Approved Lifelong Learning

Title:

EXPLOSIVE BARBELL is a strength and power conditioning course, that aims to train on the use of barbells with the correct techniques, to employ these movements in increasing physical strength and explosive power, and to prepare players for the lifts that used in international Olympic Weightlifting competitions, and to help trainer to incorporate the explosive barbell movements in their clients’ fitness training programs.

Knowledge and Understanding Outcomes:
After the students finish this course, they will be able to understand and describe the following:
• Barbell as a weightlifting equipment.
• Weightlifting Vs. powerlifting.
• Olympic Weightlifting classic lifts.
• Weightlifting equipment.
• Weightlifting competitions rules.
• Compound movements.
• Weightlifting breathing techniques.
• Weightlifting supplemental exercises.
• Barbell complex, combo, and circuit.
• Weightlifting specific warm up & stretches.
• Biomechanical Similarities between weightlifting and Sports Movements.
• The following terminologies:
1. The triple extension.
2. The athletic position.
3. The progressive overload training.
• The squat, snatch, clean and jerk, deadlift.
• The failed lifts escaping strategies.
• Managing weight principles.
 
Skills Outcomes:
After the students finish this course, they will acquire the following skills:
• Designing a full Explosive Barbell class using circuits and complexes.
• Designing their own weightlifting programs.
• Making assessment to their clients before designing the training program.
• Incorporating Olympic Weightlifting into client programs.
• Describing the athletic position & the triple extension.
• Choosing the correct weightlifting specific warm up and stretches.
• Mastering the snatch, and clean & jerk.
• Implementing the correct and safest escaping strategies in the case of failed lifts.
• Using the force-velocity curve and implementing it in strength & power weightlifting training program design.
• Using the correct breathing techniques in weightlifting training.
• Using the overload strategies and the training variables to design programs.
• Demonstrate, apply, describe and perform the fundamental and supplemental weightlifting exercises.
• Teaching the weightlifting fundamental exercise techniques.
• Spotting the flaws, correcting the techniques error to their trainees during the Explosive Barbell class.
• Being a great role model to their trainees in the class.
• Designing a weightlifting training program for women, men, elders, and youths.
• Using the 1RM mobile app.
• Understanding the weightlifting competition rules.
• Handling pregnant, elder trainees during the kettlebell class.

Course - Face to Face

Fitness Instructor (EQF L3), Personal Trainer (EQF L4)

LLP Category 1

10

Yes

Assessment Process:
• Student will be required to submits a video for himself/herself demonstrating 3 repetitions of each of the following movements (Snatch, Clean& Jerk, Front squat, Deadlift), starting with a full demonstration and ending with a common error with the correction for the same movement.
• The Total score of the assessment is out of 100.
• If the student fails any of the required movements’ techniques, he/she will be requested to submit a new video for the same movement.
• If the student scored less than 70, he/she will be requested to submit another video of the 4 movements.
Note:
Students will have a period of 2 months in order to practice and submit the assessment videos, starting from the last day of the course.

Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Worldwide

English, Other

https://bodyexplosivepower.com/explosive-barbell/