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Risk-Benefit Considerations for Deadlifting in Rehabilitating Low-Back Injuries
April 30, 2025by Alexander Weber, CSCS, and Michael Fanning, DC, DACBSP, CSCS
This article highlights the key benefits of deadlifts in exercise therapy, addressing the often-overlooked issue of low-back pain in strength and conditioning.
Coaches Exercise Science Exercise Technique Program design Organization and Administration Testing and Evaluation Client Consultation|Assessment Basic Pathophysiology and Science of Health Status or Condition, Disorder, or Disease
Blood Biomarkers of Overtraining Syndrome
September 4, 2025by Brandon Lee, MS, RD, CSSD
This Personal Training Quarterly article discusses blood biomarker monitoring as a vital tool in overtraining syndrome diagnostics and recovery. Visit NSCA online to read more on fitness news and exercise research.
Personal trainers Exercise Science Testing and Evaluation Client Consultation|Assessment Safety Emergency Procedures Basic Pathophysiology and Science of Health Status or Condition, Disorder, or Disease Professional Development
Bioenergetic Demands of American Football—Considerations for Developing a Preparatory Conditioning Program
May 6, 2019by Jace A. Derwin, CSCS, RSCC
This article is intended to provide an understanding of the demands of football from a bioenergetic perspective and provides a framework in which strength and conditioning professionals can design conditioning plans that focus on preparing athletes for competition.
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
Understanding Inter-Individual Responses to Exercise
December 14, 2020by Ronald Snarr, PhD, CSCS,*D, NSCA-CPT, Gina Hogan, Jordan Brown, and Maisie Davis
This article briefly describes how individuals can have the same training program, but have large fluctuations in the adaptation responses due to genetic and life style factors.
Personal trainers Exercise Science
Cross Education with the Post-Rehabilitation Process
December 19, 2020by Brianna Simmons, Jazmine Woods, and Ronald L. Snarr, PhD, CSCS,*D, NSCA-CPT
During the rehabilitation process, a client may need therapy outside of the personal trainer’s scope of practice. This article discusses safe and effective modalities that personal trainers can use with clients in the post-rehabilitation phase process.
Personal trainers Exercise Science Program design
Establishing a Physical Fitness Assessment and Training Program in a Large Metropolitan Law Enforcement Organization
June 7, 2021by Anthony Soika, MS, CSCS,*D, TSAC-F,*D, RSCC
This article is a personal perspective of creating and providing a fitness assessment and resistance training program from scratch to a large law enforcement organization.
TSAC Facilitators Program design Testing and Evaluation
Basketball Strength Training Abroad—from Personal Experience
June 11, 2018by William Burgos, MS, CSCS, RSCC
Traveling overseas to administer a strength and conditioning program can be an immensely beneficial experience for both the coach and the athlete. It can help build a strong rapport, which can ultimately build more trust and adherence to the training program.
Coaches Exercise Technique Program design
National Basketball Strength and Conditioning Association (NBSCA) Performance Summit 2019 – Chicago in Review
March 21, 2020by Stephen Bird, PhD, CSCS, RSCC*E, Thomas Huyghe, CSCS, and Ernest Delosangeles Jr, ATC, CSCS
This article provides a review of sessions presented at the 2019 National Basketball Strength and Conditioning Association (NBSCA) Performance Summit including strength and conditioning methods and coaching strategies, in-season strength programming, force plate assessment, injury prevention, and player monitoring.
Coaches Exercise Science Program design Testing and Evaluation Professional Development
Implementing Olympic-Style Weightlifting in Strength Training for Sport
August 26, 2019by Antonio Squillante, CSCS,*D, NSCA-CPT,*D, RSCC
This article considers some of the main differences between the training of Olympic weightlifters and the use of Olympic weightlifting exercises in strength training for sport.
Coaches Exercise Technique Program design
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