Clarity and guidance to improve practitioner application and understanding of plyometrics - adaptations, movement strategy, exercise prescription and exercise progressions.

S&C coaches are uniquely positioned to understand the psychological pressures that accompany athletic performance.

Prof JB Morin delivered an insightful presentation at the UKSCA 2024 annual conference, discussing the evolution of sprint mechanics and speed training over the past decade. Key topics included force-velocity profiling, sprint mechanics, and the importance of individualised athlete training.

Dr. Jonathan Hughes delivered an insightful presentation on eccentric training at the UKSCA 2024 conference, exploring its role in improving athletic performance across various sports. He discussed how eccentric training helps with deceleration and high-speed movements, emphasising the importance of using advanced methods to measure training transfer into performance gains.

The coach needs a comprehensive understanding of motivation to construct a positive training environment that is sensitive to the elemental motives of the athletes.

This practical, interactive session will move through a spectrum of drills from warm up, controlled CoD into reactive CoD and finishing with reactive games.

Bill's presentation centres on WHY he arrived at his current model of reconditioning.

Simon Hartley is a globally respected sport psychology consultant and performance coach who has worked with gold medallists, world record holders and championship winning teams.

Nic Gill is a performance coach and consultant best known for his work as S&C coach for the NZ All Blacks for the last 16 years.

Tracey Neville MBE is a former England netball international and a former England head coach. As a player, she was a member of the England squad.

This session discusses why performance staff sacrifice without question for prestigious roles, and why this golden chalice quickly turns into a poisoned chalice.

Gil has coached athletes at all levels in sport and continues to nurture and develop young, talented athletes through the Live Active Talented Athlete Scheme in Perth and Kinross .

This presentation presents a modifiable system that can be utilised to address all coaching questions and take the guess work out of exercise selection.

Damian Harper's session from the UKSCA's 2022 Conference discusses the significance of deceleration and braking for athletes involved in multi-directional sports, highlighting the physiological and biomechanical demands of these braking actions.

This research aimed to further understanding as to what external/internal training load information elite coaches and managers use and how they make decisions on player availability in Australia's National Rugby League (NRL).