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The UKSCA is the pre-eminent professional body for strength and conditioning practitioners in the UK & these are just some of the reasons to join the UKSCA today!
Ready to elevate your S&C career? Join us now!
#StrengthandConditioning
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ESSENTIAL read from
@mike_mcguigan
Strength & Power Profiling of Athletes: Selecting Tests...
#presenterfocus
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Want to know more about the 30-15 intermittent fitness test from
@mart1buch
? 🏃
Reliability & validity studies -
History of 30-15 -
@mart1buch
at the 2013
@UKSCA
conference -
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We are super excited to announce the latest in our
@UKSCA
roundtable series.
Training the female athlete, hosted by
@DawnScott06
with panellists
@traceynev
@S_Emmonds
@GuyPitchers
@ivicasagrande
@jack_clover1
@AlexBuchman12
REGISTER -
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'When designing resistance-training programs, the strength coach has to consider a number of variables that can be manipulated to make programs differ. Exercise, reps, speed, order, rest etc'
📝Cycle-Length Variants in Periodised Strength/Power Training
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Another fantastic video from
@athletefitness
detailing the 'Top10 Excel Tricks for Sport Science'
📊 Data validation
🔢 Tables
🔣 Pivot tables
💹 Formula
📉 Charts
🎥
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🏆Congratulations to
@perryfstewart
on winning this years S&C Coach of the Year – Youth Sport.
Perry wins this award after numerous nominations from his peers who described him as a 'fantastic leader, role model and ambassador to the S&C industry'
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Isometric Strength of the Posterior Chain: Its Importance in Football in Football and How to Measure it >
@BarcaInnoHub
"The McCall Test is a very simple test, but it provides relevant information regarding post-match fatigue in football"
READ >
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S&C coaches are being tasked with managing more & more data. Take a look at this video on how to build a database📊📉
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Check out this book, Advanced Strength and Conditioning: An Evidence-based Approach, co-edited by
@UKSCA
accredited coaches,
@anthonyturneruk
&
@PaulComfort1975
Featuring a collection of world-class contributors!
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The Application of Weightlifting to Sprinting
@ben_rosenblatt
Biomechanical Comparison of Accelerative & Maximum Velocity Sprinting: Specific Strength Training Considerations
@wildy_jj
Acceleration: Theory and Practice
@jaredmdeacon
⬆️All these classics in
@UKSCA
journal 21
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🏆 Congratulations to
@paulread1010
on winning this years Coach of the Year - Education & Research.
Paul was given this award due to his significant contributions in the education of S&C coaches and has also progressed the profession through his impactful & meaningful research
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If you're looking to build your own athlete wellness dashboard in Microsoft excel, 👇🏻 is a fantastic place to start c/o
@athletefitness
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The off season - pre-season transition as well as the pre-season - in season transition throws up lots of questions as to whether players have become fitter, stronger, faster etc.
This video 👇 from
@anthonyturneruk
may help you answer those questions...
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Congratulations to
@SteveBarrett5
for being voted the new
@UKSCA
Associate Board member,
@kevinpaxton10k
&
@coach_roche_
for being voted
@UKSCA
Board members &
@ajboyd83
for being voted the new EDI Director👏🏼
Thanks to all those that stood, a very close run election this year!
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What does a week look like for an academy player
@ArsenalAcademy
and how does that differ between the age groups. This video from Head of Sport Medicine & Athletic Development
@ArsenalAcademy
, Des Ryan explains.
WATCH THE FULL PRESENTATION >
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Interested in using the 30:15 IFT after listening to
@mart1buch
in his 2013
@UKSCA
lecture ( 👀➡️ )?
Reliability studies 👇
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"If you do intervals of 10s:10s, whatever the intensity, its always going to be aerobic. It means that you can do intermittent and even high intensity training without accumulating much lactate if you implement 10:10."
@mart1buch
WATCH >
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🎥 Maximising Game Performance – Developing Speed and Agility, with Ian Jeffreys via
@nsca
🏃🏃🏃
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Only 31% of total time during the 505 test is spent actually changing direction. To isolate change of direction ability, looking at COD deficit may be beneficial.
Learn more 👇
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If you're budget is small, you still have a number of very informative movement screens to use with your athletes.
@ivicasagrande
details some of these in the recent training the female athlete roundtable >
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You may not have the time to coach the full Olympic lifts, but there is evidence to suggest their derivatives may be just as good...
This review by
@DrTSuchomel
&
@PaulComfort1975
would be a great place to start if you wanted to read into the area -
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🏆 Congratulations to Jack Dowling on winning this years Richard Holmes Award for the Emerging S&C Coach of the Year.
Jack has recently been promoted to Everton's Lead Academy S&C Coach and continues to guide young footballers through the academy pathway.
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🎥 An inside look at the strength and conditioning area of the Canadian Sport Institute Calgary with Director,
@JordanStrength
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Congratulations to
@anthonyturneruk
who has been nominated as
@UKSCA
Conference Director for next years event 👏
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📖 Force-time Characteristics of the Countermovement Jump: Analyzing the Curve in Excel
🖊
@shy_2tweet
@chrisbishop_uk
@tombromo
@anthonyturneruk
@peter_mundy
@drjlake
📱
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Wanting to introduce eccentric focused training into your athletes' programmes? These review articles from
@JamieDouglasNZ
@simonpearson_nz
@AngusRossNZ
&
@mike_mcguigan
would be a great place to start your reading 📖
📝
📝
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Great work by
@DuncanFrench
and the team
@UFCPI
in pulling together this amazing document, 'A Cross-Sectional Analysis & Projection of the UFC Athlete'
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Putting a 12 month recovery timeline on an ACL injury in skiers may not be universal across all athletes. Some took 24 months to restore functional symmetry... >
@JordanStrength
WATCH FULL VIDEO >
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'Depending on how you use the integration between length of the interval and the speed, you can quite simply manipulate the anaerobic response of the sessions.'
What work interval elicits a greater anaerobic response?
@mart1buch
explains...
FULL VIDEO 👉
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Do you know the reliability & validity of the measures that you make decisions on the back of?
@StuCormack
from the 2015
@UKSCA
conference
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Are you programming high intensity intermittent training for your athletes? 🤔
Take a look at this clip from
@mart1buch
's 2013
@UKSCA
conference and watch the full presentation 👇
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Are you interested in working in professional sport and getting an insight into what happens at one of the countries most established academies?
Des provides an insight to the Physical Development Framework he has developed
@ArsenalAcademy
.
WATCH >
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Strength & Power Coach
@Altis
@jhettler24
discusses mastering acceleration principles for team sport athletes in this article 📝
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📝 Preventing hamstring injuries – Part 1: Is there really an eccentric action of the hamstrings in high speed running and does it matter?
🖊
@das_shield
&
@SimonMurphy23
C/O
@SportPerfSciR
📱
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What is the difference between 'change of direction' & 'agility' 🤔
This paper is a great place to start 👇
📝 Agility and Change-of-Direction Speed are Independent Skills: Implications for Training for Agility in Invasion Sports
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🎥 The Usefulness of Monitoring Training Load by
@UKSCA
Accredited S&C coach
@shaun_Mclaren1
Via
@Carnegie_Sport
CARR Project
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'Depending on how you use the integration between length of the interval and the speed, you can quite simply manipulate the anaerobic response of the sessions.'
What work interval elicits a greater anaerobic response?
@mart1buch
explains...
FULL VIDEO 👉
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🔔S&C for Team Sports Workshop🔔
⚽️Training strategies
@ManCityAcademy
-
@NickChadd
🏉Insight into the day-to-day workings
@brisbanebroncos
-
@TannathScott
📈Practical statistics for S&C -
@Shaun_McLaren1
🌍
@leedsbeckett
🗓️27th June - 6-9pm
BOOK 👉
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📖 Physical demands of playing position within English Premier League academy soccer
🖊
@WillAbbott__
et al.
📱
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After an incredible start to our webinar series tonight, we are delighted to announce the 2nd roundtable hosted by
@RICH_AgilityLab
Youth S&C panellists
@jamesbaker_8
,
@DrRSLloyd
,
@graywilliams_
,
@athlete_academy
,
@coach_roche_
@jay_salter
REGISTER -
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🎉Congratulations to
@23Benjones
who has been chosen to represent the
@UKSCA
at the
@NSCA
conference in Indianapolis.
Ben will be presenting on 'The Training - Recovery Cycle; Applying Research to Practice to Navigate the Organised Chaos when working with Youth Athletes'
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'Depending on how you use the integration between length of the interval and the speed, you can quite simply manipulate the anaerobic response of the sessions.'
What work interval elicits a greater anaerobic response?
@mart1buch
explains...
FULL VIDEO 👉
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📖 The Relationships Between Internal and External Measures of Training Load and Intensity in Team Sports: A Meta-Analysis
🖊
@Shaun_McLaren1
@Mweston73
@aaronJcoutts
@tmacp87
@chrishurst99
📱
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At the 2018
@UKSCA
conference,
@coachnickg
hosted a panel session which featured
@Coach_BrettB
@DuncanFrench
@Jools_Coach
@CrippsDave
&
@TheRealConehead
This video was taken from the discussion around internships and what coaches should be looking for when applying.
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📖 Drop Jump: A Technical Model for Scientific Application
🖊
@Pedley_J
@DrRSLloyd
@paulread1010
@drjonoliver
📱
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Which non-S&C books have influenced your thinking as a coach?
Any you would add to 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻?
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📖 Understanding the Key Phases of the Countermovement Jump Force-Time Curve
🖊
@DrJJMcMahon
@DrTSuchomel
@DrJLake
@PaulComfort1975
📱
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We are pleased to team up with
@HumanKineticsEU
&
@basesuk
to offer this FREE webinar with
@paulcomfort1975
🏋🏋🏋
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Congratulations to Accredited Strength & Conditioning Coach (ASCC),
@traceynev
and all at
@EnglandNetball
on winning Commonwealth gold last weekend 🥇👏
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Aaaaaaaaaaaaand we're off with the first
@UKSCA
roundtable, hosted by
@RICH_AgilityLab
with panellists
@jb_morin
@NickWinkelman
@caldbeck89
@wildy_jj
@jaredmdeacon
@DHMov
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With more & more data being generated by S&C's, there is greater need for the necessary skill to communicate this data to coaches.
'Having an impact on the training programme, as a sports scientist, is anything but easy'
WANT TO SEE MY REPORT, COACH?
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Assessing neuromuscular fatigue in response to an international female soccer match using the countermovement jump
@em_cain
et al.
#UKSCAposterweek
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This fantastic quote was taken from the
@UKSCA
Journal where
@MattSpringham
@GJWalker81
@StrudwickTony
&
@anthonyturneruk
wrote the article 'Developing S&C coaches for professional football'.
If you're a
@UKSCA
member, you can read the full article >
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Congratulations to the newly elected
@UKSCA
Board.
@petemcknight
@dr_jump_uk
@croftonsport
@athlete_academy
@RichHunwicks
@ChrisBishop_UK
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The
@EnglandFootball
sprinting strength quadrant -
1️⃣Isometrically strong & eccentrically strong
2️⃣Isometrically strong & eccentrically weak
3️⃣Isometrically weak & eccentrically strong
4️⃣Isometrically weak & eccentrically weak
Full video -
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"For shallow changes of direction (≤ 60°), fast stretch shortening (<0.25 s) exercises are recommended. For sharper changes of direction (≥135°), slow stretch shortening actions & ballistic exercises (> 0.25 s) are recommended"
@TomDosSantos91
READ >
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Risk factor profiling worth the time? Interesting thoughts from
@Craig_Ranson
in his 2014 UKSCA lecture. FULL VIDEO👉
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Youth S&C Coach of the Year 2017,
@proformanceteam
wrote about Integrating S&C in PE Curriculum at Secondary School in the
@UKSCA
journal
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How to monitor training load and mode using sRPE >
@anthonyturneruk
et al.
"The sRPE provides a quick and accessible means to calculate training load –available to all athletes and S&C coaches regardless of competition level"
READ >
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Congratulations and welcome to
@christombs71
@kevinpaxton10k
&
@Peter_Mundy
who have been officially announced as
@UKSCA
Board members.
Also congratulations to
@ChrisBishop_UK
who has been elected as the new Chairman of the
@UKSCA
👏👏👏
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Congratulations to
@PaulComfort1975
who has been selected to represent the
@UKSCA
at this years
@the_ASCA
in Sydney 👏
Paul will deliver a presentation titled 'Surfing the Force-Velocity Curve with Weightlifting Derivatives – Real World Application'
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After another great webinar this evening discussing business ownership in S&C, we are excited to announce our 6th roundtable.
Hosted by
@RICH_AgilityLab
with panellists Anna Swisher,
@shy_2tweet
@PaulComfort1975
@Joffe1
&
@DrTSuchomel
REGISTER >
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If you are using force plates to collect countermovement jump data,
@shy_2tweet
has done an amazing job to help coaches with the data analysis through a video and sample spreadsheet found 👇
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Should we be assessing youth athletes based on their chronological age or maturity status.
@ktconditioning
highlights some interesting work in this area in his 2019
@UKSCA
conference presentation, 'Understanding youth talent: How can we help?'
WATCH >
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How can we manipulate loading to effect the force velocity curve? This snippet from
@PaulComfort1975
gives us an insight.
If you want to watch the full video and you're NOT a
@UKSCA
member, why not try UKSCA-iQ FREE for 14 days?
WATCH >
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UKSCA COACH OF THE YEAR: ELITE SPORT - NEIL SHANKS
Huge congratulations to Neil Shanks, who following the Annual Conference gala dinner last Saturday, was announced as the UKSCA’s S&C Coach of the Year 2022 – Elite Sport.
Many congratulations Neil!
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What is going on in English football academies regarding...
🤕Injury prevention
📏Screening
🏃Return to play
📝Injury prevention in youth soccer: Current practices & perceptions of practitioners working at elite English academies
@paulread1010
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🔔 Sports science is NOT a GPS unit; its about the PEOPLE & the PROCESS.
Last weekend,
@Clivesportsandc
gave a fantastic presentation on his work with the
@BlueJays
and how he prepares his athletes to be able to cope with 162 games in 180 days.
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Monitoring Athlete Training Loads - The Hows and Whys (Player tracking technology. But what if we are all wrong?)
@mart1buch
via
@Aspire_Academy
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How can we use velocity loss percentages to plan training? Dan Baker explains how in his 2017
@UKSCA
conference presentation.
Since then there has been some great research in this area from
@JonathonWeakle1
() &
@fparejablanco
().
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In 2017,
@ben_rosenblatt
and
@EmmaJStevenson
delivered a fantastic presentation entitled 'S&C and nutrition: a multidisciplinary approach to working effectively in team sports' which can now be viewed in the
@UKSCA
members area, UKSCA-IQ.
FULL VIDEO >
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Its not been a bad season so far for
@UKSCA
Board member,
@RichHunwicks
...
🏴 Reached World Cup final with
@England_RL
🤵 Becomes
@UKSCA
Vice-Chairman
🏆 Wins
@UKSCA
Coach of the Year for Elite Sport
🥇 Wins Rugby League Challenge Cup with
@DragonsOfficiel
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In 2017,
@LorenLandow
gave an incredible presentation entitled 'Movement Mastery: “The Art of multi-directional speed”.
The full 60 minute presentation is now available on UKSCA-IQ and can be watched in full by all members. If you're not a member >
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The skill set required by S&C coaches in professional football.
Table taken from the September
@UKSCA
journal article entitled 'Developing strength and conditioning coaches for professional football' by
@MattSpringham
@StrudwickTony
Gary Walker &
@anthonyturneruk
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We are excited to announce the 1st in a series of
@UKSCA
roundtables. First up, hosted by
@RICH_AgilityLab
is speed training with
@NickWinkelman
@jb_morin
@jaredmdeacon
@wildy_jj
@caldbeck89
@DHMov
DM us any areas you want the panel to cover.
REGISTER -
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Congratulations to Richard Blagrove announced as the UKSCA’s S&C Coach of the Year 2023 – Education & Research
Rich has been a UKSCA Tutor & Assessor since 2013. His notable contribution to research & education has been the promotion of S&C in endurance sports
Well done Richard
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'The ability to train is dictated by the ability to recover'.
The full vid of Ashley Jones' lecture can be found👇
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Shock Method & Plyometrics: Updates & an In-depth Examination by Natalia Verkoshansky
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How have the team
@ArsenalAcademy
developed an athletic development model and how has it evolved over time? If you're working in youth development, WATCH THIS NOW!
The full presentation as well as many others are available for
@UKSCA
members on UKSCA-IQ >
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"You can strengthen hamstring's doing knee flexion exercises. That gives you a shorter fascical, shorter fascicles have been shown to be a risk for hamstring injury, we also have to increase the length of the fascicle at the same time."
@PaulComfort1975
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📖 High-Intensity Interval Training, Solutions to the Programming Puzzle : Part II: Anaerobic Energy, Neuromuscular Load and Practical Applications
🖊
@mart1buch
&
@PaulBLaursen
📱
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