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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
TSAC Report 49 Research Review
October 1, 2018by Rod Pope, PhD
This article is the 12th in a continuing series of tactical strength and conditioning (TSAC) research reviews. It is designed to bring awareness to new research findings of relevance to tactical strength and conditioning communities.
TSAC Facilitators Exercise Science
Approaching Group Fitness Using a Classroom Framework – An Examination of Best Practices in a Collegiate Physical Education Activity Strength and Conditioning Course
August 29, 2023by Kevin Fisher, PhD, CSCS, TSAC-F, Dr Richard Ferkel, PhD, and Benjamin Rollenhagen
The purpose of this article is to describe the content and format of a collegiate introductory strength and conditioning course to induce behavioral changes in college students for lifelong physical activity and fitness.
Coaches Program design Professional Development
Stretch-Shortening Cycle
February 15, 2020by NSCA's Guide to Program Design
This article briefly reviews the importance of the stretch-shortening cycle in power production.
Personal trainers TSAC Facilitators Coaches Exercise Science Program design
Exercise Progressions for Resuming Strength Training Following Posterior-Chain Muscle Injury
June 11, 2025by Emidio E. Pistilli, PhD
NSCA Coach 11.4 shares how strength training of the posterior chain in athletes can reduce injury risk and aid rehabilitation. Visit us online to read more about exercise research.
Coaches Exercise Science Exercise Technique Program design Testing and Evaluation Client Consultation|Assessment
NSCA’s Coaching Podcast, Episode 12: Katie Fowler
Katie Fowler, from the University of South Carolina, talks to the NSCA Head Strength and Conditioning Coach, Scott Caulfield, about being part of a National Championship team/culture, successful intern qualities, being a female strength and conditioning coach in a male dominated profession, and the influence of data in strength and conditioning.
Coaches Professional Development
Biomechanical Analysis in Practice
May 21, 2018by NSCA's Guide to Program Design
This article outlines some very basic procedures for video analysis that strength and conditioning professionals can use to identify the physical demands of specific activities.
Coaches Exercise Science Program design
Integrating Plyometric Training for High School Soccer Athletes – Part 1
March 27, 2021by Rui Liu, CSCS, Brian Gearity, PhD, ATC, CSCS,*D, FNSCA, and Clayton Kuklick, MA, PhD, CSCS
In the first of a two part series, this article will briefly highlight the main components of a needs analysis and apply it to the context of soccer.
Coaches Program design
Developing Bilateral Symmetry for Basketball Players—Considerations for the Use of Rotational Suspension Bodyweight Training
April 21, 2018by Steve Hess MEd, MATS and Chris Camacho MA, CSCS
In order to develop athletes who can move optimally in multiple planes of motion, training should include elements that can challenge them in multiple planes while providing various resistance and proprioceptive challenges.
Coaches Exercise Technique Program design
Practical Applications and Future Directions of Electromyography use in Tactical Populations
November 23, 2020by Katherine Balfany, CSCS and Robert Lockie, PhD, TSAC-F
This article reviews electromyography (EMG) procedures as well as provides examples of how EMG data analysis has been used in tactical populations.
TSAC Facilitators Exercise Science Exercise Technique Program design Testing and Evaluation
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