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A Narrative Review of Limb Dominance: Task Specificity and the Importance of Fitness Testing
July 14, 2021by Adam Virgile, CSCS
This infographic discusses unilateral limb dominance and how to evaluate it.
Coaches Testing and Evaluation
Real World Corrective Exercise
September 11, 2018by Mike Robertson
In this lecture from the NSCA's 2014 Coaches Conference, Mike Robertson talks about corrective exercise and its application. Invoking Gray Cook, Mike defines corrective exercise as "a holistic approach where an assessment is used to determine specific weaknesses and/or limitations of the athlete" - be it aerobic, strength, or agility.
Coaches Exercise Technique Program design
Deeper than The Data
September 10, 2018by Bryan Mann, PhD, CSCS,*D, TSAC-F*D, RSCC*D, FNSCA
Understand the relationships between different testing variables and what they mean. In this session from the NSCA’s 2017 Coaches Conference, Bryan Mann explains how to use various equations from research to garner deeper insights into commonly collected data.
Coaches Exercise Science Testing and Evaluation
Sport Performance and Metabolic Rate
May 18, 2018by NSCA's Guide to Tests and Assessments
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.
Coaches Exercise Science Nutrition
Using Lactate Threshold Data
March 4, 2022by NSCA's Guide to Tests and Assessments
This excerpt explains the role that lactate plays in exercise metabolism and how that information is useful for athletes to predict things like pacing, fitness, and efficacy of training programs.
Personal trainers TSAC Facilitators Coaches Exercise Science Program design Testing and Evaluation
Assessments and Measures—Interviews from Experts in Personal Training
April 8, 2018by Carmine R. Grieco, PhD, CSCS
While a basic fitness assessment will always be a part of a comprehensive client assessment, there is an array of more sophisticated tests and measures that are available to the personal trainer today.
Personal trainers Program design Testing and Evaluation
How to Integrate the Use of Data into Your Overall Performance Strategy
December 14, 2020by Brian Buck, CSCS, RSCC and Bryce Patterson, CSCS
From the 2020 NSCA Coaches Conference, Brian Buck, Director of Sports, and Bryce Patterson, Director of Education at Sparta Science, discuss how to understand data, create a repeatable and scalable system to address goals, and create a feedback loop to assess the effectiveness of a program.
Coaches Program design Testing and Evaluation
TSAC Report—Military Column—July 2024
November 29, 2024by Kathryn Bell, MS, CSCS, and Brian Schilling, PHD, CSCS
This article compares an equipment-heavy Army Combat Fitness Test to a minimal-equipment training program and test.
TSAC Facilitators Exercise Science Program design Organization and Administration Testing and Evaluation Safety Professional Development
Validity and Reliability of the Rear Foot Elevated Split Squat Five Repetition Maximum to Determine Unilateral Leg Strength Symmetry
October 21, 2019by Adam Virgile, CSCS
This infographic explains how utilizing the rear foot elevated split squat is a reliable method of testing unilateral leg strength and how it can measure athletes’ symmetry in producing vertical ground reactive forces.
Personal trainers TSAC Facilitators Coaches Testing and Evaluation
History of Fitness Testing in Tactical Occupations
June 8, 2018by NSCA's Essentials of Tactical Strength and Conditioning
Physical assessments have evolved as a result of developments in scientific research, equipment loads, operational environments, and doctrine.
TSAC Facilitators Testing and Evaluation
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