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CSCA and CSEP Collaboration Announcement

The Canadian Strength and Conditioning Association (CSCA) in partnership with the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology (CSEP) is excited to announce the development and launch of Canada’s first and only strength and conditioning credential, the Certified Strength and Conditioning Professional (CSCP). The CSCP credential is allocated to an individual who has completed all academic and professional experience requirements and successfully demonstrated coaching and knowledge proficiencies set forth by the CSCA’s newly developed mentorship program.  Through continued collaboration with various national organizations, both employers and athletes will recognize that the CSCP qualifies a strength and conditioning professional to design and administer [...]

February 21, 2024|Categories: Business, CSCA, Industry|

Navigating Different Sporting Cultures

Written by Joe Vecchione Many strength & conditioning (S&C) coaches will work with a variety of sports in their career spanning different ages and levels. Through these experiences, we quickly realize that each sport and level bring a diverse set of S&C deliverables and interpersonal dynamics to navigate. The training routines and roles of the S&C coach have evolved within a deep-rooted culture that spans decades.  I am referring to the meta culture of a sport that transcends the team or program we work with creates the common threads that make up the fabric of a sport environment at large. [...]

October 27, 2023|Categories: Industry|

McMaster Performance Summer Strength & Conditioning Female Coaching Internship

This opportunity is a paid 18-week internship providing hands on experience in the field of Strength & Conditioning in a University athletic setting. Individual selected for this position will work 10-15 hours/week under the direction of lead performance coaches. The total compensation for this position is dependent on candidate as hours are flexible based on candidate needs and areas of interest. The purpose of the Summer S&C internship program is to educate an up and coming coach in all aspects of sports performance coaching. Selected intern will assist with and help train varsity athletes from a wide range of sports, [...]

March 15, 2023|Categories: Industry|

IHPS Conference 2023

$50 off extended to CSCA Members (Discount code sent to memebers directly through FB and email) The best in hockey performance at a live and in-person event this summer at IHPS 2023! Opening the Summit on Friday night with one of the world's best performance coaches and researchers, Dr. Matt JordanStarting the first full day of presentations with an icon in hockey performance Matt Nichol doing a one-on-one Leave Your Mark style conversation with Scott LivingstonTwo-time Stanley Cup winner Ryan Van Asten goes deep on Energy System TrainingOne of Canada's best sports dieticians and consultant to the NBA Champion Golden [...]

February 8, 2023|Categories: Industry|

Becoming a Successful Intern

Internships provide guided opportunities to develop coaching skills and are the most common pathway to becoming a strength and conditioning coach. Internships play a pivotal role in coach development and are a way to open doors to the industry. Within internships, an important indicator of subsequent success is the ability to thrive and internalize lessons along the way, which will build essential skills while building your network and learning from others. As a coach currently in my third round of being an intern across three different settings, I have gathered a broad array of experiences, learned from a diverse set [...]

October 30, 2022|Categories: Industry|

Insight into International Soccer Environments from Two National Programs

International soccer operates in a series of camps that take place all over the world ranging from approximately 10 days to 6 weeks or longer. With plenty of access to athletes and staff, there are numerous ways in which international soccer staff members function to provide high-performance support to their teams.  I have had the privilege of working with the women’s soccer programs from two nations. I will share insight into some of the similarities and differences I experienced between the New Zealand Senior Women’s National Team (WNT) and Canada’s Senior and U20 WNT teams this past year through training [...]

October 29, 2022|Categories: Industry|

Multi-Role Practitioners: Should Strength and Conditioning Coaches “Stay in Their Lane”?

Introduction Due to the various demands of being a strength and conditioning coach (i.e., working with different types of athletes with different goals) and evolving training modalities, it is natural to learn new skills over time. Some practitioners specialize in a specific area, while others opt to learn a breadth of skills in many areas. Areas outside the classic scope of strength and conditioning include: nutrition, psychology, physiology, biomechanics, physical therapy, performance analysis, and sport coaching. As a practitioner, I bounced back and forth between strength and conditioning and nutrition early in my career, eventually landing a job as a [...]

July 21, 2022|Categories: Career, Industry|Tags: |

Make Them Feel Special: 4 Tips to Building Relationships within your Athletic Department

When it comes to being a Strength & Conditioning Coach in an academic setting (University, College, High School), there are many challenges that come with the job that can include lack of space/funding, scheduling issues, as well as long hours with low pay. The biggest struggle I have encountered in my three years working full-time in this setting, is getting the buy-in of both the sport coaches and student-athletes. S&C professionals don’t have much say when it comes to playing time for athletes (unless you are a dual role S&C/Sport Coach). Due to this athlete engagement can be limited and [...]

July 20, 2022|Categories: Industry|Tags: |

McMaster University – Performance and Wellness Workshop August 5-7

McMaster Performance, the Marauders' elite-athlete training program, in partnership with McMaster University's Department of Kinesiology, are hosting a three-day Performance and Wellness workshop to engage leading industry professionals and those exploring a career in strength & conditioning or human kinetics. The event, hosted at the Marauders' new, state-of-the-art High Performance Area from August 5-7, 2022, will feature guest speakers, panelists and interactive workshops covering a range of topics on biomechanics, coaching strategies, clinical integration, motivation, career paths, and more. "Here at McMaster, we understand the importance of seeing things from a holistic perspective when it comes to training and performance with [...]

July 14, 2022|Categories: CSCA, Industry|Tags: |

Creating Effective Resumes

The resume is an important tool for getting you onto the "short list" for a job interview, no more, no less. It is critical for very quickly and efficiently highlighting your skillsets and experience in a manner that displays professionalism and attention to detail. A poorly designed resume can easily find its way into the "no" pile and with employers only having 30 seconds to review each resume you need to make sure yours will strongly display your qualifications. In this webinar you will have the opportunity to learn how to effectively design and organize your resume, and review samples [...]

June 21, 2022|Categories: Career, Industry, Job Postings|Tags: |

Facility Planning and Design

This webinar covers the general processes involved in designing your own facility. Whether small or large scale, there are important steps in the process to consider. This webinar also provides some tips and tricks for finding the best deals on equipment and a few shortcuts on affordable facility design. https://youtu.be/DcbxlvGCWzM

June 14, 2022|Categories: Business, Industry|Tags: |

Equipment Vendors Guide

To support our members, we have partnered with our preferred equipment vendor Dotmar Fitness Inc to provide you with a vendor guide for equipment sales.  The vendors on this list are both national and local, and represent major vendors with the capacity to bid on large projects and manage purchase orders. CSCA-Vendors-List-4-29-22Download

June 14, 2022|Categories: Industry|Tags: |

CSCA CONFERENCE 2022

REGISTER HERE Registration closes on May 4th 11:59pm ET DATES: Friday May 6th and Saturday May 7th, 2022 WHERE: Virtual (Conference Link will be sent to participants the week leading up to the conference) General Admission = $50 CSCA Conference Schedule 2022 FRIDAY MAY 6th (7pm-9pm ET) OPENING KEYNOTE The Importance of Mastery for the S&C Coach (Dr Stuart McGill) Consider the spectrum of health care and illness prevention. Fact: every system in the body requires appropriate movement, and stress, for optimal health. Now consider who is the movement specialist within the life-long heath rubric? Also consider who guides the path [...]

April 29, 2022|Categories: CSCA, Industry|Tags: |

Female Athlete Health and Wellness

I opened my talk at the first annual CSCA conference last year with an apology and about a year later I am going to do the same with this short article.  I will also end this with my final slide as it is still applicable. During the conference I highlighted the fact that in my 20 years of coaching, I wasn’t vocal enough in calling out some of the traditions that we tend to rally around as S&C coaches. The reality is, professional (paid) S&C, or even sport coaching for that matter, is relatively new in the grand scheme of [...]

April 25, 2022|Categories: Industry|

Reconditioning Learning Opportunities

R1 Foundations - The LIVE LAB Have you been waiting to do Reconditioning in a live environment?  We get it. The R1 Foundations LIVE LAB is made for you. This LIVE weekend Lab is a chance to finally get together with us to practice all of the principles and skills outlined in the online learning content of R1 Foundations Neuro Reconditioning in an in-person, group, case study format.   This is a LEARNING LABORATORY where you will be exposed to context and application through case studies. You will do and try the skills and principles and understand how these will best [...]

March 20, 2022|Categories: Industry|

The International Hockey Performance Summit – 2022

Online - June 10-12, 2022 Register HERE Friday, June 10th, 2022 9:00 am - 4:00 pm - SCAPH Conference 4:00 - 5:00 pm - Pre-Registration 5:00 pm - Opening Face-Off - The Future of Building Hockey Players (A Panel Discussion with Hockey’s Leading Minds) 6:00 pm - Informal Social Saturday, June 11th, 2022 8:30 am - Welcome and Introductions 8:45 am - Andy O’Brien - What I’ve Learned Through a Life in Hockey 9:30 am - Transition 9:40 am - JF Menard - “Mental Preparation Habits of Champions” 10:25 am - Coffee Break 11:00 am - Mike Potenza - How [...]

March 20, 2022|Categories: Industry|

Considerations and Contributions to Sport Performance for Female Athletes

UBC is hosting an event on March 8th from 6-730pm (PST) with a focus on supporting female athletes. If you work with female athletes this should offer some good insights. Those on the panel have done some mini sessions with several coaches, staff and athletes and there is a clear need for us to have more conversations around female health. https://ubc.zoom.us/j/63467773808

March 5, 2022|Categories: Industry|
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