I’m studying for my NSCA CPT using Essentials for Personal Training 2nd edition. So far I’ve been reading each chapter and creating flashcards using flashcard software. I’ve been ending up with 100-200 flashcards per chapter so far.
I was wondering if anyone that’s taken the NSCA CPT exam could give me some pointers about what’s on the test from that chapter. I’ve made flashcards on just about every sentence from the book up to chapter 4, but some of them are kind of retarded and impractical. For instance some of the equations. These are things that seem like they’d be next to impossible to use unless in a laboratory setting. I’m talking about equations to find angular momentum, angular velocity, linear momentum, linear velocity, gravitational potential energy. Stuff like that.
I also made flashcards on some of the kineisiology stuff in chapter four. Like what flexes the hip, what abducts the soulder and so on. The large muscle groups are easy for those, but when it comes to minutia like pectineus, sartorious, illiacus, adductor magnus superior fibers. Will I be questioned about specific synergists for joint actions in the exam?
I know I’m being a lazy piece of shit trying to get out of this stuff. I just want to make sure there’s a point and I’m not wasting my time on something when the time could be better used studying something else from the book.
There were zero questions on the pure physics parts in the exam I took.
The questions regarding the minor synergists were less than 5 for sure.
As a reference point as to the difficulty of the cpt exam, i can tell you that i did zero studying for the exam and my only source of information was about 1 year worth of reading and re-reading T-Nation especially Mike Robertsons articles on postural imbalances/correction and CT’s nutrition and training for newbs articles.
I scored a 87 when i took it with just that knowledge 4 years ago.
[quote]TooHuman wrote:
There were zero questions on the pure physics parts in the exam I took.
The questions regarding the minor synergists were less than 5 for sure.
As a reference point as to the difficulty of the cpt exam, i can tell you that i did zero studying for the exam and my only source of information was about 1 year worth of reading and re-reading T-Nation especially Mike Robertsons articles on postural imbalances/correction and CT’s nutrition and training for newbs articles.
I scored a 87 when i took it with just that knowledge 4 years ago.[/quote]
Alright. I might not read as much or as thoroughly through different topics as you when I read tnation. I don’t know if they revamped it or not. I haven’t looked at the practice tests that came with the study package I got. I wanted to try and read the whole book to get the most out of the practice tests. I was disappointed after reading through the index and finding that there was nothing on muscle and flexibility imbalances in the NSCA’s study book. The NSCA must think that job belongs solely to PT’s or something.
[quote]darkhorse1-1 wrote:
I’m studying for my NSCA CPT using Essentials for Personal Training 2nd edition. So far I’ve been reading each chapter and creating flashcards using flashcard software. I’ve been ending up with 100-200 flashcards per chapter so far.
I was wondering if anyone that’s taken the NSCA CPT exam could give me some pointers about what’s on the test from that chapter. I’ve made flashcards on just about every sentence from the book up to chapter 4, but some of them are kind of retarded and impractical. For instance some of the equations. These are things that seem like they’d be next to impossible to use unless in a laboratory setting. I’m talking about equations to find angular momentum, angular velocity, linear momentum, linear velocity, gravitational potential energy. Stuff like that.
I also made flashcards on some of the kineisiology stuff in chapter four. Like what flexes the hip, what abducts the soulder and so on. The large muscle groups are easy for those, but when it comes to minutia like pectineus, sartorious, illiacus, adductor magnus superior fibers. Will I be questioned about specific synergists for joint actions in the exam?
I know I’m being a lazy piece of shit trying to get out of this stuff. I just want to make sure there’s a point and I’m not wasting my time on something when the time could be better used studying something else from the book.[/quote]
I don’t know what specifically is on the test, but I am sure you can order past versions of the test that should give you an idea. That being said, your thoughts on the physics stuff not being unusable outside of a lab are inaccurate. Anything like the cpt or CSCS exam would only require knowledge of the most basic forms of those equations, which are useless in a lab for the simple fact that they are wrong, but for the purposes of personal training and almost anything other then physics research and some engineering disciplines they are good enough. All the variables needed to solve the forms of these equations that most people are exposed to are easily measurable in a gym environment and can be used to find the work and/or energy transferred during exercise, which some people find useful.