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Claims and Litigation
November 22, 2019by NSCA's Essentials of Personal Training, Second Edition
This article briefly discusses what personal trainers should know about claims and lawsuits.
Personal trainers Legal Issues
Practical Guidelines for Accurate Body Fat Measurements
November 14, 2022by Christian Rodriguez, CSCS and Guillermo Escalante, DSC, MBA, ATC, CSCS
This article seeks to explain monitoring body composition, including how to assess it properly for an accurate evaluation to minimize errors in body fat estimation and maximize physical training.
Personal trainers Program design Testing and Evaluation Client Consultation|Assessment
Soldier Musculoskeletal Injuries, Risk Factors, and Recommendations
August 5, 2019by Eric Gutierrez, CSCS
Soldiers must be physically prepared to meet a broad range of challenges. This article is designed to help identify risks and discuss recommended strategies to implement in order to minimize those injury risks at the company, commander, and soldier level.
TSAC Facilitators Program design Organization and Administration
Microdosing and the Tactical Athlete – Considerations and Opportunities for Time-Critical Performance
January 20, 2023by Daniel James Bunyan, CSCS, TSAC-F
This article explains the potential benefits of microdosing training with tactical athletes.
TSAC Facilitators Program design
Recovery Methods for the Tactical Athlete
May 7, 2018by Bryan Mann, PhD, CSCS, RSCC*D
Learn how to identify the risks to an athlete’s health and safety associated with overtraining, as well as how to help the athlete to return to normal when they have reached overtraining/fatigue. Bryan Mann, PhD, discusses recovery methods for the tactical athlete in this talk from the 2016 NSCA TSAC Annual Training.
TSAC Facilitators Exercise Science Program design Safety
Developing Fitness-Component Assessments for Military Units
A physical assessment continues to be one of the best ways to evaluate and measure physical preparedness and readiness of a military unit for job-related tasks and future missions. Tactical facilitators must consider multiple factors when developing testing protocols and programs, including leadership support, limited resources, and training cycle time constraints.
TSAC Facilitators Testing and Evaluation
Autonomy-Supportive Coaching: A New Perspective on Training Athletes
November 15, 2021by Adam Feit, PhD, CSCS,*D, RSCC
From the 2021 NSCA’s Coaches Conference, Adam Feit, Coordinator of Physical and Mental Performance at Springfield College, discusses the benefits of satisfying athletes’ and coaches’ basic psychological needs. He also explains how behaviors can help or hinder performance and how to create an autonomy-supportive training and coaching environment.
Coaches Professional Development
Dumbbell Training and the Competitive Athlete
August 7, 2023by Allen Hedrick, MA, CSCS,*D, FNSCA, RSCC*E
This article provides a first-hand account of the usage and benefits of dumbbell training programs with athletes.
Coaches Program design
Common Medications that Lifters Over 40 Take, and How they Affect Exercise and Nutrition
October 30, 2020by Igor Klibanov
This article aims to offer guidance on the effects of certain medications, as well as help personal trainers and their clients in the consultation process with qualified physicians and pharmacists.
Personal trainers Nutrition
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