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.
Managing workload and optimizing athlete performance while promoting injury-free participation is simplified using the eight tips in this article.
This 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.
This excerpt from the Essentials of Strength Training and Conditioning, 4th Edition gives a quick glimpse into some of the implements used in strongman training.
The purpose of this article is to discuss caffeine use in tactical populations and provide recommendations for responsible consumption.
In the first of a two part series, this article will briefly highlight the main components of a needs analysis and apply it to the context of soccer.
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