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Year-Round Nutrition Program
March 5, 2021
This excerpt briefly explains nutrition periodization for different training cycles to help maximize performance for endurance athletes.
Personal trainers Coaches Nutrition Macronutrients Hydration Nutrition Periodization Training Cycle
Carbohydrate Periodization—Part 2: Time Carbohydrate Restriction
August 19, 2019
This is the second part of a two-part series that investigates the effects of dietary carbohydrate availability on exercise performance and how specifically timed restriction of carbohydrates may also paradoxically enhance exercise performance in the medium and long term.
Personal trainers Nutrition Carbohydrates Carbohydrate Restriction Glycogen Calorie Intake
TSAC Report – July 2020 Research Column
April 9, 2021
This article is part of a continuing series of tactical strength and conditioning (TSAC) research reviews. It is designed to bring awareness to new research findings of relevance to tactical strength and conditioning communities.
TSAC Facilitators Exercise Science Program design Testing and Evaluation Lower-body Strength Triple Hop Body Composition Soldier Endurance
Autonomy-Supportive Coaching: A New Perspective on Training Athletes
November 12, 2021
From the 2021 NSCA’s Coaches Conference, Adam Feit, Coordinator of Physical and Mental Performance at Springfield College, discusses the benefits of satisfying athletes’ and coaches’ basic psychological needs. He also explains how behaviors can help or hinder performance and how to create an autonomy-supportive training and coaching environment.
Coaches Professional Development Behaviors Motivation Support Feedback Autonomy-Supportive Training
Lessons Learned – “The Training Process”
June 5, 2020
In this session from the NSCA Coaches Conference 2020, Bo Sandoval, Director of Strength and Conditioning for the UFC Performance Institute, discusses the processes in which they assess their athletes, provide individualized training programs to make weight or build performance, and the various ways they are collecting vital information and research pertaining to fighters.
Coaches Program design Testing and Evaluation MMA Energy Systems Development Surveys Weight Class
Effects of Training on Sand or Hard Surfaces on Sprint and Jump Performance of Team-Sport Players: A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis
June 18, 2021
This infographic breaks down training on different surfaces and how they affect performance outcomes.
Coaches Program design Testing and Evaluation Infographics Sand Sprint Jump Team Sports
Sustaining High Performance of the Tactical Athlete: The Role of Recovery, Part 1
April 30, 2017
Learn about the effects of recovery in neuroscience to sustain performance. In this session from the NSCA’s 2017 TSAC Annual Training, Mark Stephenson explains the neurophysiological effects of various recovery modalities in sustaining high performance.
TSAC Facilitators Coaches Exercise Science Stress Tactical Athlete Recovery strategies 2017-TSAC-Annual-Training
Resistance Training for Sprinting
September 24, 2018
The importance of sprinting in many sports has resulted in the search for the most appropriate training methods to improve sprint performance. Authors of recent reviews conclude that resistance training is an effective means to improve sprint performance. Others, however, have reported that resistance training is not as effective as simply engaging in sprint training.
Personal trainers Coaches Exercise Science Program design Sprinting Sprint Training infographics
Slam on the Brakes: Deceleration Qualities to Optimize Performance
January 28, 2013
Shawn Myszka, MS, CSCS,*D spoke at the NSCA's 2013 Coaches' Conference on the impact of deceleration on performance training.
Coaches Exercise Technique Program design Decceleation Training Acceleration vs Decceleration Proper Decceleration Athlete Training 2013-Coaches-Conference
Military Fitness Research, 2017
June 1, 2017
The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) 64th Annual Meeting was held in Denver, CO May 30 – June 3, 2017. Overall, there were more than 50 presentations with a military focus, an indication of the importance of this research. The following is a review of some of the presented research.
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