Explores the rationale for immediate post-match lower-body resistance training in elite soccer during congested fixture schedules, examining recovery demands, strength maintenance, injury risk and applied programming strategies used within a UEFA Champions League environment.

The dynamic strength index (DSI) has been proposed as a diagnostic approach to manage strength training - how effective is it?

Discover the health benefits of youth resistance training and learn how safe, supervised programmes can improve strength, confidence, movement skills and lifelong physical activity.

Learn how cluster set configurations can enhance resistance training by managing fatigue, maintaining movement quality and improving strength and power through evidence-based programme design.

Dr Helen Collins shares her inspiring work on the impact of strength training on inactive and overweight children.

Reviews current hamstring training practices, including data from a recent meta-analysis, illustrating that practices should be refined.

In this lecture, the physical and psychological significance of using lifting velocity to enhance training effect will be outlined, as well as methods of using lifting velocity for resistance training purposes.

This presentation will discuss the role force platform technology plays in the diagnosis of neuro-muscular force-generating characteristics of elite Olympic weightlifters.

This session explores the use of the weightlifting exercises and their derivatives to enhance the force-velocity profile of athletes.

This presentation will detail methods of measuring velocity during resistance training, the applicability of either Peak or Average/Mean velocity to different categories of exercise and normative velocity scores for different % 1RM in key strength and power training exercises.

A series of coaches corner videos highlighting lifting common errors often encountered by the S&C coach, and advice on how to deal with them.

Stuart Yule demonstrates the hook grip and explains why it is important.

Stuart Yule talks about the key coaching points for the Stiff Leg Deadlift or Romanian Deadlift.