Knowledge of metabolic rate can help athletes as well as health-conscious people improve their exercise performance or obtain the fat-to-lean-mass ratio optimal for their personal situations. Two examples of how this works follow.
To apply performance enhancement and injury prevention practices employed by today’s professional and collegiate athletics to the Army, a restructuring of training paradigms needs to be implemented across the force.
In this session from the 2018 Personal Trainers Conference, Douglas Sheppard, Owner of J & D Fitness Personal Training Studio, discusses how hiring quality staff is one of the biggest challenges in strength and conditioning. He also discusses how he discovered where to find a good coach and how to effectively develop them.
Personal trainersOrganization and AdministrationProfessional Development
In this session from the 2015 NSCA National Conference, Greg Myer discusses current concussion prevention strategies as well as possible innovative strategies of the future. By learning how nature may provide a key piece of information to reduce concussion injuries, the strength and conditioning professional may be able to help prevent sports related concussions.
CoachesExercise TechniqueProgram designSafetyBasic Pathophysiology and Science of Health Status or Condition, Disorder, or Disease
This video demonstrates techniques used for the four primary components of deceleration: dynamic balance, eccentric strength, power, and reactive strength.
This video bundle includes three videos from the NSCA’s 2017 Personal Training Business Clinic. The videos cover various aspects of marketing and growing a personal training business. CEUs available.
Personal trainersProgram designOrganization and AdministrationProfessional Development