COURSE OVERVIEW
Enhance your coaching expertise with the Fundamentals of Recovery Training course, a one-day immersive workshop designed for fitness professionals who want to optimize client recovery and performance. This course bridges the gap between training and recovery, providing evidence-based strategies to accelerate muscle repair, reduce fatigue, and improve overall movement quality.
INSIGHTS
- The Science of Recovery – Understand fatigue mechanisms and the fitness-fatigue paradigm.
- Active & Passive Recovery Techniques – Apply stretching flows, self-myofascial release, and relaxation strategies.
- Advanced Recovery Methods – Master PNF stretching and assisted stretching to enhance flexibility.
- Client-Specific Recovery Strategies – Evaluate and tailor recovery approaches for different fitness levels.
- Program Design – Learn to create structured short-term and long-term recovery plans.
- Upcoming Intake: TBC
9AM-5PM - Course fee:
Regular: S$420
By the end of this course, you’ll have the tools to implement effective recovery protocols, ensuring your clients achieve peak performance while minimizing injury risk.
Invest in better recovery—help your clients train smarter and perform stronger!
Module 1:
The Science of Recovery
- The scientific basis of recovery training.
- Causes of overtraining and fatigue.
- Evidenced-based, recovery training modalities.
- Recovery training in sport, fitness and health.
Module 2:
Stretching Flows
- Stretching flows for the anterior sling.
- Stretching flows for the posterior sling.
- Stretching flows for the lateral sling.
Module 3:
Assisted Stretching
- Scope of practice and safety guidelines of partner- assisted stretching in Fitness and Sport.
- Partner assisted stretching for the lower limbs.
- Partner Assisted stretching for the trunk.
- Partner Assisted stretching upper limbs.
Module 4:
Advanced PNF Stretching Techniques
- Hold-relax PNF stretching techniques for the lower limbs, trunk and upper limbs.
- Contract-relax PNF stretching techniques for the lower limbs, trunk and upper limbs.
- Contract-relax, antagonist contract (C.R.A.C) PNF stretching for the lower limbs, trunk and upper limbs.
Module 5:
Self-Myofascial Release
- Scope of practice and safety guidelines of SMR techniques in Fitness.
- SMR for the anterior sling.
- SMR for the posterior sling.
- SMR for the lateral sling.
Module 6:
Relaxation Strategies
- Stress & recovery assessments: Orthostatic heart rate test, HRV testing, resting heart rate trends.
- Diaphragmatic breathing techniques.
- Progressive muscle relaxation.
Module 7:
Concepts of Recovery Programming
- Recovery training guidelines.
- Short-term recovery programming.
- Long-term recovery training.
EDUCATOR
Jacq Ng
Jacq is committed to promote health and wellbeing for all through fitness and believes that exercise is medicine.
This has encouraged him to move into being an educator where he is able to reach out to more existing and aspiring fitness professionals to help them become better coaches. Jacq’s approach to education is highly influenced by his learnings throughout the years from leading experts around the world which he has refined into an adaptive style to cater to his participants.
Jacq is experienced in delivering highly engaging courses and loves to make the complex simple. He is a sports scientist majoring in exercise physiology and strength and conditioning.
He is the co-founder of Babel Training Academy located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Education Manager for FTI Global and recently being appointed as a part time lecturer in the Faculty of Sports and Exercise Sciences, Universiti Malaya where he is an alumni.