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• Feb 17, 10

• WAFIC 2010

  Recently PTI were invited to present at the Western Australia Fitness Industry Convention.

  The event was staged at Perth Convention Center and over 600 Fitness Professionals from W.A attended the 3 day event. Many of Australia’s leading educators conducted workshops in the areas of Personal Training, Business Development, Exercise Science and Group Fitness.

  PTI conducted three workshop during the event on; Kettlebell Training & Conditioning, Advanced Strength Training and High Performance Sports Conditioning.

  This clip is part of the mobility circuit/ movement preparation for the Advanced Strength Training workshop.

  The video is not the greatest quality, however you will see 50+ people attempting the drills. It is always interesting to see how we all move in different ways and often our movement quality as trainers is an area which we sometime overlook.

  In preparing our clients or atheletes to lift the following are general guidelines we recommend;

  • Foam Rolling SMR
  • Activation
  • Mobility / Movement Preparation
  • Lifting Specific Warm-Up

  Below is part of the mobility circuit from the WAFIC convention hope it gives you a few ideas.

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• Feb 3, 10

• Advanced Strength Training Progressions

  Power Clean Progressions

  A question I am often asked is, “how do you teach a client or athlete a Power Clean?”

  As we teach in the Advanced Strength Training course there are a series of progressions that you need to build upon to be able perform a Power Clean with the correct technique.

  The progressions are Deadlift –> Clean Pull –> Hang Clean –>  Power Clean

  Not only will these progressions enable your clients and athletes to perform these exercises correctly it gives you the coach/trainer the ability to break down a complex lift into easy teachable progressions. Also this approach will speed up the learning process, if you skip one of these steps (i.e. go from Deadlift straight to Power Clean) it often takes twice as long to master the lift.

  The video below will demonstrate each of the progressions, Rob is performing a few rep’s of each exercise.

  This brief video, illustrates the concept of the Power Clean progressions, similar progressions are used when teaching the Power Snatch, hope it helps you with your coaching.

  • Posted on the 03.02.2010, Permanent Link
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