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NFL Career Connections Session
June 25, 2021
Ivan Lewis, Head Strength and Conditioning Coach for the Seattle Seahawks National Football League (NFL) team, shares his journey to becoming a strength coach, advice on professional development, how he hires people, and how to work in collaboration with other sports medicine professionals to help athletes return-to-play.
Coaches Professional Development NFL Strength and Conditioning Professional Development
Warm-Ups for Speed Development
February 4, 2020
In this hands-on session from the 2019 NSCA Coaches Conference, Scott Charland, Manager of Human Performance for Parkview Health Sports Medicine, introduces his “recipe” for movement patterns that focus on speed development. This can easily be placed into a warm-up session prior to a conditioning workout or sport practice.
Coaches Program design Coordination Skipping Sprinting Dynamic Flexibility Bounding Galloping
How to Use and Not be Used by Fitness Technologies
October 1, 2018
Dr. Andy Galpin, Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Sports Performance at California State University Fullerton, talks about the impact of fitness technology on coaching, and how you can master the technology, in this session from the NSCA’s 2018 Coaches Conference.
Personal trainers Coaches Program design Fitness Technology Athlete Monitoring
The Use of Performance Tracking Technology to Facilitate Recovery
July 31, 2017
In this session from the NSCA’s 2017 National Conference, Shawn Arent and David DiFabio summarize the capabilities of various wearable sports performance tracking devices and explain how devices are being used to reduce risk of overtraining, facilitate recovery, and improve performance
Personal trainers Coaches Program design Testing and Evaluation Recovery Athlete Monitoring Training Load Training Volume Tracking Technology
Developing Athleticism is the C.O.R.E. of Positive Youth Development
December 1, 2012
This article breaks down youth training. To develop athleticism for youth, coaches should follow the C.O.R.E. principles: context in which to apply movement patterns, opportunities to develop proper movement, recognition of physical attributes required, and environments in which youth explore movement.
Coaches Exercise Technique Program design teaching athleticism youth athleticism youth training youth athletic development
Importance of Horizontally Loaded Movements to Sports Performance
May 1, 2017
Athletes must be able to express strength, power, and speed in multiple directions, and it may be beneficial to emphasize horizontally based movements in strength and conditioning programs.
Personal trainers Coaches Exercise Science horizontal load infographics
NSCA's Coaching Podcast Episode 1
Brendon Huttmann, CSCS,*D, RSCC*D, the Sports Science Coordinator for the Pittsburgh Pirates Major League Baseball (MLB) team, talks to the NSCA Head Strength and Conditioning Coach, Scott Caulfield, about the role of the Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist® (CSCS®) in MLB.
Coaches Professional Development
RSCC: The Badge of Credibility in Professional Sports
If you want to manage the performance of assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars, you better know what you’re doing. At the elite and professional levels of sport, strength and conditioning coaches are responsible for managing the performance of teams’ most valuable assets – The Athletes.
Cultural Awareness for Strength and Conditioning Coaches
March 19, 2021
From the virtual 2021 NSCA Coaches Conference, Dan Jahn, Owner of Maximum Sports Conditioning, discusses important language, tools, and strategies for coaches to become more culturally competent. He shares a variety of perspectives and influences on weight room and team culture, and how to appropriately respond in certain scenarios around race.
Coaches Professional Development Race Cultural Awareness Culture Implicit Bias
How to Integrate the Use of Data into Your Overall Performance Strategy
December 11, 2020
From the 2020 NSCA Coaches Conference, Brian Buck, Director of Sports, and Bryce Patterson, Director of Education at Sparta Science, discuss how to understand data, create a repeatable and scalable system to address goals, and create a feedback loop to assess the effectiveness of a program.
Coaches Program design Testing and Evaluation Data Relative Strength Testing Intent Load Impulse Feedback
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