Strength Training Workshop - Beyond The Fundamentals (12 hours)
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 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.
- This is not just a simple discussion of how to perform crunches!
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!
- The wrist exercises alone are worth the price of this session.
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?
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