Athletic Movement Skills Online CE Course With Print Book

This package includes the following:

• Athletic Movement Skills book
• Online study guide
• Online continuing education exam

Before athletes can become strong and powerful, they need to master the movement skills required in sport. Athletic Movement Skills: Training for Sports Performance sets a new standard for athletic assessment and development. This authoritative work presents proven protocols for evaluating, correcting, training, and translating athletic movement to athletic dominance.

Clive Brewer shares his high level of expertise—drawn from sport science research and champion-producing applications—to explain body mechanics, performance development, and effective training, regardless of the age and stage of the athlete. Beginning with foundational elements such as observing, analyzing, and improving postural control to develop more resilient athletes, this course presents a progressive structure for creating a movement program to accelerate the development of multidirectional speed, power, and functional strength.

Hundreds of photos and illustrations, plus 10 detailed exercise progressions, provide strong visual presentation of exercise progressions to encourage good technique in skills such as jumping, landing, accelerating, decelerating, and changing direction. An accompanying study guide helps solidify learning from each chapter.

Once you complete the course and pass the exam, you can print a certificate for continuing education credits.

Learning Objectives

• Describe the basic concepts of movement skills.
• Explain the roles of the musculoskeletal system, neuromuscular system, and bioenergetics system in athletic development.
• Distinguish motor development patterns from childhood through late adolescence.
• Apply basic biomechanical principles to athletic movement skills.
• Explain the importance of posture in athletic movement and the role it plays in performance and injury prevention.
• Conduct basic testing protocols that will allow you to measure the athlete’s ability to control posture while stationary and during movement.
• Structure and sequence a training programme based on the principles in this course.
• Optimize running and agility drills for athletes.
• Explain and evaluate jumping and plyometric skills commonly used in athletic development.
• Recognize the importance of developing strength for the execution of athletic movements.
• Describe the fundamental principles of coaching movement skills in an athletic programme.

Audience

Athletic trainers, strength and conditioning coaches, and other certified professionals working with athletes to master the movement skills required in sport.

Chapter 1. Movement Skill Development
Chapter 2. Understanding Biomotor Abilities
Chapter 3. Patterns of Motor System Development
Chapter 4. Efficiently Controlling Forces: Mechanical Functions of Movement
Chapter 5. Importance of Posture in Athletic Movement
Chapter 6. Evaluating Posture
Chapter 7. Designing a Progressive Curriculum: Considerations for Movement Skill Learning and Physio-Mechanical Training
Chapter 8. Developing Running Speed and Agility Skills
Chapter 9. Developing Jumping and Plyometric Skills
Chapter 10. Developing Functional Strength Progressions
Chapter 11. Applying Principles in Practice

Clive Brewer is a world-recognized expert in high-performance sports conditioning, athlete development, and applied sports science. He is the assistant director of high performance for the Toronto Blue Jays and has consulted with several other organizations around the globe, such as Manchester United FC, USA Football, Wimbledon tennis championships, the UK Strength and Conditioning Association, Scotland National Rugby League, and IMG Academy. Brewer has also been a consultant to SportsMed global performance systems, supporting sports performance development for clients worldwide.

Brewer is accredited by the UK Strength and Conditioning Association (UKSCA), the National Strength and Conditioning Association, and the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences as a support scientist. He is a chartered scientist with the Science Council in the United Kingdom and an original member of the British Olympic Association register of strength and conditioning coaches.

A native of the United Kingdom, Brewer lives in the Tampa metropolitan area while working across Canada and the United States with the Toronto Blue Jays baseball organization.