What is a Strength and Conditioning Specialist?
Strength and Conditioning Specialists are professionals who apply scientific knowledge to train people for the primary goal of improving performance. They design and implement safe and effective training programs and provide guidance regarding nutrition and injury prevention. This area of expertise is separate and distinct, and differs from athletic trainers, individual sport coaches, or physical education teachers. Professionals from a variety of backgrounds hold this credential including doctors, physical therapists, and exercise physiologists.
What's the difference between a Strength and Conditioning Coach and a Personal Trainer?
Education!
Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialists (CSCS) are trained to design programs for teams as well as individuals with performance as the overarching goal. Personal Trainers are certified to train only individuals with only weight loss or weight gain as the overarching goal. Every professional athletic team has a Strength and Conditioning Coach on staff. One must have attained at least a bachelor's or chiropractic medicine degree to be eligible to take the CSCS exam. One can get a personal training certification without a degree. The CSCS education process is quite rigorous and because of this there are only handful of certified strength and conditioning coaches.
How tough are your Bootcamp Classes?
The exercises in our bootcamp classes use your own body weight and run on intervals, which means lots of work in a short period of time with little rest between exercises. We teach it at a brisk pace, however, participants are encouraged to go at their own speed and if you have any trouble we will be there to support you.
What is Functional Power?
Functional Power is the ability to perform a specific task, how much, how quickly, and how efficiently. For example, a baseball player's functional power for hitting depends on how quickly and efficiently he can rotate his torso to swing a bat through the strike zone to generate force and hit the ball. This same motion would not be important to a soccer player. Her functional power for kicking depends on how quickly and efficiently she can bring her foot back and forward to generate force and accuracy to kick. Neither of these movements are important to a person taking care of young children. This person's functional power depends on how efficiently and safely they can lift and carry children and equipment. Functional power is specific to each movement which is required for different activities.
Strength and Conditioning Specialists are professionals who apply scientific knowledge to train people for the primary goal of improving performance. They design and implement safe and effective training programs and provide guidance regarding nutrition and injury prevention. This area of expertise is separate and distinct, and differs from athletic trainers, individual sport coaches, or physical education teachers. Professionals from a variety of backgrounds hold this credential including doctors, physical therapists, and exercise physiologists.
What's the difference between a Strength and Conditioning Coach and a Personal Trainer?
Education!
Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialists (CSCS) are trained to design programs for teams as well as individuals with performance as the overarching goal. Personal Trainers are certified to train only individuals with only weight loss or weight gain as the overarching goal. Every professional athletic team has a Strength and Conditioning Coach on staff. One must have attained at least a bachelor's or chiropractic medicine degree to be eligible to take the CSCS exam. One can get a personal training certification without a degree. The CSCS education process is quite rigorous and because of this there are only handful of certified strength and conditioning coaches.
How tough are your Bootcamp Classes?
The exercises in our bootcamp classes use your own body weight and run on intervals, which means lots of work in a short period of time with little rest between exercises. We teach it at a brisk pace, however, participants are encouraged to go at their own speed and if you have any trouble we will be there to support you.
What is Functional Power?
Functional Power is the ability to perform a specific task, how much, how quickly, and how efficiently. For example, a baseball player's functional power for hitting depends on how quickly and efficiently he can rotate his torso to swing a bat through the strike zone to generate force and hit the ball. This same motion would not be important to a soccer player. Her functional power for kicking depends on how quickly and efficiently she can bring her foot back and forward to generate force and accuracy to kick. Neither of these movements are important to a person taking care of young children. This person's functional power depends on how efficiently and safely they can lift and carry children and equipment. Functional power is specific to each movement which is required for different activities.
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