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Functional Training for Sports CEC (12 credits)
The Functional Training for Sports continuing education course is
designed to further the knowledge of all fitness professionals with an
emphasis on functional training for sports. Its sole purpose is to
further your professional education. This is not a certification
course. Ii is an educational program to be used by all fitness
professionals striving to raise their level of professionalism.
The focus of this course is effective strength tests and detailed
exercise progressions that will achieve your full athletic potential.
As you master each progression, you will be more prepared to perform
your best with notable improvements in stability and balance, reaction
time, core strength and power.
Here is a brief Outline of the of the material in the Functional Training for Sports Course:
- Adding Functionality to Your Program
- Analyzing the Demands of Your Sport
- Assessing Your Functional Fitness
- Linear and Lateral Warm-Up
- Designing Your Program
- Lower-Body Strength & Balance Progressions
- Hip Extensions and Healthy Hamstrings
- Targeted Torso Training and Rotational Strength
- Balanced Upper-Body Strength & Stability
- Plyometric Training for Power and Injury Prevention
- Olympic Lifting for Quickness and Power
- Performance Enhancement Programs
Distance Learning (12 CEU's) $199
CEC Learning Objectives
- Learn to use Functional Training to help your athletes achieve their full playing potential.
- Learn to use Functional Training to help your athletes condition their bodies to perform at its best during competition.
- Learn to use Functional Training to help your athletes become stronger, faster and quicker than ever.
- Understand the complete Functional Training for Sports System to focus on training your athletes’ bodies the way they
will be used during competition, to develop movement skills, body position and explosive power essential for all sports.
- Master the effective strength tests and detailed exercise prescriptions to help customize programs for your athletes.
CEC Learning Outcomes
- Become proficient at the Functional Training for Sports progressions to focus on developing the athletic torso, upper body and lower body.
- Master the Functional Training for Sports progressions to dramatically improve your athletes’ stability, balance, reaction time, core strength and power.
- Understand that the Functional Training for Sports whole body, sports-applied program makes Functional Training
for Sports your primary guide to today’s most effective and efficient training.
- Master the art and science of adding functionality to your programming.
- Become proficient at analyzing the demands of a specific sport.
CEC Goals
- Understand how to assess your athletes’ Functional Strength.
- Understand how to design your program.
- Understand how to design linear and lateral warm-ups.
- Understand how to design lower body strength and balance progressions.
- Understand how to design programs for hips and healthy hamstrings.
- Understand how to design programs for targeted torso training and rotation strength.
- Understand how to design programs for balanced upper body strength and stability.
- Understand how to design programs for plyometric training for power and injury prevention.
- Understand how to design programs for Olympic Lifting for quickness and power.
- Understand how to design programs for performance enhancement.
This continuing education program will provide the information needed
to guide you through a complete system that focuses on training your
body the way it will be used during competition to develop movement
skills, body positions, and explosive power essential for all sports.
Includes:
- The Functional Training for Sports textbook
- Course Outline
- Worksheets
- Continuing Education Exam
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