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Flexible Non-linear Periodization - Presented by Bill Kraemer

Recording Date: Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Length: 60 minutes
Member Price: $10.99
Non Member Price: $29.99

Dynamic Correspondence: Train the Way you want to play - Presented by Shawn Myszka

Recording Date: Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Length: 60 minutes
Member Price: $34.95
Non Member Price: $34.95
Any trainer or coach worth his or her salary is guilty of throwing around the term “sport-specific” in relation to the training they may implement. However, this theory, though it is of utmost importance, is still widely misunderstood by many practitioners. This lecture will discuss the theory and proper implementation of dynamic correspondence as well as the problems that one may face while attempting to do so. In the end, the attendee will understand how to move one’s body into true sports form through the training methodologies selected. All in all, one will learn throughout this session that in order to play any sport most efficiently, we must repeatedly and optimally train in the manner that the sport will be played.

Dietary Supplement Use in Sports: Risks, Benefits and How to Emphasize a “Food First” Approach - Presented by Allison Maurer

Recording Date: Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Length: 60 minutes
Member Price: $34.95
Non Member Price: $34.95
All too often our young, healthy student-athletes fall prey to the “latest and greatest” dietary supplement. Unknowingly, these athletes put themselves at risk of negative side effects, positive drug tests and potential life threatening situations. For many coaches, strength coaches, athletic trainers and other professionals, it is hard to keep up with the trends. In addition to that, simple strategies on how to fuel with food first can give many athletes the upper hand that they didn’t realize was right at their fingertips. Learn about the latest research on popular supplements and how to properly educate student-athletes on the dangers of supplements and the importance of “food first”.

Kettle Bell Training for the Tactical Athlete - Presented by Doug Hall

Recording Date: Wednesday, February 08, 2012
Length: 60 minutes
Member Price: $34.95
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This webinar will touch on foundational ways in which to train with kettlebells and ways in which trainers can design programs to maximize training results. Kettlebell program design will cover ways in which coaches can merge absolute strength training with endurance strength training in order to create a better-rounded training program for the tactical athlete.

Pre and Post Exercise Fueling - Presented by Kelly Ping

Recording Date: Friday, January 20, 2012
Length: 60 minutes
Member Price: $34.95
Non Member Price: $34.95
This presentation will discuss the nutritional demands of athletes before and after exercise, both for strength training as well as endurance exercise. Scientific data and its application will be presented so that coaches, personal trainers, and athletes viewing this webinar can better understand how to appropriately fuel the body for top performance.

Footwear and Function – Views on Barefoot training - Presented by Michol Dalcourt

Recording Date: Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Length: 60 minutes
Member Price: $34.95
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With the attention and popularity of barefoot training recently, there are mixed views and vagueness on whether barefoot training has efficacy. Join Michol as he discusses foot function, with a focus on emerging minimalist footwear.

Real World Recovery Techniques - Presented by Carwyn Sharp, PhD, CSCS, USATF

Recording Date: Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Length: 60 minutes
Member Price: $34.95
Non Member Price: $34.95

Athletic Profiling: Choosing a Periodization System to Maximize Individual Athletic Performance - Presented by Nick Winkelman

Recording Date: Tuesday, December 06, 2011
Length: 60 minutes
Member Price: $34.95
Non Member Price: $34.95
Periodization has become a standard in western strength and conditioning, but depending on who is asked it is used and defined in many different ways. This presentation is based on a review of the available research and seeks to categorize periodization into three distinct categories based on the level/needs of the athlete. Underpinning research will be discussed in addition to very specific training recommendations based on each periodization profile being presented. Whether you work with the general population or high level athletes, if you are looking for the ability to optimize individualization and the time to reach designated goals, then this presentation will provide critical insights.

Short and Long Term Periodization Models for Performance Training - Presented by John Cole

Recording Date: Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Length: 60 minutes
Member Price: $34.95
Non Member Price: $34.95
This webinar will focus on design models for strength and movement training of clients and athletes. Discussion to include (but not limited to) year-long Long Term Athlete Development models and Micro and Macro-cycle design including loading and unloading cycles for short and long term athletic programs. Weekly, Monthly,16-week and Yearly templates will be presented and discussed. This webinar will be designed to give the coach/practitioner the tools with which to design, build and execute short and long term program models for their athlete/clients.

Using Exercise Heart Rate to Optimize Training Adaptations - Presented by Declan Connolly

Recording Date: Wednesday, November 09, 2011
Length: 60 minutes
Member Price: $34.95
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Have you only been using Heart Rate Monitor with your endurance athletes and clients? Learn how improvements in technology will allow you to expand the use of heart rate monitors into many other types of sports and clients, such as speed and power training, team sports as well as others. This webinar will focus on how you can accurately use the Heart Rate Monitor in your programs and how you can use Heart Rate monitoring across a variety of sports and view a variety of different clients. The information will range from basic physiology of heart rate training through understanding the factors that influence Heart Rate response.

Strategic Exercise Program Design for Endurance Athletes - Presented by Matt Rhea

Recording Date: Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Length: 60 minutes
Member Price: $34.95
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This webinar will present a strategic process for designing a complete training program for endurance athletes including metabolic training, the development of muscular fitness to enhance performance, and injury prevention strategies. Periodization strategies will be discussed along with a step-by-step process for selecting proper training variables.

Year-round Strength & Conditioning Considerations for Basketball Athletes - Presented by Andrea Hudy

Recording Date: Wednesday, October 05, 2011
Length: 60 minutes
Member Price: $34.95
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This presentation will describe the year-round periodization strategies used for strength & conditioning by Kansas Men's and Women's Basketball. You will learn a variety of traditional strength training exercises and sport specific movements unique to University of Kansas Basketball, as well as how to properly periodize a year-round program using non-linear periodization.

Off-Season Development for Elite and Professional Baseball - Presented by Pete Bommarito

Recording Date: Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Length: 60 minutes
Member Price: $34.95
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This presentation will go through an entire off-season periodization model for high level baseball players. It will focus on all the important aspects of the overall system, and provide detailed descriptions, examples, and sample plans:

Strength and Power Training
Evaluations and Joint Realignment and Overall Pre-habilitation Protocols
Positional Breakdown (Pitcher vs Position)
Power Endurance
Strength Endurance
Reactive Neuromuscular Training
Speed / Movement Training
Energy System Development

How to maximize your training sessions with proper Preparation Techniques - Presented by Shannon Turley

Recording Date: Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Length: 60 minutes
Member Price: $34.95
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This presentation will cover various topics that pertain to preparing for physical activity or exercise. This webinar will overview movement preparation, activation, and dynamic warm up and why each of these modalities is utilized within the training preparation for Stanford Football. Hear firsthand how an experienced Pac-10 strength and conditioning coach utilizes these modalities in order to prepare individuals for training sessions. This presentation will also provide examples of movement preparation, activation, and dynamic warm-up exercises that can then be utilized prior to training sessions.

Buy In: Keep your Young Athletes and Adult Clients Coming Back - Presented by Bill Parisi

Recording Date: Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Length: 60 minutes
Member Price: $34.95
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This webinar will explain strategies and best practices for keeping your clients and athletes motivated and keep them coming back to you for more. Bill Parisi will discuss how to develop client and athlete buy in before, after and during the session, to increase your referrals and retention rate.

Applied Injury Prevention for Females - Presented by Amanda Kimball

Recording Date: Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Length: 60 minutes
Member Price: $34.95
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This presentation will include an in depth look at applied techniques in training to help prevent injuries in females. Learn techniques currently being used by the record setting University of Connecticut Women’s Basketball Team Strength and Conditioning Staff. This presentation will cover the need for injury prevention in a training program for women, different techniques and strategies currently being implemented at the highest level, and how you can implement these techniques and strategies into your program.

Bending the Aging Curve: A Periodized Approach to Targeted Exercise Prescription for Older Persons - Presented by Joseph Signorile

Recording Date: Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Length: 60 minutes
Member Price: $34.95
Non Member Price: $34.95
This webinar presents a unique targeted intervention strategy based on the realization that age presents its own unique multifaceted pattern of decline to each individual that must be assessed and addressed through targeted prescription exercise. Dr. Signorile also presents his original concept of translational training designed to train the motor patterns most relevant to daily activities. This Webinar puts it all together, teaching you the most effective methods to train the largest growing segment of our population. Persons sixty and older make up the fastest growing segment of the industrialized world's population. Unless we can provide interventions to increase independence and prevent falls the social, economic and personal impact on the nations of world will be devastating. Exercise, if properly administered, is one of the most effective, lowest-risk and most economically sensible tools we have to change older persons' aging patterns and return them to levels of functionality well below their chronological ages.

MMA Training: Current Training Trends and Misconceptions - Presented by Martin Rooney

Recording Date: Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Length: 60 minutes
Member Price: $34.95
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This presentation will cover a brief history of Mixed Martial Arts and the evolution of physical training for this ever-growing sport. Martin will cover the physical needs of the mixed martial artist as well as common forms of training (strength, speed, endurance) required for success. Also evaluated will be the current errors seen in training, periodization, and nutrition as it's being applied to MMA today.

Complete Nutrition for Sport and Fitness - Presented by Josh Hingst

Recording Date: Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Length: 60 minutes
Member Price: $34.95
Non Member Price: $34.95
This session will provide insight into the principles of nutrition for optimal sport and fitness performance. We will discuss nutrient timing strategies for athletes and general fitness clients. Learn ways nutrition affects body composition with specific attention to weight loss. We’ll cover the principles of weight gain and maximizing gain in lean body mass while minimizing gains in body fat. Finally, we’ll talk about specific dietary principles for optimum health and wellness.

Peaking in March: Basketball Strength and Conditioning Volume Considerations by Season - Presented by Mike Bridges

Recording Date: Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Length: 60 minutes
Member Price: $34.95
Non Member Price: $34.95
Peaking at the right time during the season is a critical part of training for competition. Hear firsthand from an experienced collegiate strength coach on how to manage training volume in each season to ensure your athletes are peaking at the right time during the season. See creative splits and ways to build work capacity as the season approaches, while avoiding running a team into the ground. Learn an objective method to quantify volume and intensity during practice and how that volume relates to competition. These objective methods will ensure your team will be prepared to peak when it matters most.

Muscles and Movement in 3D - Presented by Bill Sonnemaker

Recording Date: Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Length: 73 minutes
Member Price: $34.95
Non Member Price: $34.95
As Science and Technology move forward, so too should our understanding of how we select exercises and their acute variables. In this interactive hands-on session, we will take an in-depth look at functional anatomy and biomechanics in a dramatic new way. We will utilize Myofascial Lines (Front/Back Functional Lines, Superficial Front/Back Lines, Lateral Lines, Spiral Lines, etc.) to gain a more thorough understanding of how these myofascial tissues function to produce, reduce and stabilize forces that are transmitted through our bodies. Attendees will leave this session armed with a systematic and progressive approach that will provide them with thousands of exercise programs that they can begin applying immediately with their clients.

The Ins and Outs of Vertical Jump Training - Presented by Shawn Myszka

Recording Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Length: 84 minutes
Member Price: $34.95
Non Member Price: $34.95
Learn to improve jump performance for various sports. The vertical jump can be a tremendous predictor of success in speed and power sports. Explore what science and research tells us about jumping and discover new methods to properly train for even greater jumping success.

Agility Training: Fundamental Movement to Game Speed Success - Presented by Scott Moody

Recording Date: Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Length: 73 minutes
Member Price: $34.95
Non Member Price: $34.95
This webinar will explore an in depth progression of agility training geared toward improving quick feet, body control and explosive transitions moving from one exercise to another. The drills and concepts in this webinar discussed will improve reactive movement in situations specific to all sports.

Metabolic Training for Fat Loss - HIT Millennium Style (rr) - Presented by Juan Carlos Santana

Recording Date: Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Length: 70 minutes
Member Price: $34.95
Non Member Price: $34.95
This webinar covers the training that has taken his combat athletes to world championships and learn how he uses metabolic training to reduce body fat. Watch technique videos and discover what his training can do for body composition followed with a healthy nutritional program.

Supplementation for the College Athlete - Presented by Dr. Jay Hoffman

Recording Date: Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Length: 70 minutes
Member Price: $34.95
Non Member Price: $34.95
Gain a thorough understanding of supplements that have proven effective for strength, power and muscle size improvements. Examine how supplements enhance reaction time, recovery and delay fatigue. Discover commonly used compounds and supplement practices (e.g. nutrient timing issues) while learning of novel compounds that can be popular among collegiate athletes.

Trunk Training for Performance - Presented by Loren Landow

Recording Date: Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Length: 90 minutes
Member Price: $34.95
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Get a clearer picture of the trunk's vital role in athletic performance from isolated function to explosive force generation. Watch videos on sample exercises while exploring the structural and functional anatomy of the trunk musculature.

Protein Needs for Athletes - Presented by Dr. Bill Campbell

Recording Date: Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Length: 77 minutes
Member Price: $34.95
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Learn the proper amounts of protein that athletes should ingest on a daily basis and distinguish between protein needs and optimal protein intake to maximize training adaptations. Explore the aspect of the timing of protein intake as well as the effects of different types of proteins and how their quality should be considered on a regular basis.

Heat + Humidity: Impact on Training Capabilities and Performance - Presented by Dr. Randall Wilber

Recording Date: Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Length: 83 minutes
Member Price: $34.95
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Examine the physical and physiological effects of heat and humidity on an athletes' ability to train and perform. Learn the various types of heat illnesses while determining its clinical signs and symptoms. Dr. Wilber provides practical recommendations and strategies to help athletes and coaches reduce the potential negative impact of heat and humidity.

Facts and Fallacies of Fitness - Presented by Brad Schoenfeld

Recording Date: Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Length: 80 minutes
Member Price: $34.95
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Separate fitness fact from fiction and learn the real truth about many myths and misconceptions associated with exercise and sports nutrition in this informative webinar. An evidence-based approach is taken to examine the validity of many long-held fitness beliefs.

Shopping for Nutrition - Presented by Leslie Schilling

Recording Date: Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Length: 81 minutes
Member Price: $34.95
Non Member Price: $34.95
Many are completely overwhelmed by too many choices at the grocery store and base decisions on popular marketing brands to commercial hype or trends. Download this webinar as Leslie Schilling provides grocery shopping basics focusing on creating and maintaining healthier and nutritious grocery lists and meals. Distinguish between over-marketed items and nutritious general foods.

Developing First Step Power for Speed - Presented by David Sandler

Recording Date: Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Length: 73 minutes
Member Price: $34.95
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Learn to activate the explosive motor movement to get that first quick step for your athletes. This webinar takes you through a systematic approach to identifying weaknesses and developing the appropriate training program. Every coach knows the importance of speed and power for sport. Training knowledge has been around for decades and the research is providing a solid foundation for strength coaches. So what are we missing? This webinar looks inside the athlete showing how power, speed and reaction is created. Understand the importance of power production as it contributes to off-the-line acceleration developing first step quickness.

Periodization of Training Variables - Presented by Greg Haff

Recording Date: Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Length: 76 minutes
Member Price: $34.95
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This webinar provides the rationale behind sequential models of periodization while exploring the scientific support for these effective training models. View practical examples of how to integrate various training interventions into a sequential model of training that maximize performance at pre-determined time points.

Off-Ice Strength and Conditioning - Presented by Paul Goldberg

Recording Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Length: 93 minutes
Member Price: $34.95
Non Member Price: $34.95
Join Colorado Avalanche's Strength and Conditioning Coach, Paul Goldberg as he covers all aspects of developing a comprehensive off-ice strength and conditioning program for hockey. Coach Goldberg addresses strength/power training, dryland conditioning/agility, recovery, and nutrition for a successful year-round training program.

Nutrition - Your Missing Link? - Presented by Nancy Clark

Recording Date: Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Length: 70 minutes
Member Price: $34.95
Non Member Price: $34.95
Join Nancy Clark and explore ways to assist athletes curb cravings for sweets and junk food, eating right foods at the right times and achieving a desireable body weight. Too many athletes train hard, but they fail to pay attention to what they eat. How can we guide these athletes to fuel better, so they can enjoy the benefits associated with a better sports diet? This session will look at some missing nutritional links with suggestions for ways to help athletes eat wisely and win with good nutrition.