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A Sample Strength and Conditioning Program for Fire Academies
June 7, 2021by Manny Romero, CSCS, TSAC-F and Jim McDonald
This article serves as a guide for current and future strength and conditioning professionals who oversee program design for fire academy recruits. This includes a summarized needs analysis and a sample training program that considers the unique challenges of the fire academy.
TSAC Facilitators Program design
An Applied Five-Week Off-Season Strength and Conditioning Program for Collegiate Female Volleyball
October 22, 2018by Dr Michael Waller, PhD, CSCS, NSCA-CPT, FNSCA, and Hannah Macke
This article provides a narrative of the effects of a five-week strength and conditioning program on collegiate female volleyball athletes and shows the potential benefits that may occur in lower-body performance.
Coaches Program design
Sustain Your Brain: Protecting the Tactical Athletes Most Vital Asset
August 24, 2018by Nick Barringer
On a daily basis, tactical athletes take in their surrounding environments, make quick decisions, and put those decisions into actions. Their success begins with the brain, and like any other muscle, it needs to be fueled properly. Join Nick Barringer as he discusses fueling the brain, nutritional threats, and substances that can stave off cognitive decline and improve performance.
TSAC Facilitators Exercise Science Nutrition Program design
Evolving the Culture of Military Strength and Conditioning
May 8, 2018by Nate Palin, CSCS
Learn about the unique culture that comprises tactical performance, to include the unit-specific subcultures within it, and how to adopt both intuitive and research-based methods to more strategically impact military personnel. In this session from the NSCA’s 2016 TSAC Annual Training, Nate Palin explains effective and ineffective approaches to influencing the physical training within a tactical setting.
TSAC Facilitators Organization and Administration
Sport Performance and Metabolic Rate
May 18, 2018by NSCA's Guide to Tests and Assessments
Knowledge of metabolic rate can help athletes as well as health-conscious people improve their exercise performance or obtain the fat-to-lean-mass ratio optimal for their personal situations. Two examples of how this works follow.
Coaches Exercise Science Nutrition
Mental Wellness Is Part of Performance Model
May 4, 2026by NSCA
Mental health is changing across sports and human performance. See how strength and conditioning professionals can recognize, respond, refer, and use resources.
Exercise Science Program design Testing and Evaluation Safety Professional Development
Dietary Fat and Performance
May 22, 2018by NSCA’s Guide to Sport and Exercise Nutrition
Dietary fat has both long-term and short-term effects on an athlete and athletic performance. “Fat loading” as a strategy to improve athletic performance remains unproven.
Coaches Nutrition
Post-Injury Training to Essential Job Demands for Firefighters
April 25, 2022by Dr Michael Waller, PhD, CSCS, NSCA-CPT, FNSCA, Dustin Dunnick, PhD, CSCS, Andrew Shim, EdD, CSCS,*D, Tim Piper, EdD, CSCS,*D, and Robert Townsend, MS, CSCS,*D
This article explores a return to duty program for the tactical facilitator to implement with injured firefighters.
TSAC Facilitators Program design
Exploring the Positioning of Sport Science Programs within Intercollegiate Athletics
December 5, 2021by Dr William Hornsby III, PhD, CSCS,*D, Benjamin Gleason, PhD, CSCS,*D, RSCC, Kristen Dieffenbach, PhD, Clive Brewer, MS, CSCS, and Michael Stone, PhD, CSCS, FNSCA
The purpose of this article is to outline the three general formats in which sports science programs are implemented within intercollegiate athletic departments and to provide pros and cons of each situation.
Coaches Professional Development
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