Strength and Conditioning

The British Triathlon Strength and Conditioning workshop is a one-day coaching CPD workshop containing a mix of practical and classroom activities designed to develop your understanding and ability to effectively coach strength and conditioning sessions.

Developed in conjunction with British Triathlon Strength and Conditioning coaches Ian Pyper and Stephen Breisner, the workshop focuses on the following areas:

Introduction to Strength and Conditioning in Triathlon – What do you need to know?
The Needs Analysis Process
Programming Principles
How to deliver effective preparation and warm up activities
Lower body, core conditioning, and upper body exercises

The workshop content has been designed to allow coaches to deliver S&C sessions within a club environment with minimal or no equipment. The workshop does not cover Olympic or power lifting.

In addition to the workshop, coaches who attend will be able to access the British Triathlon S&C coaching resource via the Learning Hub. This includes a large suite of videos of S&C exercises as well as the resources used to deliver the workshop.

Coaches who attend the workshop will be able to deliver body weight focused S&C sessions within the remit of their coaching qualifications. It does not extend a coaches remit to deliver weighted Olympic or powerlifting style sessions.

Pre-Requisites

Level 1 / Foundation Triathlon Coach. Level 1 coaches will only be qualified as an Assistant Coach
Level 2 / Group or Trainee L2 / Group coach (enrolled on a current Group coaching course)
Level 3 / HPCP / Personal Triathlon Coach
Up to date Home Nation’s membership

Please note – on completion of the Strength and Conditioning CPD Workshop you will be required to deliver within your qualification remit:

Level 1 / Foundation and trainee Level 2 / Group coaches can only assist strength and conditioning sessions under direct supervision from Level 2 or above coach
Qualified Level 2 / Group and above coaches are insured to deliver strength and conditioning sessions independently