Introduction to Strength & conditioning

Duration: 2 days (9.00am - 5.00pm)
Date(s): 16th & 17th May 2015 (Sat/Sun)
Venue: Manchester
Tutor: Danny Holland
CPD Points: 14
Price: £150.00
Pre requisite: Early-Late stage rehabilitation knowledge is essential (evidence of qualifications will be required).

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Strength & Conditioning (S&C) is used by professional sportsmen and women across the UK to enhance their sporting performance. In this new workshop you will learn the foundations of S&C and develop a range of techniques designed to help develop elements such as power, strength, speed and agility. The workshop is designed specifically for manual therapists and is presented with a bias towards integrating S&C training methods alongside existing rehabilitative exercise interventions.

The workshop will cover;

• Foundations of strength & conditioning
• Physiology of training methods; muscular and nerve levels
• Implementation of strength & condition; increasing performance and rehabilitation
• Increasing strength within movement patterns
• Reductions in performance
• Weight gains
• Strength gains
• Posture
• Changes in metabolic rate
• Adapting strength & conditioning methods to suit clients requirements

Assessing movement and measuring

• Techniques; squats, push pull, co-ordination and flexibility
• Weight distribution
• Analysing assessment results

Brief introduction to progression, overload and programming

• What is overload
• Volume and intensity and effects on performance
• Exercise selection
• Exercise order

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