My Certifications
ISSA Certified Fitness Trainer
It's no secret - fitness training has been proven to prevent disease, strengthen your health and improve your confidence and outlook on life. As a certified fitness trainer, I'm deeply trained in everything from muscle mechanics to flexibility and cardiovascular dynamics. So if you want to live a stronger and more confident life, I've got the training and the expertise to help you every step of the way.
Special Strong Adaptive Fitness level 1 and 2
These two courses are an indepth education on how to train individuals with developmental disabilities. The courses looked at biological restrictions, exercise selection, and motivational techniques. All of this was created to bring fitness and health to a segment of the population that often gets left out. The effects of this kind of training also effects the day to day challenges in these individuals lives.
Adaptive Fitness for Professionals
This course involved concepts and techniques for training individulas with physical disabilities or impairments. The course focused on safety and proper set up and completion of important exercises for a variety of conditions and disabilities.
DTS Level 2
This certification took me deeper into my coaching skills and explored proper programming and coaching techniques across a number of exercises as well as motivational methods to help clients reach their goals. Focus was on technique and client safety.
DTS Low Back Pain Specialist
This was an in depth and intense course co-authored by Dr. Stuart McGill, world authority on spinal health. The focus of this certification was in assessing and prescribing proper exercises and methods to effect chronic low back pain.
DTS Hypertrophy Coach
This course focused heavily on the muscle building macrocycle referred to as Hypertrophy. This involved the discussion of timing of exercises, exercise selection, and nutrition.
DTS Nutrition Coach
This course looked at differing nutritional methods for optimal performance for health and exercise.
DTS Striking Basics
This course was a beginner certification for striking and boxing-style training for the general public.
DTS Kettlebell Basics
This was a beginner course for teaching the proper use of and programming for Kettlebell training.
Human Kinetics Endurance Training for Athletes
This course looked at various methods and programming techniques to help endurance athletes increase their performance.
Olympic Lifting Seminar w/ Daniel Robitaille, National Olympic Lifting Coach
This seminar looked at the proper techniques and set ups for teaching Olympic Lifting to the general public. It also discussed programming methods.