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Integrative Neuromuscular Training for Youth
April 21, 2018by Rick Howard, MEd, CSCS,*D, and NSCA High School Coaching
Coaches can help children and adolescents develop athletic ability by including motor skills training into sports practice and training. This approach is called integrative neuromuscular training.
Coaches Exercise Science Program design
Backward Running: The Why and How to Program for Better Athleticism
June 17, 2019by Yann Le Meur
This infographic shows how implementing backward running into a strength and conditioning program can be used as an injury resistance tool, enhance muscular functions, and increase metabolic demands for athletes.
Coaches Program design
Boots on the Ground: Purpose and Efficacy of United States Army Occupational Physical Assessment Test
April 25, 2018by Russell Nowels, MS and Anthony M. Soika, MS, CSCS,*D, TSAC-F,*D
A comprehensive but realistic battery of tests can reveal those who are sufficiently fit and athletic to immediately assimilate into training with the least possible likelihood of failure or injury. The Occupational Physical Assessment Test (OPAT) was designed to identify those individuals and screen out those who require further physical development.
TSAC Facilitators Program design Testing and Evaluation
Factors Determining Agility: Speed
June 8, 2018by Developing Agility and Quickness
Acceleration is the rate of change in velocity, so this phase of sprinting is critical for changing directions as rapidly and efficiently as possible. Optimal technique for linear sprinting in the acceleration phase involves four factors that maximize stride length and frequency.
Coaches Exercise Science Exercise Technique
Concept First!: An Approach to Teaching the Fundamental Human Movements
May 7, 2018by Dan John
This session by Dan John from the 2015 NSCA Coaches Conference explains the “concept first” method as a simple way that allows the athletes to learn movement quickly and begin to load appropriately.
Coaches Exercise Technique Program design
Character by Design
May 29, 2020by Jim Davis, MA, MEd
From the 2020 NSCA Coaches Conference, Jim Davis, Founder of the Good Athlete Project, presents his mission for maximizing the potential of athletics as education and the many components that create the framework of a high order performance goal.
Coaches Professional Development
Coaching Your Athletes/Clients Through the Maze of Fad Diets
May 9, 2018by Marie Spano, MS, CSCS
Learn about the pros and cons of popular diets, and how each diet will impact the training of your clients. In this session from the 2016 NSCA National Conference, sports nutritionist, Marie Spano explains the key factors that determine dieting success, and shares resources to help your clients decide which approach is best for them.
Coaches Nutrition Program design
An Applied Five-Week Off-Season Strength and Conditioning Program for Collegiate Female Volleyball
October 22, 2018by Dr Michael Waller, PhD, CSCS, NSCA-CPT, FNSCA, and Hannah Macke
This article provides a narrative of the effects of a five-week strength and conditioning program on collegiate female volleyball athletes and shows the potential benefits that may occur in lower-body performance.
Coaches Program design
Visual Feedback Attenuates Mean Concentric Barbell Velocity Loss and Improves Motivation, Competitiveness, and Perceived Workload in Male Adolescent Athletes
October 31, 2019by Adam Virgile, CSCS
This study examined the effects of visual kinematic feedback during the back squat exercise.
Personal trainers TSAC Facilitators Coaches Program design
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