NEW! 2-Day Workshop for Coaches

 
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Movement Improvement and Sports Performance Training

Acceleration and Roger Fitzgerald (BPhys, APA, SMA) from Movement Concepts have teamed up to produce a stimulating 2-day hands-on workshop to help your athletes' perform beyond their best in 2009.

 

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1. How to identify your athletes' functional limitations

2. Exercise and trigger point therapy strategies for injury reduction and

3. How to avoid performance plateaus

 

"I thought the workshop gave us a great insight into the new ideas and research in the area of strength and conditioning, whilst focusing in on speed work. The course will help me develop athletes both at school and club level to now reach a different level of performance."  Graham Harvey, P.E Teacher Mirani SHS.


Spikey BallWhat is trigger point therapy?

Trigger point therapy utilises a spikey ball to relax sore knots in muscles.  A muscle or group of muscles cannot function properly and are more likely to incur an injury if it has trigger points.  Eliminating trigger points through the use of a spikey ball increases flexibility, mobility and reduces the incidences of injury.  Under the advice of Roger Fitzgerald, Acceleration has adopted this methond of flexibility training into all individual, school, club and team sessions.  Dramatic results have been felt and observed by the athletes.  This workshop will show you have to use this method with your athletes.  You will find that you will benefit greatly from this flexibility technique as well!

Roger Fitzgerald

"Acceleration will show you how to test both flexibility and muscle balance. You will learn the fastest way to gain flexibility and the true meaning of core stability. Your athletes will find that they can perform their sport with more efficiency, control and power from doing these exercises. This workshop is a must for any coach looking for the cutting edge that will take his/her athlete's performance to a higher level!"

- Roger Fitzgerald
With 20 years experience working with professional athletes in Australia, Oceania, Asia and Europe, Roger has developed an understanding of how the body works, how to get the most out of it and how to prevent and treat injuries.

 

 2 Day Agenda

Who is Roger Fitzgerald?

Roger Fitzgerald has well over twenty years experience working with professional sport. He has worked with these and many other sporting organisation/bodies:

Swimming Austrlia (1993 - )  New Zealand Soccer (1989 World Cup qualifying tournament)  Brisbane Broncos ( 1990 - 1994) Brisbane Bullets National Basketball ( 1991 - 2001) Marconi National Soccer ( 1988- 89)  Queensland Academy of Sport (1990 - ) the Austrlian Institute of Sport

For the Australian Olympic Teams at Atlanta in 1996 and the Sydney Olympics in 2000, Roger was secleted as the physiotherapist for the teams and went on to win the Australian Sports Medal for his services in sport in 2000.

Roger also has a wealth of experience in the field of education, having run workshops and seminoars for physiotherapists and sporting bodies in Oceania, Asia and Europe.  He also has a long history with rehabilitation of injured workers. His services have been utilised by the Commonwealth Rehabilitation Service, The Gold Coast City Council (2004 - 2007) and BHP Billiton Mistsubishi Alliance (2004 - ) as a preferred provider in the treatment of chronic and more 'difficult case' injured workers.

"As a physical education teacher and a coach I found the sports performance training workshop invaluable to my teaching and coaching. The information presented was cutting edge and the practical sessions really helped to reinforce the theory work. This was my third acceleration course and the two day format was excellent."   Amarlie Carroll, Head of Physical Education Department, St Patrick's Senior College, Mackay

 

"Being the Fitness trainer for the Townsville Soccer Referees, the skills I have learned during this workshop have already in a very short period increased the overall fitness standards of the referees and my personal fitness standards greatly. I recommend all trainers of any level to get involved as the results speak for themselves."

 

 


Click on the name of the location below for more details and for an enrolment form.  Or call us on 1300 661 847.  We look forward to seeing you there!