Integrative Sports Performance Coach Certification
Designed for strength coaches, personal trainers, as well as sport coaches.
The Integrative Sports Performance Coach is a sports performance educational track, designed to fuse the ideas of structural and functional capacity in athletics. Training programs are often tipped towards one polarity or the other, creating potential for imbalances.
Programs heavy in structure lean into various programming and periodization models. They take a more “muscle-centric” view of movement, hold a concept of biomechanics that centers on “force”, and have a linear progression to one’s goals. These programs make good use of sport-science, and tend to take a data-based, or research-backed approach to exercise transfer into sport skill.
Programs heavy in function lean into the process of motor learning, emphasizing movement quality and environmental factors. They take a more “joint-centric” view on movement, and look at biomechanics and sport skill acquisition in a way that centers on timing, or “kinematics”. This thinking is a complex way of looking at the process of sport mastery, and views the body as a system of systems, paving the way for coaching intuition.
Neither one of these mentalities are “better” or “worse” than the other, as each holds powerful elements to the athletic equation. The key, however, is the integration of these training poles, magnifying impact on the level of, not only results, but also athlete fulfillment, and enjoyment of the journey.
The Integrative Sports Performance Coach certification is designed to help coaches understand the structure, function and integration of the athletic body, heart and mind, in motion.
How to Get Certified
Step 1
Take the Elastic Essentials Online Course
The Elastic Essentials course is the first-of-its kind course that forms a baseline of building a high-performance athlete from the ground up. It features 12 hours of video detailing my dedicated system to building powerful athletes who maximize their elastic function, and make their strength truly count in their explosive movement.
Step 2
Attend the Level 2, Elastic Essentials Seminar
The in-person seminar is held bi-yearly, and is based out of Cincinnati, Ohio. It features extensive lecture and practical course work on the topics of program philosophy, foot and fascial training, game-based and aliveness-based movement training lenses, sprint and jump biomechanics and teaching, as well as advanced strength training concepts.
Stay tuned for the next registration period.
This portion of the course may be offered virtually as a mentorship in the near future.
Step 3
Pass the Written and Practical Exam
To complete the certification requirements, coaches must complete an intellectual (written) and intuition-based (practical) exam. Critical thinking ability and creativity are needed in the field of human performance to build on basic-written concepts, and treat each training session as an emergent process. This course is not designed to build an array of coaching robots who follow a series of exercises and progressions to a “T”, but rather, empowered coaches who feel the methods in their own body, and utilize their intuition to maximize training for the athlete in front of them.
There is also a small array of physical exercise requirements to become IPC certified, as one’s own mental and physical capacities are a critical portion of the process.
What Certified Coaches are Saying
“This certification has been the most influential continuing education I have completed in my 7 years. Joel has put together a system that not only provides answers, but allows us as coaches to dig deeper and look at training through a different lens than the traditional model. It is the first time I have heard a coach talk about philosophy in the way Joel has and how that sets the foundation to the X’s and O’s of biomechanics, programming, etc.
This was not only an intensive online and 16+ hour in-person seminar, as it also has made me want to me ask better questions, seek better answers and gain a deeper understand of coaching/training HUMAN-athletes. I am more rejuvenated as a coach and have seen it pay off with the athletes I work as we continue to shift towards the “Integrative Sport Performance” model.”
Trevor Harris
“The Integrative S&C certification is without doubt one of the best investments I have made in my career. It let me understand Joel’s philosophy, his influences and how he ties learnings from different people and different lenses of human movement together.
The practical piece does wonders as it enables one to hardwire the concepts that Joel talks about in his course as well.
It’s a great way to pick on Joel’s mind as he dishes out learnings worth of gold accumulated through his own experience as a coach, podcast host, author and much more.”
Pratyush Agrawal
