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 integrate the multi-faceted nature of athletic performance.
A traditional approach to sports performance programming is heavy on quantitative measures: Getting stronger in big lifts, doing locomotion and corrective “drills”, carrying out familiar programming templates, and collecting data. This approach is highlighted on the bottom and left side of the model below.
Maximal athletic development comes from a total integration, which means infusing elements along the right side of the model into athletic development. Athletes may be adept in the qualitative elements, but many are not. Modern coaching, if coming from a separated place, cannot fully address the process of athletic mastery.
In an integration of these training poles, not only results transform, 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 exam testing both intellectual understanding and instinctual application. This course is not designed to build coaching robots who follow a series of templates, drills and progressions to a “T”, but rather, to instill a deep connection to movement, aliveness, and creativity in the coaching process alongside progressive programming methodology.
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
