Barefoot Training Specialist
Training based on foot science.
Learn the benefits of barefoot training, and how to combine this method with balance, body weight, and body tension training to improve your client's performance, correct movement dysfunctions manage their weight, and more.
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What You’ll Learn From This Course
As its name suggests, barefoot training involves working out without shoes. This course is made up of two topics, Barefoot training, and Bare workouts. Upon completion of the Barefoot Training Specialist certification course, you will:
Understand the anatomy and biomechanics of the foot and ankle, along with increasing your knowledge of fascial lines (including how they impact stability) and foot function.
Have a deeper understanding of foot science and its impact on a person’s health and fitness levels.
Know the benefits that barefoot training provides, as well as how to use this workout approach to help clients reduce their injury risk while achieving better and faster results when improving their performance, managing their weight, or correcting movement-related issues.
Learn ways to incorporate BARE training into other exercise programs, such as Pilates, mind-body programs, and senior fitness.
Have the skills needed to perform both open-chain and closed-chain foot assessments when beginning your work with a new barefoot training client.
Be able to create barefoot training sessions and workout programs for individuals and groups of all sizes, even for clients with pain conditions, physical injuries, joint dysfunction or instability, and other lower extremity difficulties.
How You Can Use It:
While most people don’t give their feet a second thought, when you apply what we know about foot structure and function to a fitness training program, it helps enhance the results. As a Certified Barefoot Training Specialist, you will have the ability to train clients' structure and function while using proper barefoot exercise techniques.
What sets this certification course apart from many others is that it is a mixture of four types of training. Specifically, it teaches trainers how to develop a course that utilizes strategies involving barefoot work, balance training, bodyweight exercises, and body tension – providing fitness clients the benefits of each all rolled into one. From the initial assessment of new clients to workout program creation and delivery, you will have the skills and knowledge needed to help people reach their fitness goals while enjoying exercise without shoes. This sets you apart from other trainers, some of whom spend a lot of time focusing on athletic footwear.
This certification course can be beneficial for other health and wellness professionals and athletic performance. Barefoot training can help your clients address their movement dysfunctions and reduce their risk of injury by enhancing the timing of their muscle activation patterns.
INSTRUCTOR BIO
Dr. Emily Splichal, Podiatrist and Human Movement Specialist, is the Founder of the Evidence Based Fitness Academy, Creator of the Barefoot Training Specialist®, BarefootRx® and BARE® Workout Certifications and Inventor of Naboso Barefoot Technology. With over 16 years in the fitness industry, Dr. Splichal has dedicated her medical career towards studying postural alignment and human movement as it relates to barefoot science, foot to core integration and from the ground up training.
Dr. Splichal actively sees patients out of her office in Manhattan, NY with a specialty in sports medicine, functional medicine and regenerative medicine (www.dremilysplichal.com). Dr. Splichal takes great pride in approaching all patients through a functional approach with the integration of systemic function, diet, vitamin supplementation and corrective exercise.
Dr. Splichal is actively involved in barefoot training research and barefoot education as it relates to athletic performance, injury prevention and movement longevity. Dr. Splichal has presented her research and barefoot education both nationally and internationally, with her Barefoot Training Specialist® Program in over 35 countries worldwide and translated into 12 languages.
Due to her unique background Dr. Splichal is able to serve as a consultant and expert for some of the top fitness, footwear and orthotic companies including Aetrex Worldwide, Bunion Bootie, Crunch Fitness, Lissom Footwear, NIKE Innovations, PowerPlate USA, RAD Roller and Trigger Point Performance Therapy.
Degrees/Certifications: Doctor of Podiatric Medicine (DPM), Master's Human Movement (MS), NASM-CES, NASM-PES, NSCA-CPT
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