Kentucky State Clinic

Nutrition recommendations for adolescent & young adult strategies must be individualized to meet their unique needs. Often macronutrients and calorie recommendations are difficult to meet due to the young athletes lack of nutrition knowledge. Nutrition strategies must include education regarding basic nutrition information, time & money management and basic self-care information.

What is your value to your organization? Can you quantify it? In the collegiate setting, how much time do you REALLY get to do what is appropriate for true athletic improvement? This presentation will give listeners a better understanding of what it means to create a vision for their programs, sell athletic performance to athletes and sport coaches and how to have a truly meaningful impact within their organizations that can be measured and quantified.

During this presentation, Stan will share his vast experiences in both the bodybuilding and power lifting worlds. This discussion will include the effects of both on injuries, diet, and longevity.  Power lifting, which focuses on the supremacy of load, has tremendous benefits in terms of CNS recruitment for increased strength and improved bone mineral density. However it may increase the risk for injury and reduce longevity in lifting.
On the other hand, bodybuilding focuses on muscular hypertrophy and body composition, through training volume. However, traditional bulking and cutting cycles may have long term metabolic consequences.

This lecture will describe the classic tendinopathy from overuse injury at its most basic level, as well as appropriate management to ensure not only adequate recovery, but full return to function. Optimal biomechanics, location of common tendon injuries, loading strategies, and nutritional strategies will be discussed.

Dietary supplements are very popular among athletes. At best, they can provide small but meaningful benefits for performance or recovery. At worst, they can result in inadvertent doping violations or adverse health effects. This presentation equips coaches, trainers, and athletes with information about which supplements might be useful, and how to minimize risk as a supplement consumer.