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The NSCA European Conference 2008 - Europe’s leading conference devoted to Scientific Strength and Conditioning.

In today’s society successful personal performance is becoming ever more important with increasing value placed on mental and physical well-being and fitness. As office jobs lead to a sedentary lifestyle, modern diseases such as obesity, diabetes, hypertension, back problems and other chronic illnesses are widespread. Healthy nutrition, physical conditioning and training are indispensable to prevent and alleviate these disorders, and to ultimately achieve a better and longer life. This is also the major motivation of fit people who aim to improve their athletic performance through tailored exercises and training programmes.

The National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) - as the worldwide authority on research-based knowledge and its practical application to improve athletic performance and fitness – is pleased to announce its first European event, which will offer strength and conditioning professionals a unique learning experience by bridging the gap between science and application.

The first NSCA European Conference will take place in the NH Barbizon Palace Hotel in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on 28-29 April 2008.

Sport professionals will learn how to effectively communicate and teach specific exercises and techniques to improve the performance of their clients. The training methods presented by the speakers include:

• Variable velocity training
• Exercise as medicine for the management of chronic disease
• Theory of movement training for sports
• Performance diagnosis and athlete management

Participants will also have the chance to attend physical demonstrations of specific strength and conditioning techniques and to practise and perform some of these skills in the following fields:

• Developing power, speed and agility
• Core development
• Practical applications of movement training for sports
• Bodyweight training

The sessions will be presented by well-known European, American and Australian experts in the field of strength and conditioning:

• Jose Antonio - CEO of the International Society of Sports Nutrition in Florida; Vice President of the NSCA Board of Directors (USA)
• Clive Brewer - Director of the British Strength and Conditioning Association;
  British Olympic Association Strength and Conditioning Specialist (United Kingdom)
• Lee Brown - President of NSCA; Professor of Kinesiology at California State University at
  Fullerton (USA)
• Jay Dawes - Education Director for NSCA, Colorado Springs (USA)
• Ian Jeffreys - NSCA Coach Practitioner; Director of Athletics and Athletic Performance
  at Coleg Powys, Wales (United Kingdom)
• Robert Newton - Foundation Professor in Exercise; Sports Science and Co-Director of
  the Vario Health Institute at Edith Cowan University, Perth (Australia)
• Mark Roozen - Owner of Performance Zone in Granbury, Texas; NSCA Board member (USA)
• Dave Sandler - President and Co-Founder of StrengthPro Inc;
  Strength and Conditioning Consultant (USA)

For more information, see Conference Programme

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