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.

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

This article presents a contemporary, evidence-based, and practical framework that reduces the many strength and speed-strength metrics into five distinct qualities.

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.

The power position is an integral position for a variety of power lifting movements. Athletes can develop their power position via an integrated approach involving sound exercise selection and purposeful instruction leading to enhanced strength and technique.

This article presents two football-specific speed drills in detail—the single-leg box explosion and the mountain climber.

Stephanie Mock, Assistant Athletic Director for Sports Performance at the University of Pittsburgh, talks to the NSCA Coaching and Sport Science Program Manager, Eric McMahon, about growing a comprehensive sports performance program. Topics under discussion include tips for interviews, graduate assistantships, staff development, and the ongoing collaboration with academics to advance sport science initiatives at University of Pittsburgh. Find Stephanie on Instagram: @_mockstephanie_ or @pitt_sportsperformance | Find Eric on Instagram: @ericmcmahoncscs or Twitter: @ericmcmahoncscs

The movement pattern utilized when flipping a tire is similar to the movements required during firefighting. Learn not only how to flip a tire, but how to assess functional power output among firefighters through the use of tire flipping.