GPTS EXAM Flashcards by Matt Coleman

What is the coaching style where decision-making is shared between the coach and participants?

Cooperative

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What is NOT a method of seeking and acquiring potential prospects?

Acquiring another fitness professional’s customer base

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An exercise that uses explosive movements such as bounding, hopping, and jumping to develop muscular power is what type of training?

Plyometric training

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Which programing set up occurs when the individuals perform all sets of an exercise or body part before moving on to the next exercise or body part?

Horizontal loading

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The acronym used to analyze all components of a program is called the _______analysis.

C.O.A.C.H

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When a group personal training program is written properly and exercises are cued effectively, the fitness professional will have the ability to

individualize a group program for each participant without compromising the group setting.

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What is NOT considered a web-based marketing tool?

Downloaded fliers

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Which type of rapport occurs when two parties are brought closer by a common association?

Rapport by chance

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Which is NOT considered a cue layer?

Instruction

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Coaching group personal training sessions requires communication through a combination of what strategies?

Visual, Verbal, and Kinesthetic

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What is the cue where the tone of the voice is more important than the content of the cue being delivered?

Motivation

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Within which directive communication style does the health and fitness professional sensitively replace or substitute a participant’s experiences, belief systems, or attitudes with the health and ﬁtness professional’s point of view?

Confronting

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What is the group personal training size that is often viewed as a boot-camp-style workout and requires high levels of team camaraderie?

Large group training

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According to the text, one common mistake fitness professionals make when starting a group personal training is

trying to help anyone and everyone who will sign up to their group personal training program. Correct

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Which group personal training format enables the trainer to conduct a hybrid training format?

Large group training

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Which type of assessments should be conducted to evaluate progress made by the client?

Follow-up assessments

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The objective behind core training is to

uniformly strengthen the deep and superficial muscles that stabilize, align, and move the trunk of the body

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A word or use of words in conversation to signal to the audience or receiver that the speaker has paused or is in the process of transition between thoughts is called a

filler

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How many minutes per week are group personal training participants recommended to exercise for significant weight loss and weight maintenance?

250

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Which of the following DOES NOT represent a compound, primary movement pattern?

Drinking a glass of water

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According to the text, approximately ___percent of adults in the United States suffer from hyper tension.

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Combining upper and lower extremity movement into compound movements, changing movement tempos, and reducing recovery intervals are examples of ways to

increase the exercise challenge for those with an older training age.

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A program designed to address how the body will adapt to specific demands that are placed on it is taking advantage of what?

Principle of Specificity

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What is the communication style that offers information and content that is generally factual and unbiased with a goal of enhancing one’s level of knowledge and understanding?

Informative Communication Style

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What is the group personal training size that is less likely to be restricted to an array of exercise modalities?

Semi-private group training

When differentiating your product and services, it is important to differentiate your offerings from being a ________status to separate your business from your competition.

commodity

When a participant performs a squat, the “bottom” is considered to be when what happens?

Before any pain associated with the movement and/or instability occurs

Which of the following would be considered a non-correctible factor for posture?

Scoliosis

According to a Nielsen study (2011), what percentage of consumers surveyed indicated they trusted testimonials from strangers?

70%

What is NOT a general benefit that club owners experience from group personal training?

Employment increases

A call-to-action marketing strategy prompts a prospected customer to

click, download, and/or request further information.

Sending greeting cards, surveys, and holding appreciation events for your group personal training participants are strategies used to help facilitate

participation retention

A PAR-Q is an example of what type of information?

General health and readiness for physical activity

When making postural observation, how should the knees align over feet within the kinetic chain?

Aligned directly over the 2nd and 3rd toe.

What is the communication style that involves information or instruction to explain and demonstrate exercises while providing corrective feedback on exercise technique?

Directive Communication Style

__________ occur shortly after the start of performing and exercise.

Acute changes

According to the text, these spaces are often smaller, limiting the space for exercise area and often have limited numbers of available cardio equipment.

Health clubs

What is the interdependent relationship each joint has on the rest of the body called?

Kinetic Chain

Examples of offline promotional strategies include the use of

business card, printed fliers, mailers, and posters.

A mid-level program provides the group personal training professional the ability to connect with

ultra-responsive participants

A common example of a muscle imbalance and/or postural deviations where there is tightness in the hip flexors, latissimus dorsi, and lower back, coupled with lengthening and weakening of the abdominals, gluteus maximus, and gluteus medius is called what?

Lower Cross Syndrome

The offering of a complementary group training session or fitness assessment is often categorized as what type of program?

Entry-level program

The objective behind resistance training is to

involve appropriate strengthening exercises to acquire muscular endurance, strength, power, and body composition changes.

Within which branding stage does the group personal trainer begin to experience the need for additional support staff due to increasing product or service demand?

Master Specialist

What style of coaching can be utilized with new exercisers to create more positive experiences, but must be weighed against knowledge, experience, and self-efficacy for those who feel less conﬁdent about providing input?

Democratic Cooperative

What is the spatial arrangement in a group personal training session where participants align in a ring while facing inward or outward at the fitness professional?

Circular formation

This self-evaluation tool helps the group personal trainer assess their internal and external environments to help them understand their position in the industry.

SWOT analysis

Having a participant perform an exercise versus telling them how to do it helps facilitate what type of learning?

Kinesthetic

What common muscle imbalance and postural deviation is a result of aging and loss of thoracic extension or extended periods of time spend sitting hunched over at a computer?

Upper Cross Syndrome

When a participant performs jumps, the participant should land

on mid-foot and softly, allowing the legs and hips to absorb the participant’s body weight

What is the group of muscles that comprise of the back portion of the body?

Posterior chain

Various benefits for a fitness professional looking to provide group personal training include

retention benefits, consumer reach, income opportunities, and scheduling efficiency

What is a basic upper-extremity movement in which the participant performs the movement using motions such those used while bench pressing?

Push patterns

When coaching group personal training participants, what are the four main types of body language used to communicate messages to clients?

Eye contact, facial expressions, hand gestures, and posture

Which cue encourages the participant to continue their current course of action?

Motivational cues

Which phase of the NASM OPT model would be considered an ideal phase for four college track and field athletes wanting to enhance speed and power?

Phase 5

Which of the following represents an effective progression a fitness professional should during the stabilization endurance phase of training?

Increase balance challenge

The objective behind plyometric training is to

use explosive movements such as bounding, hopping, and jumping to develop muscular power.

What screening tool is used by participants and trainers to determine their safety or risk involved when exercising?

PAR-Q

Which type of stations would be best for a group personal training session that has limited supply to the same type of exercise equipment?

Individual stations

Approximately how many square feet per participant is required to hold a group personal training session?

What type of group training program is conducted outdoors, offered once or several times a week, and is often themed to the type of participant targeted?

Boot camps

The energy system used by the body that would be used during a slow jog on a treadmill is the

Oxidative Phosphorylation System.

According to the text, the concept of group personal training is to

provide training services to more than one individual at a time.

When marketing an entry level group personal training program, effective methods to attracting large prospect numbers include

creating a video series, publication, and/or a free informational product that addresses the target audience’s problem in exchange for the emails of potential prospects.

The goal of the Power Level, within the OPT model is to

help the participant develop the speed of movement.

Using creativity in a park, the group personal trainer could suggest using what to mimic an unstable training modality?

Sand volleyball pit

Which of the following assessments allows participants to set performance based goals that align with current fitness levels and enables the group personal trainer the ability to easily track the participant’s progress?

Fitness Based Assessments

Which group training program would be most appropriate for participants looking for workouts that specialize in high work-rate resistance activities?

METCON

When a participant performs a push-up, a concentric movement happens when

the participant maintains proper alignment and then pushes themselves up to the starting position.

The learning style that has the learner activity participate or carryout the task that is being presented

Kinesthetic learning

During exercise, blood pressure is likely to increase because there is a greater vascular resistance due to

Vasoconstriction

Which of the following relationships through the kinetic chain is considered correct?

stable, lumbar spine

Which of the following would NOT represent an increase to the exercise challenge for a participant seeking a greater challenge now that he has mastered the baseline exercise?

Increasing base of support

What part of the S.W.O.T analysis identifies the practices you do well?

Strengths

A program designed to provide training stimulus that exceeds the current capabilities of the kinetic chain to elicit the optimal physical adaptations is taking advantage of what?

Principle of Overload

What type of group training program targets participants with the same goal and is often seasonal?

Sport/team specific

Which marketing strategy is generally considered the most cost-effective and powerful method for spreading your message and the one that offers the greatest capacity to touch large numbers?

Social media

When beginning to prospect for group personal training products, the first _______ of employment, much of the fitness professional’s time should consist of seeking out and acquiring new clients.

90 days

Phase One of the NASM OPT model primarily focuses on improving

joint and core stability

Alignment of the musculoskeletal system during standing is BEST defined as an example of

static posture

Which of the following is an assessment designed to assess dynamic flexibility, core strength, balance, and overall neuro-muscular control?

Overhead squat assessment

Within which branding stage are the participants willing to pay a premium for a specialization due to the perception of increased value?

Specialist

What is the cue that is used to tell a participant where their body needs to be to effectively start a movement?

Stance

What are the contributing factors to selecting appropriate group personal training assessments?

a. Outcomes, goals, and time | c. Group size, goals, and outcomes

One common mistake fitness professionals make when starting their group personal training venture is

a. bringing on support staff, cutting into the profit margins too early. d. not adhering to the targeted consumer base, helping anyone and everyone

The condition of a reversible narrowing of the airways during exercise resulting in the increased effort to breathe is called

exercise-induced asthma.

Which type of marketing requires less effort than traditional sales and often sells the product or services without additional effort?

a. Print-based marketing | d. Attraction marketing

What is the spatial arrangement in a group personal training session where participants are aligned in a series facing the instructor?

Line formation

Which of the following is considered objective assessment information?

c. Biomedical assessments | d. General health and readiness for physical activity

What is NOT a benefit of deploying a sales funnel when marketing group personal training services and products?

Auto-generates new clients as they move throughout the funnel or pipeline

One challenge of managing an ever-growing group training group is forgoing highly beneficial exercises due to

What is the coaching style that is semi-directive in which the fitness professional is a responsive listener and solicits the input and ideas from the participations before making any decisions that affect the group personal training session?

a. Authoritarian b. Democratic Cooperative c. Totalitarian

When a participant performs a lunge, an eccentric movement happens when

b. the participant lowers themselves to the ground while having their knees remaining straight ahead. c. the participant pushes their leading leg through their heel in order to return to the starting position.

The nonverbal portion of demonstration techniques account for ____percent of coaching

a. 25 | c. 55

Which type of rapport involves a strategies approach of asking opened-ended questions and listening techniques?

a. Rapport by communication b. Rapport by design c. Rapport by chance

Large group training is often determined by

a. the combining of two or more smaller training groups. d. the needs and desires of the individuals, for whom the ﬁtness professional often creates a theme or identiﬁes generalized outcomes.

A client’s benefits for enrolling in a group personal training session are

a. social engagement, peer-to-peer accountability, and financial benefits.

Ultra-responsive participants will spend the majority of their money in

b. high level programs

Establishing a short-term goal should be obtainable within what time frame?

a. 2-3 weeks | d. 4-5 weeks