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NSCA CPSS EXAM ACTUA L EXAM
200 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS WIT H
RATIONALES (VERIFIED
ANSWERS) |ALREADY GR ADED A+
Question 1: What is the Training Load model?
CORRECT ANSWER : Not explicitly defined in the
provided text, but implied as the framework managing volume and intensity to optimize performance and adaptation.
Question 2: What is Periodization?
CORRECT ANSWER : A macro-management strategy
that serves as a training blueprint, from which periods of time are assigned that target specific skills, fitness, or performance-related factors. Volume and intensity are inversely related. 1-3 peaks/macrocycles per year.
Question 3: What is the Parallel training model?
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CORRECT ANSWER : Not explicitly defined in the
provided text.
Question 4: What is the Sequential Training Model?
CORRECT ANSWER : Not explicitly defined in the
provided text.
Question 5: What is the difference between Periodization
and Programming?
CORRECT ANSWER : Periodization is a macro-
management strategy that serves as a training blueprint, while programming is an operation of strategic thinking best accomplished when ongoing monitoring is integrated into the periodization process.
Question 6: How is biological adaptation achieved?
CORRECT ANSWER : By disturbing the current
capacity of the system.
Question 7: What is supercompensation?
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CORRECT ANSWER : The effect whereby performance
is enhanced if the body is able/allowed to adapt.
Question 8: What syndrome is supercompensation related
to?
CORRECT ANSWER : General adaptation syndrome.
Question 9: What is general adaptation syndrome?
CORRECT ANSWER : The framework of interaction
between the imposed training stress, acute fatigue response, adaptation, and a new level of homeostasis/performance.
Question 10: How does overtraining syndrome develop?
CORRECT ANSWER : After continued high volume,
high intensity training or both when an athlete is over- reached.
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Question 11: Which training model is when performance
of a positive fitness effect and a negative fatigue effect decay exponentially over time but at different rates?
CORRECT ANSWER : Fitness-fatigue model.
Question 12: What is the dose-response relationship?
CORRECT ANSWER : Relationship between the size of
an administered dose and the intensity of the response produced.
Question 13: What qualifies as external load?
CORRECT ANSWER : Amount of weight lifted,
distance/speed of running, it's what an athlete has done.
Question 14: What is it called when an athlete has
responded to an external load?