imagine you will
feel when you achieve this goal?
Which of the following may indicate a defensive position suggesting that an individual is not interested
in communicating or interacting? - ✔✔-Arms crossed over front of chest
You observe a member that you do not know performing the lat pulldown exercise incorrectly. You
decide to approach the member. Which of the following is likely to be the most effective statement to
initiate the conversation? - ✔✔-Hello, I don't think we have met before. I just wanted to say hi. My
name is....
Your new client states "I just don't seem to have enough time to work exercise into my busy schedule. I
really want to exercise more often, but I just have so many other things to do." Which of the following
active listening skills is an example of paraphrasing this statement? - ✔✔-So, although you would like to
exercise more often, your busy schedule makes it difficult for you to find time.
Which of the following nonverbal aspects is likely to have the most significant impact on the meaning of
the message? - ✔✔-The body position and facial expressions of the speaker
Which of the following is an appropriate and effective strategy to establish rapport with a potential
client? - ✔✔-Smile and make a point of remembering the person's name
5 stages of change - ✔✔-pre-contemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, maintenance
Precontemplation - ✔✔-no intention of changing behavior
contemplation - ✔✔-a long and thoughtful observation
Preparation - ✔✔-something done to get ready
Action - ✔✔-the next stage
maintence - ✔✔-keeping up with the work put in
self-efficacy - ✔✔-one's sense of competence and effectiveness
4 factors that can influence a person's self efficacy - ✔✔-Performance
Experience
Social structure
Physiological change
SMART goals - ✔✔-Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Timely
SMART goal types - ✔✔-action and outcome
action oriented goal - ✔✔-A goal that when achieved is observable in behavioral terms
outcome oriented goal - ✔✔-Long term in nature relative to the outcome/ end result
intrinsic motivation - ✔✔-a desire to perform a behavior effectively for its own sake
extrinsic motivation - ✔✔-a desire to perform a behavior to receive promised rewards or avoid
threatened punishment
strategies to help increase motivation - ✔✔-Enjoyability
COnvenience
Effectiveness
Health vs motivation
Social support
Rewarding
Self monitoring
Plan orientation
Positivity
Transtheoretical Model - ✔✔-Model of behavior change that identifies six distinct stages people go
through in altering behavior patterns; also called the stages of change model
decisional balance - ✔✔-refers to an individuals perception, beliefs, and interpretation of pros and cons
related to changing their behavior
Self-Efficacy Theory - ✔✔-An individual's belief that he or she is capable of performing a task.
Social cognitive theory - ✔✔-referring to the use of cognitive processes in relation to understanding the
social world
self-determination theory (SDT) - ✔✔-theory of human motivation in which the social context of an
action has an effect on the type of motivation existing for the action
health belief model - ✔✔-Addresses the relationship between a person's beliefs and behaviors
You are meeting with a new member of the health club who has scheduled an initial fitness
consultation. This member indicates that he has been active on an inconsistent basis for the past 5
weeks and would like to begin a structures exercise program to improve his cardiorespiratory fitness and
to lose some weight. Based on this information, you conclude that he is in which stage of the
transtheoretical model? - ✔✔-Preparation
A friend indicated that she would like to begin an exercise program, but at the same time she enjoys
spending her limited free time in sedentary activities. She recognizes the benefits of being active, but
also perceives an equal number of disadvantages and sacrifices she would have to make in order to
become active. Based on this information what is this individual's current stage of behavioral change in
the transtheoretical model? - ✔✔-contemplation
Which of the following goal statements is an example of SMART action oriented goal? - ✔✔-I will
complete a minimum of two full body resistance training sessions each week
Which of the following is an example of an intrinsic source of motivation? - ✔✔-Feelings of satisfaction
and accomplishment after running a marathon
You have just started working with a 52 year old male client. When asked what prompted him to begin
an exercise program, your client indicates that a close friend of his had recently suffered a heart attach.
The client is overweight and has high BP. He is worried that he too may be at risk for a heart attach if he
foes not start taking better care of himself by exercising regularly and improving his diet. Which of the
following theoretical models of behavioral change may best explain this scenario? - ✔✔-Health Belief
Model
Which of the following is most likely to increase a clients self efficacy related to exercise - ✔✔-Sharing
success stories of other individuals who have achieved fitness goals similar to the clients
Motivational interviewing - ✔✔-a collaborative, person-centered form of guiding to elicit and strengthen
motivation for change
4 elements in spirit of motivational interviewing - ✔✔-Partnership
Acceptance
Compassion
Evocation
4 processes of motivational interviewin
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