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Staying Relevant and Impactful with Youth Athletics
January 8, 2019by Vernon Griffith II, CSCS,*D, TSAC-F,*D
A strength and conditioning coach has the ultimate platform to communicate many lessons that can impact the life of youth athletes. In this 2018 Coaches Conference video, Vernon Griffith goes over how to impact youth athletes in more than just weightlifting, and how to be the coach that they need.
Coaches Organization and Administration Professional Development
OK Coach, So I Got My CSCS; Now What?
May 14, 2018by Mike Bugielski, MS, CSCS,*D, RSCC*D, Boyd Epley, MEd, CSCS,*D, RSCC*E, FNSCA, Bryan Mann, PhD, CSCS, RSCC*D, and David Szymanski, PhD, CSCS,*D, RSCC*E, FNSCA
OK Coach, So I Got My CSCS; Now What?
Coaches Professional Development
Monitoring Strategies and Their Impact on Performance and Recovery
May 8, 2018by Dave K. Hamilton
When working with athletes who play team sports, your main goal as a strength and conditioning coach is to ensure that your athletes arrive at a competitive peak in a predictable way, Dave Hamilton says. No matter the athlete's level - college or elite - training loads impact the ability to perform. As coaches, we need to remove the subjectivity and use monitoring tools that are effective.
Coaches Exercise Science Testing and Evaluation
Integrative Neuromuscular Training for Youth
April 21, 2018by Rick Howard, MEd, CSCS,*D, and NSCA High School Coaching
Coaches can help children and adolescents develop athletic ability by including motor skills training into sports practice and training. This approach is called integrative neuromuscular training.
Coaches Exercise Science Program design
Development of Phase Potentiation for Strength and Power Athletes
August 23, 2018by Brad H. DeWeese, EdD, MHS, CSCS,*D, NSCA-CPT,*D
Power and strength translate into force, the key behind any push athlete's success. In this lecture from the NSCA's 2015 Coaches Conference, USOC Coach Brad DeWeese discusses periodization and the need to develop phase potentiation for push athletes.
Coaches Exercise Science Program design
A Call to Serve
May 17, 2018by Jeff Connors, CSCS, RSCC*E
A Call to Serve
Coaches Professional Development
Purpose and Methods of the Hip Hinge and Squat in High School Strength and Conditioning—with Personal Perspective and Sample Program
April 20, 2018by Jarrius Spearman, MS, MPH, FMS, CSCS
The hip hinge and squat exercises, and their variations, are used in many strength and conditioning programs to develop athletes of many sports. The listed progressions are examples of practical implications used to develop athletes, but there may be additional practical and effective methods used by strength and conditioning coaches for similar purposes.
Coaches Exercise Technique Program design
A Strength Coach’s Approach to Athlete-Centered Nutrition Coaching
May 8, 2018by Adam Feit, CSCS,*D, RSCC
Learn how to design an effective nutrition coaching program for all types of athletes without supplements, support staff, or expensive training tables. In this session from the NSCA’s 2017 Coaches Conference, Adam Feit compares the awfulness- versus awesomeness-based nutrition coaching models.
Coaches Nutrition Program design
Methods for Screening and Preventing Common Injuries in Division I Basketball Players
June 11, 2018by Casey James Cathrall, MSEd, CSCS
By gathering information about potential risk factors associated with basketball injuries, strength and conditioning coaches can create individualized programs to help keep their basketball athletes healthy and performing at the best of their abilities.
Coaches Exercise Technique Program design
NSCA’s Coaching Podcast, Episode 64: Dave Forman
Dave Forman, Director of Strength and Conditioning at Virginia Military Institute, talks to the former NSCA Head Strength and Conditioning Coach, Scott Caulfield, about becoming a strength coach. Topics under discussion include communication with athletes, appreciating the growth as a coach over time, and creating lasting impressions and relationships with athletes.
Find Dave on Twitter: @VMIStrength
Coaches Professional Development
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