Short description:

This book is designed to be a practical guide for students and professionals. The labs cover seven major aspects of strength and conditioning including speed, power, flexibility, agility, and fitness. The labs are easy to follow with sample calculations, data tables, and worksheets.

Long description:

The Laboratory Manual for Strength and Conditioning is a comprehensive text that provides students with meaningful lab experiences in the area of strength and conditioning and applied sport science. While each lab may be conducted in a sophisticated laboratory, there are opportunities to conduct the labs in a gym or field environment without costly equipment. It is a useful resource as students prepare for a career as a strength and conditioning coach, athletic trainer, physical therapist, or personal trainer.

The Laboratory Manual for Strength and Conditioning is designed to be a practical guide for training students and professionals in the skills to be applied to strength and conditioning. The labs cover seven major aspects of strength and conditioning including speed, power, flexibility, agility, and fitness. The labs are practical and easy to follow with sample calculations, data tables, and worksheets to complete. Each includes suggested tasks/activities to apply the theory to real-world applications.

Students will explore assessments of strength, aerobic capacity, power output, speed, change of direction, and muscular endurance, and gain understanding in the following areas:

• Definitions of commonly used terms within the area of exploration, as well as commonly misused terms


• Assessing performance (i.e., power, strength, speed, etc.)


• Understanding laboratory- and field-based techniques for specific athlete populations


• Describing optimal methods for testing in all aspects of physical performance


• Evaluation of test results based upon sport and/or athlete normative data

The lab manual is a valuable resource for strength coaches, personal trainers, kinesiology students, and educators at the undergraduate and beginning graduate-level programs and can be used in a graduate strength and conditioning course.

Table of Contents:

1 Pre-Participation Health Screening, Medical Clearance, and Informed Consent

JOSHUA MILLER

2 Athlete Needs Analysis

PAUL COMFORT AND JOHN McMAHON

3 Injury Risk Assessment Including Flexibility

JOSHUA MILLER

4 Statistical Analysis and Test Administration

JOHN McMAHON, JOSHUA MILLER, AND PAUL COMFORT

5 Body Composition

JOSHUA MILLER

6 Muscular Strength

PAUL COMFORT AND JOHN McMAHON

7 Muscular Power

JOHN McMAHON AND PAUL COMFORT

8 Muscular Endurance

PAUL COMFORT AND JOHN McMAHON

9 Anaerobic Capacity

JOSHUA MILLER

10 Aerobic Capacity Testing

JOSHUA MILLER

11 Speed

JOHN McMAHON AND PAUL COMFORT

12 Change of Direction Performance

PAUL COMFORT AND JOHN McMAHON