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Sports Concussion: The Role of Neck Strength and Risk Reduction
February 3, 2015
Despite an incidence of approximately 3.8 million sports-related concussions per year, prevention of this injury remains quite challenging. Neck strengthening may limit transmitted forces to the head and mitigate trauma to the brain. In this session from the 2015 NSCA Coaches Conference, Tad Seifert reviews current evidence-based data in neck strength and its association with concussions.
Coaches Exercise Science Exercise Technique Program design Safety neuroscience recovery Safety Concussion Neck Strength Risk Reduction
Hamstring Training for Injury Prevention – Part I
January 1, 2013
This article provides a review of the anatomy of the hamstring muscles and includes ways to minimize the severity and frequency of hamstring strains.
Coaches Exercise Science Program design injury prevention hamstring injury hamstring strain; hamstring training
Two-Arm Kettlebell Swing
May 1, 2017
Read a step-by-step description of how to perform the two-arm kettlebell swing, in this exclusive excerpt from the book Exercise Technique Manual for Resistance Training-3rd Edition With Online Video, published by Human Kinetics.
Coaches Exercise Science Exercise Technique kettlebell kettlebell swing kettlebell training two-arm kettlebell swing strength training
Needs Analysis for Injury Prevention
May 1, 2017
By understanding the means by which athletes encounter risk, strength and conditioning professionals can integrate exercise programs that may offset one of the steps toward injuries.
Coaches Program design injury prevention needs analysis
The Inter-Association Task Force for Preventing Sudden Death in Collegiate Conditioning Sessions
May 1, 2017
This consensus statement provides specific conditioning recommendations with the intent of ending conditioning-related morbidity and deaths of collegiate athletes.
Coaches Exercise Science Safety collegiate conditioning rhabdomyolysis safety National Athletic Trainers’ Association
Tire Flipping—A Method of Assessing Functional Power Output for Firefighters
April 1, 2013
The movement pattern utilized when flipping a tire is similar to the movements required during firefighting. Learn not only how to flip a tire, but how to assess functional power output among firefighters through the use of tire flipping.
TSAC Facilitators Exercise Science Exercise Technique Client Consultation|Assessment Strength training Conditioning training Tire flipping workouts Tire workouts Tire flip; How to flip a tire Tire flipping weight Tire flipping benefits Tire flipping technique tire flipping how to flip a tire
Managing Fatigue as a Strength Coach Joe Kenn, MA, CSCS,*D, RSCC, spoke at the NSCA's National Confere
July 30, 2012
Joe Kenn, MA, CSCS,*D, RSCC, spoke at the NSCA's National Conference about managing fatigue in players.
Coaches Exercise Science fatigue planning ahead
Developing Powerful Athletes, Part 1: Mechanical Underpinnings
June 12, 2020
This infographic describes athletic movements through the force-time curve and associated considerations necessary to report and assess athletic force.
Personal trainers TSAC Facilitators Coaches Exercise Science Infographics Force-Velocity Curve Force-Time Curve Rate of Force Development Power
Youth Resistance Training
August 24, 2018
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.
Coaches Exercise Science Program design Youth Resistance Training infographics Youth Programming
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