Create a Safe Training Environment Within the Strength and Conditioning Facility

The Pop Quiz below contains 3 questions from the following knowledge area of the CSCS exam. Failure to correctly answer questions may suggest an area that needs further review.

Organization and Administration

D. Create a Safe Training Environment Within the Strength and Conditioning Facility

  1. Identify common litigation issues and ways to reduce or minimize the risk of liability within the facility
  2. Recognize symptoms relating to overuse, overtraining and temperature-induced illness
  3. Recognize when to refer an athlete to and/or seek input from allied health professionals (e.g., athletic trainer, physical therapist, physician, registered dietitian, sport psychologist

When answering the questions, please choose the “Best” answer.

1. What is the recommended coach to athlete ratio during peak usage time of a high school weight room?

 
 
 
 

2. The assistant strength and conditioning coach notices that a female gymnast is constantly weighing herself and seems to be pre-occupied with food. Which of the following steps should be taken?

 
 
 
 

3. Following an outdoor training session, a collegiate football player develops nausea, goose bumps, and ashen skin, these symptoms could be indicative of which of the following?