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While our hope is that the casual viewer will find the website interesting and fun to explore, we also wanted to create a site that would be useful to researchers and students. So, by clicking on the three asterisks we’ve placed at the end of each entry you’ll find a list of sources that we recommend for further reading. (The entire bibliography is linked as an Adobe Acrobat PDF at the bottom of the first slide.) On many of the entries, you will also find Adobe Acrobat documents in full text. Just click on the links.

Although the NSCA was the first national association to offer a professional certification program for strength coaches, there are now several other agencies which also offer similar certifications. In this photo, National Strength and Conditioning Association President Jay Hoffman meets with Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association President Jeff Madden, who also serves as the Assistant Athletic Director for Strength and Conditioning at The University of Texas at Austin.
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