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Educational Courses

Teach the Teacher/Train the Trainer:

This unique program is an initial step toward becoming a skilled personal trainer and essential for anyone who would like to become a certified BMC instructor. It is an incredible introduction to advanced personal training concepts-- recommended for anyone planning to take a CPT test, yet does not have a high degree of industry experience and/or technical knowledge. We would highly recommend this course to those who seek to interview at a corporate franchise such as Equinox, NYSC or Crunch. You will have a tremendous edge over those who have merely studied and passed a NASM, or ACE CPT exam. You will be able to hit the ground running and feel competent training clients and creating specific programs. The Fall Level 1 course begins September 17th and will run Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6:30-8PM for 8 Weeks. Total cost: $425. Payment plan and partial scholarships are available.

The outline for the Level 1 course is as follows:

• Week 1: Foundational Bodyweight Exercises. Emphasis on establishing competency in the push-up, pull-up, air squat. Regressions and progressions for each movement and when to begin to implement them. Understanding the basics of the planes of movement - sagittal, frontal, and transverse - and the basics of pushing and pulling.

• Week 2: Foundational Barbell Movements: Back Squat, Deadlift, Bench Press. Understanding how to assess when a client can safely handle loads in each of these movements, understanding cueing, understanding what full Range of Motion looks like. Progressions and regressions on the squat and deadlift. Dumbbell benchpress as both a progression and regression and when to use it.

• Week 3: Foundational Conditioning Concepts: Defining the 4 different energy pathways, their time domains, and how to train each. Basics of programming to limit overstressing the CNS. Conditioning as a recovery tool. Basic principles of HRV and how to apply it. Importance of aerobic exercise.

• Week 4: Throwing and Power Development: Now we're getting more advanced. Kettlebell cleans and snatches. Kettlebell swings. Medicine Ball throws and slams. How to program, when to program, how to safely and effectively combine with conditioning concepts.

• Week 5: Barbell Squatting: Advanced techniques. Now that we've established a solid base of knowledge, we revisit the barbell squat. We begin to talk about front squats, overhead squats, zercher squats, bulgarian split squats, barbell lunges, etc. When to use them, how to assess when clients can safely use them. An entire week devoted to this.

• Week 6: Deadlift Variations and the Power Clean: Similar to the barbell squatting week, we focus on things like rack pulls, 3-part deadlift, trap bar deadlift (IF WE CAN GET ONE, THAT WOULD BE AWESOME), elevated deadlifts, deficit deadlifts, Romanian deadlifts and finally the power clean. When to use each of these. How to program for each of these. Safety. What to avoid.

• Week 7: Mindset Training and Advanced Conditioning: Let's get into the nitty-gritty of intensity, programming conditioning sessions, and how those sessions relate to the parasympathetic nervous system, your body's reaction to stress and distress, and the ways we can cause actual adaptations to these systems.

• Week 8: Teach the Teacher: Working either individually or in small groups, develop a training plan for an imaginary client based on the limitations, history, and goals that we set out. Include both conditioning and strength. Use the tools that we gave you. Be precise. Defend your choices. Build one month. Final day is presentation, and each person presents their first week (time constraint). Answer questions and defend against criticism from fellow students AND instructors.

Instructor: Jacob Levin

CrossFit Level 2 InstructorNETA-Certified CPT