5. When exercising, you should
A. avoid wasting time with a warm-up.
B. work through any pain that you experience.
C. plan to take in extra protein.
D. plan to take in extra water.
6. How does regular exercise help to reduce the effects of mental stress?
A. Regular exercise gets you away from the home or office and away from stress.
B. Regular exercise gives you better mental discipline, so you’re better able to
ignore stress.
C. People who regularly exercise are happy people and are fun to be around.
D. Regular exercise has been shown to reduce the physical effects of stress.
7. What does a measure of your cardiorespiratory endurance tell a fitness professional?
A. Your aerobic fitness, or how efficiently your heart is working
B. What type of exercises you’ve been doing
C. Your anaerobic fitness, or how well your leg and arm muscles work
D. How long you can sustain a weightlifting program
8. Olympic athletes have lowered resting heart rates because
A. their lungs tend to be naturally larger.
B. they tend to eat low-fat diets.
C. they have a lot of muscle mass due to weightlifting.
D. they exercise regularly, which improves the efficiency of their heart.
9. Many fitness programs include weight training, which
A. helps to increase cardiorespiratory capacity and endurance.
B. can be used in place of aerobic exercise, when done regularly.
C. is a form of aerobic exercise involving the muscles.
D. helps to increase muscular strength and endurance.
10. Athletes warm up to ensure their joints are flexible. Flexible joints are
A. important so you can run faster or reach farther.
B. important to prevent athletic injury.
C. only a concern for cross-training athletes.
D. naturally occurring as you move further into your fitness program.
11. Which of the following is a good example of behavior modification for changing
snacking behavior?
A. I won’t purchase any extra food.
B. I won’t eat dessert so I can have snacks throughout the day.
C. When I want a snack, I’ll take a 20-minute walk, then reevaluate whether
or not I still want it.
D. When I want a snack, I’ll take only half of what I really wanted.
12. Why might fitness professionals want to have information for their clients on obtaining
adequate sleep?
A. Because it’s impossible to expect people to get enough sleep in this busy world
B. Because sleep requirements may interfere with exercise schedules
C. Because adequate sleep is as important to fitness as exercise and healthy eating
D. Because fitness professionals tend to suffer from inadequate sleep themselves
13. If a client is working on reducing stress, what should the fitness professional suggest
as a first step?
A. Identify the causes of stress.
B. Take a vacation away from the family.
C. Take a leave of absence from work.
D. Take a meditation class.
14. What is one of the most important rules to remember about healthy eating?
A. Eat only low-fat, low-salt foods while training.
B. Eat 10 or more servings of fruit or vegetables daily.
C. Eliminate snack foods and chocolate.
D. Eat a variety of foods, with moderation in everything.
15. Which of the following is a true statement about weight loss?
A. You can safely lose 10 pounds of fat in one week.
B. To lose weight, a person must take in fewer calories than that person uses.
C. Some foods absorb calories and thereby hasten weight loss.
D. It’s possible to lose 40 pounds of fat in one weekend of diet and exercise.
16. Should fitness professionals recommend the total elimination of fat from the diet?
A. Yes, because all fats can lead to various diseases.
B. No, but it’s recommended that fat intake be limited to 30 percent of daily
total calories.
C. No, as long as fats are unsaturated, the amount doesn’t need to be monitored.
D. Yes, because the modern diet is too high in fats.
17. When you go to the market, what can you use as a guide to learn the number of
calories in foods?
A. The packaging label
B. A government listing of all foods and their contents
C. The corporate dietitian
D. Frozen foods always have fewer calories than canned foods, so purchase frozen
whenever possible.
18. For a person to be considered physically fit, his or her body composition
A. should show an equal distribution of fat and muscle.
B. can have a high fat percentage, as long as it’s solid fat.
C. should show a low body fat percentage.
D. should be measured every two months.
19. How can you help to prevent muscle mass loss as you age?
A. Cut back on the amount of calories you eat during the day.
B. Maintain a regular exercise program.
C. Lift weights twice a week.
D. You can’t prevent muscle mass loss; it’s inevitable as you get older.
20. When a client wants to include whole-grain foods in his or her daily intake, a fitness
professional could suggest
A. fresh fruit and fruit juice.
B. low-fat dairy products.
C. fresh or frozen vegetables.
D. brown rice, oatmeal, and barley.