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Strength Coaches Survey
2022 Strength
Coaches Survey
By Wesley Sykes, Managing Editor
S
trength and conditioning coaches have two
primary goals. The first is to improve athletic
performance, which usually means improving
athletes' speed, strength, and power through systematic
training programs for both teams and individual athletes,
often working in close association with coaches.
The second primary goal is to reduce athletic injuries.
To that end, strength coaches design regimens to
strengthen body parts that are prone to injury in a
particular sport.
Building strength, power, and speed while keeping
actively participating in injury prevention and
rehabilitation in athletes - that's the name of the game
for strength coaches. And that sort of transformative
development has taken shape in the industry overall.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the
health and fitness trainer industry is expected to see a
12 percent growth through 2029 and produce roughly
30,000 jobs.
Training & Conditioning Magazine asked strength
and conditioning specialists across the country what's
affecting their industry currently, the injuries they see,
and the important principles of strength training.
BIGGEST INDUSTRY CHALLENGES
Dealing with social media fads and trends, countering
training misinformation, and getting long-term buy-in
from clients - are just a few of the challenges strength
coaches said they face regularly.
" Internet experts and a pendulum that swings from
Crossfit and Tactical Training to Olympic Lifting (which
is a sport, not a training method) for everyone, to
'functional training' without ever getting stronger or
more powerful, " one strength coach said.
Another added, that " providing accurate information
and combating ineffective trendy information " is the
biggest problem strength coaches face today.
More than trendy misinformation, many strength
coaches lamented the lack of buy-in from clients which
often limits results and renders their work meaningless.
" So many quit before the finish line, " one strength
coach said.
" Consistency is key. Getting clients to realize that is
difficult, " another coach said. " Also it's about conveying
the two goals of strength and conditioning: building
injury resilience first and then performance. "
While some expressed frustration in getting buy-in
from their clients, others had difficulty getting buy-in
from their sport coaches.
" Dealing with coaches that have no idea about
exercise science - how the body adapts, proper training
progressions, and recovery. Not realizing that strength
training, plyos, speed, agility, speed endurance, and
practice need to use periodization and work together
The average amount of athletes our audience trains is
1-25
26-50
51-100
101-200
200+
0%
10%
20%
30%
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50%
60%

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