NFPT Exam Guide (Latest 2026/2027 Update) Questions and Verified Answers| 100% Correct| Grade A

NFPT Exam Guide (Latest 2026/2027 Update) Questions and Verified Answers| 100% Correct| Grade A

NFPT Exam Guide (Latest 2026/2027

Update) Questions and Verified Answers|

100% Correct

Q: Why is it important to touch on all things spices related as a personal trainer?

Answer:

Think about it and perhaps write a blog post

Q: What are the three categories of motivating factors for positive behavior

Answer:

Predisposing factors, enabling factors and reinforcing factors

Q: Predisposing factors include

Answer:

Knowledge, attitude, believe, values and perceptions

Q: Enabling factors

Answer:

Skills, resources, physical and mental capabilities

Q: Reinforcing factors

Answer:

Praise from others comma rewards, encouragement and recognition

Q: Which factors does the personal trainer typically fall into

Answer:

Reinforcing factors. We can recognize how the other two factors promote or inhibit positive

behavior and we can work to reinforce positive behavior with forms of encouragement

Q: What are some things that can be added to life to invoke positive change?

Answer:

Taking time for Meaningful reflection, reading a book, being creative, socializing with friends

and family, adding a physical component and healthy eating to daily living

Q: What areas of exercise therapy would require a highly trained exercise physiologist or

physician to prescribe appropriate regimens

Answer:

Cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, joint injury, or obesity / metabolic disorders which

include diabetes and hypertension

Q: What is the purpose of muscles

Answer:

To produce Force, maintain posture, allow for movement and produces Heat

Q: All muscle action originates and is controlled by what?

Answer:

The brain which sends and receives signals through the nervous system

Q: What gets pulled during a muscle contraction?

Answer:

Tendons, the strong connective tissue that connects muscles to bones

Q: What are the two points of muscle

Answer:

Origin and insertion

Q: Define muscle origin

Answer:

The origin is considered the point at which the muscle joins the stationary bone at the end closest

to the center of the body

Q: Define muscle insertion

Answer:

Insertion is the point at which the muscle joints moving boat. When a muscle contracts the

insertion moves toward the origin

Q: How many muscles are in the average adult body

Answer:

656 muscles

Q: Muscles are joined together to form muscle groups to execute bodily movement. They can

get shorter and pull but they cannot push. True or false?

Answer:

True

Q: In muscle groups, when one group pulls the other group pulls back and as one team pulls the

other team relaxes. True or false?

Answer:

True

Q: What are the three muscle types?

Answer:

Skeletal, smooth and cardiac muscles

Q: What are the two subtypes of muscles?

Answer:

Involuntary and voluntary

Q: How many muscles are voluntary and how many bones do they control?

Answer:

430 of our muscles are voluntary controlling 206 bones

Q: Which type of muscles are voluntary?