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Hybrid Strength Complexes for Fat Loss & Conditioning
June 16, 2014
This hands-on lecture features Nick Tumminello, who spoke during the NSCA's 2014 TSAC Conference on the programming and use of hybrid strength complexes to lose fat and increase conditioning.
Personal trainers TSAC Facilitators Exercise Technique Program design strength complex fat loss body fat programming
Bridge: Warm up complexes and progression to train for increased rate of force development, with Nick Savage
October 29, 2018
Nick Savage, Director of Football Strength and Conditioning at the University of Florida, demonstrates warm-up complexes and Olympic-style lifting progressions to improve force development.
Coaches Exercise Technique Program design Olympic Lifts Progressions Rate of Force Development Power Development
Core Programming: Trunk Movement Complexes
June 1, 2017
The exerciser with 8 to 12 months of training experience can begin to include exercise complexes that combine trunk movement patterns with multijoint movements. Single-plane and multiplane movements can be performed using both open- and closed-chain exercises.
Coaches Exercise Science Program design exercise complexes core training strength and conditioning multijoint movements
Using Complexes to Help Improve Tactical Job Performance
August 24, 2018
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.
TSAC Facilitators Program design Complexes Tactical Strength Tactical Endurance TSAC Programming Complexes
Progressive Speed and Power Training Concepts
June 27, 2015
In this practical session from the 2015 NSCA National Conference, Jimmy Radcliffe explains how to integrate strength and speed complexes and plyometric progressions into periodic progressions. Radcliffe is well-known for authoring “Functional Training for Athletes at all Levels” and “High-Powered Plyometrics.”
Coaches Exercise Technique Program design velocity based training VBT Power Plyometrics Plyometric progression
Tactical Performance Concepts & Application
The importance of physical fitness is never greater than when lives are at stake. Specifically, professionals in law enforcement, fire/rescue, and the military need fitness and tactical athleticism to efficiently respond to calls and complete missions regardless of the obstacles, mixed terrain, interference, and dangerous environmental conditions involved
Basic Obstacle Race Program Design for a First-Time Participant
April 21, 2023
The purpose of this article is to provide personal trainers an overview of training clients for their first Spartan Sprint event.
Personal trainers Program design Aerobic Endurance Muscular Strength Grip Strength
The Gray Area of Programming Weightlifting Exercises
January 8, 2021
The purpose of this article is to discuss the gray area that should be considered when it comes to implementing weightlifting exercises.
Coaches Exercise Technique Program design Weightlifting Lift Progressions Triple Extension Load Acceptance
Core Strength and Functionality with Loaded Carries
July 1, 2016
What training approaches are efficient and effective at developing functionality and resiliency at the core? The answer lies within an intelligent, systemic, multi-method approach to training the core, including an eclectic set of training tools to individualize specific needs of athletes.
Coaches Exercise Technique Program design strength and conditioning Core training
Examining the Efficacy of Common Fitness and Movement Tests—Personal Perspective
June 1, 2017
In the push for personal training sales, many gyms will use assessment protocols as a way to prove to clients that they can indeed benefit from personal training. This article examines the merits behind this concept.
Personal trainers Program design Testing and Evaluation PTQ Personal Training exercise assessment sales tactics
