The high school level is one of the fastest-growing segments of the strength & conditioning field. Opportunities to work with high school athletes or in high schools are at an all-time high.
Unfortunately, these positions are often filled by people who may mean well, but are simply misguided and under-qualified. You have everyone from overzealous parents to sports coaches thinking they know how to train athletes, and the kids simply aren’t getting what they deserve.
Unfortunately, these misguided parents and coaches are often over-training the athletes, wasting their time and energy, or putting them in dangerous situations.
What young athletes need is an expert performance coach, someone like you, to help them reach their highest levels.
The IYCA is on a mission to change the landscape of strength & conditioning in high schools.
To make that possible, the IYCA has revamped the High School Strength & Conditioning Specialist Certification to ensure that it is the most comprehensive, practical and scientifically sound certification available for anyone working with high school athletes.
With authors from major colleges, NFL teams, highly-acclaimed high school programs and world-renowned sports performance facilities, the HSSCS is the gold-standard in education for the high school strength & conditioning coach. In fact, the HSSCS is the ONLY certification geared specifically to coaches working with high school athletes.
Training high school athletes can be difficult, and coaches should be extremely well-educated before implementing programs that have the potential to impact young athletes for the rest of their lives. Just because a coach is really strong, in great shape, watched some videos or attended a clinic does not make him/her qualified to work with young people.
That is precisely why the High School Strength & Conditioning Specialist Certification was created – to ensure that every coach has the foundational knowledge to give these kids the very best training programs available.
We want to empower all athletes to reach their full potential, whether that means simply making a high school team or moving on to the next level to play in college.
It’s about helping athletes build confidence, strength, and awareness. You help them build skills that they will take with them and use for the rest of their lives.
Working with high school athletes is about getting results, but it’s also about making a positive impact that will last a lifetime.
We’re proud to be the only organization in the world that not only delivers sound, scientifically-based training information, but also dives deep into coaching, sport psychology and how to make a difference in your community. This is what sets us apart, and thousands of outstanding coaches are on board.
In fact, some of the most successful strength and conditioning coaches in the industry are certified through the IYCA. Coaches like…
To be the best coach possible, you need to learn from the best. You need to learn the scientific underpinnings of training, the practical tips on how to get the most out of athletes, and take advantage of the experience of as many outstanding coaches as possible. That’s why the HSSCS doesn’t just have a couple of authors – the HSSCS brings you the knowledge of 20 incredible coaches with over 300 years of combined experience!
You need to be truly excellent and differentiate yourself from other coaches. You just found the way to make that happen.
This course takes years of research and practical application and provides you with the most critical aspects of training High School athletes.
The High School Strength & Conditioning Specialist will teach you:
Not only will you be able to access all of this (and more) as a High School Strength & Conditioning Specialist, but you’ll also have the ability to differentiate yourself from the crowd by holding a very specific credential that only the best coaches can claim.
To take this certification over the top and make the HSSCS the Gold-Standard in high school strength & conditioning, we enlisted an incredible group of strength coaches from major colleges, NFL teams, award-winning high school programs and highly-successful sports performance programs.
The HSSCS now includes TWO complete textbooks and several hours of video instruction, giving you more in-depth learning on high school strength & conditioning than you’ll find anywhere else.
This is the tried & true textbook for the High School Strength & Conditioning Specialist course written by three of the top sports performance coaches in America – Wil Fleming, Mike Robertson and Eric Cressey. You will learn practical concepts backed by the latest research for training high school athletes.
Here’s a short overview and the objectives of each chapter:
Chapter 1: Program Administration for the High School Strength & Conditioning Specialist
Chapter 2: Strength and Power Training for the High School Athlete
Chapter 3: Speed and Agility Training for the High School Athlete
Chapter 4: Mobility Training for the High School Athlete
Chapter 5: Coaching the High School Athlete
Chapter 6: Sample Strength & Conditioning Programs
This is the most complete textbook with the most incredible list of authors ever created for the high school strength coach. Adding the 300-page PASC textbook to the HSSCS certification gives you the advantage of learning from the top coaches in the world, and it will raise your knowledge and understanding of strength & conditioning to new heights. The principles laid out in the PASC textbook lay a foundation for you to create safe, effective and efficient programs for athletes at every level and in every sport.
The Table of Contents and list of authors looks like this:
The High School Strength & Conditioning Specialist Coaching Videos
Learn exactly how the experts coach and teach the specific strength training, power, and mobility movements for their athletes. These cues and tips are critical to coaching large groups of high school athletes safely and efficiently.
Learn the bottom-up approach to mobilizing the joints of the lower body. You’ll learn:
In this video, we cover coaching cues and tips for creating mobility through the athlete’s upper body. You’ll learn:
See a full-scale dynamic warm up in action that can be used with all your high school training groups. In this video, you’ll get the complete A to Z warm up used in world-class training facilities to help prepare your athletes for their practices or training sessions in minimal time.
Get coaching cues and tips as you cover the foundational lower body exercises, including:
Understand the proper coaching progressions for the Olympic lifts you should be using to create powerful athletes. You’ll learn:
Learn how to coach and when to use the following complexes in your athletes training: