Book excerpt: ***Includes Practice Test Questions*** AFAA Certified Personal Fitness Trainer Exam Secrets helps you ace the Aerobics and Fitness Association of America Certified Personal Fitness Trainer Exam, without weeks and months of endless studying. Our comprehensive AFAA Certified Personal Fitness Trainer Exam Secrets study guide is written by our exam experts, who painstakingly researched every topic and concept that you need to know to ace your test. Our original research reveals specific weaknesses that you can exploit to increase your exam score more than you've ever imagined. AFAA Certified Personal Fitness Trainer Exam Secrets includes: The 5 Secret Keys to AFAA Certified Personal Fitness Trainer Exam Success: Time is Your Greatest Enemy, Guessing is Not Guesswork, Practice Smarter, Not Harder, Prepare, Don't Procrastinate, Test Yourself; A comprehensive General Strategy review including: Make Predictions, Answer the Question, Benchmark, Valid Information, Avoid Fact Traps, Milk the Question, The Trap of Familiarity, Eliminate Answers, Tough Questions, Brainstorm, Read Carefully, Face Value, Prefixes, Hedge Phrases, Switchback Words, New Information, Time Management, Contextual Clues, Don't Panic, Pace Yourself, Answer Selection, Check Your Work, Beware of Directly Quoted Answers, Slang, Extreme Statements, Answer Choice Families; Comprehensive sections including: Wellness, Standard Fitness Assessment, Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire, Body Mass Index BMI, Cardiorespiratory Fitness, METS Method, Closed Kinetic Chain Exercises, Open Kinetic Chain Exercises, Isometric Resistance Training, Different Types of Training and Equipment, Proper Position of the Body, Overtraining, Detraining, and Retraining, Performance or Training Levels, Bench Press, Incline or Decline Press, CVD Cardiovascular Disease, Diabetes, Cancer, ATP, Anaerobic Systems for Making ATP, Main Muscles and Joint Actions, and much more...