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Sport Science Load Monitoring Practices, Application, and Practicality for First Responders - Part I
May 30, 2025
This article discusses how first responder organizations can optimize their training programs through scientific techniques, including the measurement of training load.
TSAC Facilitators Exercise Science Exercise Technique Program design Testing and Evaluation Professional Development Physiological Stress Fitness Requirements Training Load Measurement Performance Improvement Training Optimization Sport Science
Nutritional Strategies to Balance Exercise-Induced Inflammation
April 1, 2014
While acute inflammation is a normal response to high-intensity training, chronic inflammation results in depressed immunity and impaired muscle response. Learn about nutritional strategies to help balance exercise-induced inflammation to optimize performance outcomes.
Coaches Nutrition Basic Pathophysiology and Science of Health Status or Condition and Disorder or Disease strength and conditioning inflammation diet sport nutrition
Monitoring Training Load in American Football
February 4, 2019
Monitoring training load is essential for determining if athletes are adapting positively or negatively to their training program. This article goes over the various measurement metrics and includes recommendations to monitor training load for football athletes.
Coaches Exercise Science Program design Athlete Monitoring Metrics GPS Training Load Football
Potential for Using the Reactive Strength Index (Rsi) to Decrease Injury Risk and Improve Operational Performance in UK Firefighters
November 22, 2024
This article provides considerations for preparing firefighters
for the physical and psychological demands of their job, including pre-operational work specific training during their rest times.
TSAC Facilitators Exercise Science Program design Safety Professional Development First Responders Firefighters Mental Health Occupational Stress LEO's LEO's Physical Fitness LEO's LEO's Tactical Facilitators
Speed – Learned Skill or Genetic Trait?
January 14, 2022
The purpose of this article is to examine components that affect speed to determine the degree that speed is governed by skill versus genetic factors.
Coaches Exercise Science Speed Genetics Fiber Type Neural Fatigue Genetic Expression
Shift-Based Program Scheduling for Firefighters
April 1, 2016
There is no argument that periodization is successful, and that different models can be applied with success in different fashions. The question of how shift work really affects a periodized program—more specifically firefighter shift work—is less clear.
TSAC Facilitators Program design shift work periodization fitness for firefighters tactical strength and conditioning firefighters TSAC
Population-Specific TSAC Research Column
January 12, 2024
The purpose of the following article is to discuss current interventions surrounding prevention of musculoskeletal injury and improved physical fitness across military, fire, and police populations.
TSAC Facilitators Program design Testing and Evaluation Military Fire Police Wildland Firefighters Musculoskeletal Force Plate VO2Max
TSAC Research Column – April 2022
November 4, 2022
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 Client Consultation|Assessment Safety Emergency Procedures Legal Issues Basic Pathophysiology and Science of Health Status or Condition and Disorder or Disease Professional Development Firefighters Law Enforcement ROTC Cadets Ruck March Skeletal Muscle
Time Course of Physiological and Anatomical Changes
April 3, 2020
This excerpt from NSCA’s Essential of Tactical Strength and Conditioning explores the neural and muscular adaptations to training over time.
Personal trainers TSAC Facilitators Coaches Exercise Science Neural Adaptations Peripheral Adaptations Skeletal Muscle Training Intensity
Ice Hockey – In-Season Strength and Conditioning Considerations
June 30, 2023
This article provides some practical applications to minimize the negative effects associated with a long intensive ice hockey season on ice hockey athletes.
Coaches Program design Ice Hockey Travel Fatigue Fitness
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