Extreme Kettlebell Instructor

Course Summary

This 2 Day Course is the full instructor course and not only has the highest REPs accreditation it also holds the Optimal Life Fitness Groups Certification of ‘Extreme Kettlebell Instructor’ (EKI) and is delivered in partnership with Optimal Life Fitness.

The course teaches personal trainers the how and why behind kettlebell training. You will learn how to make your client perform and function better. Advanced techniques are taught which will give you the edge over other trainers in client performance. The 2 day course is the most in depth course written in kettlebell training for fitness and sports performance.

When you sign up and complete this course you get so much more than just a 2 day course.

• Free access to our Online Resource Centre
• Free downloadable kettlebell exercise clips and technique drills
• Free downloadable kettlebell training programmes
• A 60 Page colour Instructor Training Manual
• A free weekly newsletter
• The chance to join the EKI Membership
• The chance to join the Trojan Kettlebell Lifting Club
• You become an Extreme Kettlebell Instructor
• Phone and email support
• Access to the OLF Forum for training plans and advice
• The chance to do the Advanced EKI course
• 16 REPs CPD points

Once you have completed this course you can then go on to enrole on the Advanced Extreme Kettlebell Instructor Course.

Facts

• 15 hours of contact time with the instructor
• REPs accredited with 16 CPD points
• Mapped to Level 3 REPs
• Helps REPs level 2 trainers reach REPs level 3
• The highest level of CPD points for any kettlebell course in the UK
• A 60 page manual with all theory and practical notes for the course

Benefits

• The widest range of exercises taught in a kettlebell instructor course.
• Learn valuable tools to improve your clients performance.
• Learn great tools to improve technique and improve movement.
• Learn the best ways to start using kettlebells with clients.
• 3 great workouts which you can use with your clients straight away.
• The only course in the UK to incorporate advanced theoretical knowledge of movement with kettlebell training.
• Become one of the UK’s growing number of EKI trainers.
• Become a member of Extreme Kettlebells and receive:
  • Your own section on the Extreme Kettlebell website to gain new clients in your area.
  • Use of the Extreme Kettlebell logo to market your business.
  • Discounts of further courses.

Trainers that fail the assessment can reassess for free at one of the Optimal Life Fitness’ future course locations.

Available To

Personal Trainers, Strength and Conditioning Coaches, Fitness Instructors, Fitness Enthusiasts.

Course & Overview

Day 1

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
• Reciprocalinhibition, Synergistic Dominance, Intra Abdominal and Intra Thoracic  Pressure:
  • Explanations and practical demonstrations into how these terms effect the performance of the moving body.

All of the exercises taught in the 2 day course are broken down and trainers will learn all of the necessary techniques to perform them safely and effectively. They will also learn the variations for the exercises and the benefits of each exercise for the body.

The Swing

• Techniques and tools to:
  • extend thoracic
  • improve hip extension
  • recruit the posterior chain
  • asses muscular firing sequences
• Variations – single and alternating

The Clean

• Variations – double and clean and press

The Snatch

The Front Squat

• Techniques to:
  • Improve thoracic strength
  • Increase depth of the squat
  • Double Military Press
  • Techniques to improve strength across the body
• Variations – single, alternating

The Windmill

• Techniques to increase strength across the shoulder joint

The Turkish Get Up!

• Creating a strong base of support throughout the body

Day 2

Introduction to the day
Practical Assessment

• Swing
• Snatch
• Double dead clean
• Front squat
• Military press
• Windmill
• Turkish get up

Methods of Teaching and Learning

• Skill learning
• Teaching practice
• Learning models

When Instructing

• Instructing practice

Training Plan/Periodisation

• Linear western approach
• Conjugate theory
• Implementing kettlebells into training
• When to use kettlebells
• How to start with kettlebells

Components of a Session
Planning a Session
Extreme Training Systems Method

• 3 challenging kettlebell workouts which you can take away and use the next day
• Extreme Strength and Structure
• Extreme Conditioning
• Extreme Endurance