SweatShop Health Club

Other Professional Training

KETTLEBELL WORKSHOP

Kettlebell is a great addition to your Pilates or Personal Training repertoire. This 8-hour workshop is geared towards Pilates and Personal Trainers who have had limited experience with this new exciting mode of training. Course will cover the following topics:

• Brief History of Kettlebells
• Safety
• Equipment choices
• Biomechanics of Kettlebells
• Teaching, Cueing and Correcting Techniques
• Foundation Exercises
• Initial Program Design and Class Structure

Course will be very practical in nature, dress to work out.

PERSONAL TRAINING BASICS

A 16 -hour practical course for those looking for the basic foundation to become a certified personal trainer. We strongly recommend taking the anatomy course first if you have not had formal anatomy education. Course covers the following topics:

• Client Interviews Goal Setting, Health Screening
• Nutrition Basics
• Initial Program Design and Exercise Analysis
• Flexibility, Stretching, Circuit and Interval Formats
• Core Conditioning, SAID principles
• Applied Kinesiology to Lower and Upper body Exercises
• Cardiovascular Training
• Legal Issues
• Medical Issues and Injuries
  

FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY

16 hours of functional anatomy from a fitness foundation perspective, this is a great course to learn the basics or review for an exam. With the use of charts and skeletons, this workshop will review basic biomechanics and anatomical terms as well as skeletal and muscular anatomy. Simple and complex exercises will be examined noting levers, resistant forces from gravity or springs and muscular action.