Strength Training for Lacrosse Online CE Exam With Print Book

This package includes the following:

• Strength Training for Lacrosse book
• Online continuing education exam

The game of lacrosse requires athletes to be quick, agile, and powerful. Resistance training contributes significantly to the development of speed, agility, endurance, and strength, ultimately making a lacrosse athlete more formidable on the field.

Developed with the expertise of the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA), Strength Training for Lacrosse provides an overarching biomechanical analysis of lacrosse and specific analyses of the physical demands of each position: defenders, midfielders, attackers, and goalies. Using these analyses, you can design an effective training program that translates to performance on the field. You will also find the following:

• 10 detailed protocols to test strength, power, speed, agility, and high-intensity endurance capacity
• 13 total body resistance exercises with 8 variations
• 16 lower body exercises with 10 variations
• 29 upper body exercises with 21 variations
• 20 anatomical core exercises with 19 variations
• 53 sample programs for off-season, preseason, in-season, and postseason resistance training

For each exercise, you will find a series of photos and a detailed list of primary muscles trained, beginning position and movement phases, breathing guidelines, modifications and variations, and coaching tips. You’ll also gain a deeper understanding of what muscles are involved in each exercise so you can develop a complete and targeted resistance training program.

Backed by the NSCA and the knowledge and experience of individuals who have years of experience as strength and conditioning professionals for lacrosse, Strength Training for Lacrosse is the authoritative resource for creating lacrosse-specific resistance training programs.

After reading the book, certified professionals can take the companion CE exam to earn continuing education credits.

Learning Objectives

• Demonstrate the importance of resistance training in lacrosse athletes.
• Describe the sport-specific skills involved in lacrosse.
• Describe the various physical qualities related to performance in lacrosse.
• Describe and select appropriate testing protocols.
• Select appropriate exercises for lacrosse athletes.
• Describe training program variables for resistance training of lacrosse athletes.
• Explain safe and effective spotting techniques and breathing techniques in the performance of resistance training exercises.
• Identify the primary muscles trained with specific resistance training exercises.
• Identify proper coaching tips, progressions, and regressions for resistance training exercises.
• Describe the goals, objectives, length, structure, and organization of a resistance training program for the off-season, preseason, in-season, and postseason.

Audience

Certified strength and conditioning professionals, personal trainers, or other related professionals who supervise and train athletes for lacrosse.

Foreword
Dillon Ward

Introduction
Matt Nein

Part I. Principles of Sport-Specific Resistance Training

Chapter 1. Importance of Resistance Training
Karen Sutton and Brittany M. Ammerman
Chapter 2. Analysis of the Sport and Sport Positions
John Cole and Justin Kilian
Chapter 3. Testing Protocols and Athlete Assessment
Thomas Newman
Chapter 4. Sport-Specific Program Design Guidelines
Nicole Shattuck and JL Holdsworth

Part II. Exercise Technique

Chapter 5. Total Body Exercise Technique
JL Holdsworth and Edward R. Smith, Jr.
Chapter 6. Lower Body Exercise Technique
JL Holdsworth and Edward R. Smith, Jr.
Chapter 7. Upper Body Exercise Technique
JL Holdsworth and Edward R. Smith, Jr.
Chapter 8. Anatomical Core Exercise Technique
Andrew Sacks and Jessi Glauser

Part III. Program Design Guidelines and Sample Programs

Chapter 9. Off-Season Programming
Drazen Glisic (High School), Tracy Zimmer (College Women), David Eugenio Manning (College Men), and Joel Raether (Professional)
Chapter 10. Preseason Programming
Drazen Glisic (High School), Tracy Zimmer (College Women), David Eugenio Manning (College Men), and Joel Raether (Professional)
Chapter 11. In-Season Programming
Drazen Glisic (High School), Tracy Zimmer (College Women), David Eugenio Manning (College Men), and Joel Raether (Professional)
Chapter 12. Postseason Programming
Drazen Glisic (High School), Tracy Zimmer (College Women), David Eugenio Manning (College Men), and Joel Raether (Professional)

Joel Raether, MAEd, CSCS, TSAC-F, RSCC*D, has over 20 years of experience in sport performance at the collegiate and professional levels, and he has worked with hundreds of lacrosse athletes of all levels. He is the managing partner at FAST Performance in Denver, Colorado, and has served as the head of performance for the Colorado Mammoth of the National Lacrosse League (NLL) since 2008. The Mammoth won the NLL Championship in 2022. Raether also spent seven years at the University of Denver training a multitude of teams, including lacrosse. He has trained more than 10 NCAA national champions, All-Pro athletes, league MVPs, and Super Bowl champions as well as one Olympic gold medalist.

Matt Nein, MS, CSCS, RSCC*E, is the assistant director of athletics and recreation and coordinator of sports performance at Salisbury University, where he oversees the training programs of 23 varsity teams, three graduate assistants, and an intern and volunteer staff of 10. During his 20-year tenure, Nein has had the opportunity to work with 14 national championship teams (including 12 men’s and women’s lacrosse national champions), eight individual national championship athletes, and over 340 All-Americans. In 2018, he was named the NSCA’s College Strength and Conditioning Coach of the Year after being a finalist in 2016 and 2017. Nein currently serves on the NSCA’s Awards and Nominations Committee. He founded the NSCA Lacrosse Special Interest Group and now serves on its council. He also represents the NSCA as a liaison on USA Lacrosse’s Sports Science & Safety Committee. Recently, Matt has been named the strength and conditioning coach for the 2024 U.S. men’s box national team and 2027 U.S. men’s sixes national team. When not training athletes, he serves as an adjunct professor in the health and human performance department at Salisbury University.