I teach this exam every semester — so you only have to take it once.

I'm Dr. Jacob Goodin. I earned my Ph.D. in Sport Physiology and Performance at East Tennessee State University, spent years as a strength and conditioning coach and sport scientist across high-school, collegiate, and NCAA Division I athletics, and today I teach this exact material as a Professor of Kinesiology at Point Loma Nazarene University, every semester, to students who go on to pass. They don't succeed because they're smarter than you. They succeed because someone shows them what to prioritize and how the exam actually thinks.

Along the way I've coached and consulted with organizations like USA Rugby and USA Cycling, collaborated with performance-technology companies like Hawkin Dynamics and VALD, and published with Human Kinetics. But the work I care about most is smaller and quieter: the moment a capable coach who'd convinced themselves they "just aren't good at tests" finally passes, because someone finally taught them right.

Why I built the Accelerator

It started by accident. During the pandemic, I began recording video lectures so my own students could keep learning from home, and I posted them on YouTube. I didn't expect what happened next: coaches around the world found them and started using them to prepare for the CSCS. The same message kept landing in my inbox: this is the first time it actually made sense. Is there more?

Eventually there were enough of those messages that I couldn't ignore them. So I set out to build the CSCS prep experience I always wished existed. Not another pile of flashcards, but a premium, genuinely-taught program that doesn't just get you past the exam, it makes you a sharper coach on the other side. That's the part I actually care about. Because every year I watched hardworking people fail the CSCS for the same avoidable reason, almost always the Practical/Applied section, after memorizing a mountain of facts for a test that rewards judgment, not recall. Self-paced products can't fix that; no one is there to check your reasoning. So I took the course my students take and ran it live, in a cohort, for anyone who wanted in.

My teaching philosophy

Study less, but study right. Subtract the low-yield noise, sequence the work by leverage, and rehearse the applied decisions until they're automatic. Prove you're ready on a mock before you pay $340 to find out for real. It's not magic. It's just good teaching, done live.