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Evolving the Culture of Military Strength and Conditioning
May 8, 2018by Nate Palin, CSCS
Learn about the unique culture that comprises tactical performance, to include the unit-specific subcultures within it, and how to adopt both intuitive and research-based methods to more strategically impact military personnel. In this session from the NSCA’s 2016 TSAC Annual Training, Nate Palin explains effective and ineffective approaches to influencing the physical training within a tactical setting.
TSAC Facilitators Organization and Administration
Concurrent Cognitive and Physical Fitness Training – Part Two
March 29, 2024by Gary Stebbing, PGDip, CSCS
This article builds upon a previous article on the potential benefits personal trainers can offer clients by combining both cognitive and physical training.
Personal trainers Exercise Science Program design 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
Lessons Learned – “The Training Process”
June 5, 2020by Bo Sandoval, MS, CSCS, RSCC*D
In this session from the NSCA Coaches Conference 2020, Bo Sandoval, Director of Strength and Conditioning for the UFC Performance Institute, discusses the processes in which they assess their athletes, provide individualized training programs to make weight or build performance, and the various ways they are collecting vital information and research pertaining to fighters.
Coaches Program design Testing and Evaluation
Deceleration Progressions from Squat-Lunge to Sprint
August 27, 2018by Loren Landow, CSCS,*D
Learn about Loren Landow’s philosophy-based system of multidirectional training and explore how to best integrate multidirectional training to straight-line speed performance through a full progression of bilateral and unilateral exercises. In this session from the NSCA’s 2017 National Conference, Landow addresses the factors that influence agility with special attention to the feet and hips
Coaches Exercise Technique Program design
Strength Training for the Older Client—A Blueprint for Program Design
June 20, 2018by Robert Linkul, MS, CSCS,*D, NSCA-CPT,*D
This article provides a blueprint and “mini-macrocycle” that will assist the personal trainer in creating a program design for older adults by offering organized templates, direction in selecting exercise components, and the creation of volume controls specific to the client’s needs.
Personal trainers Exercise Science Program design
Recruitment Through Training, Building the Perfect Team
December 3, 2019by Douglas Sheppard, NSCA-CPT,*D
In this session from the 2018 Personal Trainers Conference, Douglas Sheppard, Owner of J & D Fitness Personal Training Studio, discusses how hiring quality staff is one of the biggest challenges in strength and conditioning. He also discusses how he discovered where to find a good coach and how to effectively develop them.
Personal trainers Organization and Administration Professional Development
Bridge: The Inverted Row, with Kourtney Thomas
May 4, 2018by Kourtney Thomas, CSCS
Kourtney Thomas discusses the inverted row and how to implement it within a training program for clients with different ability levels
Personal trainers Coaches Exercise Technique Program design
Reducing the Risk of Injury
March 15, 2019by Rod Pope, PhD-
This article is an overview of several studies that look into the effects of intensity and volume in the training of combat soldiers and its relation to injury.
TSAC Facilitators Exercise Science Program design
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May 14, 2018 - May 13, 2025by Melody Schoenfeld, MS, CSCS
Isometrics for Strength and Power
Personal trainers
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