Colorado State Clinic

In this session, attendees will explore how the profession has changed across the collegiate, professional, and private sector settings while also highlighting the timeless principles that continue to drive athlete success. Through personal experiences, lessons learned, successes, and failures, this presentation will examine the evolving role of the strength coach, the impact of technology and data, the importance of building meaningful relationships, and the foundational coaching principles that remain as relevant today as they were 30 years ago. Attendees will leave with a greater appreciation for the profession’s past, a clearer perspective on its future, and practical insights they can apply regardless of their current coaching environment.

• Define strength as a dynamic expression of an athlete's ability to adapt and solve movement problems within sport-specific environments
• Identify the limitations of traditional strength training approaches when attempting to improve on-field or on-court performance
• Apply principles and methods of multi-directional movement competency and variability to enhance training transfer to their athlete's sport
• Design and implement training methods and progressions that bridge foundational strength development with real-game movement demands
• Evaluate athlete development through a performance and movement lens that incorporates adaptability, coordination and movement efficiency alongside traditional strength principles and metrics

Hands-on portion of presentation above.

• Method to interpret Force Plate data and use to bucket athletes
• Scale programming to affect large number of athletes
• Continue to progress athletes by reevaluating and making changes to program/exercises based off data

• Budget management
• Income diversifcation
• Fundraising strategies
• Administrative communication
• Personnel innovation
• Operational efficiency
• Professional sustainability

• Analyze the mechanical demands of heavy load carriage to mitigate bone stress injuries in tactical athletes
• Design progressive training programs that bridge the gap between selection preparation and long-term operational readiness
• Evaluate field metrics to shift training paradigms from physical exhaustion to sustainable physical durability
• Implement scalable human performance strategies to optimize structural integrity under operational load

• Explain the phsyiological changes that occur throughout menstrual cycle and their potential implications for training and performance
• Distinguish evidence based recommendations from common misconseptions surrounding menstrual cycle based programming
• Apply evidence informated programming considerations to optimize training and performance for female athletes

This session examines the biomechanical principles that maximize performance in the Olympic lifts and their application within athletic performance training.  Through a brief lecture and practical weight room activities, attendees will explore the relationships between balance, bar path, timing, and force production, along with common technical errors and effective coaching corrections.  Participants will leave with practical drills, coaching cues, and a deeper understanding of how to teach and implement Olympic weightlifting movements more effectively within strength and conditioning programs. 

Hands-on portion of presentation above. 

• Learn and apply linear and COD mechanics
• Learn and simplify and apply major KPIs and metrics after evaluating

• Understanding the cycle of performance as a natural cycle of human functioning
• Understanding the power of full engagement in the cycle of performance
• Understanding the mind as an independent muscle that MUST be trained appropriately
• Understanding how to improve mental fitness for a healthy ready and resilient state

• Sports nutrition’s impact on performance
• Energy availability: macronutrients, sleep
• Common mistakes strength coaches see in athletes
• When to refer to sports RD