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L1-1Friday, January 27, 10:00am～noon

Integrated training to improve performance in "swing" sports

From posture improvement to strength development

In this lecture, the topic discussed will be the requirements of efficient rotational movement, which is a common element of swing and throwing actions in sports such as baseball, golf, and tennis. Programs for improving those elements from a kinematic, developmental kinematic, and functional anatomy perspective are also explained. In the end potion of the lecture, a number of effective and efficient methods that can facilitate correction of alignment, activation, mobility and motion control, and strength development from a variety of training methods that have been put forth in recent years are selected and combined to be introduced as a single, integrated training program.

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H1-1Friday, January 27, 10:00am～noon

An approach for improving hip joint mobility

The hip joint is known as the body's principal engine since it is the largest joint in the body that located very close to the center of the body and has a large range of motion in various directions. Restriction of its range of motion not only limits the amount of power the body can develop, but also leads to compensatory movements in the form of improper movement of other joints located close to the hip joint, such as the lumber vertebrae and knee joint, that basically work as important stabilizers. In this lecture, how important motions of the hip joint in each of several positions will be described and methods for improving its mobility will also be presented or demonstrated.

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S1-1Friday, January 27, 1:00pm～4:15pm

Protein and amino acid supplementation for increasing muscle protein synthesis and hypertrophy: implications for resistance training and nutritional strategy

The primary purpose of this lecture will be to discuss the role that protein and amino acid supplementation plays in increasing muscle protein synthesis and the impact it has on hypertrophy processes in conjunction with resistance training. Included in this will be an emphasis on using nutrition strategy and nutrient timing to affect hormones involved in maintaining whole body anabolism. The secondary purpose of this lecture will be to discuss various resistance training strategies known to significantly impact muscle strength and mass and how nutrition strategy can be used to augment muscle adaptations to resistance training.

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S1-2Friday, January 27, 1:00pm～4:15pm

High Protein Diets - Health and Body Composition

This lecture will be composed of 4 parts. It will start with a real life case study, the story of twins, as the first topic. Then the history of ‘high Protein’ diets will be reviewed. As the third part, some of the topics that people want to clarify such as “why the current definition is wrong?”, “What happens when you eat 4.4 g per kg per day of protein?”, “What happened when you eat 3.4 g per kg per day of protein AND change your training program?”, or “Is consuming a high protein diet for 1 year healthy?” will be discussed. The lecture will be closed with the part of summary and conclusions.

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H1-2Friday, January 27, 1:00pm～2:30pm

Bodyweight Training: the forgotten workout

In this lecture, knowledge of bodyweight training and progressions of body training will be mainly presented. The topic “The performance continuum and implications” will be the first session. After that, the advantage of bodyweight training will be discussed. With the basic knowledge of bodyweight training, the system of progressions and regressions in exercise will be reviewed. Once total body progressions of the exercise are presented, progressions both in the upper and lower body will be looked over. In the last potion of the lecture, programs and periodization of bodyweight training, including metabolic protocols, will be introduced.

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H1-3Friday, January 27, 2:45pm～4:15pm

The back squat – A joint-by-joint assessment to
optimize performance

This lecture will be composed of 5 parts, such as the overview of the back squat, posture of the upper body, posture of the lower body, movement mechanics, and summary. The session of posture of the upper body will include positions of the head, thoracic, and trunk. The session of posture of lower body will include positions of the hip, knee, and foot and tibial progression angle.

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L2-1ASaturday, January 28, 10:00am～noon

Muscles as a great organ

In addition to skeletal muscles are the organ that burns large amounts of carbohydrates and lipids, they have recently been discovered to contain sarcolipin, which produces more heat than the brown fat cells that regulate the body's temperature. Furthermore, muscular activity stimulates a variety of physiologically active substances such as brain-derived neurotrophic factors that control memory and learning ability in the cerebrum's hippocampus. It seems that muscle atrophies lead to degenerations of bones, the brain, and the heart and other circulatory organs. In this lecture, the latest knowledge in an easy-to-understand manner to understand the mechanism will be presented.

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L2-2ASaturday, January 28, 11:15am～12:15pm

Bridging the Gap between Science and Application

This lecture is designed to examine how since can be used to enhance sport performance. Particularly important to this discussion is the role of the sports scientist in the overall high performance team and how they serve to help translate scientific evidence into applied models that are able to be used by coaches. The importance of a multi-disciplinary team will also be discussed and how these teams can be used to enhance the collection of meaningful data that can inform the performance of athletes

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L2-3ASaturday, January 28, 1:15pm～2:45pm

Developing Athletes from the ground up by applying
the Principles of Long Term Athletic Development

In this lecture Patrick will review Long Term Athletic Development and its application to Adolescent Athletes. He will talk about applying Long Term Athletic Development to your strength training program, how to progress the lifts and how Long Term Athletic Development can be used when develop a speed agility program.

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L2-3BSaturday, January 28, 1:15pm～2:45pm

Athletic performance under conditions of extreme heat
and associated countermeasures

Striving toward effective heat countermeasures based on the latest research

In recent years, most sporting events have been held under extremely tough conditions, for example in extremely hot environments, at high altitudes, or under tight schedules that pack competitions into a short period of time as much as possible. The 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics are no exception to this trend, and those events are predicted to be the worst in Olympic history from the standpoint of event timing, environmental conditions, and the burden on athletes. The developments of countermeasures for tough situations including heat environment are essential. In this presentation, This lecture focuses on the mechanisms of reduced athletic performance due to heat related illness by hot environments and strategies for the heat environment, such as hydration, body cooling, acclimatization, and recovery method, with latest evidences and application examples in practice.

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H2-3BSaturday, January 28, 1:15pm～2:45pm

Trunk conditioning to prevent back pain

Thinking about undulating trunk motion

The history of the evolution of organisms and animals is mind-bogglingly long. During most of the time , the trunk has been as one of locomotorium that functions to move. It has changed its functions depending on requirements of its owner. In many vertebrates, such as fish, salamanders (amphibians), and lizards and snakes (reptiles), the trunk has functions to move. However, opportunities to utilize this original function of the trunk reduces in human walking in two legs. This presentation focuses on the functions and its related muscle groups. Based on considerations of atrophies in muscles around the vertebrae and its related problem, back pain, conditioning techniques for preventions of back pain will be introduced and practice those by attendees each other.

S2 Saturday, January, 28th, 12:15～14:45

Women's Luncheon: Career Development for Female Training Coach

This seminar will cover the results of a questionnaire on careers of female strength coaches targeting female members of National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) Japan. Two female coaches will be guest speakers at the event and they will talk about their experiences of multi-career, being in different roles at the same time in their life such as “Mother and Coach”. Attendees will also be able to share the stories how those speakers overcome the difficulties.
The program will feature a discussion on what is required to foster an environment where women coaches can be more active and work as their best in the field. This participation-based seminar will allow for direct opinion-sharing.

* Please note that this program is open to women only.
* Attendees will be provided with a box lunch.

The results of a questionnaire on careers of female strength coaches targeting female members of National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) Japan

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L2-4ASaturday, January 28, 3:00pm～4:30pm

Resistance training and stretching effect on
viscoelastic properties of tendinous tissues

It is of interesting and significant in human movement sciences to clarify whether the viscoelastic properties of tedinous tissues are affected by the stretching and resistance training. Recent studies indicated that the resistance training for 8 weeks induced significant increase of stiffness by 19%, and the stretching training for 3 weeks produced no significant changes in the stiffness but significantly decreased hysteresis from 20 to 12 %. If the resistance training with stretching exercises were carried out on plantar flexor muscles, the hysteresis decreased by 17% without changes in the stiffness.
These results suggested that the resistance training increased the stiffness of tendinous tissues and the stretching affected the viscosity of tendon but not the elasticity.

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L2-4BSaturday, January 28, 3:00pm～4:30pm

Recognizing and fostering talent in female soccer players

Talent identification and talent development in Japanese female soccer players

There are four key stages that have been proposed in sourcing top-level female soccer players: detection, identification, selection, and development. Sports scientists and conditioning specialists could support coaches and players to develop methods for “talent identification” and “development” of their athletic performance. In this lecture, Current situations regarding talent identification and development from a conditioning point of view in Japanese female soccer players will be presented.

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H2-4BSaturday, January 28, 3:00pm～4:30pm

What determines whether coordination training succeeds or fails?

Five points for success

Coordination training was developed in the former East Germany during the 1960s to improve athletic performance in terms of body control and adjustment and now practiced in athletes all over the world. While specific practices differ among the country or sports, successful coordination trainings have certain shared traits. In this lecture, five key points that are necessary to make those varieties of coordination training effective will be presented and demonstrated with examples of the training practiced in a real field.

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L2-4CSaturday, January 28, 3:00pm～4:30pm

Basic principles for creating a business blueprint

From surviving to winning

In the S&C field, people tend to shun any discussion of business, and it seems that many of them aren’t familiar with business-related information. The poet Matsuo Basho spoke of “fluidity and immutability.” People today tend to rush to embrace fluidity in the form of the current trend of establishing micro-gyms and studios and they are forgetting the importance of immutability. Perhaps the same is suggested by the results of a questionnaire by NSCA, which indicate that many respondents would like to have more opportunities for learning business skills and expertise. Just as we learn the basics in disciplines such as anatomy, there are principles that comprise the foundation of business. In this lecture, some lessons, based on experiences of Mr.Gohara, that should be learned to ensure not survive but win will be presented.

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L2-5BSaturday, January 28, 4:45pm～5:45pm

The relationship between foot type and the training error during
squatting

Although it is widely understood that the relationship between errors while performing squats or single leg squats, for example inward-facing knees or excessively outward-facing toes, are related to the muscular strength and range of motion of the hip joint, such errors are also significantly affected by the feet. By good understanding of the biomechanics of the hip joint and pelvic girdle and deepening their understanding of the biomechanics of the foot and varieties of foot types, instructors can reduce the risks of injury when instructing athletes. In this lecture, basic foot types and training errors from the standpoint of the foot will be presented.

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H2-5BSaturday, January 28, 4:45pm～5:45pm

The Beauty

Achieving beautiful posture and body contours

An unfocused approach to training is not sufficient to foster beautiful posture and body contours. Rather, such an approach will result in poor condition. Although the various muscles in the human body function in exquisite balance, the movements of individuals exhibit idiosyncrasies that not only undermine that balance and trigger functional impediments, but also compromise posture and the body's contours. Consequently, it is important to train muscles based on the body's condition. In this lecture, Practical techniques will be presented while explaining the underlying theoretical background.

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L2-5CSaturday, January 28, 4:45pm～5:45pm

A practical approach to nutrition that can be practiced
by exercise instructors

It is known that nutrition has a major impact on the effectiveness of exercise prescribed for clients. Therefore, instructors may need to treat nutrition-related needs that may be in the interest of some clients, depending on their needs. In this lecture, those nutrition-related needs will be introduced based on examples from the field in top sports and presented a specific, practical approach to basic nutrition issues that can be implemented by exercise instructors.

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L3-1ASunday, January 29, 9:00am～10:00am

Maximizing Performance
– A game speed approach to developing speed and agility

Speed and agility have long been seen as critical components of high performance in a range of sports and are therefore key components of a performance development program. However, how well is our current training transferring to enhance game performance? On field success in sports requires the ability to solve sport specific problems and utilize speed and agility within the specific context of the game. Unfortunately, the development of these capacities is often missing from traditional speed and agility programs. Learn how adding a task based approach to an athletes speed and agility training can help ensure optimal transfer from training to game performance.

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H3-1Sunday, January 29, 9:00am～10:00am

Refining the second pull

Upskilling of the power clean

In the past, Olympic lifting techniques such as the power clean were shunned due to their technical difficulty, and it seemed that their adoption in Japan had lagged compared to Europe and the U.S. However, long-running promotional and awareness-raising efforts in recent years by people who work in the sport, Olympic lifting are gradually entering into a training scene. Nonetheless, there is variance in the results of explosive power development depending on the proficiency of the athletes practicing these techniques. General observations about key points in building second-pull skills will be demonstrated.

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L3-1BSunday, January 29, 9:00am～10:00am

Mechanisms of throwing and associated injuries

New Concept : Throwing Plane Concept

The throwing plane concept is a new concept in throwing injuries and performance. the causes of throwing-related injuries in the shoulder and elbow with reference to throwing phases and also the desirable and undesirable characteristics of throwing form from a medical standpoint will be introduced. Good throwing form not only imposes low stress on the shoulder and elbow, but also contributes to good performance due to high motion efficiency. Understanding how the thrower is using his body while throwing the ball is useful in establishing rational strategies for not only rehabilitation, but also conditioning and training.

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L3-2ASunday, January 29, 10:15am～11:15am

STRENGTH TRAINING FOR ENDURANCE PERFORMANCE

Performance in most endurance events is determined by the maximal sustained power production for a given competition distance, and the energy cost of maintaining a given competition speed. Strength training could thus contribute to enhance endurance performance by improving the economy of movement, delaying fatigue, improving anaerobic capacity and enhancing maximal speed. In this lecture, Prof. Mujika will outline the scientific bases of strength training for endurance performance; the mechanisms for strength training induced endurance gains; the methods and the nutritional recommendations to optimize concurrent strength and endurance training.

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H3-2Sunday, January 29, 10:15am～11:15am

Speed training for team sports

Improving speed based on a consideration of a variety of positions

For athletes, speed is an important factor that affects their performance in competition. To gain speed, S&C coaches oversee not only strength training sessions in the weight room, but also speed training sessions in the field. In this lecture, the speed training theory along with technique drills and sprint drills based on that theory with references to programs that have been implemented for team sports (particularly American football) will be introduced.

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L3-2BSunday, January 29, 10:15am～11:15am

Preventing arteriosclerosis with exercise to facilitate healthy living

Central arteries such as the aorta harden with age. Arterial hardening is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease. In the past, increased arterial hardening was considered a symptom of old age, and no attention was paid to the relationship between regular exercise and such hardening. However, regular aerobic exercise has been found to reduce arterial hardening, leading to new attention to the importance of exercise. In this lecture, knowledge about the effects of regular exercise on arterial hardening will be presented.

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L3-3BSunday, January 29, 11:30am～12:30pm

Approach to peaking and program design

Regulating athletes’ training load so that their peak fitness coincides with key competitions is an important role of the S&C coach. In this talk, Dr. Kawamori will describe some approaches that should be understood in order to ensure peaking works (for example, fitness fatigue theory) along with associated scientific knowledge, and he will introduce some guidelines for putting peaking into practice. In addition, he will discuss how he planned and implemented peaking for some of the athletes who participated in the Rio Olympics.

L3-4ASunday, January 29, 13:30pm～14:30pm

The challenges in four Olympics

I'd like to give you an overview with some episodes of the efforts and developments that led up to my present situation, specifically the reasons I started fencing, how I came to try for the Olympics, how I maintained myself motivated at a high level over years through four Olympics, and the changes in myself and the environment around me through the experience.
I would also like to talk about young athletes for 2020 and beyond, including the environment and support conditions that tend to produce Olympic athletes, ideal coaching and training from the perspective of competitors, and more.

L3-4ASunday, January 29, 9:00am～12:30pm

Japan Society of Sports Performance Research：
Symposium of Japan Society of Sports Performance Research

Sports performance study expressing knowledge in real field of trainers
- Shota Iizuka (silver medalist in the 4×100 meters relay in the Rio Olympics) will be on stage.

9:00am～10:15am

Symposium Ⅰ

Sports performance study of field and track leading team Japan to silver medal in 2016 Rio Olympics.
－Case study : Support for Syota Iizuka, a silver medalist in 400m relay－
　　
<Speakers>
Shota Iizuka (MIZUNO TRUCK CLUB, MIZUNO Corporation; Silver medal, 2016 Rio Olympics)
Yasuhiro Toyoda (Chuo University)
Akifumi Matsuo (Professor, National Institute of Fitness and Sports in Kanoya)

10:30am～12:30am

Symposium Ⅱ

Sports performance study expressing knowledge in real field of trainers.
－A process of sports performance study in real fields－
　　
<Speakers>
Masayoshi Yamamoto (Professor, National Institute of Fitness and Sports in Kanoya)
Hirofumi Kintaka (Professor, National Institute of Fitness and Sports in Kanoya)

<Moderator>
Maeda Akira (Professor, National Institute of Fitness and Sports in Kanoya)