Schedule

The 2-day CSCS Exam Prep Live Clinic (begins Tuesday, July 7)

This clinic is a comprehensive review of the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to successfully pass the CSCS certification exam.

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We're offering two separate First Responder Training sessions at this year's conference.  Keep your certification up to date and choose the CPR/AED/First Aid training that best works with your conference schedule. 

• First class will be offered from 8:00 am - 12:00 pm 
• Second class will be offered from 1:00 - 5:00 pm.  

Each class will go over CPR/AED for Adults, Children and Infants as well as First Aid emergencies such as bleeding control, splinting, epipen injection, assessing head injuries, recognizing stroke, diabetic, heart, heat and cold related emergencies.

registration closes 8am July 7

Register for the CPR/AED/1st Aid certification during your conference registration. The class times we are offering: 

1. 8:00AM-12:00PM
2. 1:00PM-5:00PM

registration closes 8am July 7

1. Describe the advantages to using computer programming in sport science as technology continues to evolve.

Research Lecture

Workshop sponsored by Perform Better

1. Understand the neuromechanical relationship between the foot, core, and fascial lines in athletic movement.
2. Explore how gravity, ground reaction forces, and sensory input shape motor control and efficiency.
3. Learn practical strategies to activate and strengthen the foot–core connection using barefoot, textured, and fascial-based training methods.
4. Experience drills to enhance elastic recoil, dynamic stability, and fascial sequencing for explosive movement.
5. Integrate sensory and fascial concepts into existing strength, conditioning, and recovery programs for improved athletic performance.

Workshop

1. Build a better understanding and improve your ability to coach, program and execute knee-dominant, hip-dominant and combined knee-and-hip-dominant single-leg training exercises.
2. Develop sound exercise selection and training program design strategies through critical thinking.
3. Review and apply practical weight room (strength and power) single-leg training exercise progressions, regressions and lateralizations.

Workshop

1. Identify adolescent adaptations to resistance exercise.
2. Provide examples for practical application to various sport and age groups.

Research lecture

Join any Special Interest Group (SIG) meeting to connect with like-minded professionals, hear the latest updates, and engage in discussions led by SIG leadership.

1. Identify common nutrition barriers among tactical personnel—such as shift work, low fruit/vegetable intake, limited food access, and minimal cooking experience—and describe how these challenges affect performance, recovery, and readiness.
2. Apply a food-first framework to on-duty and off-duty meal planning, emphasizing foundational culinary skills (e.g., basic cooking techniques, protein prep, fast produce integration) that help tactical athletes reliably fuel without relying solely on supplements.
3. Implement practical coaching strategies for teaching cooking as a performance skill, including simple recipe instruction, station-friendly meal-prep methods, and grab-and-go fueling templates that support sustainable nutrition habits across diverse training and operational settings.

Research

Sponsored by Perform Better

Workshop sponsored by the Football SIG and College Coaches PDG

1. Describe the function and musculature of the pelvic floor muscles in sport performance.
2. Program dynamic pelvic floor exercise in standing, jumping, and running positions.
3. Determine based on athlete symptoms whether performance goals are being limited by pelvic floor deficiencies.

Workshop

Many of the NSCA’s eleven committees host open annual meetings at national events to discuss progress, set goals, and advance their mission serving the NSCA.

New to NSCA events? Join us and we'll introduce you to some of our key volunteers, explain how to make the most of attending the event, and talk with you about some of the NSCA programs that can help you advance your career. 

Know the steps involved in the weight certification process for wrestling and how this influences weight loss trends compared to other weight-category combat sport athletes.

1. Understand the health and safety concerns of excessive weight cutting and frequent weight cycling in weight category athletes.
2. Know the evidence-based guidelines for safe and effective weight-reduction strategies as part of a weight-category athlete's weight management strategy.

Research lecture

All attendees and exhibitors welcome

The NSCA research community gets together annually to collaborate on the latest issues and groundbreaking discoveries in strength and conditioning.

Light breakfast provided from 8:30-10:00 AM

Join attendees from the South East region for networking as well as an update on activities in your area.  So if you are from Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Tennessee, or the US Virgin Islands, please join us.

The NSCA research community gets together annually to collaborate on the latest issues and groundbreaking discoveries in strength and conditioning.

9:00 AM -
9:15 AM -
9:30 AM -
9:45 AM -

Join any Special Interest Group (SIG) meeting to connect with like-minded professionals, hear the latest updates, and engage in discussions led by SIG leadership.

1. Academia - Understand scientific principles underlying traning methodologies.
2. Coach - Implement strength & conditioning programs for athletes.
3. Practitioner/PT - Adapt training variations for different fitness levels and goals.
4. Sports Med - Assess recovery strategies within program design.
5. Sports Science - Utilize analytics to optimize training decisions.
6. Tactical - Balance performance, durability, and recovery in training plans.

Lecture

All attendees and exhibitors welcome, food provided

1. Learn methods of planning preseason and in season in conjunction of the practice sessions and physical preparation sessions.
2. How to use wearable technology, amongst other technologies, and use subjective data to provide optimal load management prescriptions during preseason and in season.
3. Best application of this material is to collect ideas, know your environment, and make them apply to your team.

Lecture

1. Learn how to make simple changes to programs/exercises based on various injuries/niggles.
2. Learn how to make adjustments to full team session based on a tough or easy training day.
3. Learn how to do speed & power training when athletes present with pain or injuries.

Lecture

• 12:00 PM
• 12:15 PM
• 12:30 PM
• 12:45 PM

1. Minimum Effective Dose Concept: the lecture provides an in-depth review of the minimum effective dose concept in strength training, emphasizing its significance and applications for athletes across different sports.
2. Program Design Fundamentals: participants will explore essential program design principles, including practical examples and various periodization models to effectively manage training volume and intensity throughout an athlete's development.
3. Case Study: a focused case study featuring elite athletes will illustrate the principles of block periodization, addressing key concepts such as reduced training effect, tapering, and strategies for peaking prior to competition.

Lecture

Lecture Sponsored by the Women's Committee

1. Develop a framework for reverse engineering the needs of athletes.
2. Select the most relevant assessments to inform the training process.
3. Connect testing results to training priorities.
4. Connect the learning loop and evaluate the effect of training methods to assesment results and athlete needs.

Lecture

1. Articulate the anatomy of the shoulder complex and contributions to healthy joint motions.
2. Acquire and incorporate foundational skills to improve the overall function of the shoulder complex.
3. Apply knowledge of shoulder mechanics through the use of common push and pull movements in the weight room.

Hands-on

• 1:00 PM 
• 1:15 PM 
• 1:30 PM 
• 1:45 PM 

Attendees will gain a clear understanding of the CASCE accreditation process and timeline, with an emphasis on how accreditation advances academic quality, promotes athlete safety, and prepares graduates to meet the evolving demands of the profession. If your program is beginning to explore accreditation and preparing to take the next steps, this session will offer strategic insight into how to prepare for accreditation and how CASCE can enhance your program’s quality, credibility, and long-term impact—while helping ensure graduates are well-prepared for CSCS® certification and careers in strength and conditioning.

Many of the NSCA’s eleven committees host open annual meetings at national events to discuss progress, set goals, and advance their mission serving the NSCA.

Participate in your field area’s Professional Development Group (PDG) meeting to access tailored resources and help PDG leadership advocate for your priorities.

Join any Special Interest Group (SIG) meeting to connect with like-minded professionals, hear the latest updates, and engage in discussions led by SIG leadership.

Join any Special Interest Group (SIG) meeting to connect with like-minded professionals, hear the latest updates, and engage in discussions led by SIG leadership.

Join any Special Interest Group (SIG) meeting to connect with like-minded professionals, hear the latest updates, and engage in discussions led by SIG leadership.

Lecture

1. Understanding the basis of sport science research in football and early discoveries.
2. Understanding the current state of research, discovery, and sport science in football.
3. Learning about the Jayhawk Athletic Performance Laboratory’s flagship project Gridiron Performance: The Science of Football and how we hope to contribute to the future of scientific discovery and innovation.

Lecture

Hands-on

1. Explain how muscle oxygenation and blood flow influence neuromuscular function across the lifespan, and evaluate how dietary strategies may affect these physiological processes.
2. Identify evidence-based dietary supplements and nutritional components that have the greatest likelihood of improving neuromuscular performance at different stages of life.
3. Assess realistic expectations for performance and functional outcomes associated with dietary supplementation in both athletic and aging populations.

Lecture

Participate in your field area’s Professional Development Group (PDG) meeting to access tailored resources and help PDG leadership advocate for your priorities.

Join any Special Interest Group (SIG) meeting to connect with like-minded professionals, hear the latest updates, and engage in discussions led by SIG leadership.

Join any Special Interest Group (SIG) meeting to connect with like-minded professionals, hear the latest updates, and engage in discussions led by SIG leadership.

Join any Special Interest Group (SIG) meeting to connect with like-minded professionals, hear the latest updates, and engage in discussions led by SIG leadership.

Hands-on sponsored by Perform Better

1. Analyze the barriers and facilitators to adopting and implementing injury prevention programs.
2. Integrate stakeholders’ perceptions in an iterative approach to designing injury prevention programs.
3. Evaluate the success of injury prevention programs using the RE-AIM framework (Reach, Efficacy/Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, Maintenance).

Lecture

1. Explain how mechanical loading stimulates osteogenic responses in girls and women and evaluate the effectiveness of different exercise types for developing peak bone mass.
2. Compare the effects of various sports on bone mineral density in girls and young women, and identify which activities provide the greatest osteogenic benefits.
3. Summarize evidence-based exercise strategies that promote peak bone mass in girls and young women and preserve bone density during peri- and post-menopause, including specific recommendations for high-impact loading, multidirectional activity, and progressive resistance training.

Lecture

Join any Special Interest Group (SIG) meeting to connect with like-minded professionals, hear the latest updates, and engage in discussions led by SIG leadership.

Many of the NSCA’s eleven committees host open annual meetings at national events to discuss progress, set goals, and advance their mission serving the NSCA.

Join any Special Interest Group (SIG) meeting to connect with like-minded professionals, hear the latest updates, and engage in discussions led by SIG leadership.

Many of the NSCA’s eleven committees host open annual meetings at national events to discuss progress, set goals, and advance their mission serving the NSCA.

Join any Special Interest Group (SIG) meeting to connect with like-minded professionals, hear the latest updates, and engage in discussions led by SIG leadership.

1. Understand what tools & technologies are currently available but poorly understood.
2. Discuss several tools and tech that will be available in the near future.
3. Discuss how to utilize AI tools for effective coaching.

Lecture 

1. Understand how to choose a test that informs your practice, filtering out the noisy and redundant metrics.
2. Determine how much trust to have in any single metric and thus how much a score must change by to have confidence that the changes are “real”.
3. Identify appropriate calculations and formulas for reliability, meaningful change, and measurement error, culminating in a single athlete report.

Lecture

1. Recognition of common technical errors in the Olympic-style lifts and their variations.
2. Identification of the underlying causes of common technical errors in the Olympic-style lifts and their variations.
3. Understanding of appropriate correction strategies for common technical errors in the Olympic-style lifts and their variations.

Hands-on

Sponsored by Hammer Strength/Life Fitness

1. Evaluate current scientific evidence demonstrating how resistance training promotes cardiovascular and metabolic health.
2. Compare and contrast the cardiovascular responses and long-term adaptations elicited by resistance training versus endurance exercise.
3. Examine how resistance training mitigates age- and hormone-related declines in cardiovascular health in women across the lifespan.

Lecture

Join any Special Interest Group (SIG) meeting to connect with like-minded professionals, hear the latest updates, and engage in discussions led by SIG leadership.

Many of the NSCA’s eleven committees host open annual meetings at national events to discuss progress, set goals, and advance their mission serving the NSCA.

All attendees and exhibitors welcome.

Must be RSCC and RSVP in advance

Light breakfast provided from 7:30-9:00 AM

1. Identify planning, equipment and implementation requirements for the 10x10 protocol
2. Outline the key parameters for using the 10x10 protocol to enhance overall sprint speed, repeat sprint ability and general conditioning performance.
3. Provide an overview of how the 10x10 protocol can be used to rehabilitate various lower body injuries, including hamstring strains, achilles and calf injuries and other injuries related to ankles, knees and hips.

Lecture

1. Identify faulty biomechanics in bounding exercises.
2. Employ appropriate cues in the error correction process.

Lecture sponsored by Perform Better

8:30 AM -
8:45 AM -
9:00 AM -
9:15 AM -

Signups will be on-site at the NSCA Foundation Booth

Sponsored by Strength Coach Network & NSCA Foundation

1. This presentation will provide a brief overview of the association between inter-limb asymmetry and athletic performance and injury risk.
2. This presentation will outline some historical issues relating to how inter-limb asymmetry has been used and reported, and why this causes problems for practitioners.
3. This presentation will provide 5 fundamental principles for practitioners to consider so that they can maximize their chances of using asymmetry-related data effectively.

Lecture

Lecture

1. Learn day to day at the HS level.
2. Know the difference in HS vs college.
3. Manage your ego at the HS level.

Lecture

1. Identify optimal center of gravity, postural angles and projection with respect to athlete development.
2. Address movement technical analysis and manipulation.
3. Design a program to improve athletic performance.

Hands-on

• 9:30 AM 
• 9:45 AM 
• 10:00 AM 
• 10:15 AM 

Join any Special Interest Group (SIG) meeting to connect with like-minded professionals, hear the latest updates, and engage in discussions led by SIG leadership.

Join any Special Interest Group (SIG) meeting to connect with like-minded professionals, hear the latest updates, and engage in discussions led by SIG leadership.

Join any Special Interest Group (SIG) meeting to connect with like-minded professionals, hear the latest updates, and engage in discussions led by SIG leadership.

Signups will be on-site at the NSCA Foundation Booth

Sponsored by Strength Coach Network & NSCA Foundation

Whether your program is considering CASCE accreditation or already working through the process, this interactive session will provide practical guidance to help you move forward with clarity and confidence. Designed for program directors, faculty, staff, and others involved in accreditation, the workshop will explore each stage of the process—from self-study development to site visit preparation and final review.

1. Identify the limiting factors in rotational development from power, to endurance.
2. The balance between rotation and anti-rotation training.
3. Sport specificity vs general training on rotational performance.

Lecture

1. Learn about the advantages of using strongman training with your teams or clients.
2. Learn how to integrate strongman methodology into your programming.
3. Hands-on workshop of proper techniques, cueing, and coaching.

Lecture

1. Explain how the gut microbiome influences energy production, immune function, recovery, and mental well-being in athletes and how nutrition, exercise intensity, stress, sleep, and hydration affect the gut microbiome.
2. Learn Practical Nutritional Strategies for maintaining gut health.
3. Recognize signs of gut imbalance in athletes such as bloating, constipation, digestive discomfort, nausea/vomiting, and mental health.

Lecture

Hands-on

• 10:30 AM 
• 10:45 AM 
• 11:00 AM 
• 11:15 AM 

Signups will be on-site at the NSCA Foundation Booth

Sponsored by Strength Coach Network & NSCA Foundation

Join any Special Interest Group (SIG) meeting to connect with like-minded professionals, hear the latest updates, and engage in discussions led by SIG leadership.

Lunch provided in Exhibit Hall

Many of the NSCA’s eleven committees host open annual meetings at national events to discuss progress, set goals, and advance their mission serving the NSCA.

1. Attendees will learn the difference between and definitions for knowledge of what (to coach) and knowledge or how (to coach).
2. Attendees will learn the difference between and definitions for internal and external cueing.
3. Attendees will learn about evidence-based models for the creation and curation of effective language for teaching movement.

Lecture sponsored by Gatorade

1. Identify planning, equipment and implementation requirements for the 10x10 protocol
2. Outline the key parameters for using the 10x10 protocol to enhance overall sprint speed, repeat sprint ability and general conditioning performance.
3. Provide an overview of how the 10x10 protocol can be used to rehabilitate various lower body injuries, including hamstring strains, achilles and calf injuries and other injuries related to ankles, knees and hips.

Hands-on

Signups will be on-site at the NSCA Foundation Booth

Sponsored by Strength Coach Network & NSCA Foundation

• 1:00 PM 
• 1:15 PM 
• 1:30 PM 
• 1:45 PM 

1. Learn historical and contemporary research and its application within S&C related to adult athletes.
2. Learn applied aspects of coaching up the whole adult athlete from a biopsychosocial perspective
3. Learn tips and tools for effective coaching, personal training, and the like across diverse adult S&C contexts.

Lecture

1. Understand the distinction between muscle mass and muscle quality and their independent contributions to strength and health.
2. Identify how neuromuscular factors and intramuscular fat influence muscle quality and functional outcomes.
3. Evaluate the implications of prioritizing muscle quality over mass in clinical and rehabilitation settings.

Lecture 

1. Understand evidence based teaching methods for creating effective learning experiences.
2. Understand key components of a well-rounded internship program to maximize learning while also meeting CASCE internship requirements.
3. Understand ways to enhance intern engagement and motivation with the use of Self Determination Theory and sources of self-efficacy.

Lecture

1. Learn about the advantages of using strongman training with your teams or clients.
2. Learn how to integrate strongman methodology into your programming.
   Hands-on workshop of proper techniques, cueing, and coaching.

Hands-on

1. Understand the risks associated with heated resistance exercise and mitigation strategies.
2. Describe the health, hypertrophy, and muscular performance benefits of heated resistance exercise.
3. Select evidence-based acute program variables for implementation of heated resistance exercise.

Lecture

Sponsored by Strength Coach Network & NSCA Foundation

Participate in your field area’s Professional Development Group (PDG) meeting to access tailored resources and help PDG leadership advocate for your priorities.

Join any Special Interest Group (SIG) meeting to connect with like-minded professionals, hear the latest updates, and engage in discussions led by SIG leadership.

Join any Special Interest Group (SIG) meeting to connect with like-minded professionals, hear the latest updates, and engage in discussions led by SIG leadership.

1. Complex statistical processes are not always necessary, particularly in sport science.
2. Most sport Science is exploratory in nature, primarily due to small subject number.
3. Necessary to educate researchers, practitioners, reviewers and editors as to the worth of exploratory studies.

Lecture

1. Quantify and compare the predictive validity of wellbeing and physiological readiness metrics in youth athletes.
2. Differentiate three psychosocial archetypes and identify tailored management responses for each.
3. Integrate Self-Determination Theory, Win Well, and LTAD principles into weekly monitoring systems.
4. Design monitoring frameworks that embed psychosocial data ethically and efficiently into athlete management systems.
5. Apply targeted interventions that leverage belongingness to sustain motivation and performance.

Lecture sponsored by ASCA

1. Uncover and explore your potential talent for producing content.
2. Learn the steps to writing once motivation is there.
3. Publication process and keys for success.

Lecture

1. Learn the swing, clean, and snatch progression with single bell and double kettlebell programming.
2. The benefits and practicality of kettlebell training compared to Barbell training for strength, power, speed programming in all sports.
3. The parallels between kettlebells and common sport movement.
4. We will discuss the benefits and drawbacks of kettlebell programming for short and long term programming initiatives and resource/budget constraints to work around.

Hands-on

1. Identify primary risk factors for hamstring strain injuries and their appropriate methods of assessment by coaches.
2. Explore field-based strategies for reducing the risk of hamstring strain injury occurrence.
3. Highlight gym-based strategies for reducing the risk of hamstring strain injury occurrence and provide resistance training recommendations.

Lecture

Sponsored by Strength Coach Network & NSCA Foundation

Join any Special Interest Group (SIG) meeting to connect with like-minded professionals, hear the latest updates, and engage in discussions led by SIG leadership.

Join any Special Interest Group (SIG) meeting to connect with like-minded professionals, hear the latest updates, and engage in discussions led by SIG leadership.

Lecture

1. Identify components that comprise total daily energy expenditure and energy availability.
2. Describe the factors that impact carbohydrate needs.
3. Outline key factors that influence protein needs.
4. Develop a hydration plan.
5. Identify key factors that impact fueling needs.

Lecture

***Limited availability - additional purchase - RSVP required***

Sponsored in part by Matrix

1. Define and understand the concept of asymmetry in human movement and its role in supporting efficient, dynamic performance.
2. Explore how natural asymmetries in strength and range of motion enhance resilience and prevent injury.
3. Apply strategies to leverage athletes' natural asymmetries to improve strength, range of motion, and overall performance.

Lecture

Hands-on

• 8:30 AM 
• 8:45 AM 
• 9:00 AM
• 9:15 AM 

1. Design resistance training programs to best manipulate intensity of effort for optimizing muscular adaptations.
2. Describe how certain covariates can influence optimal prescription for intensity of effort.

Lecture

1. Design high-performing lowest-risk fuel & hydration plans for endurance.
2. Determine carbohydrate sources and sodium sources per athlete and exercise traits.
3. Critically analyze fuel & hydration products for the validity and relevance of their claims.

Lecture

• 9:30 AM 
• 9:45 AM 
• 10:00 AM 
• 10:15 AM 

1. Where is NFL performance headed? Ted explores evolving trends in player development, staff structure, technology integration, and leadership.
2. Attendees will walk away with insight into how professional football's performance landscape is changing — and what that means for the next generation of strength coaches at all levels.

Lecture

1. Breathwork as a Performance Multiplier: Learn how controlled breathing enhances strength, endurance, and recovery by optimizing oxygen utilization and nervous system regulation.
2. Integrating Physiology and Breath Control: Explore how biomechanics, neuromuscular activation, and metabolic efficiency are influenced by breathing techniques to prevent injury and maximize output.
3. Practical Applications for Elite Performance: Gain actionable strategies to incorporate breathwork into training, rehabilitation, and competition for sustained peak performance.

Hands-on

1. Understand the physiological role of muscle mass in metabolic flexibility, including its impact on substrate utilization, insulin sensitivity, and energy partitioning.
2. Evaluate the limitations of a cardio-centric approach to metabolic health and recognize how strength training enhances long-term metabolic adaptability.
3. Apply evidence-based strategies to optimize programming and nutrition for improving metabolic flexibility through muscle hypertrophy and resistance training.

Lecture

• 10:30 AM 
• 10:45 AM 
• 11:00 AM 
• 11:15 AM 

1. Attendees will be able to better identify and discern which strength and conditioning methods are truly practical across a wide range of contexts.
2. Attendees will be provided with proven examples of strength, speed, and agility programming that can be implemented effectively with minimal budget and equipment.
3. Attendees will learn coaching techniques and tactics to build trust with even the hardest-to-reach athletes, as well as key considerations when navigating budget conversations with administrators and other stakeholders.
4. Attendees will learn practical strategies to avoid stagnation in their careers, navigate common professional pitfalls, and improve their long-term earning potential without compromising their integrity or coaching standards.

Lecture