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Strength and Conditioning Principles in Healthcare – Lessons for Coaches and Clinicians
October 19, 2026by Jack Russek, MPH, CSCS
This article discusses how strength and conditioning coaches can improve communication with healthcare professionals and apply shared concepts across performance and health settings. Visit NSCA online to read more on professional development and coaching strategies.
Exercise Science Program design Organization and Administration Testing and Evaluation Client Consultation|Assessment Professional Development
Executing Key Progressive Sequences for Functional Strength
May 9, 2018by Diane Vives, MS, CSCS,*D
In this session from the 2015 NSCA Personal Trainers Conference, Diane Vives demonstrates key sequences of progressive and regressive tactics that build functional strength for primary lower body exercises. Learn to coach effectively in order to prompt the best execution and to identify common barriers of better movement to determine the best choices for progression and regression tactics for these movements.
Personal trainers Coaches Exercise Technique Program design
Movement Screening, Testing, and Assessment
August 19, 2018by Gray Cook
In this video from the NSCA's 2014 Movement Performance Clinic, Gray Cook, OCS, CSCS, introduces the Functional Movement Screen (FMS), and discusses the importance of testing and assessing your athletes' and clients' ability to move well.
Personal trainers TSAC Facilitators Coaches Exercise Technique Program design
Core Programming: Trunk Movement Complexes
June 11, 2018by Developing the Core
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
Shoulder Taps – A Novel Time-Efficient Screening Tool for Tactical Operators
October 21, 2019by Katherine Balfany, CSCS, Caitlyn Heredia, and Robert Lockie, PhD, TSAC-F
This article presents the shoulder taps, which could serve as a more time-efficient screening tool for tactical operators. Although this article will present the shoulder taps as an assessment modality, it may be expanded upon and prescribed as an exercise for the purpose of improving trunk, hip, and shoulder stability.
TSAC Facilitators Exercise Technique Program design Testing and Evaluation
Progressive Strategies for Teaching Fundamental Resistance Training Movement Patterns
September 16, 2023by Merrick Lincoln, PT, DPT, CSCS, Kaitlyn Ill, and Matthew Ibrahim, MS
This article provides the personal trainer with sample exercise progressions for teaching resistance training movement patterns along with practical strategies for instruction and reinforcement of proper technique.
Personal trainers Exercise Technique Program design
The FMS Hurdle Step
January 25, 2024by Grayson Elmore, PhD, ATC, CSCS
The second in a planned series to review essential considerations of each Functional Movement Screen (FMS) pattern, this article will examine the FMS hurdle step pattern in finer detail.
Personal trainers Program design Client Consultation|Assessment
Safe Progression for Balance Exercises
May 18, 2018by NSCA's Guide to Program Design
A major concern with balance and joint-stabilization exercises is to avoid potentially dangerous movements that depend on the preparedness of the athlete or patient and on the state of the healing tissue. Learn about progressions that minimize risk to the athlete or patient.
Coaches Exercise Science Program design
Methods for Screening and Preventing Common Injuries in Division I Basketball Players
June 11, 2018by Casey James Cathrall, MSEd, CSCS
By gathering information about potential risk factors associated with basketball injuries, strength and conditioning coaches can create individualized programs to help keep their basketball athletes healthy and performing at the best of their abilities.
Coaches Exercise Technique Program design
Progression for First Responders to Help Prevent Lifting Injuries
April 23, 2018by Bryan Fass, ATC, CSCS
This article contains a sample progression to use with high call volume fire departments to help maintain mobility while building job-specific strength and avoiding a hyper-fatigued state.
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