2022 NSCA Tactical Annual Training

light breakfast served

1. Attendees will learn seven keys to developing successful organizational wellness programs and creating a culture of wellness within their organizations.
2. Attendees will learn from past practices and events and identify ways to improve their agency's response to these tragic events.
3. Attendees will learn strategies for enhancing employee safety, wellness, recruitment, and retention.

lunch not provided

1. Understand underlying factors of physical stress demands for operators.
2. Identify trainable factors to heighten integrity.
3. Demonstrate strategies for enhancing physical resiliency.

1. Describe the talent pool for DoD and first responder populations.
2. Understand current physical activity efforts to characterize during initial military and academy training.

1. Identify foundational and transitional movements required of tactical professionals and discuss where these are found in the weight room.
2. Apply different manipulations to exercise set up and execution to challenge posture and positions found while on duty.
3. Analyze the transfer of training from weight room to challenging environments maintaining a high level of performance where it matters most, on duty.

1. Understand heart rate variability as a physiological measure.
2. What can we learn from heart rate variability?
3. Can rate variability be applied in the tactical environment to evaluate readiness?

1. Participants will be able to define what it means to take a trauma-informed approach.
2. Participants will be able to identify the ways that trauma impacts the nervous system.
3. Participants will be able to describe how they may take a trauma-informed approach to working with their operators.

1. Describe the talent pool for DoD and first responder populations.
2. Understand current physical activity efforts to characterize during initial military and academy training.

1. At the end of the lecture - the attendee will understand the difference between preparing and sustaining athletes and operators. 
2. The attendee will be shown how in-season and off-season models of periodizaiton must be adapted to the active operator training world.
3. The attendee will be exposed to common types of injuries, common mistakes made by tactical operators in training and how to adapt training over a career.
4. The attendee will see how programming can be managed with the time constraints of the real world and job of being a tactical professional.  

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1. Identify the process of implementing a health and wellness program for police officers, the challenges that need to be overcome, and what strategies can be used to overcome these challenges. 
2. Recognize approaches that could be used to encourage officer participation in a health and wellness program and support from leadership within the police department. 
3. Comprehend the health and fitness data recorded from police officers who participate within a health and wellness program, acknowledge what this data shows relative to program effectiveness, and understand how this data could be used to provide an evidence-base for a health and wellness program in a police department.

1. Identify S&C Frameworks vs Templates.
2. Identify Challenges to Implementation in Tactical.
3. Provide Strategies for Adapting Traditional S&C Experience to Tactical Jobs.
4. Discuss How To Train/On-Board New Tactical Coaches.

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1. To help law enforcement officers incorporate a nervous-system based approach into resilience training and rehabilitation programs.
2. To allow law enforcement officers to improve the cognitive skills necessary to achieve the overarching goal of enhancing critical decision-making under duress.
3. To offer law enforcement officers with easy-to-implement intervention methods in the aim of increasing officer career longevity.

1. Identifying the best assessments specific to firefighters to improve success and reduce injuries.
2. Understand the Risk management model and how it applies to injury prevention.

1. Discuss real world data regarding police academy cadet physical preparation.
2. Analyze comparisons of expectations of academy goals and actual outcomes.
3. Compare standards of assessment in departments with and without physical ability entry parameters.
4. Analyze comparisons of expectations of academy goals and actual outcomes.
5. Compare standards of assessment in departments with and without physical ability entry parameters.

1. Identify top deficiency in the Strength MVMT of the Tactical Athlete.
2. Provide a Prescription to Resolve the Tactical Athletes major weakness.

1. Understand the functional anatomy of the wrist and hand and how sensory input dictates elbow and shoulder health and function.
2. Discover the common upper extremity functional limitations related to the tactical athlete and operator and understand the patterns that lead to various pain presentations related to operating a firearm. 
3. Practically apply new strategies of working with the wrist and hand to enhance performance and reduce risk of injury during training and field work.

1. Provide a blueprint for human performance program evaluation.
2. Detail the organizational structure, objectives, and marriage of O&M with S&T R&D.
3. Identify steps for selecting tools, technologies, and techniques based on staff/SME recommendations.
4. Outline assessment and monitoring strategies to address program goals.

1. Compare the strengths and limitations of current functional and core training concepts.
2. Explain the six degress of movement freedom in relation to anatomical, biomechanical, and phsiological strength and conditioning requirements.
3. Defend an evidence-based strength and conditioning program approach for differencet tactical populations to increase neuromusculoskeletal performance and resilience.

lunch not provided

1. Define the FBI Performance Principles that drive the training.
2. Execute the drills to enhance the human weapon system.

1. Identify valid and context-appropriate measures of individual and group workload induce stress.
2. Determine the differences between Internal-, External-, and Mechanical-stressors to guide technology integration planning. 
3. Discern operationally relevant technology tools to incorporate and avoid misusing time, money, and manpower within a tactical human performance team.

1. At the conclusion of the presentation, attendees will be able to list national, regional, and local sources and trends of law enforcement injury data.
2. At the conclusion of the presentation, attendees will recall at least three gaps in law enforcement injury research and potential viable mitigation actions for their operating environment.
3.  At the conclusion of the presentation, attendees will evaluate and prioritize the three most important stakeholders for their unique injury identification and mitigation efforts.

1. Describe how typical duties of the tactical athlete can be harmful to joint health.
2. Identify nutritional compounds that have demonstrated the potential to conserve cartilage.
3. Employ an effective dietary strategy to preserve joint health.

1. Recognize the challenges that present at each phase of a firefighter’s career.
2. Identify why firefighters need adjustable nutrition and fitness goals.
3. Recall realistic interventions designed to improve firefighter health at any stage.

1. Develop a human performance implementation approach nested with higher headquarters.
2. Evaluate and prioritize initiatives based on return on readiness.
3. Utilize existing organizational systems to accelerate human performance implementation.

1. Attendees will be provided with evidence-based information regarding measures of health, fitness, and movement quality which have been related to MSKI risk among firefighters
2. how health, fitness, and movement quality of firefighters changes during the course of their careers; and
3. example programming that can be utilized to improve functional movement quality of firefighters within firehouses.

1. The impact of Respiratory Muscle Power (or Power of Breathing) on heavy- or severe-intensity exercise, e.g., Critical Velocity/Speed?   
2. Types of occupational personal protective equipment could influence RMP.
3. Different kinds of Respiratory Muscle Training to improve RMP.

1. Attendees will secure an understanding of overall attitudes and values place on physical fitness and obesity in law enforcement from Police Chiefs.
2. Attendees will learn three different levels of programming for an agency in order to meet attitudes and values from leadership where they are.
3. Attendees will learn different implementation strategies for programs addressing wellness and fitness attributes in various agencies and be provided program components that can be utilized at any stage of support within an agency.

1. Attendees gain applicable regression and progression alternatives for common exercises.
2. Attendees learn variables to adjust in order to modify for pain and fatigue.
3. Attendees learn common barriers to physical training.

1. Benefits of Body Composition Assessment.
2. Practical Applications on Setting up a Body Composition Program.

1. Understand what psychological skills are and how they apply to tactical athletes.
2. Develop a practical approach to utilizing psychological skills in and out of the tactical setting.
3. Learn to apply psychological skills to improve tactical performance.