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Case Study: The Significant Change Quietly Taking Place in High School Athletics
Strength and Conditioning Coaches who are NSCA-Certified are preparing youth for training, using proven strategies that improve their safety and competitiveness.
Return to Training
The NSCA has built a collection of resources to help our community of strength and conditioning professionals and athletes safely return to training and adapt to the new challenges created by the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic.
Stability and Weightlifting: Training Stability—Part 3
July 1, 2016
This article is the third installment of a four-part series on stabilization in weight training. It covers how to train trunk stability and how to decrease the dominance of the extension/compression stabilizing strategy (ECSS) that is often perpetuated during training.
Coaches Exercise Technique Program design weight training stabilization ECSS Extension Compression Stabilizing Strategy
Development of Biomotor Abilities for Soccer
January 1, 2013
Gain insight into the interactions between strength, power, speed, and agility for soccer players. Also, learn basic programing guidelines that adhere to current research.
Coaches Exercise Technique Program design exercise programming soccer drills strength training for soccer soccer training speed soccer
Using Age-Specific Benchmarking of Performance Measures to Create Individual Strength and Conditioning Programs
July 1, 2016
Learn about processes of data collection and presentation, and how to use the data to individualize athletes’ training. In this session from the NSCA’s 2016 National Conference, Kevin Paxton demonstrates an age-specific long-term athletic development (LTAD) syllabus for soccer players.
Coaches Exercise Science Program design LTAD Athletic Development Age Specific Training Youth Soccer
Designing a Resistance Training Program for Paralympic Throwers
April 5, 2024
This article focuses on a program for a Paralympic athlete born with a congenital limb deficiency (transradial peromelia) of the right arm.
Coaches Program design Paralympic Athlete Throwers Shot Put Transradial Peromelia
Long-Term Athletic Development (LTAD) for the Personal Trainer – Part 2: Action – How Can Personal Trainers Integrate LTAD into Clients’ Programs?
August 16, 2024
This three-part series shows how personal trainers can create a physically literate cradle-to-grave culture for all, with LTAD as the framework.
Personal trainers Program design Professional Development LTAD Physical Literacy Motivational Interviewing Clients
JOP Matrix—Application to Lacrosse
January 1, 2016
Ultimately, there is no “one magical exercise” that can be programmed to appropriately develop all physical training adaptations required in competition, but the JOP Matrix can be used to help address several necessary adaptations needed for lacrosse players.
Coaches Exercise Technique Program design strength and conditioning strength training lacrosse matrix JOP matrix jump to hop
Developing Bilateral Symmetry for Basketball Players—Considerations for the Use of Rotational Suspension Bodyweight Training
January 1, 2014
In order to develop athletes who can move optimally in multiple planes of motion, training should include elements that can challenge them in multiple planes while providing various resistance and proprioceptive challenges.
Coaches Exercise Technique Program design basketball coaching NSCA Coach Bilateral Symmetry Rotational Training Training for Basketball
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