Strength and Conditioning Coaching: Winning Methods, Programs, and Facilities
Jun 2025 · Human Kinetics
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Design a training facility and craft strength and conditioning programs to meet the needs of your athletes.
Strength and Conditioning Coaching: Winning Methods, Programs, and Facilities will help you make the right choices, apply the best methods, offer superior training experiences and outcomes, and be a more successful professional in a very competitive industry. Leading strength and conditioning coach Mike Boyle filters out the faulty information, failed approaches, and trendy training techniques and simply shares what works best and why.
Inside you’ll find the following:
Strength and Conditioning Coaching provides a science-meets-practice perspective on the following questions and more: Why does core training keep evolving? Why is off-season aerobic conditioning often detrimental to athletes’ performance? Why are unilateral lower-body exercises so important in athlete performance training? Boyle answers them all in his unique no-nonsense, insightful style.
The author also delves into each of the four most common strength and conditioning training methods, their pros and cons, and how to apply them for athletes of all developmental stages and abilities. Learn more about important topics that every strength and conditioning professional should know:
Strength and Conditioning Coaching is a vital resource that can help you maximize training results for your clients and athletes.
This title was previously released as Designing Strength Training Programs and Facilities, Second Edition.
Strength and Conditioning Coaching: Winning Methods, Programs, and Facilities will help you make the right choices, apply the best methods, offer superior training experiences and outcomes, and be a more successful professional in a very competitive industry. Leading strength and conditioning coach Mike Boyle filters out the faulty information, failed approaches, and trendy training techniques and simply shares what works best and why.
Inside you’ll find the following:
- 7 weightroom behavior guidelines
- 8 rules for successful program design
- 8 essential mobility, activation, and dynamic warm-up exercises
- 3 common problems in developing speed training programs and how to avoid them
- 14 impactful ways to be a more effective coach during training sessions
Strength and Conditioning Coaching provides a science-meets-practice perspective on the following questions and more: Why does core training keep evolving? Why is off-season aerobic conditioning often detrimental to athletes’ performance? Why are unilateral lower-body exercises so important in athlete performance training? Boyle answers them all in his unique no-nonsense, insightful style.
The author also delves into each of the four most common strength and conditioning training methods, their pros and cons, and how to apply them for athletes of all developmental stages and abilities. Learn more about important topics that every strength and conditioning professional should know:
- Modern facility design
- Equipment selection
- Strength and power programming
- Conditioning programming
- Speed development
Strength and Conditioning Coaching is a vital resource that can help you maximize training results for your clients and athletes.
This title was previously released as Designing Strength Training Programs and Facilities, Second Edition.
Design a training facility and craft strength and conditioning programs to meet the needs of your athletes.
Strength and Conditioning Coaching: Winning Methods, Programs, and Facilities will help you make the right choices, apply the best methods, offer superior training experiences and outcomes...
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About the author
Michael Boyle cofounded Mike Boyle Strength and Conditioning in 1996 as one of the first for-profit strength and conditioning companies in the world. Athletes trained range from junior high school students to all-stars in almost every major professional sport. The business now includes an adult fitness component.
Prior to founding Mike Boyle Strength and Conditioning, Boyle served as the head strength and conditioning coach at Boston University for 15 years. From 1996 to 2012, he continued to serve as an assistant strength and conditioning coach at Boston University, primarily responsible for ice hockey. In addition to his duties at Boston University, from 1991 to 1999, Boyle served as the strength and conditioning coach for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League (NHL). In 2012 and 2013, he served as the strength and conditioning consultant to the Boston Red Sox, 2013 World Series champions. He was also the strength and conditioning coach for the 1998 and 2010 U.S. Women’s Olympic Ice Hockey teams and served as a consultant in the development of the USA Hockey National Team Development Program now in Plymouth, Michigan.
Boyle has been a featured speaker at numerous strength and conditioning and athletic training clinics around the world and has produced 30 educational products in the area of strength and conditioning.
Prior to founding Mike Boyle Strength and Conditioning, Boyle served as the head strength and conditioning coach at Boston University for 15 years. From 1996 to 2012, he continued to serve as an assistant strength and conditioning coach at Boston University, primarily responsible for ice hockey. In addition to his duties at Boston University, from 1991 to 1999, Boyle served as the strength and conditioning coach for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League (NHL). In 2012 and 2013, he served as the strength and conditioning consultant to the Boston Red Sox, 2013 World Series champions. He was also the strength and conditioning coach for the 1998 and 2010 U.S. Women’s Olympic Ice Hockey teams and served as a consultant in the development of the USA Hockey National Team Development Program now in Plymouth, Michigan.
Boyle has been a featured speaker at numerous strength and conditioning and athletic training clinics around the world and has produced 30 educational products in the area of strength and conditioning.
Michael Boyle cofounded Mike Boyle Strength and Conditioning in 1996 as one of the first for-profit strength and conditioning companies in the world. Athletes trained range from junior high school students to all-stars in almost every major professional sport. The business now includes an adult f...
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