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How to Launch a Successful Strength Coach Career
January 26, 2018by Allen R. Hedrick, MA, CSCS,*D, RSCC*E, FNSCA
Allen Hedrick provides a detailed introduction to launching a successful career as a strength and conditioning coach. If you're looking to become a strength coach, or are interested in learning more about this competitive yet fulfilling career, read this article. From obtaining the right degree(s) to providing appropriate references, Coach Hedrick's words provide insight into building a long-lasting strength and conditioning career.
Coaches Professional Development
A Sample Strength and Conditioning Program for Fire Academies
June 7, 2021by Manny Romero, CSCS, TSAC-F and Jim McDonald
This article serves as a guide for current and future strength and conditioning professionals who oversee program design for fire academy recruits. This includes a summarized needs analysis and a sample training program that considers the unique challenges of the fire academy.
TSAC Facilitators Program design
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
Velocity-Based Training in Professional Baseball
June 17, 2019by Eric McMahon, MED, CSCS, RSCC*D
Major League Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach for the Texas Rangers, Eric McMahon, describes how he utilizes velocity-based training for professional baseball players and the benefits this technology brings to the players in this session from the NSCA’s 2019 Coaches Conference.
Coaches Program design
TSAC Research Review – Issue 37
April 25, 2018by Rod Pope, PhD
This article is the second of a continuing series that examines pertinent and recent tactical strength and conditioning research reviews.
TSAC Facilitators Program design
Time Course of Physiological and Anatomical Changes
April 3, 2020by NSCA's Essentials of Tactical Strength and Conditioning
This excerpt from NSCA’s Essential of Tactical Strength and Conditioning explores the neural and muscular adaptations to training over time.
Personal trainers TSAC Facilitators Coaches Exercise Science
The Application of Systematic Goal Setting for Strength and Conditioning Coaches
June 17, 2018by Andrew D. Gillham, PhD, CSCS,*D
Research on the benefits of using goals to increase athletic performance has shown that performance generally increases for athletes that use goals consistently. Learn how to move beyond generalities and see how a systematic goal setting approach can be paired with training athletes.
Coaches Program design
From the Field Two-Part Series: Part 2 – Perspectives on Alternative Licensure Programs (ALP) from a Current Full-Time High School Strength and Conditioning Coach and Former ALP Participant
May 3, 2024by Sam Melendrez, MS, CSCS,*D, RSCC
This article focuses on providing first-hand insight into the alternative licensure program (ALP) route from a current coach in the field.
Coaches Professional Development
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
Active Resistance Training for the Tactical Athlete
May 4, 2018by Jay Dawes, PhD, CSCS,*D, NSCA-CPT,*D, FNSCA
Learn about the various forms of active resistance training and how to create active resistance devices that are inexpensive and reduce injury risk compared to traditional log bars and kegs. In this session from the NSCA's 2016 Annual TSAC Training, Jay Dawes also discusses how to progress, regress, and program active resistance into a comprehensive strength and conditioning plan.
TSAC Facilitators Exercise Technique Program design
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