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Using Age-Specific Benchmarking of Performance Measures to Create Individual Strength and Conditioning Programs
May 8, 2018by Kevin Paxton, MS
Learn about processes of data collection and presentation, and how to use the data to individualize athletes’ training. In this session from the NSCA’s 2016 National Conference, Kevin Paxton demonstrates an age-specific long-term athletic development (LTAD) syllabus for soccer players.
Coaches Exercise Science Program design
Developing Successful Fitness Teams
July 17, 2021by Sam Rothschild, CSCS, NSCA-CPT
Do you have a successful fitness team? The concepts described in this article are used to develop teams with personal trainers who are happy and have bought into winning cultures.
Personal trainers Professional Development
Advanced Power Techniques
May 7, 2018by Duncan French, PhD, CSCS,*D, USAW
The expression of mechanical “muscle power” and the advanced training methodologies used to optimize it are explained by Duncan French in this session from the 2015 NSCA National Conference. By overviewing training strategies utilized with world-class athletes, this session links science with advanced training techniques designed to augment muscle power.
Coaches Exercise Science Exercise Technique Program design
Building a Strength and Conditioning Résumé
May 17, 2018by Ron Mckeefery
Building a Strength and Conditioning Résumé
Coaches Organization and Administration Professional Development
Simplifying Olympic Lifts: Competency Development for the Tactical Athlete
In this hands-on lecture from the NSCA's 2014 TSAC Conference, TSAC Program Manager Tyler Christiansen introduces the concept of not only teaching the Olympic lifts to tactical athletes, but simplifying them to encourage acceptance and competency.
TSAC Facilitators Exercise Technique Program design
Cluster Sets - Current Methods for Introducing Variations to Training Sets
May 9, 2018by G. Gregory Haff, PhD, CSCS,*D, FNSCA
Learn about cluster sets, and how they can be used in program design for optimal athletic development. Greg Haff, President of the NSCA, shares examples of various set structures in this session from the NSCA 2016 National Conference.
Coaches Program design
Becoming a Professional Strength and Conditioning Coach
May 16, 2018by Matthew C. Krause, MA, ATC, CSCS,*D, RSCC*D
Becoming a Professional Strength and Conditioning Coach
Coaches Professional Development
Firefighter Perceived Fitness: Implications for Injury Risk and Training Program Development
May 9, 2018by Katie Sell, PhD, CSCS,*D, TSAC-F
In this session from the 2015 NSCA TSAC Annual Training, Katie Sell discusses current research on how perceived fitness in firefighters may be related to injury prevalence (on-duty and in training) and provide recommendations on how tactical facilitators can decrease adverse repercussions of inaccurately perceived fitness levels (e.g., injury, overtraining, and job-related preparation).
TSAC Facilitators Program design Safety
NSCA’s Coaching Podcast, Season 6 Episode 7: Elton Crochran
Learn about middle school and high school strength and conditioning from 2022 NSCA Coaches Conference presenter Elton Crochran. Coach “Croc” shares his story about transitioning from collegiate strength and conditioning to his work as the Strength and Conditioning Coordinator at Randolph Field School District in San Antonio, TX. Crochran is currently the Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at Veterans Memorial High School. He talks about his hands-on coaching session from Coaches Conference, as well as developmental milestones across key stages of long-term athlete development.
Find “Coach Croc” on Instagram: @ecrock2 or Twitter: @TheCrocShow| Find Eric on Instagram: @ericmcmahoncscs or Twitter: @ericmcmahoncscs
Coaches Professional Development
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