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Training Clients with Multiple Sclerosis – Evidence-Based Recommendations

July 10, 2022by Kristin Mendez, CSCS

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This article aims to help personal trainers understand the unique symptoms accompanying multiple sclerosis, how exercise recommendations change based on disease progression, and which techniques to best program for your client.

Personal trainers Program design Basic Pathophysiology and Science of Health Status or Condition, Disorder, or Disease

Muscle Activation and Strength Training

June 11, 2018by Strength Training, Second Edition

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Periodization of training is based on the principle that different loads (e.g., light, moderate, or heavy) or power requirements recruit different types and numbers of motor units. Recruitment order is important from a practical standpoint for several reasons.

Coaches Exercise Science

Introduction to Sport Psychology

June 20, 2018by Andy Gillham, PhD, CC-AASP, CSCS

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Similarities and overlaps exist between the realm of sport psychology and the profession of strength and conditioning coaching. This article provides a basic introduction to sport psychology and provides some guidance for preliminary directions; ideally, it will help strength and conditioning coaches find effective people and resources to help them in their coaching pursuits.

Coaches Exercise Science

Defining, Measuring, and Monitoring Resilience for the Tactical Professional: Part 1 – Allostatic Load Theory: Principles for the Tactical Professional at Home and on the Job

February 17, 2022by Colin Tomes, CSCS, TSAC-F, Ben Schram, TSAC-F, and Robin Orr, PhD, TSAC-F,*D

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This article defines and reviews the allostatic load theory in tactical personnel.

TSAC Facilitators Exercise Science Program design

Aerobic Endurance Training Strategies

June 15, 2018

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Various aspects of resistance training, such as specific exercises chosen, workout structure, resistance used, volume (repetitions and sets), rest intervals between sets, and training frequency, can be manipulated to mold the strength training program to best meet an endurance athlete’s goals.

Coaches Exercise Science

Intrinsic and Extrinsic Performance Motivation: Turning Athletes’ Attitudes from “Have to” into “Want to”

August 24, 2022by Jenna Werking, MS, CSCS, CSPS

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This article aims to share practical application strategies that strength and conditioning coaches can use in fostering a positive change in their athlete’s performance by understanding intrinsic and extrinsic performance motivation and how to adopt an autonomy-supportive coaching style.

Coaches Exercise Science Professional Development

Small Details for Big Gains: How to Conduct Sessions to Get the Most Out of Your Athletes

May 17, 2018by Caitlin Quinn, CSCS, RSCC

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In this lecture from the NSCA's 2016 Coaches Conference, Caitlin Quinn discusses how to implement simple techniques for creating a disciplined (yet enjoyable) team lifting environment. Quinn talks about how to hold athletes to a high standard of knowledge and movement accountability, how to teach simple physiology to achieve desirable technique, how to instill a level of ownership within each athlete, and how to place a large emphasis on an athlete's mental engagement throughout a lifting session.

Coaches Exercise Science Exercise Technique Organization and Administration

TSAC Research Review, TSAC Report 41

April 25, 2018by Rod Pope, PhD

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This article is the sixth 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 Technique Program design

Training for Pickleball

March 10, 2024by Allen Hedrick, MA, CSCS,*D, FNSCA

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The purpose of this article is to provide an example of a resistance training program for improving performance and reducing the possibility of injury for pickleball players.

Coaches Program design

Implementing Strength Training to Improve Ruck March Capacity

April 17, 2020by Shane Michael Jenne, CSCS, NSCA-CPT

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This article describes the various strength training processes that can be implemented to build a soldier’s ruck march capacity.

TSAC Facilitators Program design
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