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NASM BODYBUILDING EXAM
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What are the three mechanisms involved in exercise-induced muscle hypertrophy?
Select one: ✔✔a. Mechanical tension, muscle damage and metabolic stress
Bodybuilders tend to demonstrate weakness of which muscle group?
Select one: ✔✔c. Rotator cuff
A bodybuilder has tight (overactive) chest, hip flexors and calves and weak (underactive) rotator cuff, rhomboids and gluteals. Which statement is correct?
Select one: ✔✔b. The bodybuilder should stretch his chest, hip flexors and calves
Which of the following training systems involves the completion of a number of carefully- selected resistance exercises arranged sequentially, with a short recovery between the exercises (stations)?
Select one: ✔✔b. Circuit training
Which of the following statements is correct regarding the implementation of core training into a hypertrophy training program?
Select one: ✔✔b. Perform a low-volume of core exercises prior to resistance training
What muscles are intimately involved in the arm-curl exercise besides the biceps brachii to carry out the movement?
Select one: ✔✔a. Brachialis and brachioradialis
Ted begins a running regimen and subsequently over the next 30 days improves his cardiorespiratory endurance, but does not increase upper-body muscularity. His body's adaptation in this situation is best defined by which principle?
Select one: ✔✔c. Principle of specificity
Sally is a former bodybuilder who stopped training five years ago. Subsequently Sally has lost noticeable muscle size and body weight. Which principle explains the changes occurring to her physique?
Select one: ✔✔b. Principle of reversibility
Which phase of the Optimum Performance Training (OPT) model focuses on high levels of volume with modest rest periods to force cellular changes that result in an overall increase in muscle size?
Select one: ✔✔c. Hypertrophy Training
Which of the following forms of exercise has the greatest impact on muscle damage?
Select one: ✔✔c. Eccentric exercise
What is a function of satellite cells in the development of muscle hypertrophy?
Select one: ✔✔a. Donate nuclei to existing muscle fibers
Lactate has been shown to increase the acute release of various anabolic hormones including
Select one: ✔✔b. Testosterone and insulin-like growth factor
A marathon runner would be characterized as which somatotype?
Select one: ✔✔a. Ectomorph
Which of the following is an example of an eccentric muscle action?
Select one: ✔✔c. Lowering the weight during a resistance exercise
Which of the following statement is an example of a SMART Goal?
Select one: ✔✔d. "To prepare for my physique competition I will reduce my body fat by 5% in
12 weeks by exercising 60-minutes five days per week and eating 500 less calories per day."
Which of the following statements describe the upper crossed syndrome?
Select one: ✔✔d. Forward head, thoracic kyphosis and protracted shoulders
