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Understanding and Managing Stress in Collegiate Athletics
by Jonathan Lynch, MS, CSCS,*DJune 01, 2016
It is important for strength and conditioning coaches, sport coaches, athletic trainers, and administrators to recognize and address the evidence of stress within student-athletes in order to avoid chronic stress-related anxiety and injury.
Land-Based Strength and Conditioning for Swimming
by Chat Williams, MS, CSCS*D, NSCA-CPT*DJune 01, 2017
Incorporating land-based strength and conditioning into a training regimen can give a swimmer a competitive edge. As with every sport, there are sport-specific exercises the athlete should perform in order to mimic the specific sport movement they are trying to improve.
Using Complexes to Help Improve Tactical Job Performance
by Jay Dawes PhD, CSCS,*D, NSCA-CPT,*D, FNSCAAugust 24, 2018
Just as any athletic team can benefit from sport-specific training, tactical professionals can benefit from occupational task-specific training as well. Combining pushing, pulling, pressing, and total body movements into complexes may help mimic the demands and movements of job tasks that tactical personnel may encounter.
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Functional Core Assessment
By Developing the Core | October 11, 2019This excerpt from Developing the Core discusses two testing methods that may predict a strong or weak core based on how well the participant completes the task.
Fat Loss Nutrition—Why and How to Minimize High-Reward Foods
By Nick Tumminello, NSCA-CPT and James Krieger, MS | October 11, 2019This article provides practical guidelines for limiting high-reward foods and demonstrates why minimizing high-reward foods is a simple and well-supported strategy for long-term adherence to a nutritional approach that emphasizes high-quality, nutrient-dense, lower calorie foods.
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TSAC Report – January, 2019 Research Column
By Brian Schilling, PhD, CSCS, FNSCA and Dustin Dunnick | October 11, 2019This article is part of a continuing series of tactical strength and conditioning (TSAC) research reviews. It is designed to bring awareness to new research findings of relevance to tactical strength and conditioning communities.
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Group Personal Training for Osteoporosis Prevention
By Dr Vu H. Nguyen, CSCS, NSCA-CPT | October 08, 2019Osteoporosis and low bone mineral density (BMD) are conditions that affect millions of people, and the amount of people afflicted is on the rise. To potentially reverse this trend, personal trainers can provide group sessions of high-intensity progressive resistance training to increase BMD and prevent osteoporosis.
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