CrossFit Certifications at CrossFit Saskatoon
CrossFit Gymnastics Certification - April 24-25, 2010
Registration
Spots are limited and will fill up fast so register early. Click HERE to register for the CrossFit Gymnastics Certification at CrossFit Saskatoon.
Overview
Spend two full days with Coach Jeff R. Tucker and his staff of coaches from CrossFit GSX learning, practicing, and applying the basic elements of gymnastics. Whether you are a novice or accomplished CrossFit athlete, our coaching staff will teach you the necessary skills and drills for applying gymnastic elements for your workouts and personal goals.
You will also learn how to safely teach, spot, and coach correct techniques for the gymnastic elements taught in the two day speciality certification. The recognition of incorrect form and cues for striving for perfect form will be indispensable as you work on your own drills or as you seek to teach others.
Jeff R. Tucker - or “Tucker” to those who know him - is the CEO and co-founder of Global Sports Xtreme (GSX) in Ft Worth, Texas and he has a passion for teaching gymnastics. He and his staff will delve into basic and intermediate gymnastic forms in a lecture setting followed by practical application. Skills will be repeated until the student has satisfactory understanding of how to learn, spot and teach such methods safely. You will also be taught how to scale the movements until they become second nature. You don’t merely attempt such moves, you LEARN them, and through repeated progression and persistence you gain great rewards.
Tucker’s goal in this speciality cert is NOT to make you a gymnast, but rather toaid CrossFitters in using gymnastics for strength development, core control, and WOD progressions. Result: the CrossFit community will become more engaged in using one of the foundational blocks for CrossFit workouts - Gymnastics.
You will be taught a wide variety of movements and techniques, including these and others:
- Parralette work - handstands, L–sit, stretching, core control, handstand push ups, scalability of basic and intermediate movements, spotting
- Rings - support work, proper hand placement, L-sits, iron cross progressions, dislocates, presses, muscle ups and muscle up drills, self spotting techniques, kips, and conditioning,
- Bar Variations - back levers, skin the cat, L-sit pull up variations, stretching, kipping swing, spotting techniques, bar muscle ups, scalability of all moves
- Handstands - HSPU’s, HS forward rolls, balance work, press to HS, L-sit to handstand, how to spot and scale this foundational part of the elements for WOD’s and newbies. hand placement, core control, strength development
- Gymnastic overview - We will have an in depth lecture and video presentation throughout the two days with detailed information and discussion on gymnastic elements and the best application for such drills in crossfit boxes and the community at large.
What do you need to bring? Athletic attire and an adventurous attitude! We look forward to teaching all comers and all skill levels how these foundational gymnastic elements will increase your strength, your flexibility, and understanding on how gymnastics programing is part of Greg Glassman’s vision.
CrossFit Olympic Weightlifting Certification - May 29-30, 2010
Registration
Spots are limited and will fill up fast so register early. Click HERE to register for the CrossFit Olympic Weightlifting Certification at CrossFit Saskatoon.
Overview
Spend two full days with Mike Burgener’s CrossFit Coaches Josh Everett, Stephane Rochet and Shane Hamman learning, studying and practicing the Olympic lifts. The snatch and clean and jerk bring speed, power, coordination, agility, accuracy and balance to your strength training. These lifts are indispensable to CrossFit programming and expert coaching is a powerful advantage.
Mike Burgener, owner of Mike’s Gym (a CrossFit affiliate and USAW Regional Training Center), is a USAW Senior International Coach, former junior World team (1996-2004) and senior World team coach (2005), and strength and conditioning coach at Rancho Buena Vista High School in Vista, Calif.
Josh has been the Head Strength & Conditioning Coach at the University of California Riverside since 2001. Prior to that he served as an Assistant Strength Coach at UCLA & Ohio University. Josh is a competitive weightlifter who has trained under the tutelage of Crossfit Coach Mike Burgener since 1999. During this time Josh has qualified for and competed in 3 U.S. National championship meets placing as high as 9th place in the 85k weight class. In addition to his Collegiate coaching and competitive weightlifting Josh is also deeply involved in the CrossFit community. He serves frequently as an instructor at Crossfit level 1 certs and as a CrossFit athlete has twice finished in the top 3 at the CrossFit Games.
Stephane Rochet has spent 10 years learning the Olympic lifts from Coach Burgener. Rochet is the Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at the University of San Diego, where he oversees the strength training of 450 student-athletes in a high level collegiate program. The lessons learned at “Mike’s Gym” are passed on to these elite athletes every day, with outstanding results.
Shane competed in the sport of weightlifting from 1996 - 2005. He won all 9 national championships and competed in 2 Olympics (2000, 2004). Shane holds all of the American records in the 105+ weight class as well as 3 world records in the sport of powerlifting including a 1008 pound squat. Shane is the weightlifting coach for CrossFit OKC and has a passion for teaching the Olympic lifts.
Spend two full days with CrossFit Coach Mike Burgener and staff learning, studying and practicing the Olympic lifts. The snatch and clean and jerk bring speed, power, coordination, agility, accuracy and balance to your strength training. These lifts are indispensable to CrossFit programming and expert coaching is a powerful advantage.
CrossFit Running and Endurance Certification - July 17-18, 2010
Registration
Spots are limited and will fill up fast so register early. Click HERE to register for the CrossFit Running and Endurance Certification at CrossFit Saskatoon.
Overview
What’s your CrossFit “Helen” time? It could be better in a weekend by improving your running efficiency. Maybe you want to improve your 5k, 1 mile, or 400m times? Or your marathon?
Learn that running is a technical skill, how to apply it and get faster and more efficient with CrossFit. Learn how CrossFit can make endurance athletes better at their sport. You will run less than 2.5 miles and spend 2 full days with Coach Brian MacKenzie and Coach Carl Borg learning the fundamentals of run technique and CrossFit Endurance.
Do you hurt when you run? Do you suffer from shin splints, knee or hip pain? Improving your running efficiency may be the key to running both pain free and faster.
You will run less than 2.5 total miles over the weekend and spend two full days with Coach Carl Borg learning the fundamentals of run technique. Learn how to utilize CrossFit and minimize oxidative overload to improve the performances of both your short distance and endurance athletes.
This Specialty Certification will be presented by Carl Borg. Carl Borg is an expert in strength and conditioning for endurance athletes. He has extensive experience in programming and in turning the mediocre performer into a great athlete. Carl played a pivotal role in developing the CrossFit Endurance program. In the past, Carl was a competitive expert class cross country mountain bike racer along with a short course triathlete. Today he competes in ultramarathons. He incorporated both CrossFit and CrossFit Endurance into all of his training which allowed him to complete the Angeles Crest 100 mile endurance run on an average of six total training hours per week prior to the race.
More detailed info on these specialty certs
Click HERE to go the the specialty cert page at the CrossFit HQ site.