Course curriculum

  • 1

    Chapter 1: Hello and welcome!

    • Hello and welcome!
    • Aims and learning outcomes
    • How to engage with this course
    • Some background on what you are looking for
  • 2

    Chapter 2: Strengthen your knowledge- Viva la resistance exercise! chapter

    • Chapter overview and learning outcomes
    • Exercise prescription, strength and conditioning, physical activity... what on earth are we talking about??
    • Terminology quiz
    • What are the benefits of exercise?
    • How many benefits could you name?
    • Ok, so lets look at the benefits.
    • Do you know what the recommended physical activity guidelines are?
    • Why should we care? Why should we consider moving treatment from the plinth, and into exercise?
    • Contraindications, precautions and indications
    • Chapter 2: MCQ
    • What have we learned?
  • 3

    Exercises of the week

    • Bent over row
    • Biceps
  • 4

    Chapter 3: Principles of prescription

    • Chapter overview and learning outcomes
    • Why do we exercise?
    • What is the real reason we exercise?
    • Principles, rules and laws
    • Principle 1: Specificity
    • Principle 2: Overload
    • Principle 3: Progression
    • Principle 4: Reversibility
    • A law to remember
    • A question of principles
    • RM contiuum
    • Warming up
    • Chapter 3 MCQ
    • Chapter 3 overview- what have we learned?
  • 5

    Exercise of the week: Shoulder and bench press

    • Shoulder press
    • Bench press
  • 6

    Chapter 4: Hot to squat (and deadlift!)

    • Chapter overview and learning outcomes
    • The squat and the deadlift
    • The squat- an introduction
    • The squat- the technical model
    • Can you spot the error? Watch each video, and decide what (if anything) is a technical error
    • Ok, one more...can you spot the error? Watch each video, and decide what (if anything) is a technical error
    • Common errors
    • Correcting the errors
    • Regressions
    • Progression 1: Adding some load
    • Progression 2: Front squat
    • Progression 3: Overhead squat
    • The deadlift- an introduction
    • The deadlift- technical model
    • Can you spot the error? Watch each video, and decide what (if anything) is a technical error
    • Common errors
    • Simple regressions and household options
    • Progression- the Stiff Leg DeadLift (SLDL)
    • Are you hot to squat and deadlift??
    • Chapter 4 overview, what have we learned?
  • 7

    Exercise of the week: step ups!

    • Step up
  • 8

    Chapter 5: Reflecting on your prescription

    • Chapter overview and learning outcomes
    • Reflection on your prescription
  • 9

    Exercises of the week- triceps and accessories

    • Triceps exercises
  • 10

    Chapter 6: Needs analysis- what does your patient need?

    • Chapter overview and learning outcomes
    • What is a needs analysis, what is in one, and why is it important?
    • Conducting a needs analysis
    • Case study
    • Needs analysis case study quiz
    • Chapter 6 overview, what have we learned?
  • 11

    Exercise of the week-Bulgarians

    • Bulgarians
  • 12

    Chapter 7: Dynamic correspondence: Being specific about specificity

  • 13

    Exercise of the week- lunges

    • Lunges
  • 14

    Chapter 8: Strength and strength assessment: make Mondays clinic…a manic(ally strong) Monday

    • Chapter overview and learning outcomes
    • Part one: Strength-theoretical underpinnings and considerations
    • Part two: how to assess
    • Part three: how to prescribe for strength
    • How strong is your knowledge?
    • Chapter 8 overview, what have we learned?
  • 15

    Chapter 9: Powering ahead- arrow strength… building on your base

    • Chapter overiew and learning outcomes
    • What is power, and how does it relate to what we have learned already?
    • Powering ahead, putting power into practice
    • Exercises to help with power development- the snatch
    • Exercises to help with power development- the clean
    • How powerful is your knowledge?
    • Chapter 9 overview, what have we learned?
  • 16

    Chapter 10: Hypertrophy- increasing the engine

    • Chapter overview and learning outcomes
    • Hypertrophy, what is it?
    • How do we measure the dose and how do we prescribe?
    • Hypertrophy quiz
    • Chapter 10 overview, what have we learned?
  • 17

    Chapter 11: Prescription and management- guide your gains

    • Chapter overview and learning outcomes
    • Lesson one: Sets and reps, and a little bit more
    • Lesson two: Periodisation
    • Lesson three: putting it all together
    • Guiding your gains quiz
    • Chapter 11 overview, what have we learned
  • 18

    Chapter 12: How strong is your knowledge

    • Chapter overview and learning outcomes
    • Course overview
    • Final quiz!
    • Epilogue- what next??
    • References
    • So, what you gotta say?