Advanced Extreme Kettlebell Instructor

Course Summary

The EKI Advanced is all about making the body perform better. This 1 Day course utilises the key principles that were taught in the EKI and is delivered in partnership with Optimal Life Fitness.

By the end of the day, your Kettlebell lifting will be taken to a new level. Not only will you learn a host of new, exciting and challenging exercises, but you will also learn a myriad of new techniques and tools to improve yours and your clients performances.

The aim of the EKI advanced is to make a better performer. You will learn mind blowing new techniques that open pathways; improve movement patterns; release tension and tightness; re-align posture and allow the body to perform optimally.

You’ll learn the best ways to implement all of the tools into your programmes and finish with a firm understanding behind how to improve movement and achieve optimal performance.

Course Facts

• The most advanced level of Kettlebell Instruction available in the UK
• REPs accredited with CPD points
• 1 Day Course with 8 hours of contact time with trainers
• Full manual provided
• Mapped to Level 3 REPs

Benefits

• New exercises and an introduction into Kettlebell Sport.
• Learn fine, intricate techniques to improve efficiency and master the kettlebell.
• Learn ways to improve range of movement across joints.
• Learn how to make the body perform better.
• This course is part of the Extreme Kettlebell Education System.

Available To

Personal Trainers; Strength and Conditioning Coaches; Fitness Instructors; Fitness Enthusiasts who have done the Extreme Kettlebell Instructor Course (EKI).

Prerequisites

You must also have completed the Extreme Kettlebell Instructor Course before your enrole on this course.

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