Advanced Strength Training AST I

This course carries 7 CECs with Fitness Australia

The ‘Advanced Strength Training for Personal Trainers’ course is designed to educate personal trainers, gym instructors and sports coaches the correct execution and techniques for teaching Advanced Strength Training techniques, lifts often referred to as Olympic Style Lifts.

True Olympic Lifts are actually the Snatch and the Clean and Jerk which is Weightlifting (the sport). This course if for the trainer who wants to use Advanced Strength Training techniques and Olympic Style Lifting with their clients.

We aim to give you the trainer the skills to perform and teach the following:

• • Fronts squat
• • Back squat & push press
• • Dead lift
• • Clean pull
• • Hang clean & power clean
• • Snatch pull
• • Hang snatch & power snatch

The course will teach you:

• • The five pre-requisites for Advanced Strength Training
• • Exercise prescription for Hypertrophy, Fat Loss, Strength and Power
• • How to design a program plan/periodisation
• • Function warm-ups
• • Safety
• • Advanced Strength Training theory
• • How to identify and correct common movement dysfunction

“This course will show you how to identify which part of the lift an athlete is breaking down in and how fix the problem. I highly recommend the Advanced Strength Training course to all fitness professionals and strength and conditioning coaches. As a Level 3 Strength and Conditioning coach, I use Olympic Style lifting to develop strength in my athletes, the Advanced Strength Training course developed by PTI has given me a greater perspective on Advanced Strength Training concepts and its applications.”

Paul Watson - Former, Cronulla, Penrith and Australian Rugby League head conditioning coach