Kettlebell Fundamentals Course

This Kettlebell Fundamentals course takes an understanding of hard style and kettlebell sport and is able to navigate the gray area between those two styles of kettlebell training, delivering a simple yet masterful approach to teaching the difficult techniques of kettlebell (like swings, cleans, and snatches). This course provides incredible tips, techniques, and tricks to improve your movement patterns, kettlebell movement, breath work, and engagement.

Course Info:

• Equipment Needed: One kettlebell (provided at event)
• Duration: 6 Hours
• User Level: Beginner to Advanced. No experience needed to take this course
• Delivery: When you purchase this, get a downloadable PDF of the course as well as online access to videos for each section.

• Earn a certificate of completion with Pre Approved CEU/CEC (providers below)
• Earn CEUs
• This course is designed for trainers who want to teach others as well as those who just want to move better with kettlebells to maximize their own workouts.
• Actively taught to 5 major gym chains every quarter

View demo of Hinge Focus portion of this course:

Pre approved for CEUs!

  **Don't see your provider? Many people have taken our courses without their provider being on the pre-approved list. To our knowledge, no one has been refused credits by simply manually applying to their provider for credits. View more CEU details at the bottom of description. If you take our course and are turned down for credits, we will reimburse you for the course!

Learn the fundamentals before you move on to anything else. This course is designed to Achieve Certificate of Completion:

This course is designed to achieve safe and effective performance of basic kettlebell movements and a handful of meaningful variations that will elevate your skills a coach. Complete the assessments at the end and earn a certificate of completion. After this course you should be able to demonstrate the following:

1. Safety 101 to keep yourself and your client from harm

2. Why it's important to focus on the breath

3. Our favorite mobility warmup and screening

4. How to prepare for the rigors of kettlebell work

5. The hinge leading into the deadlift and variations

6. The swing and variations 

7. The clean and variations 

8. The press and variations

Pass assessments when you complete the course and earn a certificate of completion!

CEU INFORMATION: 

• AFAA: Living.Fit is recognized by the Athletics and Fitness
  Association of America as an Approved Continuing Education Provider. 6 AFAA CEUs for this course
• NASM: Living.Fit is recognized by the National Academy of Sports Medicine as an Approved Continuing Education Provider. 0.6 NASM CEUs for this course.
• NCSF: Living.Fit is recognized  as an Approved Continuing Education Provider. 
  • 3 CEUs for Fundamentals Course
  • 6 CEUs for Advanced Course

Need more CEUs? Check out our Advanced Course here!

Battle Ropes Fundamentals Course

About 20 minutes into this course you will realize that the misconceptions of Battle Ropes abound. We will take a tool that is often thought of as an upper-body finisher or enhanced cardio tool, and turn it into a full body tool, that can drive results for any training need, including mobility, stability, strength, power, and endurance. This is done through an easy-to-understand approach to the laws of physics and the body's physiological adaptation process

Course Info:

• Equipment Needed: One battle rope (provided at event)
• Duration: 6 Hours
• User Level: Beginner to Advanced
• Delivery: When you purchase this, get a downloadable PDF of the course as well as online access to videos for each section

• Earn a certificate of completion with Pre Approved CEU/CEC (providers below)
• Earn CEUs

 

View demo of Mechanical Physics portion of this course:

Continuing Education

Pre approved for CEUs!

 

• AFAA: Living.Fit is recognized by the Athletics and Fitness
  Association of America as an Approved Continuing Education Provider. 6 AFAA CEUs for this course
• NASM: Living.Fit is recognized by the National Academy of Sports Medicine as an Approved Continuing Education Provider. 0.6 NASM CEUs for this course.
• NCSF: Living.Fit is recognized  as an Approved Continuing Education Provider. 
  • 3 CEUs for Fundamentals Course
  • 6 CEUs for Advanced Course

This Course Covers:

• Battle Ropes Introduction and History
• Battle Ropes Basics, Benefits, and Biggest Mistakes
• Mechanical and Wave Physics
• Static Engagement with Battle Ropes
• Power Metabolic Pathway Training with Battle Ropes
• Strength Metabolic Pathway Training with Battle Ropes
• Endurance Metabolic Pathway Training with Battle Ropes
• Coaching Cues and Best Practices

Learn How to Use One of the Most Effective and Versatile Tools in Your Gym

WHAT MAKES A GOOD WORKOUT PLAN?  A well rounded workout plan  includes components for power, strength, endurance and durability.  Traditionally, you need tons of different equipment to provide these for clients. 

FULL BODY WORK. Often thought of as a finisher or tool for your upper body, battle rope workouts utilize muscles in your glutes, back, abs and can be used to build legs with lunges, squats and jumps.  Ropes can be  power, strength or endurance.

SAFETY.  Compared to loaded weights, ropes are safer for clients because the rope is limited to the power you create

CLASSES. Train high level athletes and beginners in the same class because you get out of the rope what you put in, rather than being dependent on needing a variety of weights or equipment available. Wide degrees of clients use the same rope

"How do battle ropes benefit your training?"

The battle ropes offer a constant challenge to me, through their enormous versatility. They keep me engaged, focused, feeling strong, and ALWAYS challenging me to push a little harder. It helps me to be able to visualize and measure my progress by watching the movement through them, and they keep me from becoming bored with traditional gym activities (which I tire of quickly). Since using the battle ropes I have noticed a huge improvement in my own endurance and strength. I have also noticed that in conditioning power through the ropes I am able to more quickly execute powerful moves (without becoming winded as quickly). For me, the greatest benefit to the ropes is how I feel when I use them. I ENJOY working out, and trying new things with them. They give me a sense of power and appreciation for movement and the transfer of energy through them. The best part is that when I use them I am able to stay present and hyper-focused, engaging my full body as well as my mind.

"What were the top three things you learned from both Living.Fit Battle Ropes Level I and II?"

These courses introduced me to a huge variety of different ways to use the battle ropes in order to train different metabolic pathways. That battle ropes can be used as a tool for building strength, increasing power, or burning fat depending on how they are used in combination with the work to rest ratio. That this tool is incredibly versatile and is an excellent way to engage the full body (most times with low impact), as well as measure power/strength output and also inconsistencies in an athlete.

"What is one way you will implement this education in your personal or professional life?"

I will regularly incorporate many of the compound fat-burning exercises in the bootcamp program that I run. I will also regularly check-in with the massive variety of exercises in this online resource to develop my own training. As I have difficulty with degeneration in the cervical spine, the low impact of the battle ropes is a fantastic option for me to increase endurance without putting a lot of extra pressure on my spine. This will be something that I can share with clients who also have mobility restrictions or suffer from injury. The battle ropes are my absolute favourite tool for improving my mindset, and fueling my mental strength. I plan on using many of these exercises to take my own training to the next level physically, while also continuing to pass on my passion for improving mental health with this tool that I find so empowering. The number of exercises in this course will make it much easier to keep challenging myself and developing myself both physically and mentally. This, in turn, I will pass along to my personal training clients.

"How do battle ropes benefit your training?"

The battle ropes offer a constant challenge to me, through their enormous versatility. They keep me engaged, focused, feeling strong, and ALWAYS challenging me to push a little harder. It helps me to be able to visualize and measure my progress by watching the movement through them, and they keep me from becoming bored with traditional gym activities (which I tire of quickly). Since using the battle ropes I have noticed a huge improvement in my own endurance and strength. I have also noticed that in conditioning power through the ropes I am able to more quickly execute powerful moves (without becoming winded as quickly). For me, the greatest benefit to the ropes is how I feel when I use them. I ENJOY working out, and trying new things with them. They give me a sense of power and appreciation for movement and the transfer of energy through them. The best part is that when I use them I am able to stay present and hyper-focused, engaging my full body as well as my mind.

Learn From the Best.  

Aaron Guyett is the Battle Ropes & Fitness Programs Manager for Living.Fit with a decade of battle rope coaching, teaching, and programming. Aaron systematically breaks down force, so each participant knows exactly how to program movements, metabolic pathways, and mindset to get the most out of your own training and the training of your clients, athletes, and classes. Courses cover different topics depending on if it is a 4 hour or 2 day format.

Aaron is Equinox Fitness Training Institute Educator and founder of Battle Ropes Education.  In addition to being a Marine Corps Staff Sergeant and Iraq War veteran.  Aaron runs run both the virtual and in-person training programs related to battle ropes and other modalities of fitness for Kettlebell Kings & Living.Fit.

One of the ways Aaron discovered many benefits of Battle Ropes: 

"When I was training for the Kettlebell World Championships in Dublin I needed to add an aerobic/endurance component to supplement my kettlebell training because my feet were getting killed from so much running. By adding progressive amounts of double rope work to protect my feet and mobility instead of running I drastically improved my endurance with the kettlebell, with adaptations/improvement in my aerobic capacity, lactic threshold, and mental toughness."