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Powerlifting Training for Sports
May 7, 2018by Matt R. Wenning, MS
"Absolute strength affects speed and athleticism," according to world record powerlifter Matt Wenning. "You get strong to get faster." In this lecture from the NSCA's 2015 Coaches Conference, Matt discusses using powerlifting as a training method with athletes. Matt debunks myths and explains how training athletes to get stronger and more powerful benefits everyone, no matter the sport.
Coaches Exercise Technique Program design
Intensity or Resistance
September 17, 2018by Strength Training Second Edition
The loading intensity a person chooses depends on his or her goals and training status (i.e., whether the person is a trained athlete or a sedentary individual). Ultimately, the number of repetitions you can perform at a given intensity or load determines the effects of training on strength develop.
Personal trainers TSAC Facilitators Coaches Exercise Technique Program design
Understanding and Managing Stress in Collegiate Athletics
June 20, 2018by Jonathan Lynch, MS, CSCS,*D
It is important for strength and conditioning coaches, sport coaches, athletic trainers, and administrators to recognize and address the evidence of stress within student-athletes in order to avoid chronic stress-related anxiety and injury.
Coaches Exercise Science
Creative Coaching Practices to Enhance Athletic Performance
July 15, 2019by Brian Gearity, PhD, ATC, CSCS,*D, FNSCA and Clayton Kuklick, MA, PhD
This NSCA Coach article describes how to manipulate movements, lifts, and rest periods in a way that controls time, space, and flow efficiently to creatively enhance athletic performance.
Personal trainers Coaches Exercise Science Program design Organization and Administration
Concurrent Training in Prepubescent Children
May 24, 2018by Yann Le Meur, PhD
The results of this study suggest that concurrent training in two different sessions seems to be an effective and useful method for training-induced explosive strength and VO2max in prepubescent children.
Coaches Exercise Science
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
NSCA’s Coaching Podcast, Episode 31: Liane Blyn
Liane Blyn, Director of Olympic Sports at Appalachian State University and world record holding powerlifter, talks to the NSCA Head Strength and Conditioning Coach, Scott Caulfield, about what she tries to impart to interns to prepare them for the field, how being a Certified Athletic Trainer (ATC) has benefitted her as a strength coach, and advice for up-and-coming strength and conditioning coaches.
Coaches Professional Development
Advanced Understanding of Olympic-Style Weightlifting for Sport
September 24, 2018by Antonio Squillante, CSCS,*D, NSCA-CPT,*D
Some of the major misconceptions concerning Olympic-style weightlifting for sport are addressed in this article, providing evidence-based recommendations to better implement the snatch, clean and jerk, and their derivatives in the training of high school and collegiate athletes.
Coaches Program design
Foundational Movements for the Tactical Athlete
May 9, 2018by Ryan Massimo, CSCS,*D, TSAC-F,*D, USAW
In this session from the NSCA’s 2016 TSAC Annual Training, Ryan Massimo demonstrates foundational movement techniques that engage the body as a single coordinated system, complement the movements the body performs on the job and in life, and help to build optimal and usable strength, power, mobility, and durability.
TSAC Facilitators Exercise Technique Program design
Advanced Programming Methods in the Transfer of Training for the Tactical Athlete
April 4, 2020by Calvin Dietz, MEd, CSCS
Cal Dietz, Head Olympic Strength and Conditioning Coach for the University of Minnesota, explains how training is a process that takes time. He shares his insight into the most applicable adaptation and the most effective applications for tactical performance at the 2019 NSCA Tactical Annual Training.
TSAC Facilitators Exercise Science Exercise Technique Program design
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