Certified Functional Strength Coach

Who’s joining us in Breda 🇳🇱 next week?!

CFSC Level 1 + Level 2

📍May 29–31 at .sc

Three days. Two certifications. One complete coaching system.

CFSC is coming back to Breda, Netherlands at with a Level 1 + Level 2 combo weekend designed for coaches who want practical skills they can use immediately on the gym floor.

🗓️ Level 1 — May 29

🔺Learn to write well-rounded programs adaptable to any clientele.

🔺A full day of hands-on coaching: exercise demo, cueing, and troubleshooting.

🔺Learn to apply progressions, regressions, and manage clients on the coaching floor.

🗓️ Level 2 — May 30–31

🔺Complete Athletic program design lecture.

🔺Two full days covering speed development, plyometrics, advanced power, and strength & conditioning programming and coaching.

Both levels include a comprehensive online curriculum with 10+ hours of video content, a textbook, and online exams, paired with immersive, in-person instruction.

💰 Save $300 when you register for both levels with code BREDA2026.

If you’re serious about becoming a better coach and learning real, practical coaching and programming skills then this weekend is for you.

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🔺Progressing Plyometrics🔺

When it comes to introducing jumping and hopping to a training program is important to have a gradual and progressive plan to safely and effectively introduce them to the untrained client.

The high-forces involved during jumps, hops and bounds can be problematic if progressed to aggressively and prescribed with too much volume early on for a client who who has little to no training history with impact based exercises.

It’s recommended to start with jumping and progress to hopping once the client demonstrates adequate coordination and lower body strength.

🔺Box Jumps: These are a great starting place for untrained gen pop clients or athletes coming off an injury where they may not be ready for the impact of a normal jumping exercise.
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🔺Stick Landing: The stick landing is the most important phase when beginning plyometric exercises because it gives the client an opportunity to learn the exercise at slower speeds and lower landing forces. Requiring a stick landing, allows the client to work on dynamic eccentric control of their landing position and provides less overall stress to the achilles tendon and feet.
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🔺Mini-Bounce: Once the client masters basic landing skills we should look to progress to more dynamic progressions like the mini bounce where we they begin working on developing elasticity and lower leg and foot stiffness. We want to teach the client to bounce in between repetitions, primarily driving the action from the lower leg and ankle.
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🔺Continuous: Finally, we would progress to “true plyometrics” where the goal is to reduce ground contact time as much as possible. This phase will produce the highest amount of forces through the lower body and require higher lower limb speeds in order to maintain rhythm between repetitions. We want to cue the client to attack the ground on each repetition and bounce through the hurdles.

Want to learn more about programming light implement power drills like jumps, hopes and bounds?

Sign-up for CFSC Level 1 and Level 2 today!

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