Strength Training Workshop: Beyond the Fundamentals

Description

This Workshop is a must for all Personal Trainers. It reviews the myths and misconceptions of strength training, and teaches advanced strategies for client assessment, core, upper and lower body training including a huge variety of exercises, equipment and protocols.

Session 1 - Assessment

  • How does body composition affect performance?
  • Discover how body fat deposition reflects your endocrine (hormonal) system and how that influences your eating and training parameters.
  • Learn the most effective and practical method of measuring body composition.
  • How much flexibility is necessary for optimal performance?
  • Learn how to perform some simple flexibility tests and what to look out for.
  • What is the role of posture and how will it influence your program design?
  • How do you determine the ideal posture?
  • What is the single best exercise to evaluate muscle length and tension characteristic at practically every joint and how do you properly interpret the results.
  • Discover optimal strength ratios and how to test them.
  • How do you standardize many of the popular endurance tests?
  • What about muscle testing- how applicable is it and how do you do it?
  • Learn methods to test for fiber type dominance and how the results will affect your training.

Session 2 - Core Training

  • In what order should you train your abdominals?
  • How do you determine where to start your clients?
  • Learn how to increase loading and progressions to various core exercises.
  • Discover the biggest misconception regarding your abs and how to train them properly. 
  • Learn how to perform effective exercises with minimal equipment.
  • Discover the secret to keep your lower back pain free.
  • Learn how to perform core exercises in every plane (not just the sagittal plane).
  • Get ready for some unique frontal and transverse plane movements.

Session 3 - Upper Body

  • Have a client that can't do a push-up or chin-up? Learn how to change that quickly.
  • Discover some unique ways of using Swiss balls or bands when training the upper body.
  • Learn how to spot subtle methods of cheating and how you can correct them.
  • Learn how to spot your client.
  • You will be floored by the number of exercise variations you will learn in this part of the workshop.
  • You'll learn how to correctly perform various presses, dips, lateral raises, chin-ups, rows, pull-downs, elbow flexion and extension exercises and so much more!

Session 4 - Lower Body

  • Learn how to properly perform the King of all exercises - the squat. You'll be treated to over a dozen variations of this exercise.
  • You will discover how a simple modification to the deadlift can ramp up hamstring activity.
  • Want more glute or lower back recruitment? JP will show you how.
  • Safety is important - learn what to do and what not to do.
  • Unilateral work is useful to even out strength imbalances in the lower body. One of the most effective, yet often misunderstood, exercises you can perform is the step-up. It is excellent for assessment, rehabilitation and performance. You'll be amazed on how many variations exist of this exercise. Discover one simple tip that converts this exercise into a winner.
  • Learn the most effective movements in the gym for the posterior chain.
  • Discover the true secrets to calf training. How do you attack different heads of the muscle, does knee angle make a difference, speed? What if you have limited equipment?

Requirements:

  • Notebooks, pen, pencil, paper etc...

Note: All attendees receive a detailed manual, handouts and a certificate of completion that can be applied toward Continuing Education Credits (CECs).

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Course Instructor

John Paul Catanzaro, B.Sc., PFLC, C.K., CSEP-CEP

John Paul is a Certified Kinesiologist and Professional Fitness and Lifestyle Consultant with a specialized Honours Bachelor of Science degree in Kinesiology and Health Science.

John has appeared on television and has written articles for several publications including Coaching One-On-One, Fitness Trainer Canada, Flare, Intense Fitness, Men's Health, Testosterone, and Quest For Anabolic Condition. His newsletters are both informative and entertaining, and he has provided reviews for numerous sources including the inaugural edition of Sport First Aid in Canada. John Paul has studied under many of the world's top strength coaches and his pursuit for knowledge is relentless, constantly striving to upgrade his skills.

John is quickly becoming one of the premier Trainers in Canada. Building a reputation for getting his clients in top shape fast, his expertise has not gone unnoticed by other health practitioners who attend his private studio regularly for instruction. Recently, John Paul has begun to attract the attention of fitness-related organizations seeking lectures and Workshops. He's been dubbed the man with an "encyclopedic mind" – you will leave his Workshop with a wealth of valuable information that you can put to immediate use. For more information, please visit www.bodyessence.ca.

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