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Anaerobic and Muscle Endurance Development
May 23, 2018by Developing Endurance
This article provides essential guidelines for athletes beginning a strength and conditioning program that ensures safety and productivity of the training sessions.
Coaches Exercise Technique
Integrating Plyometric Training for High School Soccer Athletes – Part 2
June 7, 2021by Rui Liu, CSCS, Brian Gearity, PhD, ATC, CSCS,*D, FNSCA, and Clayton Kuklick, MA, PhD, CSCS
In the second of this two part series, this article will discuss program design with an emphasis on integrating lower limb plyometric training into soccer training to enhance power actions, as well as, consider high school athletes’ biological characteristics and long-term athletic development (LTAD).
Coaches Exercise Technique Program design
Applying Components of Achievement Goal Theory for Strength and Conditioning Coaches
June 11, 2018by Andrew D. Gillham, PhD, CSCS,*D, CC-AASP,
A vast majority of athletes you coach will not become professional athletes, but the major components of Achievement Goal Theory (AGT) carryover outside of sport into any achievement-based setting. It can be argued that coaches helping athletes adopt a more productive set of achievement orientations is the single greatest contribution that coaches can make to the athletes’ lives.
Coaches Exercise Science Program design
Post-Rehabilitation Programming—Lateral Ankle Sprains
January 22, 2019by Cameron Yuen, CSCS
Ankle sprains are an extremely common injury of both sports and everyday life. In the post-rehabilitation setting, it is important to first identify and then address deficits in ankle, hip, and knee range of motion and strength.
Personal trainers TSAC Facilitators Coaches Program design Basic Pathophysiology and Science of Health Status or Condition, Disorder, or Disease
Upper Body Power in Mixed Martial Arts
June 21, 2023by Marc Tangeman, CSCS, Andrew Shim, EdD, CSCS,*D, and Ian Bonder, MS,CSCS
The purpose of this article is to justify the importance and advantage to properly incorporate upper body power (UBP) training in Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) athletes.
Coaches Program design Testing and Evaluation
Two-Arm Kettlebell Swing
May 18, 2018by Exercise Technique Manual for Resistance Training, 3rd Edition With Online Video
Read a step-by-step description of how to perform the two-arm kettlebell swing, in this exclusive excerpt from the book Exercise Technique Manual for Resistance Training-3rd Edition With Online Video, published by Human Kinetics.
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
Training the Older Adult
May 16, 2021by Hayley Legg, MS, CSCS
Hayley Legg, the NSCA Provincial Director for Saskatoon and senior lecturer at St. Mary’s University in London, presents on training the older adult. This includes considerations during the aging process, training implications across the spectrum, and the role of the strength and conditioning practitioner.
Personal trainers Coaches Exercise Science Program design Client Consultation|Assessment Basic Pathophysiology and Science of Health Status or Condition, Disorder, or Disease
Ice Hockey
July 11, 2022by Developing Agility and Quickness
This excerpt from Developing Agility and Quickness highlights the high-intensity, reactive agility hockey players require, and provides two agility drills that challenge that skill.
Coaches Program design
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