2021 NSCA Tactical Annual Training

Light breakfast served in foyer

Hundreds of tactical strength and conditioning jobs are scheduled to be posted within the next year, and we don’t want you to miss out!  Subject Matter Experts from KBR, Magellan Federal, REEF Systems and SERCO will provide the latest information about current opportunities in the field plus insight into how the field will continue to grow and evolve in 2022 and beyond. 

Lunch not provided

1. Teach Tactically Specific Movements for Speed and Agility
2. How to incorporate movement into tactical training sessions
3. Learn how to incorporate effective and competitive movement strategies to enhance training outcomes

1. Describe the historical and current Army Master Fitness Trainer (MFT) training path and capabilities
2. Understand the Army MFT potential capabilities in units with and without H2F resources
3. Appreciate the new training path for Army MFTs at the U.S. Army Physical Fitness School

1. The attendee will list the top three factors of successful academy recruits.
2. The attendee will list the top two factors of recruits who separated from academy
3. The attendee will review trends of perceived wellness, sleep, self-reported hydration from this recruit population.

1. Understanding how to work around injuries/surgeries
2. Understand the basic function of the fascia system with regard to strength training
3. Learn new exercises designed to emphasize the fascia slings

1. Strategies to integrate cognitive training with tactical training
2. Low cost, Low Tech strategies

1. How to start a sleep performance program within your organization
2. Personnel needed
3. Lessons learned from implementation

Chalk talks give the attendee an opportunity to participate in the discussion as the speaker is available to delve further into their topic.

1. Identify agility demands of LEO/Fire/Warfighters athletes and provide programming templates targeting specific adaptations.
2. Apply assessments to find limitations reducing risk of injury and dynamic movement to develop competency empowering performance.

1. Identity the common causes of attrition in tactical personnel
2. Connect key scientific constructs to real-world performance outcomes
3. Detail assessment and monitoring strategies to address attrition
4. Provide best practices for visualizing and actioning data to decisions

1. Identify musculoskeletal injury types and incidence in military populations.
2. Define physiological consequences of musculoskeletal injury and associated challenges to recovery – where do current return-to-duty protocols fall short?
3. Describe the role of protein intake in accelerating and optimizing post-injury recovery

Chalk talks give the attendee an opportunity to participate in the discussion as the speaker is available to delve further into their topic.

All attendees and exhibitors welcome

1. Understand why modern humans struggle with movement health and provide insight into the process of movement discovery.
2. Explain why we need to clearly define movement related terms when it comes to flexibility, mobility, stretching, strength, and control.
3. Discuss why current rehabilitation and physical preparedness measures are inadequate, leaving athletes strong, yet broken, and how our environment has set us up for failure.
4. Apply best practices for enhancing mobility under new, clearly defined guidelines with a focus on long term investment versus short term gain.
5. How to practically apply the idea of length through strength with self-assessment utilizing the breath, working with your feet, and setting intention behind your movement.

1. Identify grant opportunities to help fund your program
2. Understanding how to set up and apply for grants based on needs analysis
3. Describe the procurement process upon winning the grant

1. Understanding common issues of low back pain in tactical athletes
2. Practical methods of screening, programming and progressions for returning back to duty from low back pain

1. Define occupational stress physiology, its impact on body protein homeostasis, and its catabolic and functional impact on tactical performance
2. Define contemporary protein recommendations and their efficacy for tactical athletes
3. Explore the future of recovery nutrition for tactical operations

1. Attendees will learn why it is important to train the body and mind together
2. Attendees will be provided with examples of training sessions and explanations to real world applications

Chalk talks give the attendee an opportunity to participate in the discussion as the speaker is available to delve further into their topic.

1. What, Why, and How to Implement
2. Building Relationships
3. Buy In

1. Lead organizations to break away from training for the test
2. Identify the fundamentals that must precede technology and equipment
3. Describe how leadership matters more than programming

1. Recognize anatomical, biomechanical, and physiological influences imparted by lower limb structures and their impacts on performance and injury risk.
2. Produce an evidence-based strength and conditioning program for different tactical populations to increase neuromuscular resilience for the lower limbs

Take advantage of this exclusive opportunity for you to meet directly with the hiring managers of the top tactical strength and conditioning employers in the country!  KBR, Magellan Federal, REEF Systems, and SERCO, will be onsite.  Learn what “a day in the life” of a tactical strength and conditioning coach is like, and begin your journey to securing a valuable job through which you can help tactical professionals build the physical strength that they need to optimize their performance and save lives.  Everyone is welcome!  No prior military / tactical experience necessary. 

Lunch not provided

1. Applying research in the field to understand recovery and readiness to return to duty.
2. Understanding the importance of the mind and body connection in recovery and readiness to return to duty.
3. Understanding that reconditioning and leadership systems in the return to duty process can heal the Tactical Professional or break them.

1. Facility/Equipment Procurement
2. Funding Options
3. Organization/Administration 

1. Understand how the officer’s see themselves and the world around them
2. Learn how to reset those patterns, from the inside-out
3. Create routines to instill positive shifts in daily life

Chalk talks give the attendee an opportunity to participate in the discussion as the speaker is available to delve further into their topic.

1. Design Organization
2. Implementation of Program
3. What worked, what did not

1. Most common injuries in military and cause
2. Performing physical training to assist rehab

1. Participants will gain understanding of the stress response mechanism and how this impacts performance.
2. Participants will understand the role of the autonomic nervous system and evidence based strategies for stress regulation and mental performance.
3. Participants will gain practical strategies for integrating mental performance training for individuals and organizations alike.

1. Identify Disconnect between Fitness Programs & Career Fitness Requirements
2. Instructor Lead Training (Non-Conforming)
3. Suggested Incentives and Changes for Success in Fitness Programs (i.e. HITT, Group X, MWR Fitness/Recreation)

1. Learn the difference between GS positions and contract positions for tactical strength coaches.
2. Where practitioners should to look for jobs in the tactical performance domain in both GS and contract domains.
3. Learn the do's and don't s of resumes, applications, networking, job hunting and landing jobs in the tactical performance career field.

1. Appreciate that an effective human performance team in the military setting prioritizes its investment in the human components of both its staff and the soldiers they serve over program variables, technology, equipment, space, and data.
2. Learn a systematic approach to selecting ideal human performance team members by objectively evaluating their professional values, motivation, and competence.
3. Adopt an effective strategy for promoting and enhancing a collaborative team environment facilitated by open communication and fueled by a shared cause.
4. Increase a human performance team’s potency within a stubborn military culture through evidence-based methods for achieving influence in the absence of legitimate power.

1. Background and definitions: Exercise intensity domains, the first and second thresholds, and aerobic and anaerobic fitness.
2. Overview: Current methods to quantify aerobic and anaerobic fitness (VO2max, MLSS, etc.), and introduction to the Critical Velocity Model.
3. How to: Calculating critical velocity using field data, in order to assess aerobic and anaerobic fitness.

1. Educate audience on the history and future of human performance in the military setting
2. Provide effective tactics to engage key stakeholders that will help strength and conditioning professionals to be successful in the Army brigade environment

1. Creating “buy in”
2. Establishing a foundation and building up and out
3. Utilizing all the tools in our tool box. (Staff, facilities and resources)

Chalk talks give the attendee an opportunity to participate in the discussion as the speaker is available to delve further into their topic.

1. Stockpile an arsenal of tactics for bolstering health and wellness all while focusing on the target of helping firefighters live their best lives.
2. Procure evidence based best practices to inspire upstream behavioral change all while operating within the boundaries of “your lane”.
3. Obtain immediately implementable strategies aimed at enhancing mental acuity, improving movement, and upgrading dietary choices.

1. By the end of the session, attendees will be able to highlight how they can educate those they work with through informal approaches to education.
2. Attendees will be able to list the benefits of educating on wellness at the grassroots level and how it can positively impact the change in wellness culture overtime in an organization.
3. Attendees will be able to describe why wellness education and developing wellness interest at the grassroots level will benefit new police officers and support the longevity of their career.

1. The need to access Cardiovascular fitness and current methods of assessing VO2max among structural firefighters.
2. Occupational Specific VO2max protocol and improved with a physical activity rating.
3. Comparing Cardioresporitory Fitness to objective measure PA during a tour of duty.

1. Show the need for autoregulatory training and recovery protocols within the tactical community that help to promote force readiness, performance, and long-term sustainment
2. Demonstrate how different pieces of commonly available commercial off the shelf (COTS) technologies can be combined and integrated into a comprehensive system that provides data-driven immediate and actionable recommendations for training and augmented recovery
3. Discuss how this autoregulatory approach provides programming flexibility to coaches and empowers them with a fusion of objectively measured and subjectively qualified readiness and wellness information

1. To understand the importance of a tactical strength and conditioning coordinator (facilitator) in a firefighter wellness program and how one regulates, manages, and monitors the program.
2. To investigate adversity, obstacles, and reasons for concern toward strength and conditioning program application and what resources can be considered for program growth and value.
3. To explore potential program collaborations, research partnerships, and testing/evaluation resources with a university’s kinesiology department.

1. A quick review of the research behind physiological differences between male and female soldiers. 
2. A practical guide to implementation of the research into a holistic training program.

1. Describe general information about government contracting
2. List key questions to ask when interviewing for a government contract job
3. Describe common mistakes and corrective actions made in government contracting

1. Participants will gain a perspective on how to design and implement annual health, wellness, and fitness screening program.
2. Participants will learn steps to incorporate integrated training strategies to increase health, fitness, buy-in, and adherence among firefighters.
3. Participants will gain an understanding of the university partnership, benefits, challenges, and its successes in different settings.

1. Become familiar with psychological skills associated with arousal control.
2. Develop an understanding of how to develop buy-in for psychological skills training with tactical athletes
3. Identify simple and novel strategies to incorporate arousal control training in the gym

1. Understand the impact of nutrition and on sleep.
2. Identify and prevent negative nutrition behaviors that negatively impact sleep.
3. Identify and apply positive nutrition behaviors that may enhance sleep quality.

1. Having a dialog with the Commander you advise about their Mission/Unit specific Tactical needs analyses.
2. Define METL aligned Tactical Athlete performance metrics/objectives based on the Commander’s Intent.
3. Sports specificity synchronization into Macro/Mesocycles that will drive daily training sessions.