dmaxashman
Level 5 Valued Member
Christine, I think you are right. I did an internship with a trainer/PT when I was considering to be a PT and he recommended I look into studying in Australia. He said he thought their studies were more advanced and had more scope in their practice.
Russell, I've taken two intro physics courses and I am still bad enough at physics that I don't understand stuff like lever arms and cannot understand that stuff with weightlifting. Maybe you are right it could be cool to take a kickass ciriculum based in a lot of the intro sciences biology, physics, anatomy, physiology, movement.
Russell I think one reason that academics surrounding strength and conditioning is so bad is that its really hard to hold trainers accountable because it is a complex and open system. If a trainee doesn't gain strength the trainer can just say, "we were focusing on core functional strength not big muscle." If a trainee doesn't gain fitness it's, "he wasn't sleeping enough at night how can he expect to gain fitness my program was fine." If a person doesn't gain strength its "he was playing his sport so much all I could do was help him maintain strength." If a person doesn't increase his squat its "we were focusing on quick feet in ladder drills that will translate to field play much more."
I mean the only way you can really hold a trainer accountable for good training is if the trainer wants to hold himself accountable and that is so rare. If people learn on national level its good to lift heavyweights and you get standard goals like Pavel is trying to implement here like bodyweight barbell press for strength, snatch test strength and fitness, that would be great imo.
Russell, I've taken two intro physics courses and I am still bad enough at physics that I don't understand stuff like lever arms and cannot understand that stuff with weightlifting. Maybe you are right it could be cool to take a kickass ciriculum based in a lot of the intro sciences biology, physics, anatomy, physiology, movement.
Russell I think one reason that academics surrounding strength and conditioning is so bad is that its really hard to hold trainers accountable because it is a complex and open system. If a trainee doesn't gain strength the trainer can just say, "we were focusing on core functional strength not big muscle." If a trainee doesn't gain fitness it's, "he wasn't sleeping enough at night how can he expect to gain fitness my program was fine." If a person doesn't gain strength its "he was playing his sport so much all I could do was help him maintain strength." If a person doesn't increase his squat its "we were focusing on quick feet in ladder drills that will translate to field play much more."
I mean the only way you can really hold a trainer accountable for good training is if the trainer wants to hold himself accountable and that is so rare. If people learn on national level its good to lift heavyweights and you get standard goals like Pavel is trying to implement here like bodyweight barbell press for strength, snatch test strength and fitness, that would be great imo.