New Jersey State Clinic

• Understand current trends in youth fitness and the importance of muscular strength during the growing years
• Describe the potential benefits of resistance training for children and adolescents
• Evaluate the impact of muscle strength on health and performance during childhood and adolescence
• Question the traditional youth fitness pyramid and propose the pediatric activity pyramid

Conditioning programs are often an afterthought and generally utilize a blanket approach with vague goals. However, conditioning should run parallel to the other aspects of the program including strength, power, speed, and change of direction. This lecture will provide attendees with an overview of the unique physiological traits that can be trained using various forms of conditioning and how these can fit into the overall program to optimize human performance for various populations from elite athletes to the general population. Emphasis will be placed on aligning conditioning to distinct phases within the periodization moving from general to specific phases.

• Learn how to rotate dynamic effort & strength effort in-season
• Considerations of intensity and volume
• Modification for specific position groups

• Learn how to manipulate team practice session volume and intensity and how to reverse engineer weight training and conditioning sessions so that they complement team practices
• Understand how to manage athletes with undertrained or overreaching training stimuli as well as how to monitor the different stages and progressions of return to play protocols for injured athletes
• Become familiar with how to use technologies such as heart rate monitors, GPS, VBT, and force plates to monitor training loads and injury status across the competitive season and recognize more budget friendly options to achieve the same

• Discuss important coaching skills that cannot be learned in the textbook
• The science and the art of coaching
• A day in the life of a Division 1 strength & conditioning coach

In a world plagued with public health issues, strength and conditioning professionals are uniquely positioned to make significant contributions to health outcomes. This presentation will be useful for any strength and conditioning coach looking for a new perspective and hoping to find ways to scale their work and impact a larger population.