FOUNDATIONS IN PROGRAMME DESIGN
LEARN HOW TO TAILOR INDIVIDUALISED AND EFFECTIVE STRENGTH PROGRAMMES AND FORGE YOUR ROLE WITHIN THE HIGH-PERFORMANCE, MULTI-DISCIPLINARY TEAM.
PHYSIOS COURSE HOME-PAGE
GET the confidence to collaborate quickly and seamlessly with an exercise professional to meet the needs of your athlete as a Multi-Disciplinary Team.
GAIN an operating manual for expanding movement competency, using strength training to drive adaptations.
LEARN what ‘good’ looks like when it comes to strength training so that you can best contribute to the high performance coaching team.
Foundations in Programme Design for Sports Therapists is a weekend, in-person course specifically designed to up-skill clinicians in the world of strength and conditioning for long term athletic development.
Delivered by a strength and conditioning coach with 15 years of experience working in performance sport and a passion for injury management. This course will give you the immovable and universal principles of goal driven, performance training. You will learn about the 3 cornerstone frameworks of the Systems in Sport Training System which will enable you to immediately start applying this knowledge into your practice and ground your learning for the future.
course factfile:
| Course Name |
| Strength & Conditioning for Sport Therapists: Foundations in Programme Design |
| Date & Times |
| Saturday 2nd October 0900-1700, Sunday 3rd October 0900-1500 |
| Who is it for? |
This course is specifically designed for physiotherapists, massage therapists and rehabilitation therapists with a particular interest in exercise prescription for athletic populations. The course is equally appropriate for experienced therapists and students alike. The Systems in Sport training frameworks are universally applicable to any person partaking in goal-orientated strength training, however this course is focussed around exercise prescription for athletes and geared towards training for performance. The course material and associated resources can be applied working multi-disciplinary teams, NHS or private practice. How you interact with the resources may differ but the principle training needs of the athlete remain the same. |
| Pre-Requisite Knowledge Requirements |
| No pre-requistes are required to get a lot out of this course. Key concepts, principles, rules and ideas are embedded into highly practical frameworks which scaffold knowledge at any level. |
| Cost |
| PILOT COURSE PRICE: £150, normal course price will be in the region of £300 |
| Location |
| Hartpury College Sports Campus, Gloucester, GL19 3BE |
| Enquiries |
| Please direct any enquiries to Bob at info@wordpress-397943-2435512.cloudwaysapps.com |
about the course:
In my courses I am teaching the principles and rules of training, knitted into the fabric of 3 scaffolding frameworks that will meet you at your level of knowledge and expertise and support you in developing your skills of exercise prescription.
THE STRENGTH-SKILL OPERATING SYSTEM (SSOS)
A universal map of the terrain for heavy strength training. Detailed progression-regression ladders for precision in exercise selection designed to optimise communication between your athletes and your colleagues.
A PERIODISED STARTER TEMPLATE FOR CONCURRENT TRAINING.
A highly adaptable training template which houses fundamental principles of performance training. This is the scaffolding that will support you building your programmes.
THE HIGH PERFORMANCE STANDARDS (HPS)
What does high performance strength and conditioning look like? Use this as a goal setting framework and set your rehabilitation expectations far higher than before.
about me:
My name is Bob Smith. I’ve been an accredited coach with the UKSCA since leaving Loughborough University in 2006 and have worked in multiple professional and performance sports settings including field hockey, tennis and cricket.
Working in these sports has forced me to develop an approach to S&C which supports sports-skill development and manages the risk of injury as priorities for performance enhancement whilst pursuing more traditional strength and conditioning physical qualities.
The challenges I’ve sat with in working with these sports have forced me to straddle the professions of strength & conditioning, physiotherapy, athlete assessments and rehabilitation and I’ve leant heavily on some great therapists that I’ve met over the years.
I firmly believe that athletes deserve the very best of both S&C and physiotherapy integrated into a single performance programme. Systems in Sport is a growing bank of resources promoting excellence in long term athletic development and a platform championing the power of the multi-disciplinary team. My resources are designed as fertile ground for practitioners to collaborate for the benefit of their athletes.
what my colleagues say about me:
more about the course:
A highly applied S&C course for sports therapists working with athletic populations
From the Strength-Skill Operating System you will gain:
- Firm rationales to drive your decision making on how and when to select any heavy strength exercise.
- Detailed exercise progression-regression ladders for precision in exercise selection.
- An operating manual for expanding movement competency with adaptations that are robust to the rigours of sports.
When mixed with the Periodised Starter Template for Concurrent Training you will be able to:
- Integrate your rehabilitation strategy into a well-rounded athletic development programme with multiple aims.
- Provide your athletes with effective heavy strength sessions.
- Place those sessions into an achievable weekly plan optimised for achieving concurrent training adaptations and ensure LTAD.
- Collaborate quickly and effectively with an exercise professional to meet the needs of your athlete as a Multi-Disciplinary Team.
The High Performance Standards will allow you to:
- Understand what ‘good’ looks like in a performance strength training context.
- Assess your athlete’s training status along age and gender specific standards.
- Pull out relevant exercise standards to set ambitious goals for your athlete’s rehabilitations.
- Recognise where gross deficits in strength and conditioning can be major risk factors for injury, using the SSOS to identify which Exercise Categories to be particularly wary of in any given sport.
what is Systems in Sport?
“As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble”
Harrington Emerson in his 1912 book The 12 Principles of Efficiency
Systems in Sport is a growing bank of resources that I have built over the last 10 years. My frameworks don’t attest to any particular method of training, rather each organises what I have found to be the immovable principles of training. I’ve coached many athletes in many different sports; young and old, male and female, tennis players and cricketers, footballers, fighters and rugby players. The approach changes but the principles stand firm and I’ve refined and continue to refine the systems as I see them interact with the real world.
why an S&C course for physiotherapists?:
In the process of designing this course I’ve interviewed therapist colleagues, friends and acquaintances from various disciplines and levels of experience to try and understand the specific challenges that you face in writing effective strength programmes for rehabilitation.
From observing many great therapists at work, it is clear that deepening clinical reasoning and diagnostic wizardry is the most valuable skill set for successful outcomes yet the exercise prescription is a less well developed skill.
“We just didn’t have much exercise prescription on our degrees or even postgraduate studies…”
“There’s no strategy to my dosing of exercises so I tend to just stick to the middle ground of 3 x 10 or 4 x 6 for a bit of everything”
“I feel pretty good about the early stages following injury but I really lack confidence in programming mid- to late-stage rehabilitations and return to performance”
“I think oftentimes my lack of S&C knowledge leads to a lack of confidence in managing the multi-disciplinary team during rehabilitations at a high level”
This course is intended to fill these gaps in knowledge and arm you with practical tools for exercise prescription that allow you to dovetail your expertise into highly effective programme design.
how is the course structured?
The weekend is split into 3 components, each component resting on a scaffolding framework for Long Term Athletic Development which are relevant to any athlete at every stage of their journey to a greater or lesser extent:
- The Strength-Skill Operating System- Precision in Exercise Selection for expanding movement competency.
- The High Performance Standards- What does high performance look like in S&C and how is it measured?
- A Periodised 2-weekly Template- A highly adaptable training template which houses the fundamental principles of performance training. This is the scaffolding upon which we’ll hang the SSOS & HPS.
Each aspect of this course is designed to provide students with the grounding, immovable principles of training for performance. Sessions will be taught with the backdrop of these highly applied reference frameworks to support learning and therapists in their practice . Each session will end with an open forum of conversation to relate these frameworks back to examples of injury rehabilitation or injury prevention strategies relevant to the students.
SESSION 1: The Strength-Skill Operating System- Precision in exercise selection for expanding movement competency
I will demonstrate how you can use the SSOS to create well rationalised, individualised, appropriate and effective training plans with holistic athletic development outcomes.
You will gain the anchoring principles of effective exercise selection and learn how to use the resource materials to help you in your practice.
The SSOS is the centrepiece of my training system. It is a reference manual for precise exercise selection and you can lean on this for any of your exercise selection questions. In this session you will learn the principles that underpin the system, how you can adapt it for any training scenario and make it work for you in your practice.
Discussion of application in practice – how can you use the SSOS to design appropriate and progressive rehabilitation programmes? How are your skill sets best used in the performance process?
SESSION 2: A Periodised Microcycle for Concurrent Training
A 2-Week Starter Template for concurrent training that I’ve found to work for 90% of my athletes, 90% of the time. It’s highly adaptable and saves me hours of brain power every week.
You’ll learn the rules of this template so that you can adapt it with expertise and individualise the training process for your athletes.
- Principles and rules of weekly programme design.
- Anticipating fatigue in the microcycle and creating optimal opportunities for specific training.
- Adapting this starter template for a return to sports practice or for differing individual needs.
- Advantages of constraining your decision making in organising training.
Discussion of application in practice– how might you use this starter template to integrate effectively with an exercise professional to optimise athlete outcomes.
SESSION 3: Effective exercise prescription for each aspect of our programme.
Here you will learn:
- Principles of programme design to target specific adaptive outcomes.
- Rules and heuristics for exercise dosage specific to each exercise category.
- Training for skill development vs training for structural adaptations.
In this session you will learn the specific neuromuscular conditions required for various adaptations. This first-principle knowledge is fundamental to effective programme design and far more useful than teaching you how to navigate a rep max chart. By understanding this science you will be able to critique any plan against the rules of effective programme design.
I will share with you the philosophy I have developed for training different Exercise Categories within the Strength-Skill Operating System. This is built over 15 years of mixing the scientific literature with best practice in the field and my own applied experience and boiling it down to the essential rules for effective training.
Discussion of application in practice-building criteria driven rehabilitation processes. Here you will map the longitudinal milestones of a rehabilitation journey.
SESSION 4: The High Performance Standards
All practitioners working together towards elite performance standards for their athletes.
Age and gender specific standards for S&C tiered Bronze, Silver, Gold, Diamond.
- The story behind Bronze to Diamond standards and designing your own standards.
- Training is testing, testing is training approach- how these standards knit into a high performance programme.
- Using the standards to communicate with athletes and the wider multi-disciplinary team.
- Movement Competency vs High Performance Standards- coaching to improve athletes along multiple dimensions.
Discussion of application in practice– cross referencing the Exercise Categories of the SSOS with the High Performance Standard to view your athletes through a lens of training for sports performance.