Free CCFT Practice Questions

Question 1

During a light deadlift, an athlete begins with a sound setup. Once the bar leaves the floor, the hips rise faster than the shoulders and the torso becomes more horizontal. The spine remains braced and the bar stays close to the shins. Which cue most directly addresses the error in the initial pull?

Accepted Answer

Bring your hips and chest up together until the bar passes your knees.

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Keep your shoulders behind the bar as you push from the floor.

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Straighten your knees first, then open your hips to finish the lift.

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Lower your hips farther before starting so your torso stays more upright.

Question 2

The class is doing Fran: 21-15-9 repetitions of 95-lb thrusters and chin-over-bar pull-ups, for time. Today's intended stimulus is 4-7 minutes of sustained work with brief breaks. In the warm-up, an athlete can repeatedly perform seven sound thrusters at 65 lb, but 95 lb requires near-maximal singles. The athlete has two strict pull-ups, cannot kip, and can perform challenging sets of ring rows. The most appropriate starting prescription is:

Accepted Answer

Use 65-lb thrusters and ring rows, adjusting the row angle to permit repeatable sets.

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Keep the 95-lb thrusters, substitute ring rows, and allow a longer completion time.

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Use 65-lb thrusters and strict pull-up singles, taking full recovery between the pull-ups.

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Drop the thrusters to 45 lb while retaining strict pull-ups to compensate for slower pulling.

Question 3

After holding an L-sit on parallettes with straight arms and the legs horizontal, an athlete asks, 'If fitness involves power, why train a position in which nothing moves?' Which explanation resolves the apparent contradiction?

Accepted Answer

A static hold develops force and positional control despite little external mechanical work.

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The effort of holding the position produces high external power even without displacement.

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The static phase develops power mainly by accumulating negative work against gravity.

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The hold primarily trains flexibility; meaningful strength work occurs when entering the position.

Question 4

An asymptomatic adult brings a laboratory report showing an A1c of 6.2%. A fasting glucose result from the same visit is within the laboratory's normal range. The athlete asks why the A1c was flagged when the fasting result was normal. How should the trainer explain this?

Accepted Answer

The A1c is in the prediabetes range and reflects longer-term glucose exposure; clinical follow-up is appropriate.

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The normal fasting result overrides the A1c, so the elevated flag does not warrant further discussion.

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The A1c is in the diabetes range, even though the fasting sample happened to be normal.

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The disagreement probably reflects the previous day's workout, so both tests should normalize after a rest day.

Question 5

A former competitive athlete returns after five months away and completes many slow lowering repetitions from a pull-up bar. The following day, both upper arms are markedly swollen and much more painful than expected, and ordinary lifting tasks are difficult. He reports normal-colored urine and assumes this rules out a serious problem. What advice is warranted?

Accepted Answer

Arrange immediate medical evaluation for possible rhabdomyolysis despite the normal-colored urine.

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Use rest and oral fluids, then review the symptoms tomorrow as expected post-exercise soreness.

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Arrange a routine physical-therapy visit to assess a likely strain once the initial swelling settles.

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Monitor urine color and seek urgent assessment if it darkens, since that distinguishes rhabdomyolysis from soreness.

Question 6

A coach reviews a push jerk performed with a light bar. The athlete completes hip and knee extension in the drive, then re-bends the knees as the feet land. At landing, the elbows are still bent; the athlete subsequently presses the bar to lockout and stands. The technical priority is to:

Accepted Answer

Lock the elbows as the feet land while retaining the second knee bend.

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Keep the knees straight after the drive and complete the lift with an uninterrupted arm press.

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Begin extending the elbows during the dip so the arms finish before the legs start driving.

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Deepen the initial dip to raise the bar higher before repeating the same receiving sequence.

Question 7

Twelve athletes must share six rowers. The lesson allows 13 minutes for each athlete to complete six intervals of 45 seconds of hard rowing followed by 75 seconds of recovery. Equipment setup is finished, and athletes need 15 seconds to change places safely. Which arrangement preserves the prescribed intervals and fits the available time?

Accepted Answer

Use six pairs; start partners one minute apart and have each athlete begin a new interval every two minutes.

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Use two six-person heats, completing all six work-rest cycles with the first heat before starting the second.

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Use two groups of six, alternating groups every 45 seconds so the next group starts when the previous effort ends.

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Use six pairs, alternating one-minute rows so each athlete rests while their partner completes the following minute.

Question 8

At 26 weeks of an uncomplicated pregnancy, an experienced athlete remains cleared by her obstetric clinician for modified resistance exercise. She reports no warning symptoms, but her abdomen now obstructs the bar path during hang power cleans. She demonstrates comfortable, controlled dumbbell cleans with the implements passing beside her body. Which modification fits these findings?

Accepted Answer

Use the demonstrated dumbbell variation at an appropriate load and effort, consistent with her clinician's guidance.

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Reduce the barbell load and continue bringing the bar close to the body through the obstructed portion of the pull.

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Widen the barbell grip and deliberately arc the bar forward around the abdomen to preserve the original exercise.

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Replace resistance training with walking for the remainder of pregnancy, even while current medical guidance permits modified lifting.

Question 9

A 13-year-old learning the medicine-ball clean can separately demonstrate a sound deadlift, a fast deadlift-shrug, and a front squat with a light ball. When combining the movement, she catches the ball standing upright, pauses, and then squats. To teach the missing element, the next drill should emphasize:

Accepted Answer

Pulling under the ball from a tall stance directly into the receiving squat.

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Repeating slow deadlifts with a pause below the knees to reinforce the ball's starting path.

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Shrugging the ball higher after hip extension so there is more time to catch it standing.

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Pausing at the chest, then performing a separate front squat.

Question 10

An athlete front-squats to full depth with a stable rack at 30 kg. After adequate rest, the elbows drop and the bar rolls forward at 70 kg. Returning to 30 kg restores the rack immediately, without a new cue or mobility intervention. Foot position and depth are unchanged, and there is no pain. These observations most strongly support which working explanation?

Accepted Answer

The heavier load exceeds the athlete's current capacity to maintain the front rack.

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A fixed restriction in wrist extension prevents the athlete from achieving a front rack.

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Insufficient ankle dorsiflexion prevents the athlete from reaching the required squat depth.

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The athlete does not understand that the shoulders, rather than the hands, should support the bar.

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