Bridge the Gap Lecture: The Art of Integration – Periodizing Speed, Power, & Strength in the Training Process

In this practical session from the 2015 NSCA National Conference, Jimmy Radcliffe explains how to integrate strength and speed complexes and plyometric progressions into periodic progressions. Radcliffe is well-known for authoring “Functional Training for Athletes at all Levels” and “High-Powered Plyometrics.”

From the 2021 NSCA Coaches Conference, the University of Indiana, Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach, William Alli, provides his approach to the relationship between power and skill to help coaches understand the nuances in their athletes and how they can better communicate with them to achieve their performance goals.

Examine different measures of velocity that can be used in resistance training and understand how each measure may be more applicable to either strength or power exercises. In this session from the NSCA’s 2016 National Conference, Daniel Baker, President of the Australia Strength and Conditioning Association, explains how to use velocity data to monitor changes in strength or power, and how to use velocity scores for readiness/performance monitoring.

Developing Power brings an explosive take on the push-up and explains the technique behind the depth-drop push-up for upper body power development.

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This infographic shows the effects of sprint specific training, both forward and backward, and its relation to speed and power output.

Bridge the Gap Lecture: Programming Tactics for Speed/Power Athletes Training Toward the 2018 Games

Join Gray Cook in exploring traditional methods and physical development hacks that focus on the criteria that professionals should use to decide which is best in certain situations. This session from the NSCA’s 2016 National Conference also covers specific tests and exercises for hacking power and strength.

This article demonstrates how strength and conditioning coaches can coach power through non-traditional weightlifting exercises that can be taught quickly, to large groups, with less extensive technique correction.