Arizona State Clinic / IN-PERSON

Participants will learn various strategies, ideas, and implementations that will develop a positive and successful culture for program development, strength & conditioning, and character development that will not only impact a program and school but an entire community.

We will be utilizing the hands to look at the shoulder through a different lens and visualize a new perspective of intention with our coaching and training to break through plateaus, move better, build bigger shoulders and put shoulder pain in the past.

This presentation will highlight the influence nutrition has in sports and physical performance and how these influences can impact athletes both in a sports team and private training facility setting. In addition to this, this presentation will cover the general nutrition needs and considerations across various sports and activity-types as well as practical strategies and common challenges relating to nutrition implementation in various settings. This presentation will also provide examples and strategies for building a nutrition program with relevant resources.

Mentorship is vital to success in every field, including the field of strength and conditioning. This presentation will define mentorship based on current literature, we will discuss why it is important within strength and conditioning, elaborate on the roles of the mentor and mentee and what we can do to assist those around us.

Our conventional knowledge of anatomy and biomechanics is incomplete. We have been educated on the human frame as it relates to open chain motion. Yet when the body come into contact with the ground everything changes. Muscles move in a much different manner than what the anatomy books tell us. This course takes functional, closed chain biomechanics and applies that knowledge in the weight room.

Attendees will learn skills and techniques on how to properly program and think outside the box for tactical athletes, decide the right corrective exercises for their specific athlete, along with looking into how to program different warmup strategies.

One of the largest obstacles to youth athletic development is access to proper facilities for training. In this presentation, we will outline how we have been working with two youth ice hockey programs, female and male, to deliver well rounded and meaningful training to 200+ athletes with little more than 100 sq ft of space and little to no weights. We will discuss how creativity has played a role in ensuring the proper stimuli be provided and the selection process of testing protocols to assess progress without sacrificing reliability and validity. The attendee will walk away with knowledge to better help them implement training to programs with less than idea facilities without sacrificing quality.