The CPSS rewards judgment on data. Here's how to train it.
Aligned to the 2026 CPSS Detailed Content Outline. Where the CSCS tests coaching judgment, the CPSS tests scientific judgment: reading research, interpreting monitoring data, and defending a decision. This guide is in development to map exactly that, so join the waitlist for first access.
Built to save you the months most people waste.
The 2026 DCO, decoded
The Detailed Content Outline in plain language: what each domain actually asks of a practicing sport scientist.
Research-review logic
How to dissect a study fast: design, validity, and the interpretation the exam counts as correct.
Case-study reasoning
A framework for the athlete scenarios, moving from data to a defensible performance decision.
Monitoring & analytics
Force plates, GPS, and readiness metrics: what they measure and how the exam expects you to use them.
The stats you must own
Reliability, validity, effect sizes, and the concepts that quietly underpin every question.
A staged study plan
A sequence that builds from foundations to applied case work. No cramming, no blind spots.
Every area, weighted the way the exam weights it.
Sport Science Theory and Process
~24% of the exam: the scientific method applied to athlete performance.
Interdisciplinary Needs Analysis
~25%: reading the sport, the athlete, and the constraints before acting.
Assessment and Monitoring
~29%, the largest domain: testing, monitoring, validity, and interpretation.
Data Management
~22%, new in 2026: data privacy, evaluating technology, and stakeholder communication.
- ✓CSCS holders leveling up into sport science roles.
- ✓Practitioners already working with athlete-monitoring data.
- ✓Grad students bridging research and applied practice.
- ✓Anyone who wants the CPSS mapped before committing months to it.
- ▸Aligned to the 2026 CPSS DCO (all 4 domains)
- ▸Research-review + case-study frameworks
- ▸Domain checklist for exam-day readiness
- ▸Join the waitlist, emailed the moment it's ready
Ready when you are.
A live CPSS Accelerator is in development: same live, expert-led model, built for the sport-science exam. Join the waitlist to shape it and get first access.