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Speed and Agility Testing Process

May 22, 2018by Developing Agility and Quickness

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In order to ensure consistent and accurate results, coaches must take certain steps to ensure proper data collection. It is also important to establish sound protocols prior to testing.

Coaches Organization and Administration Testing and Evaluation

Central Concepts Related to Periodization

May 22, 2018by Essentials of Strength Training and Conditioning-4th Edition With Web Resource

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The ability to manage the adaptive response, handle accumulated fatigue, and capitalize on the aftereffects established from training is central to the training process.

Coaches Exercise Science Program design

Walking Your Way to Wellness – The Simple Path to Better Health

August 26, 2025by Josh McMillian, PhD, CSCS, RSCC*D

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This Personal Trainers Quarterly article promotes the benefits of walking to boost physical activity and improve overall health outcomes. Visit NSCA online to read more on health science and low-impact exercises.

Personal trainers Exercise Science Exercise Technique Program design Testing and Evaluation Client Consultation|Assessment Basic Pathophysiology and Science of Health Status or Condition, Disorder, or Disease Professional Development

Motor Control for the Snatch—an Integrative Approach

April 20, 2018by Derek Crawford, PhD and Nicholas Binder Drake, CSCS, NSCA-CPT, USAW

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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

Improving Attribution Patterns for Strength and Conditioning Contexts

June 17, 2018by Andrew D. Gillham, PhD, CSCS,*D, CC-AASP

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One challenge is to critically examine your own successes and failures to find a way to attribute the outcomes to something you can control and can change for the future. This could be as small as how you deal with a single person, or it could be a more in-depth examination of how you provide feedback to athletes and how you work with your own staff.

Coaches Exercise Science

Suggested Strategies for Developing and Retaining Fire Fitness Trainers

April 24, 2018by John R. Bennett, MS, CSCS,*D

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This article provides a list of items that affect the ability to develop and retain quality fire fitness trainers and provides possible solutions to common challenges for program managers that make decisions for a facility or agency.

TSAC Facilitators Exercise Technique Program design

Introduction to Dynamic Warm-Up

June 8, 2018by NSCA's Guide to Program Design

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Interest is growing in warm-up procedures that involve dynamic activities and sport-specific movements that maximize active ranges of motion at different movement-specific speeds while preparing the body for the demands of sport training and competition.

Coaches Exercise Science Exercise Technique

Games to Support Physical Literacy and Long-Term Athletic Development

April 21, 2018by Rick Howard, MEd, CSCS,*D, and NSCA High School Coaching

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Strength and conditioning coaches who systematically progress specific training variables, including games, can help youth improve performance and reduce the risk of injury.

Coaches Exercise Technique Program design

Home Training Methods: Improving Strength, Power and Hypertrophy Performance Attributes with Limited Equipment

May 28, 2021by Kevin Mullins Jr, CSCS

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This article, tailored to individuals who do not have access to traditional equipment, will explore the exercise methods that less-impacted populations utilize during the shutdowns, and examine how those training effects can benefit strength-, power-, and hypertrophy-minded athletes.

Personal trainers Program design

The Fighter Pilot – A 21st Century Tactical Athlete

November 15, 2021by Richard Evans, CSCS

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Between the physiological, cognitive, and tactical skill demands, this article explains why fighter pilots should be considered tactical athletes and have access to resources like a professional sport athlete.

TSAC Facilitators Exercise Science Program design
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