Kettlebell Training and Conditioning
Developed in conjunction with the Optimal Life Fitness Group, Europe’s leaders in Kettlebell Training, PTI now offers this course in Australia for the first time.
This one day Kettlebell instructor course is designed to give gyms and trainers a high standard of Kettlebell learning and development in just 8 hours. This course will teach you the core exercises, how to perform them and most importantly how to teach them. Trainers will learn ways of improving client’s movement patterns, techniques and performance.
The course covers
Kettlebell History
- • A detailed look at where kettlebells have come from and who has used them.
Why Kettlebells?
- • The benefits of kettlebells over other equipment
Kettlebell Safety
- • Covering the points that are most important for safe Kettlebell training in the gym environment
Relevant Functional Anatomy and the Kettlebell
- • Analysis of optimal alignment and posture
- • Movement patterns and types of muscular contraction
- • Elastic potential and its importance in movement
- • The posterior chain and its importance in posture and performance
Full range of movement, triple extension and hip extension:
The importance of these areas and practical demonstrations to improve performance
Reciprocal inhibition, Synergistic Dominance, Intra Abdominal and Intra Thoracic Pressure:
- • Explanations and practical demonstrations into how these terms effect the performance of moving bodies
Learn the foundational Kettlebell exercise:
The Swing
- • Variations – single and alternating
The Clean
- • Variations – double and clean and press
The Snatch
The Front Squat
Double Military Press
- • Variations – single, alternating
The Windmill
The Turkish Get Up!
Practical Assessment
- • Swing
- • Snatch
- • Double dead clean
- • Front squat
- • Military press
- • Windmill
- • Turkish get up
Program Design and Periodisation
- • How to implement Kettlebells into your training sessions
- • When to use Kettlebells
- • How to start with Kettlebells
Benefits
- • The widest range of exercises taught in a Kettlebell instructor course
- • Learn more than just how to perform the exercises
- • Learn great tools to improve technique and improve movement
- • Learn the best ways to start using Kettlebells with clients
- • This course is part of the Extreme Kettlebell Education System
Facts from the UK
- • 8 hours of contact time with the instructor
- • REPs accredited with 10 CPD points
- • Mapped to Level 3 REPs
- • Helps REPs level 2 trainers reach REPs level 3
- • The highest level of CPD points for a 1 day Kettlebell course in the UK
“Having attended several Kettlebell seminars and workshops over the past couple of years I can say without hesitation that this course provided the most innovative and informative presentation yet, great attention to detail, clear explanations and clinical demonstrations. I would definitely recommend this Kettlebell Conditioning course to anyone who is serious about Kettlebell coaching.”
Joe Oliver- Personal Training Manager Your Personal Training