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Back to Basics: A Common Sense Approach to Coaching the Special Forces Tactical Athlete
June 25, 2016
Understand why the strength and conditioning basics work, how they work, and how they elicit the desired performance outcomes. In this session from the 2016 TSAC Annual Training, Brandon Stone identifies buzzwords like mental toughness, work capacity, and regeneration, as well as how those are integrated into training the program at the 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne).
TSAC Facilitators Exercise Technique Program design regeneration work capacity mental toughness strength and conditioning tactical strength and conditioning TSAC-F TSAC
Pick Your Protein
December 1, 2015
How can tactical athletes ensure they are getting enough protein, what is the best timing for protein intake, and what should they look for in a protein supplement?
TSAC Facilitators Nutrition evaluating protein supplements protein supplements best protein timing protein
Loading and Unloading Strategies: Managing All Variables within a Comprehensive Program
June 19, 2020
Joel Raether, Director of Sport Performance at Authentic Performance Center, uses this session to take a closer look at how all variables within a program must be addressed to account for cumulative fatigue, density of variables within, and how to manage stressors for the tactical athlete with high demands for physical, mental, physiological, and emotional stress.
TSAC Facilitators Program design TSAC-F Stress Recovery Grip Strength Programming Tactical
Potential Benefits of Exercise for Helping Reduce Depression in Tactical Occupations
May 4, 2025
This article discusses the potential benefits of exercise for helping reduce depression in tactical populations.
TSAC Facilitators Exercise Science Nutrition Client Consultation|Assessment Safety Legal Issues Basic Pathophysiology and Science of Health Status or Condition and Disorder or Disease Psychological Disorders Adaptive Exercise Fitness Stress Coping Mental Health Tactical Facilitator Occupational Anxiety Depression
Nutrient Needs during Deployment and Shift Work
August 20, 2021
This excerpt explains the importance of optimal nutritional strategies in conjunction with good sleep hygiene and how that can help mitigate damaging effects of deployment and shift work on performance.
TSAC Facilitators Nutrition Nutrition Deployment Shift Work Sleep Hygiene
Not Adding Up – Why Gravitational Running Techniques May Not Biomechanically Equal Speed
December 3, 2021
This article seeks to provide some insight to optimal biomechanics in running technique and why normal gravitational techniques may not suit tactical athletes while load-bearing.
TSAC Facilitators Exercise Science Exercise Technique Tactical Athlete Kinematics Running Technique Gravitational Running Techniques Biomechanics
Considerations to Improve Tactical Professional Return to Duty Outcomes Following Musculoskeletal Injury
March 18, 2022
This article is intended to assist tactical facilitators in the construction of a well-designed tactical return to duty program to help combat against the musculoskeletal injury burden that exists within tactical professions.
TSAC Facilitators Program design Basic Pathophysiology and Science of Health Status or Condition and Disorder or Disease
Understand the Energy Demands of the Tactical Athlete
June 1, 2016
The daily energy requirements of tactical personnel are highly variable, depending on gender, body composition, activities performed, age, and environmental conditions.
TSAC Facilitators Exercise Science energy demands tactical strength and conditioning tsac-f
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Sports Science: The Brain-Body Connection
April 28, 2016
Develop a better understanding of the brain’s role on exercise and recovery for the tactical athlete, and learn how to identify and implement heart rate variability (HRV) markers for prescribing recovery strategies. Presented by Mark Stephenson, Director of the Human Performance Program at a special operations unit for the Department of Defense, at the NSCA’s 2016 TSAC Annual Training.
TSAC Facilitators Exercise Science heart rate variability stress recovery strategies
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