Building Relationships With New Coaches
January 3, 2025
Building a relationship with a new coach is indeed a process. Shelby Reichle, MS, CSCS shares her process on how she builds a strong bond with a new coach.
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The Secret Sauce of Coaching
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Strength and conditioning coaches do a fantastic job producing athletes who are resilient to injury and primed for performance gains in their sports. The pressure and time it takes to produce these outcomes can lead to blindspots in our programs. One of these areas is how your athletes are motivated to succeed.
Game Day: Morning Lift and Pre-Game Priming
Michael Bewley
Many sports coaches fear that any strenuous activity on the day of competition will negatively impact their athletes’ performance. Coach Chris Doukakis has always viewed this as a misconception. Here’s a look at his Game Day lifting strategies.
Building Future Leaders Through Strength and Conditioning
Michael Bewley
At Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School, Coach Peter Tongren integrates leadership training into strength and conditioning. Through core principles like trust, relationships, and task-driven focus, athletes grow both on and off the field—building not only physical strength but the skills to lead and succeed in life.
Mastering Conflict Resolution in High School Strength Programs with the SO QUIC Model
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As a high school strength and conditioning coach, managing conflicts effectively is crucial for maintaining a positive and productive training environment. One valuable tool that can be utilized in this context is the SO QUIC Model for conflict resolution.
How We Implement Dr. Yessis’ 1×20 Program at North Scott HS
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Training is cumulative. Everything builds upon what has previously been done, and success accumulates over time. Cumulative training effect and training age are extremely important concepts when trying to understand how to train novice athletes.
Your strength and conditioning program can change the atmosphere at your school
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The strength and conditioning program has been a driving force behind the resurgence of a dynamic school atmosphere at Raytown South High School in Missouri.
Utilizing Medicine Ball Throws for Rotational Power Development
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By Andrew Rafferty Rotation is a part of all sports and needs to be trained just like all other athletic qualities. However, it often gets
Fostering Competitiveness in the Weight Room
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In the dynamic environment of a weight room, competition serves as a powerful catalyst for enhancing athlete and student performance and results. The infusion of competition in weight training not only enhances physical abilities, but also cultivates resilience and determination among athletes/students, setting the stage for long-term success both inside and outside the gym.
Making Training Fun Again
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How do we as strength and conditioning coaches set up our training to maximize consistency and effort and get the most out of our athletes? Help them enjoy it.
The Benefits of Athletic Performance Training
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Athletic Performance Training differs because its end result is to improve one’s ability to play sports. Shelby Reichle discusses several key principles involved with this type of training.
We Exist To Educate, Equip, and Empower Coaches
The National High School Strength Coaches Association (NHSSCA) exists to Educate, Equip, and Empower Coaches to make a lasting impact on the lives of student-athletes. We are committed to developing coaches that are trustworthy, knowledgeable, effective, passionate, and transformational
