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FAQs
What is sports training?
Sports Training is an unregulated category of fitness environment incorporating multidisciplinary professional and non-professional
settings and people.
Who works in sports training?
There is a broad range of professionals and non professionals involved in sports training.
athletic trainers, architects, attorneys, chiropractors, dieticians, gynocologists, individuals, internists, kinesiologists, nutritionists, physical therapists, strength conditioning
coaches, orthopedic surgeons, podiatrists, nurses, teachers, parents
team coaches, psychologists, orthotists, personal trainers bio mechanical engineers, massage therapists,
What does ASCM, CSCS and CSCC mean?
Certified Strength Conditioning Specialist
Certififed Strength Conditioning Coach
American College of Sports Medicine
Athletic Injury
An athletic injury is any injury sustained by an individual that affects an individuals
participation or performance in sports, games, recreation, exercise, or other activity that
requires physical strength, agility, flexibility, speed, stamina, or range of motion.
What is a personal trainer legally able to do?
Personal Training deals with the art and science of physical conditioning combined with healthful
behavior modification techniques that are preventive in nature, but not corrective, therapeutic, or rehabilitative.
There is focus on the use of passive, active, and resistive exercise to maintain and improve human function.
In addition, trainers can work with technologies that include:
Do I need a license?
All states have their own licensing acts. Some professions require licenses, such as Athletic Trainers in
most states. Personal trainers are not licensed, may not need to be licensed until state lawmakers create
the need for licensure for personal trainers. Therefore your individual state laws.
Check out this link
for more information about certificationUniversity of Toledo
A famous Athletic Trainer is Gene Monahan, for the Yankees baseball team
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