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Advanced Exercise Prescription for Coaching (Strength & Conditioning CPD)

This course is endorsed by CIMSPA and provides a comprehensive approach to exercise prescription, movement assessment, and performance coaching.

Understanding the Course

Designed as a high-impact practical CPD workshop, this course serves as a link between standard Level 3 Personal Training and advanced coaching practice. It equips gym-based trainers with the scientific foundation, biomechanical insight, and exercise prescription skills required to deliver sophisticated, evidence-based programming.

You will gain the practical tools to assess joint mechanics and gait cycle efficiency, integrate gym-based plyometrics, coach foundational strength progressions, and safely introduce Olympic lifting fundamentals (Power Clean and Power Snatch) into high-standard personal training.

By the end of the course, you will have the confidence to structure progressive, long-term training cycles that improve movement effectiveness, build resilience, and raise the standard of coaching you deliver to your clients.

Who The Course is for?

This course is intended for fitness professionals wanting to deepen their understanding of scientific training principles and strength-and-conditioning methods for a wide range of clients. It is ideal for coaches who want to:

Bridge the gap to advanced coaching: Take the next step beyond basic Level 3 programming into structured, evidence-based strength and conditioning principles.
Coach everyday gym clients like athletes: Apply athletic qualities—such as force production, movement screening, and Olympic lift variations—safely inside a commercial gym.
Assess movement with confidence: Learn practical joint and movement screening techniques to quickly identify limitations and select the right regressions or progressions.
Upgrade gym-floor periodisation: Move beyond basic workout splits into structured, long-term training blocks that produce concrete outcomes.

What the Course Covers

Principles of Performance

Hierarchy of Performance

Understand how movement quality, mobility, stability, strength, and power build on one another so you can systematically progress your clients without skipping critical foundations.

General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)
Examines how the body responds and adapts to training stress over time, forming the foundation of effective programme design.

Specific Adaptation to Imposed Demands (SAID)

Highlights how the body adapts specifically to the type, intensity, and demands of training stimuli.

Biomechanics

Functional Movement Screening (FMS)
Learning how to screen movement quality using a structured protocol to identify limitations and asymmetries.

Intrinsic & Extrinsic Biomechanics
Understanding how internal factors (body's sub-system) and external forces influence movement and performance.

Joint & Movement Assessments

Developing practical skills to assess key joints, including the spine, pelvis, shoulder, hip, knee, and ankle, to inform exercise selection and programme design.

Gait Cycle & Performance

Gait Cycle Analysis
Breaking down the gait cycle to understand how efficient movement patterns are created.

Transfer to Performance
Exploring how gait mechanics influence speed, efficiency, and overall athletic performance.

Plyometrics

Plyometric Training
Understanding how plyometric methods are used to develop explosive power and efficient force production.

Olympic Lifting

Power Clean & Power Snatch
Introducing the fundamentals of Olympic lifting through the power clean and power snatch to develop explosive strength and coordination.

Periodisation

Master how to structure progressive training blocks, manage volume and intensity over time, and apply energy system training to elevate your clients' conditioning and gym performance.

Course Structure

PHASE 1

Perform and administer Functional Movement Screen (FMS) tests to assess movement quality and identify potential dysfunctions.

PHASE 2

Pelvic joint assessment.
RAMP Warm-up.

PHASE 3

Shoulder Anatomy and Overhead quality.
Deadlift
Front Squat
Overhead Squat

PHASE 4

Gait Cycle
Knee and Foot Mechanics

PHASE 5

Plometrics.
Understanding Stretch-Shortening-Cycle.
Plyometric Practical

PHASE 6

Olympic lifting
Power Clean
Power Snatch

PHASE 7

Periodisation
Training cycles
Load management
Programme models

Results You Can See. Experiences You Can Trust.

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