Advanced Weight Training Techniques

Hamiltons Fitness provides courses for the fitness industry and local authorities to enable key workers to safely supervise weight training equipment and free-weight gyms. To enable them to demonstrate and give instruction in a range of machine based and free weight exercises and to plan, deliver and evaluate simple exercise programmes.

Advanced Weight Training Techniques is a one day course designed for personal trainers, gym instructors or the exercise enthusiast covering advanced free-weight training techniques, programme construction, free-weights for sports performance, goal setting and motivational techniques. Many whole body exercises will be covered including: Deadlifts, Power Cleans and Squats.

Other topics will include: teaching methods - aspects of safety applied to weights equipment and the training area etc. Suitability of exercises to a variety of users including various disabled and special needs users.

This will give the participant:
A ‘Toolbox’ of free-weight exercises to use themselves or with clients
Confidence using free-weights in any environment
The ability to adapt exercise programmes for use with special populations

Participants should have basic knowledge of exercise physiology and anatomy and some experience with either teaching exercise or a number of years experience with exercising themselves. A pre-course reading pack and recommended reading list is available with this course, if required.

Your tutor will be Catherine Wass B.Sc.(hons.)*

Course start time 9am, expected finish time 5pm. Course price includes a light lunch and tea or coffee. Snacks and sports drinks are available to purchase. Full changing, showering and locker facilities are available.

Participants will receive: A certificate of attendance; Course notes.

Price, Early-bird price £155.00 inc vat, up to four weeks before the course date. Standard Price £175.00 inc vat

Book now: Early Bird (available up to 29th September 2007) £155.00. After 29th September 2007 £175.00

*please note that your tutor may be changed at short notice due to unforeseen events. If this is the case your tutor will be one of equal experience and qualification.

Advanced Weight Training Techniques: Sat 13th October: Sorry fully booked

BWLA Leaders Course, email for details