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Enhancing Power and Performance in Volleyball Hitters
November 10, 2025by Emma McGee, and Jeffrey Hartman, PhD, CSCS, NSCA-CPT
This NSCA Coach article explores how combining strength and plyometric training can improve volleyball hitters’ vertical jump and power. Visit NSCA online to read more on athletic performance and sports science.
Coaches Exercise Science Exercise Technique Program design Organization and Administration Testing and Evaluation Professional Development
How to Utilize Contrast Training for Strength, Power, and Performance
January 3, 2021by Charley Gould
The purpose of this article is to provide an introduction to contrast training, including how it is defined, what variables are utilized, and examples of how to use it in training.
Personal trainers Program design
Revisiting the Vertical Jump: Managing the Relationship between Power and Skill
April 3, 2021by William Alli, CSCS
From the 2021 NSCA Coaches Conference, the University of Indiana, Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach, William Alli, provides his approach to the relationship between power and skill to help coaches understand the nuances in their athletes and how they can better communicate with them to achieve their performance goals.
Coaches Exercise Technique Program design
Push, Jump, Punch: A Developmental Approach to Teaching Athletes the Power Clean
May 10, 2018by Joe Kenn, MA, CSCS,*D, RSCC*E
Explore the developmental process of teaching an athlete how to perform a power clean. In this session from the 2015 NSCA National Conference, Joe Kenn demonstrates how to “slow cook” athletes to a fundamentally sound power clean through a process of implementing supplemental movements.
Coaches Exercise Technique Program design
Squat versus Hip Thrust: Effects on Performance
May 24, 2018by Yann Le Meur, PhD
Is the squat or hip thrust a better exercise for increasing jump and sprint performance? The results of this study support the force vector theory.
Personal trainers Coaches Exercise Science Exercise Technique
Plyometric Exercises
August 26, 2019by Developing Power: pp 121
This excerpt from Developing Power discusses implementing plyometric training in a program to develop lower body power.
Personal trainers TSAC Facilitators Coaches Program design
Assessing Power in Youth Populations
December 31, 2018by Developing Power
The administration and measurement of youth power development has become more available and familiar with the advances of technology. This excerpt introduces varieties of testing and administration practices to assess power in the youth population.
Personal trainers Coaches Program design Testing and Evaluation
Postactivation Potentiation: How does it work?
May 23, 2018by Yann Le Meur, PhD
Learn about how a potentiating stimulus can induce a postactivation potentiation (PAP) response in vertical jump, sprint, and upper-body performance, as well as the optimal structure of a strength-power potentiating complex.
Coaches Exercise Science
The French Contrast Method – Theory and Application
July 27, 2023by Michael Long, MS, Christopher Fee, CSCS, and Christopher Taber, PhD, CSCS
The purpose of this article is to discuss the theory behind the French Contrast Method (FCM), current evidence demonstrating its effectiveness, as well as proper implementation and execution for athletic populations.
Coaches Program design
Practical Assessments of Power for Law Enforcement Populations
September 17, 2018by Robert G. Lockie PhD, Matthew Robert Moreno, Karly Cesario
This article consists of five assessments that could be utilized by the tactical facilitator to measure upper- , lower- , and total-body power in law enforcement officers (LEOs). Although the focus of this article is LEOs, the assessments could also be used for other tactical populations.
TSAC Facilitators Testing and Evaluation
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