Strength and Conditioning Coaching

Winning Methods, Programs, and Facilities

Michael Boyle

• Publisher: Human Kinetics
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9781718245853

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:

• 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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• In Appreciation
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Foreword by Dan John
• Preface
• Introduction
• Chapter 1—Designing and Equipping Your Facility
• Chapter 2—Building a Strong Program Foundation
• Chapter 3—Designing the Perfect Program
• Chapter 4—Core Training, Mobility, Activation and Warm-Ups
• Chapter 5—Explosive Training
• Chapter 6—Strength Training
• Chapter 7—Lower-Body Training
• Chapter 8—Upper-Body Pulling and Pressing
• Chapter 9—Choosing a System of Training
• Chapter 10—Creating Efficient and Effective Workouts
• Chapter 11—Speed Development
• Chapter 12—Conditioning
• Chapter 13—Computerizing Your Program
• Chapter 14—Designing Programs for Teams or Groups
• Chapter 15—Parting Words: The Mirror and the Window
• Recommended Reading
• References
• Index
• About the Author
• Earn Continuing Education Credits/Units