Coach training • 2 days • 20 CPD
Counterpunch Parkinson’s Coach Certification
Everything you need to run a Counterpunch Parkinson’s program: boxing skills, a Parkinson’s intensive and a live class with real boxers.
About the course
The Counterpunch Parkinson’s Coach Certification Program brings together professionals who share a passion for helping people fight back against Parkinson’s. It’s built on the latest research showing how high-intensity exercise helps ease the effects of Parkinson’s, and on results our boxers and their families can see and feel.
What to expect
Over two full days you’ll be hands-on in the gym and in the classroom. In the gym, you’ll cover boxing basics with a focus on safety, technique and drills. In the classroom, you’ll learn about the different types of Parkinson’s and how symptoms can differ, the effects medication can have on your participants, and how to spot and address the difficulties your clients face.
We finish with an interactive practical session, where you’ll take a group of people living with Parkinson’s through a Counterpunch class.
You’ll leave a better boxing instructor, more confident talking to your members about Parkinson’s, and better able to judge what your clients can do.
Course outline
Boxing basics
- Stable boxing stance and footwork
- Safe punching technique
- Warm-up, cool-down and mobility for a special population
- Pad holding for coaches
- Exercise drills
Parkinson’s intensive
- Parkinson’s 101
- Benefits and guidelines of exercise
- The effect of boxing on Parkinson’s
- Effects medication can have on your boxers
- Assessing your boxers for participation
- Program design
Course details
Length
2 days (16 hours), 9:00am to 5:00pm
CPD
20 REPs CPD points
Price
$599 incl. GST
Dates
Coming soon
Counterpunch Parkinson’s is a proud Continuing Education Provider with REPs New Zealand. On successful completion, REPs registered attendees gain 20 CPD points.
New dates. Watch this space.
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