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Strengthening Student-Athletes’ Leadership Skills in the Weight Room
August 8, 2020by Whitney Moore, PhD, CSCS,*D and Valerie Smith, MS, CSCS
Dr. Whitney Moore and Val Smith from Wayne State University use this session, from the 2019 NSCA National Conference, to provide evidence-based motivational strategies and leadership behaviors, strength coach tested relationship-building strategies, and explain different levels of informal leadership training opportunities.
Coaches Professional Development
Bridge: Warm up complexes and progression to train for increased rate of force development, with Nick Savage
October 29, 2018by Nick Robert Savage, CSCS
Nick Savage, Director of Football Strength and Conditioning at the University of Florida, demonstrates warm-up complexes and Olympic-style lifting progressions to improve force development.
Coaches Exercise Technique Program design
Windows of Optimal Trainability
June 11, 2018by Ben Fletcher, MS, CSCS, FMS
The “five Ss” of trainability and performance are critical periods of development that all youth strength and conditioning coaches should consider when creating a training program. Coaches should take advantage of each window to maximize a youth athlete’s potential and help ensure a long athletic career.
Coaches Program design
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
Supporting Athlete’s Transitions: Coaching Strategies to Enhance Athlete Well-Being during Athletic Retirement
October 6, 2025by Terrie Bradshaw, CSCS, and Tom Cormier, CSCS,*D, CSPS,*D, NSCA-CPT,*D, USAW
This article in NSCA Coach examines whether athletic coaches, educators, and institutions are adequately prepared to support athletes through athletic retirement. Visit NSCA online to learn more on LTAD and coaching strategies.
Coaches Program design Organization and Administration Testing and Evaluation Client Consultation|Assessment Safety Professional Development
NSCA’s Coaching Podcast, Episode 19: Boyd Epley
Boyd Epley, founder of the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) and one of the most decorated strength coaches of all time, talks to the NSCA Head Strength and Conditioning Coach, Scott Caulfield, about how the NSCA was founded, how Coach Epley talked Nebraska into letting him weight train all football athletes (most of whom never lifted before), and growing the profession for female strength and conditioning coaches.
Coaches Professional Development
Integrating Motor Patterns into Exercise for Performance and Prevention
May 10, 2018by Barton Bishop, DPT, CSCS
In this session from the 2014 NSCA Personal Trainers Conference, Barton Bishop explains how to utilize the body’s natural way of learning movement. This will help athletes become more efficient at movement for improvements in exercise and athletic performance, and help in preventing future injuries.
Personal trainers Exercise Technique Program design
Programming Considerations for the Tactical Officer in Law Enforcement – Focusing on Fundamentals
October 29, 2018by Charles Kornhauser, TSAC-F
By examining a practical approach to programming fundamentals based on a needs analysis and training objectives relative to the program, a foundational plan can be laid that may lead not only to the appropriate progression of a given officer but also to the mutual satisfaction of the trainer and trainee alike.
TSAC Facilitators Program design
Creating a Strength and Conditioning Policies and Procedures Manual
August 21, 2020by Michael Caro, MS, CSCS,*D, RSCC
This article contains a non-exhaustive list of items that should be included in a strength and conditioning department policies and procedures manual.
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