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    Low Back Pain—The Mobility-Stability Continuum
    by NSCA Personal Training Quarterly (PTQ)
    and Teddy Willsey, DPT, PT, CSCS, USAW
    Nearly all fitness professionals are forced to address low back pain (LBP) to some extent, regardless of the age or population with which they work. The purpose of this article is to shed light on contemporary research surrounding LBP.
    Is Athlete “Buy-In” All that it is Cracked up To Be? An Analysis of Strength and Conditioning Coach Talk Discourse
    by NSCA Coach
    and Brian Gearity PhD, CSCS
    and Clayton Kuklick, PhD, CSCS
    Learn about a framework for analyzing how knowledge is created through “coach talk discourses,” and how those discourses guide coaches’ thoughts, feelings, and practices. This article critiques the coach talk discourse of “buy-in” in order to provide strength and conditioning coaches with other ways to think about and understand coaching.
    Using Complexes to Help Improve Tactical Job Performance
    by NSCA Tactical Strength and Conditioning (TSAC) Report
    and Jay Dawes PhD, CSCS,*D, NSCA-CPT,*D, FNSCA
    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.
    The Power Position—Characteristics and Coaching Points
    by NSCA Coach
    and Michael Stone PhD
    The power position is an integral position for a variety of power lifting movements. Athletes can develop their power position via an integrated approach involving sound exercise selection and purposeful instruction leading to enhanced strength and technique.
    Youth Resistance Training
    by NSCA Classic
    and Yann Le Meur PhD
    The National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) recognizes and supports the premise that many of the benefits associated with adult resistance training programs are attainable by children and adolescents who follow age-specific resistance training guidelines.
    Developing Mental Skills in Athletes
    by NSCA Coach
    and Ben Fletcher MS, CSCS, FMS
    Strength and conditioning professionals should consider mental skills training when creating a training program to maximize performance. Developing mental skills is a very long and challenging process; however, the benefits are worth it. Utilizing these skills will put the athlete in a position to succeed in sport, as well as life.
    Transfer of Training for Agility
    by NSCA Kinetic Select
    Traditional lower-body resistance exercise alone may not be an optimal means of developing agility. Further, the effectiveness of straight-sprint training on agility performance has not been well established. In contrast, jump training, including loaded jump squats and horizontal and lateral jumps, holds promise.
    Increasing Performance on Tactical Aerobic Endurance Tasks
    by NSCA Tactical Strength and Conditioning (TSAC) Report
    When isolating aerobic capacity as a determinant of performance, traditional interventions have focused on increasing an individual’s VO2max. Based on the large acute improvements from a single positive psychology research study, investigations into the application of integrated psychophysiological strategies to optimize performance should be explored.
    From Successful Trainer to Gym Owner—9 Steps to Open Your First Facility: Part 2
    by NSCA Personal Training Quarterly (PTQ)
    and David Crump
    Before opening a facility, fitness professionals should perform the proper due diligence of researching and obtaining all the required documents to legally operate in a given municipality, learn the different types of commercial property, and build an equipment list that is in alignment with their business model.
    Dynamic Warm-Ups for the Land-Based Athlete
    by NSCA Coach
    and Julia Triano MS, CSCS Julian Lim
    One way to potentially lower an athlete’s susceptibility to injury is a proper warm-up protocol. Warm-ups can potentially aid in injury prevention as a result of optimized movement preparation, and it can also reduce muscle soreness and improve performance.