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Welcome To Our Latest Group Of Coaches In China!

CFSC Level 1 Name on Certificate Chinese Name Geng Yanmin 耿延敏 Yu Haoran 于皓然 Xie Rong 谢荣 Li Zongyuan 李宗元 Zhang Huihui 张慧慧 Xiao Qiyun 肖启云 Wen Qin 温沁 Wang Enhao 王恩浩 Shen Yue 沈悦 Wang Dun 王敦 Wu Rongjie 吴荣杰 Ye Tiantian 叶田田 Kong Huimin 孔惠敏 Zhang Pei 张培 Gao Xiaofeng 高小峰 Ji Lei […]

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3 Questions for Trainers Not Writing Programs for Their Clients

Guest Post By Mike Connelly If you look at today’s landscape in fitness you will see several lines of division.  Social media is rife with arguments on just about every facet of coaching.  You have your implement zealots arguing over which tool is the best, your technique arguments, can the spine bend under load or not, and […]

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3 Onboarding Steps That Make Program Design Easier

Guest Post By Chris Merritt Do you know who you’re for? What your ideal clients want? “I can train anyone!”, you say? Well, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but if your training business is for everyone, it’s for no one it’s incredibly inefficient to run and it will be almost impossible to scale. On the […]

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3 Tips for Writing 100+ Training Programs a Month

Guest Post By: Ross Oberlin “I’d say, 2, maybe 3 hours per program”. He said it with a proud smile on his face. He believed we’d see it as ‘dedication to his craft’.  We saw it as crippling inefficiency. I was attending my first Strength Faction Seminar back in 2016 and we were discussing how […]

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To train, or not?

We’ve all had it happen. Goals in sight. A solid training plan laid out, ready for that client to rock. Progressions, regressions, lateralizations all lined up on deck. Then…the dreaded words come out of their mouth. “I tweaked my back”.  “I pulled something”. “The old joints are aching today”. Shit. There goes that plan. …or […]

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5 things Therapists can learn from Coaches

This is a Guest Article written by Megan Pomarensky… Therapists have a lot to learn from coaches. The disconnect between therapy and training is HUGE. Strength coaches are in a unique position. Clients often actively seeking them out, to push them closer to their goals, wanting to try new things, and to do all the heavy […]

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“Stick to the Recipe” Part III: our top 3 CFSC chef tips to whipping up a delectable training program

This post was written in conjunction with Ep. 319 of the Strength Coach Podcast In part one of this series, Coach Dan McGinley discussed what is meant by “sticking to the recipe”, and he gave a brief description of each “ingredient” that makes up our training recipe at Certified Functional Strength Coach. In part two, […]

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“Stick to the Recipe” part II: How much of each ingriedent? by Brendon Rearick

Today, in part two , I will be sharing with you how much time you should spend doing each of the 7 ingredients. As a reminder those 7 “ingredients” are…

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Why new coaches should “Stick to the Recipe” by Dan Mcginley

Today, in part one of this series, I want to start with what we mean by “sticking to the recipe”, and a brief description of the “ingredients” that make up our…

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The Learn to Coach Series: Hands On Coaching and Kinesthetic Cueing

Kinesthetic cueing is the use of physical cues and constraints to optimally position an athlete during

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