COURSE DESCRIPTION

Sports and Sports Conditioning have gone through revolutionary improvements in training, tactics, strategies, methods, equipment, and technology over the past few decades. The focus now is to build better athletes with athletic components of fitness needed to excel at their sport. With a better, improved, more highly conditioned athlete to work with, coaches can now provide them the skills they need to Max perform and be better, stronger, faster, more powerful, and improved in every one of the 12 IFPA Components of Fitness they require to excel, to break records, and be greatly improved over every athlete that came before them.

One very overlooked aspect of Sports Conditioning has been optimal breathing. This is no longer the case as a great many sports conditioning specialists, coaches, and sports scientists have come to the realization that nothing could be more basic or fundamental to sports performance than functional breathing. This course will provide you with the knowledge, skills, abilities, exercises, programs, and various modes you need to train and condition your athletes to master their breathing in even the most stressful, competitive environments to attain optimal athletic performance.

This course will provide you the secret weapon to maximizing your athletes performance when it counts the most.

EDUCATION UNITS: 12 CREDITS

COURSE LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Develop a fundamental awareness of healthy breathing.
• Develop an understanding of the anatomical physiology of breathing.
• Develop an understanding of the relationship between athletic performance and breathing.
• Develop an understanding of the relationship between emotions and breathing.

COURSE OUTCOMES

• Learn the best exercises to test breathing.
• Learn the best exercises to measure, document, and improve breathing.
• Learn the best oxygenation exercises for your athletes.
• Learn the best strengthening exercises for your athletes.
• Learn the best exercises for recovery, relaxation, emotional regulation, and exercises.
• Learn the best environmental stress exercises.

COURSE GOALS

• Become highly proficient in conducting breathing exercises.
• Become highly proficient at using ideal breathing techniques.
• Become highly proficient at developing breathing and strategies.
• Become highly proficient at improving breathing to generate more power.
• Become highly proficient at improving breathing to enhance decision making.
• Become highly proficient at improving breathing to improve movement.
• Become highly proficient at improving breathing to expedite recovery.
• Become highly proficient at improving breathing to improve aerobic endurance.
• Become highly proficient at improving breathing to improve focus.
• Become more proficient at improving anxiety and stress.

PACKAGE CONTENTS

• Textbook
• Study Guide
• 80 question (multiple choice, open book) CEU Exam & Essay

E-COURSE INSTRUCTIONS

• You will receive the links to the course materials and exam within 24-48 hours of purchase.

PREREQUISITES

• CPR/First Aid Certified (recommend, but not required)