CPSS Acute and Chronic Monitoring 5

Question 1

A basketball player's CMJ flight time drops 8% below their 4-week rolling average on game-day morning. According to best practice, what is the recommended response?

Accepted Answer

Flag to coaching staff, adjust warm-up, and monitor during pre-game activation

Answer

A meaningful CMJ decrement should trigger a communication with coaching staff, a modified warm-up strategy, and continued monitoring — not automatic exclusion without further context.

Question 2

Which of the following is the primary reason practitioners advocate for 'athlete-reported outcome measures' (AROMs) in daily monitoring?

Accepted Answer

AROMs capture subjective well-being domains that objective sensors cannot detect

Answer

AROMs such as wellness questionnaires capture psychological and perceptual domains (mood, stress, sleep quality) that cannot be directly measured by wearable sensors or blood markers.

Question 3

In the context of load monitoring periodization, what is the purpose of a 'deload' or recovery microcycle?

Accepted Answer

To reduce accumulated fatigue so fitness gains can be expressed

Answer

A deload microcycle reduces training load to allow fatigue dissipation, enabling the athlete to express the fitness adaptations built during prior loading phases.

Question 4

Which statistical approach is recommended to establish an individual athlete's 'meaningful change' threshold for HRV monitoring?

Accepted Answer

Coefficient of variation (CV) of the athlete's own baseline data

Answer

Using the individual athlete's own coefficient of variation (CV) to establish a meaningful change threshold accounts for their personal measurement variability and avoids applying population-level statistics to individual monitoring.

Question 5

Which of the following scenarios best illustrates the 'acute:chronic workload ratio spike' problem in a pre-season camp context?

Accepted Answer

An athlete returns from a 3-week off-season break and immediately completes high-volume sessions

Answer

Returning from a prolonged break reduces chronic load (fitness base), so immediately resuming high acute loads produces a dangerously elevated ACWR and increases injury risk.

CPSS - Certified Performance and Sport Scientist Practice Test

CPSS - Certified Performance and Sport Scientist Practice Test

CPSS Acute and Chronic Monitoring 5