NCAA requirements for "Strength and Conditioning" coaches

[RaleighPittFan]

It seems that the NCAA does not require much in the way of credentials for Strength coaches. There currently isn't a very high standard to be met to become a "Strength" coach in the eyes of the NCAA.

"Since 2000, 32 NCAA football players have died -- six from traumatic deaths and 26 from non-traumatic deaths. That makes it about 4.5 times more likely a player dies while training for football in the offseason than from a traumatic injury playing football."

I would imagine that requirements are soon to change.

http://www.cbssports.com/college-fo...coaches-and-college-footballs-killing-season/

By the way, Pitt's Dave Andrews does have certification from the "Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association (CSCCa) and USA Weightlifting (USAW) as a level one sports performance coach."

http://www.pittsburghpanthers.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/dave_andrews_949208.html

 

[H2P2004]

Many from taking supplements that they weren't supposed to be taking during summer workouts. Supplements causing dehydration & heat stroke among other things.

I don't put that on strength coaches.

 

[PantherDave724]

Many from taking supplements that they weren't supposed to be taking during summer workouts. Supplements causing dehydration & heat stroke among other things.

I don't put that on strength coaches.

What evidence is there that it is supplement related, and what supplements exactly are being overdosed? Ephedra was banned after Korey Stringer OD'ed on it and had a heart attack.

Creatine is safe for consumption, and you really can't overdose on creatine.

Most over the counter nitric oxide products are safe for consumption.

While what you said about fat burners are true, I can't specifically remember anyone outside of Stringer ODing on them.

 

[gbgpanther]

What evidence is there that it is supplement related, and what supplements exactly are being overdosed? Ephedra was banned after Korey Stringer OD'ed on it and had a heart attack.

Creatine is safe for consumption, and you really can't overdose on creatine.

Most over the counter nitric oxide products are safe for consumption.

While what you said about fat burners are true, I can't specifically remember anyone outside of Stringer ODing on them.

Creatine is bad if you do not drink the water needed and as the results of 4 high school teams . Know one drank enough water. Hard on the kidney

 

[PantherDave724]

Creatine is bad if you do not drink the water needed and as the results of 4 high school teams . Know one drank enough water. Hard on the kidney

Of course. But if you're working out, you should be constantly hydrating. That's a given

 

[pittdan77]

Many from taking supplements that they weren't supposed to be taking during summer workouts. Supplements causing dehydration & heat stroke among other things.

That's not true. Heat stroke is not an environmental condition. It's caused by overexertion. Dehydration isn't caused by supplements no more than it is from exercising for two hours alone.

What they're finding is that some of these clowns are designing programs that are just abusive and dumb in the name of improving "physical and mental" toughness. It's like beating a dog repeatedly to make it a better guard dog.

Any coach that subjects kids to strenuous, non-football like training purely to make them "tougher" is only hurting his team.

 

[RaleighPittFan]

That's not true. Heat stroke is not an environmental condition. It's caused by overexertion. Dehydration isn't caused by supplements no more than it is from exercising for two hours alone.

What they're finding is that some of these clowns are designing programs that are just abusive and dumb in the name of improving "physical and mental" toughness. It's like beating a dog repeatedly to make it a better guard dog.

Any coach that subjects kids to strenuous, non-football like training purely to make them "tougher" is only hurting his team.

This was my thought when I read the article. How can a school with the resources that Oregon has available to them allow some jabroni to have control over off-season workouts?

And, how can the NCAA be okay with it?

 

[pittdan77]

And, how can the NCAA be okay with it?

If member schools get a pass for the rape and beating of coeds and children, do you really think they give a d@mn about football players?

 

[H2P2004]

That's not true. Heat stroke is not an environmental condition. It's caused by overexertion. Dehydration isn't caused by supplements no more than it is from exercising for two hours alone.

What they're finding is that some of these clowns are designing programs that are just abusive and dumb in the name of improving "physical and mental" toughness. It's like beating a dog repeatedly to make it a better guard dog.

Any coach that subjects kids to strenuous, non-football like training purely to make them "tougher" is only hurting his team.

If you take a themogenic supplement or an supplement containing ephedra and do not properly hydrate you WILL suffer from heat stoke and a faster rate than someone that does the same exact workout.

A football team has 115-125 kids, at OREGON "3" kids were hospitalized after doing the same workout as everyone else. At UCF maybe a decade ago a kid suffered heat stroke and died from the same workout that the ENTIRE team did. At UCF it was found after that kids had been taking a supplement with the banned substance "ephedra".

Its the kids taking supplements because 3/125 doesn't match up. Other guys at Oregon said it was nothing they hadn't done before; so what was the difference?

Off season is when guys cycle supplements up through the summer BUT they didn't know how their bodies would react to same exercersion as before taking supplements.

Sadly learned a painful lesson

 

[SoufOaklin4Life]

What evidence is there that it is supplement related, and what supplements exactly are being overdosed? Ephedra was banned after Korey Stringer OD'ed on it and had a heart attack.

Creatine is safe for consumption, and you really can't overdose on creatine.

Most over the counter nitric oxide products are safe for consumption.

While what you said about fat burners are true, I can't specifically remember anyone outside of Stringer ODing on them.

You absolutely can od on creatine by killing your kidneys.

Supplements are all voodoo