Active Care Exam 2 Practice Test

Injury risk mainly comes from how training stress is managed over time. When the amount and intensity of work, plus how often you train, rise faster than the body's tissues can adapt and recover, microdamage accumulates and injuries occur. This is the essence of poor load management—not giving the body enough gradual progression, sufficient rest, or proper periodization to handle the demand. Training volume excess fits into this, as an insufficiently progressed or overly demanding program can overwhelm tissues, but it’s a specific example of the broader load-management issue. Sleep and genetics can influence risk, but they’re not the primary driver in most cases; sleep affects recovery and performance, and genetics can modulate susceptibility, yet the controllable factor that explains most injuries is how load is planned and recovered from.