Each of our Coaches has very different expertise – we utilize each other’s strengths to help guide greater results for each of our clients. We encourage asking questions and leaning on one another, in order to build the best workout programs – and continued success – for each of our clients.
About the Academy
Overview of the Coach Academy
Training Timeline: 8-12 weeks of initial training
Training Curriculum: Core Principles & Fundamental Skills, Human Anatomy, and how to conduct Assessment and Intake
Regular Check-Ins: After initial training, we have ongoing weekly check-ins and coaching around client case studies, business development, and hands-on coaching development.
Z-Health Education: Our coaches don’t have to come with Z-Health already completed, but our expectation is for every coach to take Z-Health foundational courses in order to join the team, as these principles are fully-integrated into our methodology.
You’ll master Core Principles & Fundamental Skills, Human Anatomy, and how to conduct Assessment and Intake with clients/athletes. Here’s a bit about each.
How We Train Coaches
Core Principles & Fundamental Skills
Ankle point • Zip • Bone Rhythm • Upper Body Lock • Wedge • Spirals
6 Movement Principles
These 6 principles are intended to set up every client or athlete with a foundation where they have good motor control, body awareness, and strength to build off of going forward. Plus, when we have our clients build a foundation of body control, all intended physical effort is put into the right place or the right muscles without compensation, which minimizes the chance of our clients developing poor patterns that lead to future injuries.
4 Strength Principles
Center of Gravity • Base of Support • Force Vector • Center of Mass
Center of Gravity: Where the center of gravity for the athlete is, which is unique per person.
Base of Support: Your proper stance and point of stability; often the width of the athlete’s feet position, and could also be the points of contact of the athlete’s body that stabilizes the task;
Force Vector: The direction in which the athlete is pushing to complete a movement.
Center of Mass: The center of gravity or the balance point of the object the athlete is lifting. Besides adding more weight, we would also like to know if the coach can make a movement more challenging.
Squat/Crouch • Deadlift • Lunge • Push • Pull • Press • Rotation/Anti-Rotation • Gorilla Curl
8 Fundamental Skills
Any JBodyworks coach will become an expert in the wide variety of tools and equipment we leverage in our studio. Because our training is focused on developing and enhancing functional movement patterns for our clients/athletes, it’s expected our coaches will utilize everything we have to offer in creating training programs. As part of our Academy, you’ll learn these 8 Fundamental Skills, as a basis for building any training program from.
Mastery of Human Anatomy
For Anatomy, we break it down by body part, familiarize you in each area, and then test each Coach in stages. Specifically, you will learn and be tested on the function of the muscle, the spinal segments of each muscle, the muscle test, and the corresponding exercises and nerve glides.
Mastery of Assessments & Intake
The better the assessment, the more specific the plan: Similar to a clinical setting, we use assessments to help create a more complete picture of each client/athlete. Assessments allow us to find underlying inefficiencies that we can address in order to create a more sound and pain-free body. And importantly, assessments also tell us when to refer out, utilizing our health and wellness network to refer to other professionals who can best-serve a client’s needs, from neurologists to chiropractors to acupuncturists.
What Informs Our Training
Z-Health
Much of the scientific foundation at JBodyworks is based on the theories and practices of Z-Health. While it’s not expected that every new Coach will become an expert in Z-Health within a few months, it is expected that they will be taking courses in Z-Health and moving toward a deeper understanding of how it works, so they can use it in their own coaching with clients. Most Coaches at JBodyworks will be required to be trained up to the I-Phase (second tier of training), and coaches do not need to be currently trained in Z-Health to apply to be a JBodyworks coach.
Depending on your level of training, we will either introduce you to the key elements of Z-Health so you understand the context of our work, or if you are familiar with Z-Health, we will train you in-house for the phase(s) appropriate to your current level.
You can learn more on the Z-Health website.
Hendrickson Method
This is an advanced system of massage and manual therapy that effectively and efficiently treats acute and chronic pain. The method synthesizes Wave Mobilization®, a unique method of soft tissue mobilization created by Dr. Tom Hendrickson, with Joint Mobilization and Muscle Energy Technique (MET) to reduce pain, restore function, and promote optimum health.
You can learn more on the Hendrickson Method website.
Manual Therapy
We have dedicated hands-on therapists on our team. If you’re interested in working at JBodyworks as a Manual Therapist, please contact us.