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Practitioner Response Framework – How to REACT to Your Athletes
November 17, 2025by Isaiah Mews, MS, CSCS, TSAC-F, Taylor Puetz, MS, CSCS, and Richard Cleveland, PhD, LPC
This NSCA Coach article provides a framework for strength and conditioning professionals to support athletes in accessing appropriate mental health services. Visit NSCA online to read more on mental health and sport performance.
Coaches Program design Organization and Administration Testing and Evaluation Client Consultation|Assessment Safety Emergency Procedures Basic Pathophysiology and Science of Health Status or Condition, Disorder, or Disease Professional Development
Creating Power – Alternative Bilateral and Unilateral Triple Extension Exercises
November 29, 2020by Dr Lawrence Judge, PhD, CSCS,*D, NSCA-CPT, RSCC*E, FNSCA, Josh Wildeman, MA, CSCS, RSCC, William Hawkins, and Makenzie Schoeff
This article demonstrates how strength and conditioning coaches can coach power through non-traditional weightlifting exercises that can be taught quickly, to large groups, with less extensive technique correction.
Coaches Exercise Technique Program design
The Application of Systematic Goal Setting for Strength and Conditioning Coaches
June 17, 2018by Andrew D. Gillham, PhD, CSCS,*D
Research on the benefits of using goals to increase athletic performance has shown that performance generally increases for athletes that use goals consistently. Learn how to move beyond generalities and see how a systematic goal setting approach can be paired with training athletes.
Coaches Program design
Motor Control for the Snatch—an Integrative Approach
April 20, 2018by Derek Crawford, PhD and Nicholas Binder Drake, CSCS, NSCA-CPT, USAW
The snatch is one of the most technically demanding competitive movements. This article focuses on barbell trajectory (or bar path), motor control, and the height of the bar relative to the athlete’s body.
Coaches Exercise Science Exercise Technique Program design
TSAC Research Review, Issue 42
April 24, 2018by Rod Pope, PhD
This article is the seventh 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
Enhancing Athletic Performance – A Guide to Plyometric Training for High School Athletes
April 23, 2025by Josh McMillian, MS, CSCS, RSCC*D
This article provides high school strength and conditioning coaches with a comprehensive guide for implementing plyometric training for high school athletes effectively.
Coaches Exercise Technique Program design Testing and Evaluation Client Consultation|Assessment
Return to Play—Transitioning from Rehabilitation to Strength and Conditioning with the Football Athlete
February 25, 2019by Adrian Terrell Dixon, DPT, ATC, CSCS and Taylor Q Porter, MS, CSCS
Due to the high contact and intensity of football, injuries to the players are inevitable. Strength and conditioning coaches play a vital role in the athlete’s process of return to sport. This article is a detailed outline of the solutions that are involved with transitioning a football player from rehabilitation to strength and conditioning back to the field.
Coaches Program design Safety Basic Pathophysiology and Science of Health Status or Condition, Disorder, or Disease
Working Back From Sunday
August 24, 2018by Mark Uyeyama
Look at the end result and work back - not only in training your athletes, but in your career, says Mark Uyeyama, head strength and conditioning coach for the San Francisco 49ers. In this lecture from the NSCA's 2014 National Conference, Coach Uyeyama talks about his career trajectory and how he, as a coach, ultimately got to game day in professional football
Coaches Organization and Administration Professional Development
NSCA's Coaching Podcast Season One Episode 2
Matt Shaw, Director of Sports Performance at the University of Denver, talks to the NSCA Head Strength and Conditioning Coach, Scott Caulfield. Topics under discussion include transitioning between jobs, separating yourself as an intern, building strategic relationships, working between departments, and how strength and conditioning coaches should be evaluated
Coaches Professional Development
Military Research—Recent Insights and Implications
April 23, 2018by Brandon Stone, CSCS, RSCC
Recent advances in research and human performance programs (HPP) has made it possible to learn more about the tactical athlete while creating enhanced methodologies and implementation. This review draws on the past three years of research focusing on strength and conditioning within military communities, exploring the current themes of research and the implications of future studies.
TSAC Facilitators Exercise Technique Program design
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