TWIST LEARNING PATHWAYS
Earn certification status per specific course (ie: Certified Athletic Strength Specialist).
Study all 4 certification courses in one Learning Pathway, become distinguished with a 5th accredited title (ie: Certified Sport Performance Specialist).
You may also curate your own program, selecting courses from a variety of Learning Pathways to meet your education goals and career aspirations.
SPORT PERFORMANCE
- Coaching athlete development
- Physical tools for sport excellence
- High-transfer training into the game
- 30 key movement patterns
- ATHLETIC STRENGTH
- ATHLETIC MOVEMENT
- ATHLETIC BALANCE
- PROGRAM DESIGN + THE ART OF COACHING
TWIST Certified Sport Performance Specialist
FUNCTIONAL TRAINING
- Active living
- Brain training
- Muscle building
- Movement skills
- FUNCTIONAL SMART MUSCLE
- FUNCTIONAL PHYSIQUE
- THE ART OF FASCIAL TRAINING
- BRAIN BODY REBOOT – THINKING BODY + DANCING MIND
TWIST CertifiedFunctional Training Specialist
YOUTH HEALTH + HAPPINESS
- Physical literacy
- Mental well-being
- Social emotional
- Healthy inputs
- CHILD TO CHAMPION SPORT TRAINING
- YOUTH PHYSICAL LITERACY
- MENTAL WELL-BEING
- EXERCISE GAMIFICATION
TWIST Certified Holistic Health + High Performance Specialist
SPORTS MEDICINE
- Injury prevention
- Assessment
- Injury rehab
- Re-training
- INJURY PREVENTION – ENDURANCE SPORTS
- LOWER QUADRANT INJURY
- UPPER QUADRANT INJURY
- INJURY MANAGEMENT
TWIST Certified Sports Medicine Specialist
MENTAL WELL-BEING
- Actionable strategies for mental health, hardiness + happiness
- Survive to thrive
- Peak performance
- LEADER OF ONE SELF-HEALTH CARE
- RESILIENCY + SURVIVING
- ADAPTABILITY + REBUILDING
- CHAMPION MINDSET PEAK PERFORMANCE
TWIST Certified Mental WellBeing Specialist
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Course Commences May 2022

Course Highlights
The ART of FASCIAL LINE TRAINING CERTIFICATION
- If you find the human body and brain fascinating, and see value in improving brain performance, increasing whole body mobility and becoming stronger up on your feet in-motion, then this course checks key boxes for you.
- While complex science is made simple through applied learning, you’ll discover enough about the brain and fascia to see the body as the most amazing machine
- Learn through neuroscience how our brain-body is made to move and highly adaptable
- Study and practise how to increase muscle activation and brain computations over 1,000% each rep
- Understand the muscle-fascia-neural-movement relationship
- Discover how to make every inch of every rep stimulate more adaptations to muscle, brain and fascia tissue
- Learn-by-doing innovative exercise with unique techniques for overloading muscle to gain strength and hypertrophy
- Study the methodology TWIST pioneered that forces fascia to contribute more to stability, force production and force absorption
- Learn how to set up and adjust the body mechanics and loading angles to stimulate fascial adaptations
- Learn the mechanical strategies of top-down load management and ground-based load management
- Challenge the body in 3D to meet higher demands of active living, long term training and sport performance.
- Experience how to develop a resilient body and mind, truly in your body armour!
- Gain appreciation for what “earn the position” means!
- Study the art of positive coaching, exercise set up, coaching cues, and the best order of progressive overload
Your Learning Experience
Inspiring and motivating. Fascinating facts about your amazing body and brain. A focus on the practical art of coaching and exercise execution.
- Listen, watch, study, practise – with a focus on the art of coaching and ‘learning by doing’
- Highlighted of the most results-producing exercise techniques, corrective cues, coaching language, motivational strategies
- Engaged learning, positive coaching, gamification
- Applied learning, focussing on the art of science
- Reflective learning, with specific application to your world
- Layered Learning – step by step integrating information immediately into your own workouts + practise activities teaching them to a peer / friend
- The 3-step LEARN – DO – TEACH embeds the knowledge and skills deeper faster
- Bibliotherapy: gain double growth; as you study how to coach others you are being mentored by TWIST for your own personal growth
Resources
- High quality, visually artistic text book – your playbook to excellent coaching!
- Workbook, ppt of science and art of training, exercise inventory, how to coach videos, practical learning by doing lessons, guided mentoring workbook, coach “cheat sheet” handout summarizing guidelines and methods, course examination, certificate of successful graduation.
Duration
- TIME: 45 Hours
- Study at YOUR pace and availability
- Some students study FT daily and finish the complete course within one week.
- There is no race, study at your own pace. Our data suggests it is consistency not speed to completion, that most impacts course success and takeaway value
- Studying for just 2 hours each weekend while implementing what you learn into your own workouts all week, will layer up excellent knowledge and coaching skills.
- Other students select one night a week for course study, practicing what they learn in their workouts that week, to really embed the principles
- You’ll retain access to all study materials and digital course assets for an entire year, so you can return to refresh on any parts you want to brush up on
The Curriculum
HIGH PERFORMANCE PARADIGM
INTRODUCTION
STUDY INSTRUCTIONS
COURSE LEARNING OBJECTIVES
TWIST PARADIGM
TRAINING METHODS AND PARADIGM
STRENGTH-BALANCE-MOVEMENT-CORE INTEGRATION
SMART MUSCLE
LAYERED PERIODIZATION MODEL
PURPOSEFUL PROGRESSION
THE PHYSICALITY OF MOVEMENT
MOVEMENT SKILLS
DECELERATION
ATHLETIC READY
SETTING THE CORE AND MID BACK
POSTURE IN MOTION
BALANCE & INSTABILITY
STABILITY & MOBILITY
WHOLE BODY INTEGRATED STRENGTH
THE FASCIAL SYSTEM
THE FASCIAL SYSTEM
CHARACTERISTICS OF FASCIA
COMMUNICATION
STABILIZATION IN 3D
ABSORBING AND DISSIPATING FORCE
TENSEGRITY
INITIATING / TRANSFERING FORCE
ADAPTABILITY
FASCIAL LINES ANATOMICAL ORIENTATION
SUPERFICIAL BACK LINE
SUPERFICIAL FRONT LINE
LATERAL LINES
SPIRAL LINE
ARM LINES
FUNCTIONAL LINES
DEEP FRONT LINE
TRAINING THE FASCIA
TRAINING THE FASCIA
TRAINING VARIABLES
IMPLEMENTING FASCIAL TRAINING
ESSENTIAL COMPONENTS OF PROGRAM DESIGN
WORKOUT PLANNING
BUILDING AND SELECTING EXERCISES
PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS
EXERCISE INVENTORY
THE ART OF COACHING
THE ART OF COACHING
COACHING LEADERSHIP & SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL ACUMEN
POSITIVE COACHING
MINDSET – INTENT, SELF-TALK & SYMBOLISM
Questions? Send us an email and connect with a human: learn@twistconditioning.com
Skills You Will Gain
Who is this course for?
This course appeals to a wide spectrum of people who have a strong vested interest in improving human performance. Our graduates in 33 countries most commonly come from 1 of these 12 backgrounds or interests:
- Personal Trainers of Athletes & Active Adults
- Strength & Conditioning Coaches
- Sport Coaches
- Sport Camp Operators
- Professional, Collegiate and Olympic Athletes
- Adult Recreational Athletes
- Active Adults Learning How to Coach Themselves
- Adult Students Shifting Careers into Fitness and Sport
- Those aging striving to regain physical confidence
- Patients Rebuilding from Injury and Illness
- Physiotherapists & Athletic Therapists
- Fitness Enthusiasts who want to Train Right: *Most Applicable to a Long Term Active Healthy Lifestyle*
What can I do with this course?
These are the environments past TWIST education participants went on to work in:
- Training Elite Athletes and Active Adults in Community Gyms
- Training 1-on-1 in Garage Gyms
- Remote Training, Traveling to the Homes of Clients
- Owning and Running Independent Training Facility
- Running Local Training Camps
- On-Line Coaching with NO Geographical Limits
- Coaching Teams in High School Setting
- Collegiate Strength & Conditioning Coach
- Coaching Athletes in NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL
- Professional Tennis, Volleyball, Soccer, Rugby and MMA
- Summer and Winter Olympic National Teams
- Physiotherapy Clinics
- Sports Medicine Clinics
- Corporate Wellness
- Graduate School Research Programs
FAQ
- What exactly will I find in my online certification package?
-
-
- How to access your course information
- How to complete the course successfully
- PDF workbook with engaged learning, mentoring exercises, and learn-by-doing training along with practise knowledge questions
- Digital video courses with teacher instruction, ppts, practical exercise instruction
- PDF textbook – full color, premium quality, comprehensive manual
- Hard copy of textbooks are available at additional cost. Once students see the quality and depth of the on-line textbook, most also order a hardcopy and we price them to encourage that memorable resource
- A coach’s “cheatsheet” handout summarizing the training guidelines and progressions
-
- What is the best way to review information to prepare for the final exam?
-
-
- We want you to succeed! Which is why at the end of of each chapter there will be an exam that will count towards your final grade
- Complete each step in the chapter > your workbook will be especially helpful
- Many students find reading the entire textbook first sets them up for success. After reading the textbook they enter the full course progressing through the videos, workbook and manual (again) chapter by chapter.
- Take lots of summary notes, mark your workbook and manual printout. These are great to review plus the very act of making notes helps embed the information.
-
- Is it mandatory to complete the workbook?
-
-
- The Workbook and Study Guide provides assistance in the retention of the course material. You are not required to submit the workbook for grading. However, experience has shown that individuals who faithfully use the Workbook and Study Guide achieve greater understanding of the course materials than those who do not use a workbook.
- You will also find information in the workbook that is not in textbook that will be mandatory for answering certain questions on the chapter exam
- The workbook offers 80 engaged learning exercises to hardwire your understanding. The 80 questions are not just rote learning and retyping words from the manual or video. Rather the workbook offers excellent mentoring and additional teachings while contextualizing questions for you to think through. By completing the workbook your take away expertise is greatly enhanced.
-
- Do I have to complete all of the quizzes in the module?
-
-
- Yes. Each section of the module is ‘gated’ > meaning you can’t advance further into the course until you complete each step. It is set up this way because what you learn at each step informs how you look at subsequent sections.
-
- Will my final exam be online?
-
-
- Yes. After you complete each module of the course there will be an exam at the end – this will go towards you final grade
-
- What happens if I fail my exam?
-
-
- If you fail any portion of your Examination, you will be offered the opportunity to resubmit that portion of the examination, free of charge. (This is known as your second attempt at the examination.) Each retest beyond the second attempt (e.g., third attempt, fourth attempt, etc.) will incur an administrative fee.
-
- Are there CEU’s available for my certification course?
- As the most current certifications available, all newly published in 2022, TWIST will be securing CEU’s for the most common organizations. The specific CEU’s awarded per organization will be added to the web site as they become available.
- The TWIST certification courses are an industry standard that you can readily petition, which means submitting to your association requesting CEU’s. Track your study time and provide the course information to the organization you wish to request CEU’s for your continued education.
- What happens if I do not complete my course by the expiration date?
-
-
- For all TWIST University Certifications, if you do not finish within 6 months, your student account will become inactive. A 2-month extension may be requested for a non-refundable fee. Completion of the program beyond the final extension period requires re-enrollment.
To confirm the expiration date of a course, please log into your profile page at twistuniversity.inspire360.com, next, click on the profile icon in the top right hand corner of your screen to show the dropdown menu. Click on the ‘My Courses’ tab to see your certification details.
- For all TWIST University Certifications, if you do not finish within 6 months, your student account will become inactive. A 2-month extension may be requested for a non-refundable fee. Completion of the program beyond the final extension period requires re-enrollment.
-
- How do I change the credit card on my file?
-
-
- Log into your account at twistuniversity.inspire360.com, click on the profile icon at the top right hand side of the screen, then click on ‘My Account.’
- You will find the tab ‘Credit Cards’ located on the menu bar on the right hand side. Click on the heading. Once the page is open, click on the ‘+ Add Credit Card’ button and follow the instructions.
-
- Are there taxes?
-
-
- Applicable Sales, Use, GST, and VAT Taxes are collected and remitted where required by local tax authorities.
-
- Do I need a printed copy of the textbook?
-
- You can purchase printed copies of our most popular courses <<here>> at an additional cost.
- . Click here to look for your course and buy the book.
Course Commences June 2022

Course Highlights
ATHLETIC STRENGTH CERTIFICATION
- Understand how to analyze any sport so you can work backwards to how each client needs to train
- Discover 30 athletic movement patterns via 3D multi-joint lifts and strength maneuvers
- Adopt advanced techniques to improve the brain with the body for sport skill
- See what makes training more fully transfer from the gym to power performance on the playing field
- Learn to link the body from “feet to fingertips” in order to express more strength more skillfully
- Practise “load management strategies” for absorbing force into the body and absorbing body mass into the ground
- Learn how to get clients ready for sport with strength for warding patterns, collision strength, skill execution and double overtime power reserves.
- Study the science then bring it to life in practical, active learning experiences
- Elevate your coaching presence and tactics to confidently lead the room, command respect, uplift clients and convince them THEY CAN!
Your Learning Experience
Inspiring and motivating. Fascinating facts about your amazing body and brain. A focus on the practical art of coaching and exercise execution.
- Listen, watch, study, practise – with a focus on the art of coaching and ‘learning by doing’
- Highlighted of the most results-producing exercise techniques, corrective cues, coaching language, motivational strategies
- Engaged learning, positive coaching, gamification
- Applied learning, focussing on the art of science
- Reflective learning, with specific application to your world
- Layered Learning – step by step integrating information immediately into your own workouts + practise activities teaching them to a peer / friend
- The 3-step LEARN – DO – TEACH embeds the knowledge and skills deeper faster
- Bibliotherapy: gain double growth; as you study how to coach others you are being mentored by TWIST for your own personal growth
Resources
- High quality, visually artistic text book – your playbook to excellent coaching!
- Workbook, ppt of science and art of training, exercise inventory, how to coach videos, practical learning by doing lessons, guided mentoring workbook, examination, certificate of successful graduation.
Duration
- Study at YOUR pace and availability
- Some students study FT daily and finish the complete course within one week.
- There is no race, study at your own pace. Our data suggests it is consistency not speed to completion, that most impacts course success and takeaway value
- Studying for just 2 hours each weekend while implementing what you learn into your own workouts all week, will layer up excellent knowledge and coaching skills.
- Other students select one night a week for course study, practicing what they learn in their workouts that week, to really embed the principles
- You’ll retain access to all study materials and digital course assets for an entire year, so you can return to refresh on any parts you want to brush up on
The Curriculum
THE EVOLUTION OF SPORT STRENGTH
AN ATHLETE’S JOURNEY
THE VALUE OF COMPETITIVE EDGE
FUNCTIONAL TRAINING
SPORT PERFORMANCE
MINDSET MEDICINE
POPULATION-SPECIFIC APPLICATION
HIGH PERFORMANCE ELITE ATHLETES
HIGHSCHOOL ATHLETES
YOUTH PHYSICAL LITERACY
ACTIVE ADULTS
AGING ADULTS
THE TRAINING SYSTEM
(1) ART of COACHING PHILOSOPHY
(2) SPORT ANALYSIS
(3) 30 ATHLETIC LIFTING MOVEMENT PATTERNS
(4) 8 FUNCTIONS OF STRENGTH
(5) WHOLE BODY INTEGRATED TRAINING PARADIGM
(6) MECHANICAL LOADING STRATEGIES
(7) TWIST TRAINING PRINCIPLES
(8) EXERCISE METHODOLOGY & CORRECTIVE CUES
(9) STRENGTH MACRO SCHEDULING (periodization)
(10) LONG TERM ATHLETE DEVELOPMENT (progression pyramid)
(11) MINDSET – INTENT, SELF-TALK & SYMBOLISM
(12) Per Exercise PROGRESSIVE OVERLOAD
(13) Biomechanical COMPLEXITY PROGRESSIONS
(14) WEEKLY MUSCLE GROUPINGS
(15) PER WORKOUT GENERAL TRAINING GUIDELINES
(16) COMPLETE STRENGTH & CONDITIONING PROGRAM DESIGN
(17) COACHING LEADERSHIP & SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL ACUMEN
(18) WBI STRENGTH EXERCISE INVENTORY
THE SCIENCE
(1) THE NEUROSCIENCE OF BRAIN-BODY IMPROVEMENTS
(2) MUSCLE PHYSIOLOGY
(3) MECHANISMS OF STRENGTH GAIN
(4) ENERGY SYSTEMS
(5) PHYSICS & BIOMECHANICS OF ATHLETIC ACTION
Questions? Send us an email and connect with a human: learn@twistconditioning.com
Skills You Will Gain
Who Is This Course For?
This course appeals to a wide spectrum of people who have a strong vested interest in improving human performance. Our graduates in 33 countries most commonly come from 1 of these 12 backgrounds or interests:
- Personal Trainers of Kids, Athletes & Active Adults
- Strength & Conditioning Coaches
- Sport Coaches
- Sport Camp Operators
- High School Teachers
- Professional and Aspiring Athletes
- Parents of Young Athletes
- Active Adults Learning How to Coach Themselves
- Adult Students Shifting Careers into Fitness and Sport
- Patients Rebuilding from Injury and Illness
- Physiotherapists
- Fitness Enthusiasts who want to Train Right: *Most Applicable to a Long Term Active Healthy Lifestyle*
What Can I Do With This Course?
- Training Youth Athletes, Elite Athletes and Active Adults in Community Gyms
- Training 1-on-1 in Garage Gyms
- Remote Training, Traveling to the Homes of Clients
- Owning and Running Independent Training Facility
- Running Local Sport Camps
- On-Line Coaching with NO Geographical Limits
- Coaching Teams in High School Setting
- Collegiate Strength & Conditioning Coach
- Coaching Athletes in NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL
- Professional Tennis, Golf, Soccer, Rugby and MMA
- Summer and Winter Olympic National Teams
- Physiotherapy Clinics
- Sports Medicine Clinics
- Corporate Wellness
FAQ
- What exactly will I find in my online certification package?
-
-
- How to access your course information
- How to complete the course successfully
- PDF workbook with engaged learning, mentoring exercises, and learn-by-doing training along with practise knowledge questions
- Digital video courses with teacher instruction, ppts, practical exercise instruction
- PDF textbook – full color, premium quality, comprehensive manual
- Hard copy of textbooks are available at additional cost. Once students see the quality and depth of the on-line textbook, most also order a hardcopy and we price them to encourage that memorable resource
- A coach’s “cheatsheet” handout summarizing the training guidelines and progressions
-
- What is the best way to review information to prepare for the final exam?
-
-
- We want you to succeed! Which is why at the end of of each chapter there will be an exam that will count towards your final grade
- Complete each step in the chapter > your workbook will be especially helpful
- Many students find reading the entire textbook first sets them up for success. After reading the textbook they enter the full course progressing through the videos, workbook and manual (again) chapter by chapter.
- Take lots of summary notes, mark your workbook and manual printout. These are great to review plus the very act of making notes helps embed the information.
-
- Is it mandatory to complete the workbook?
-
-
- The Workbook and Study Guide provides assistance in the retention of the course material. You are not required to submit the workbook for grading. However, experience has shown that individuals who faithfully use the Workbook and Study Guide achieve greater understanding of the course materials than those who do not use a workbook.
- You will also find information in the workbook that is not in textbook that will be mandatory for answering certain questions on the chapter exam
- The workbook offers 80 engaged learning exercises to hardwire your understanding. The 80 questions are not just rote learning and retyping words from the manual or video. Rather the workbook offers excellent mentoring and additional teachings while contextualizing questions for you to think through. By completing the workbook your take away expertise is greatly enhanced.
-
- Do I have to complete all of the quizzes in the module?
-
-
- Yes. Each section of the module is ‘gated’ > meaning you can’t advance further into the course until you complete each step. It is set up this way because what you learn at each step informs how you look at subsequent sections.
-
- Will my final exam be online?
-
-
- Yes. After you complete each module of the course there will be an exam at the end – this will go towards you final grade
-
- What happens if I fail my exam?
-
-
- If you fail any portion of your Examination, you will be offered the opportunity to resubmit that portion of the examination, free of charge. (This is known as your second attempt at the examination.) Each retest beyond the second attempt (e.g., third attempt, fourth attempt, etc.) will incur an administrative fee.
-
- Are there CEU’s available for my certification course?
- As the most current certifications available, all newly published in 2022, TWIST will be securing CEU’s for the most common organizations. The specific CEU’s awarded per organization will be added to the web site as they become available.
- The TWIST certification courses are an industry standard that you can readily petition, which means submitting to your association requesting CEU’s. Track your study time and provide the course information to the organization you wish to request CEU’s for your continued education.
- What happens if I do not complete my course by the expiration date?
-
-
- For all TWIST University Certifications, if you do not finish within 6 months, your student account will become inactive. A 2-month extension may be requested for a non-refundable fee. Completion of the program beyond the final extension period requires re-enrollment.
To confirm the expiration date of a course, please log into your profile page at twistuniversity.inspire360.com, next, click on the profile icon in the top right hand corner of your screen to show the dropdown menu. Click on the ‘My Courses’ tab to see your certification details.
- For all TWIST University Certifications, if you do not finish within 6 months, your student account will become inactive. A 2-month extension may be requested for a non-refundable fee. Completion of the program beyond the final extension period requires re-enrollment.
-
- How do I change the credit card on my file?
-
-
- Log into your account at twistuniversity.inspire360.com, click on the profile icon at the top right hand side of the screen, then click on ‘My Account.’
- You will find the tab ‘Credit Cards’ located on the menu bar on the right hand side. Click on the heading. Once the page is open, click on the ‘+ Add Credit Card’ button and follow the instructions.
-
- Are there taxes?
-
-
- Applicable Sales, Use, GST, and VAT Taxes are collected and remitted where required by local tax authorities.
-
- Do I need a printed copy of the textbook?
-
- You can purchase printed copies of our most popular courses <<here>> at an additional cost.
- . Click here to look for your course and buy the book.
Course Commences July 2022

Course Highlights
FUNCTIONAL PHYSIQUE CERTIFICATION
- An incredibly unique Training System proven to shape the physique clients desire while improving the functional abilities they need.
- Achieves best-ever appearance goals while netting an enhanced human vehicle.
- Science based innovative integrated methods designed for SUSTAINABLE 365 results plus healthy sustainable enjoyable eating.
- Learn the art of coaching functional physique training from beginner to peak
- Purpose driven methods that maximize metabolism + muscle tissue while improving movement skills and mobility in the key patterns needed for active daily living
- PERFECT for aging adult clients 25 – 65 who want to regain a lean muscular toned body but also enjoy being active in sport, outdoor recreation or with their kids
- Discover little know and fascinating techniques and methods to build strength and hypertrophy far beyond isolation and load
- Become expert at 3D movement patterns that improve pain free mobility and functional strength
- Learn when and how to overload those patterns to create longer lines of tension that hypertrophy muscle groups together
- Unlock the power of this safe, low impact, HIGH METABOLIC training
- The bridge to fusing physique with function requires advanced brain computations so brain health and brain performance are a positive byproduct of the training.
Your Learning Experience
Inspiring and motivating. Fascinating facts about your amazing body and brain. A focus on the practical art of coaching, exercise execution and program implementation.
- Listen, watch, study, practise – with a focus on the art of coaching and ‘learning by doing’
- Highlighted of the most results-producing exercise techniques, corrective cues, coaching language, motivational strategies
- Engaged learning, positive coaching, excellent mentoring.
- Applied learning, focussing on the art of science for practical
- Reflective learning, with specific application to your world
- Layered Learning – step by step integrating information immediately into your own workouts + practise activities teaching them to a peer / friend
- The 3-step LEARN – DO – TEACH embeds the knowledge and skills deeper faster
- Bibliotherapy: gain double growth; as you study how to coach others you are being guided by TWIST for your own personal growth and leadership skills
Resources
- High quality, visually artistic text book – your playbook to excellent coaching!
- Workbook, ppt of science and art of training, exercise inventory, how to coach videos, practical learning by doing lessons, guided mentoring workbook, examination, certificate of successful graduation.
Duration
- Study at YOUR pace and availability
- Some students study FT daily and finish the complete course within one week.
- There is no race, study at your own pace. Our data suggests it is consistency not speed to completion, that most impacts course success and takeaway value
- Studying for just 2 hours each weekend while implementing what you learn into your own workouts all week, will layer up excellent knowledge and coaching skills.
- Other students select one night a week for course study, practicing what they learn in their workouts that week, to really embed the principles
- You’ll retain access to all study materials and digital course assets for an entire year, so you can return to refresh on any parts you want to brush up on
The Curriculum
FUNCTIONAL PHYSIQUE
(1) LEARNING OBJECTIVES
(2) INTRODUCTION
(3) THE VALUE OF A STRONG PHYSIQUE
(4) THE BENEFITS OF A FUNCTIONAL BODY
(5) HEALTH, LIFESTYLE AND SUSTAINABILITY
(6) TRADITIONAL APPEARANCE-TRAINING
(7) MODERN FUNCTIONAL TRAINING
(8) THE ULTIMATE FUSION
THE TRAINING SYSTEM
(1) ART OF COACHING PHILOSOPHY
(2) FUNCTIONAL MOVEMENT PATTERNS
(3) MAXIMIZING OVERLOAD FOR HYPERTROPHY
(4) WHOLE BODY INTEGRATED LIFTS
(5) 8 FUNCTIONS OF STRENGTH
(6) MECHANICAL STRATEGIES FOR LOAD MANAGEMENT
(7) FUNCTIONAL PHYSIQUE TRAINING PRINCIPLES
(8) EXERCISE METHODOLOGY
(9) STRENGTH MACRO SCHEDULING (PERIODIZATION)
(10) PER EXERCISE PROGRESSIVE OVERLOAD
(11) WEEKLY MUSCLE GROUPINGS
(12) FUNCTIONAL PHYSIQUE STRENGTH EXERCISE INVENTORY
(13) MINDSET – INTENT, SELF-TALK & SYMBOLISM
THE SCIENCE
(1) THE NEUROSCIENCE OF BRAIN-BODY MOVEMENT IMPROVEMENTS
(2) EXERCISE SCIENCE FOR 3D FUNCTIONAL ABILITIES
(3) MUSCLE PHYSIOLOGY
(4) MECHANISMS OF STRENGTH GAIN
(5) EXERCISE SCIENCE FOR HYPERTROPHY AND METABOLISM
(6) ENERGY SYSTEMS
(7) PHYSICS & BIOMECHANICS OF ATHLETIC ACTION
(8) HOLISTIC SUSTAINABLE NUTRITION PROGRAM
POSITIONING YOUR PHYSIQUE + FUNCTION PROGRAM
(1) DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM & RESULTS
(2) TARGET MARKETS
(3) SAMPLE ADVERTISING
(4) VALUE PROPOSITION
(5) KEY CLIENT MESSAGING
Questions? Send us an email and connect with a human: learn@twistconditioning.com
Skills You Will Gain
Who Is This Course For?
This course appeals to a wide spectrum of people who have a strong vested interest in improving human performance. Our graduates in 33 countries most commonly come from 1 of these 12 backgrounds or interests:
- Personal Trainers
- Strength & Conditioning Coaches
- Active Adults Learning How to Coach Themselves
- Adult Students Shifting Careers into Fitness and Sport
- Patients Rebuilding from Injury and Illness
- Physiotherapists
- Fitness Enthusiasts who want to Train Right: *Most Applicable to a Long Term Active Healthy Lifestyle*
What can I do with this course?
These are the environments past TWIST education participants went on to work in:
- Training Youth Athletes, Elite Athletes and Active Adults in Community Gyms
- Training 1-on-1 in Garage Gyms
- Remote Training, Traveling to the Homes of Clients
- Owning and Running Independent Training Facility
- Running Local Sport Camps
- On-Line Coaching with NO Geographical Limits
- Coaching Teams in High School Setting
- Collegiate Strength & Conditioning Coach
- Coaching Athletes in NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL
- Professional Tennis, Golf, Soccer, Rugby and MMA
- Summer and Winter Olympic National Teams
- Physiotherapy Clinics
- Sports Medicine Clinics
- Corporate Wellness
- Graduate School research programs
FAQ
- What exactly will I find in my online certification package?
-
-
- How to access your course information
- How to complete the course successfully
- PDF workbook with engaged learning, mentoring exercises, and learn-by-doing training along with practise knowledge questions
- Digital video courses with teacher instruction, ppts, practical exercise instruction
- PDF textbook – full color, premium quality, comprehensive manual
- Hard copy of textbooks are available at additional cost. Once students see the quality and depth of the on-line textbook, most also order a hardcopy and we price them to encourage that memorable resource
- A coach’s “cheatsheet” handout summarizing the training guidelines and progressions
-
- What is the best way to review information to prepare for the final exam?
-
-
- We want you to succeed! Which is why at the end of of each chapter there will be an exam that will count towards your final grade
- Complete each step in the chapter > your workbook will be especially helpful
- Many students find reading the entire textbook first sets them up for success. After reading the textbook they enter the full course progressing through the videos, workbook and manual (again) chapter by chapter.
- Take lots of summary notes, mark your workbook and manual printout. These are great to review plus the very act of making notes helps embed the information.
-
- Is it mandatory to complete the workbook?
-
-
- The Workbook and Study Guide provides assistance in the retention of the course material. You are not required to submit the workbook for grading. However, experience has shown that individuals who faithfully use the Workbook and Study Guide achieve greater understanding of the course materials than those who do not use a workbook.
- You will also find information in the workbook that is not in textbook that will be mandatory for answering certain questions on the chapter exam
- The workbook offers 80 engaged learning exercises to hardwire your understanding. The 80 questions are not just rote learning and retyping words from the manual or video. Rather the workbook offers excellent mentoring and additional teachings while contextualizing questions for you to think through. By completing the workbook your take away expertise is greatly enhanced.
-
- Do I have to complete all of the quizzes in the module?
-
-
- Yes. Each section of the module is ‘gated’ > meaning you can’t advance further into the course until you complete each step. It is set up this way because what you learn at each step informs how you look at subsequent sections.
-
- Will my final exam be online?
-
-
- Yes. After you complete each module of the course there will be an exam at the end – this will go towards you final grade
-
- What happens if I fail my exam?
-
-
- If you fail any portion of your Examination, you will be offered the opportunity to resubmit that portion of the examination, free of charge. (This is known as your second attempt at the examination.) Each retest beyond the second attempt (e.g., third attempt, fourth attempt, etc.) will incur an administrative fee.
-
- Are there CEU’s available for my certification course?
- As the most current certifications available, all newly published in 2022, TWIST will be securing CEU’s for the most common organizations. The specific CEU’s awarded per organization will be added to the web site as they become available.
- The TWIST certification courses are an industry standard that you can readily petition, which means submitting to your association requesting CEU’s. Track your study time and provide the course information to the organization you wish to request CEU’s for your continued education.
- What happens if I do not complete my course by the expiration date?
-
-
- For all TWIST University Certifications, if you do not finish within 6 months, your student account will become inactive. A 2-month extension may be requested for a non-refundable fee. Completion of the program beyond the final extension period requires re-enrollment.
To confirm the expiration date of a course, please log into your profile page at twistuniversity.inspire360.com, next, click on the profile icon in the top right hand corner of your screen to show the dropdown menu. Click on the ‘My Courses’ tab to see your certification details.
- For all TWIST University Certifications, if you do not finish within 6 months, your student account will become inactive. A 2-month extension may be requested for a non-refundable fee. Completion of the program beyond the final extension period requires re-enrollment.
-
- How do I change the credit card on my file?
-
-
- Log into your account at twistuniversity.inspire360.com, click on the profile icon at the top right hand side of the screen, then click on ‘My Account.’
- You will find the tab ‘Credit Cards’ located on the menu bar on the right hand side. Click on the heading. Once the page is open, click on the ‘+ Add Credit Card’ button and follow the instructions.
-
- Are there taxes?
-
-
- Applicable Sales, Use, GST, and VAT Taxes are collected and remitted where required by local tax authorities.
-
- Do I need a printed copy of the textbook?
-
- You can purchase printed copies of our most popular courses <<here>> at an additional cost.
- . Click here to look for your course and buy the book.
Course Commences September 2022

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS
YOUTH PHYSICAL LITERACY CERTIFICATION
- At TWIST, we believe every child has the absolute right to receive unsurpassed education regarding holistic health, mental well-being and the physicality to find joy in movement.
- This course is developed in concert with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in particular curative solutions teaching behaviour change, exercise methods and mindset strategies for healthy living, physical literacy, mental well-being, social-emotional skills, mentoring future leaders for peaceful, inclusive, kind healthy sustainable cities, engaged in nature and it’s ecosystems, through high quality TWIST education.
- Created for teachers, fitness trainers, coaches, community leaders and well invested parents.
- Created for students to establish a positive relationship with exercise.
- The majority of students K to 12 are not in elite athletics. Being active for life depends on movement confidence and experiencing value to mind and body they then know to turn to independently
- 100,000+ grade school children & high school students have experienced lessons and workouts by TWIST Certified Teachers / Trainers
- 150,000+ active adults engaged by their children in active family living
- The program’s main pillars focus on movement skills, well rounded coordination, a brain-body connection and the physical abilities the mind + muscle can express.
- TWIST’s signature strength-balance-movement-core integrated exercise methods produce the movement patterns and body awareness for general athletic skills
- Engaged and gamified exercise programming based on the 4 pillars of popular video games
- Students can experience exercise challenges solo, in partners, small groups, and large circuits for excellent use of space, equipment and classroom management.
- An Open Architecture Exercise Build system sets Teachers / trainers and students to create new exercises and games, with purpose
- Integrates Social Emotional Learning – cooperation, collaboration, self challenge, fail-to-succeed sequences, overcoming difficulty, a me-to-we perspective.
- Symbolism: The pillars of strength, balance, movement and core, along with the actions executing them, associate with empowering takeaway meaning.
- A positive learning culture, uplifting instilling self belief and I can Do It attitudes
- Connecting personal aspirations to the process of getting Better Every Day!
Your learning experience
Inspiring and motivating. Fascinating facts about your amazing body and brain. A focus on the practical art of coaching, exercise execution, and engagement strategies.
- Listen, watch, study, practise – with a focus on the art of coaching and ‘learning by doing’
- Highlighted of the most results-producing exercise techniques, corrective cues, coaching language, motivational strategies
- Engaged learning, positive coaching, gamification
- Applied learning, with how to connect learning to activity to homework
- Reflective learning, with specific application to your world
- Complex Made Simple: functional exercises + key teaching points are summarized clearly to teach / coach / instruct with confidence including cues, guidelines and student flow.
- Layered Learning – step by step integrating information immediately into your own workouts + practise activities teaching to peers / friends
- The 3-step LEARN – DO – TEACH embeds the knowledge and skills deeper faster
- Bibliotherapy: gain double growth; as you study how to coach others you are being mentored by TWIST for your own personal growth
Resources
- High quality, visually artistic text book – your playbook to excellent coaching!
- Workbook, ppt of science and art of training, exercise inventory, how to coach videos, practical learning by doing lessons, guided mentoring workbook, examination, certificate of successful graduation.
- Visually inspiring artistic resources: teacher manual, engaged video learning, lesson plans, student booklets, fun family homework activities, measurement and key tips for success.
- Teacher / Trainer digital orientation and how-to facilitate student engagement
- TWIST sample lesson for student training groups and gym classes: from 20 minute primers to 60 minutes lesson plans.
- “Homework” that kids can engage parents and siblings at home “be the change” inside their home, inspiring healthier family behaviors. Kids transform from students to teachers!
Duration
- Study at YOUR pace and availability
- Some students study FT daily and finish the complete course within one week.
- There is no race, study at your own pace. Our data suggests it is consistency not speed to completion, that most impacts course success and takeaway value
- Studying for just 2 hours each weekend while implementing what you learn into your own workouts all week, will layer up excellent knowledge and coaching skills.
- Other students select one night a week for course study, practicing what they learn in their workouts that week, to really embed the principles
- You’ll retain access to all study materials and digital course assets for an entire year, so you can return to refresh on any parts you want to brush up on
The curriculum
HEALTHY HAPPY ACTIVE STUDENTS
(1) OBJECTIVES AND LEARNING OUTCOMES
(2) INTRODUCTION
(3) SPORT CONDITIONING, FITNESS TRAINING, PHYSICAL LITERACY
(4) DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SPORT-SPECIFICITY AND ATHLETICISM
(5) PRIMARY VERSUS SECONDARY FITNESS CHARACTERISTICS 12
(6) OBJECTIVES OF CHILDREN’S TRAINING
(7) THE REALITY – STATE OF THE UNION
(8) YESTERDAY VRS TODAY – MODERATORS OF WELL-BEING
(9) TOMORROW’S CURATIVE SOLUTIONS
(10) HOW DEFINE A CHILD
(11) MATURATION – NEURAL, SKELETAL, MUSCULAR, HORMONAL
(12) INJURY PATTERNS IN YOUTH
(13) GROWTH & DEVELOPMENT GUIDELINES
(14) THE SOLUTION – INTEGRATED HOLISTIC EXPERIENCES
PHYSICAL LITERACY
(15) TWIST SPORT PERFORMANCE PARADIGM (2NDARY CHARACTERISTICS)
(16) 10 PILLARS OF PHYSICAL LITERACY THAT MATTERS
(17) UNIFIED BALANCE
(18) STABILITY
(19) MOBILITY
(20) MOVEMENT SKILL PATTERNING
(21) WHOLE BODY MOVEMENT-ORIENTED 3D STRENGTH
(22) AGILITY, QUICKNESS, BRAKING, DECELERATION
(23) GAME-ENERGETICS
(24) AGE-SPECIFIC ABILITY-SPECIFIC GUIDELINES
(25) TRAINING PRINCIPLES
(26) SOLO EXERCISES – SKILLS & DRILLS
(27) PARTNER EXERCISES – SKILLS & DRILLS
(28) COOPERATIVE GAMES
(29) COMPETITIVE GAMES
(30) GROUP CIRCUITS
MINDSET, FUNCTIONAL FOODS, LIFESTYLE
(1) FUNCTIONAL MINDSET
(2) WELL-BEING SELF-COACH ACTIONS
(3) FUNCTIONAL FOODS
(4) NUTRITION PROGRAM ACTIONS
(5) FUNCTIONAL LIFESTYLE
(6) HEALTHY LIVING ACTIONS
LESSON PLANS & HOMEWORK
(1) COMPONENTS OF THE LESSON PLANS
(2) ANATOMY OF A SINGLE PRACTICAL PHYSICAL EDUCATION CLASS WORKOUT:
- DYNAMIC WARM UP – MOVEMENT SKILLS PATTERNING, BALANCE, FUN GAMES.
- BALANCE
- MOVEMENT
- CORE
- STRENGTH
- CONDITIONING GAMES (BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER)
(3) ACTIVITY ENGAGEMENT
(4) 20 MINUTE PRIMERS – PER AGE CATEGORY
(5) 40 MINUTE PRIMERS – PER AGE CATEGORY
(6) 60 MINUTE LESSON PLANS – PER AGE CATEGORY
(7) CLASSROOM ENGAGEMENT
(8) HOMEWORK FOR STUDENTS (FAMILY ENGAGEMENT)
Questions? Send us an email and connect with a human: learn@twistconditioning.com
Skills You Will Gain
Who Is this course for?
This course appeals to a wide spectrum of people who have a strong vested interest in improving the well rounded physical abilities of grade school and high school students, in a way that hardwires a positive relationship to exercise, healthy living and an empowered mindset.
- Personal Trainers
- School Teachers
- Community Leaders
- Well Invested Parents
- Strength & Conditioning Coaches
- Sport Coaches
- Sport Camp Operators
- High School Students
- College Students
- Adult Students Shifting Careers into Fitness and Sport
What can I do with this course?
These are the environments past TWIST education participants went on to work in:
- Training Children and Youth in community gyms
- Training Children and Youth outdoors at fields and parks
- Teaching Physical Education Classes (visiting instructor contract)
- Full-time Teachers for Physical Education
- Remote Training, Traveling to the Homes of Clients
- Owning and Running Independent Training Facility
- Running Local Kids Camps
FAQ
- What exactly will I find in my online certification package?
-
-
- How to access your course information
- How to complete the course successfully
- PDF workbook with engaged learning, mentoring exercises, and learn-by-doing training along with practise knowledge questions
- Digital video courses with teacher instruction, ppts, practical exercise instruction
- PDF textbook – full color, premium quality, comprehensive manual
- Hard copy of textbooks are available at additional cost. Once students see the quality and depth of the on-line textbook, most also order a hardcopy and we price them to encourage that memorable resource
- A coach’s “cheatsheet” handout summarizing the training guidelines and progressions
-
- What is the best way to review information to prepare for the final exam?
-
-
- We want you to succeed! Which is why at the end of of each chapter there will be an exam that will count towards your final grade
- Complete each step in the chapter > your workbook will be especially helpful
- Many students find reading the entire textbook first sets them up for success. After reading the textbook they enter the full course progressing through the videos, workbook and manual (again) chapter by chapter.
- Take lots of summary notes, mark your workbook and manual printout. These are great to review plus the very act of making notes helps embed the information.
-
- Is it mandatory to complete the workbook?
-
-
- The Workbook and Study Guide provides assistance in the retention of the course material. You are not required to submit the workbook for grading. However, experience has shown that individuals who faithfully use the Workbook and Study Guide achieve greater understanding of the course materials than those who do not use a workbook.
- You will also find information in the workbook that is not in textbook that will be mandatory for answering certain questions on the chapter exam
- The workbook offers 80 engaged learning exercises to hardwire your understanding. The 80 questions are not just rote learning and retyping words from the manual or video. Rather the workbook offers excellent mentoring and additional teachings while contextualizing questions for you to think through. By completing the workbook your take away expertise is greatly enhanced.
-
- Do I have to complete all of the quizzes in the module?
-
-
- Yes. Each section of the module is ‘gated’ > meaning you can’t advance further into the course until you complete each step. It is set up this way because what you learn at each step informs how you look at subsequent sections.
-
- Will my final exam be online?
-
-
- Yes. After you complete each module of the course there will be an exam at the end – this will go towards you final grade
-
- What happens if I fail my exam?
-
-
- If you fail any portion of your Examination, you will be offered the opportunity to resubmit that portion of the examination, free of charge. (This is known as your second attempt at the examination.) Each retest beyond the second attempt (e.g., third attempt, fourth attempt, etc.) will incur an administrative fee.
-
- Are there CEU’s available for my certification course?
- As the most current certifications available, all newly published in 2022, TWIST will be securing CEU’s for the most common organizations. The specific CEU’s awarded per organization will be added to the web site as they become available.
- The TWIST certification courses are an industry standard that you can readily petition, which means submitting to your association requesting CEU’s. Track your study time and provide the course information to the organization you wish to request CEU’s for your continued education.
- What happens if I do not complete my course by the expiration date?
-
-
- For all TWIST University Certifications, if you do not finish within 6 months, your student account will become inactive. A 2-month extension may be requested for a non-refundable fee. Completion of the program beyond the final extension period requires re-enrollment.
To confirm the expiration date of a course, please log into your profile page at twistuniversity.inspire360.com, next, click on the profile icon in the top right hand corner of your screen to show the dropdown menu. Click on the ‘My Courses’ tab to see your certification details.
- For all TWIST University Certifications, if you do not finish within 6 months, your student account will become inactive. A 2-month extension may be requested for a non-refundable fee. Completion of the program beyond the final extension period requires re-enrollment.
-
- How do I change the credit card on my file?
-
-
- Log into your account at twistuniversity.inspire360.com, click on the profile icon at the top right hand side of the screen, then click on ‘My Account.’
- You will find the tab ‘Credit Cards’ located on the menu bar on the right hand side. Click on the heading. Once the page is open, click on the ‘+ Add Credit Card’ button and follow the instructions.
-
- Are there taxes?
-
-
- Applicable Sales, Use, GST, and VAT Taxes are collected and remitted where required by local tax authorities.
-
- Do I need a printed copy of the textbook?
-
- You can purchase printed copies of our most popular courses <<here>> at an additional cost.
- . Click here to look for your course and buy the book.
Course Commences October 2022

Course Hightlights
ATHLETIC MOVEMENT CERTIFICATION
- Understand how to analyze any sport so you can work backwards to how each client needs to train
- Study how speed, agility and quickness are utilized in sport.
- Learn the most effective training guidelines, progressions and corrective cues
- Understand why and how deceleration precedes acceleration training
- Add plyometric training safely including readiness assessments
- Study the key movement patterns in sport and how to improve biomechanical skillfulness
- Implement dynamic warm ups with more purpose to improve movement skills
- Learn how and when to implement neuromuscular activation drills
- Practise coaching reaction drills, stop-and-start drills, multi directional quickness.
- Leverage the power of positive angles, sequential firing and pre-load timing.
- Compare the efficacy of different starting mechanic for sport sprinting
- Learn how the arms steer the ship and drive explosive direction change
- Match movement patterns to offensive and defensive sport tactics
- Study the science of athletic movement for how it affects exercise prescription
- Learn how to program anaerobic conditioning to build a bigger engine
- Elevate your coaching presence and tactics to confidently lead the room, command respect, uplift clients and convince them THEY CAN!
Your Learning Experience
Inspiring and motivating. Fascinating facts about your amazing body and brain. A focus on the practical art of coaching and exercise execution.
- Listen, watch, study, practise – with a focus on the art of coaching and ‘learning by doing’
- Highlighted of the most results-producing exercise techniques, corrective cues, coaching language, motivational strategies
- Engaged learning, positive coaching, gamification
- Applied learning, focussing on the art of science
- Reflective learning, with specific application to your worl
- Layered Learning – step by step integrating information immediately into your own workouts + practise activities teaching them to a peer / friend
- The 3-step LEARN – DO – TEACH embeds the knowledge and skills deeper faster
- Bibliotherapy: gain double growth; as you study how to coach others you are being mentored by TWIST for your own personal growth
Resources
- High quality, visually artistic text book – your playbook to excellent coaching!
- Workbook, ppt of science and art of training, exercise inventory, how to coach videos, practical learning by doing lessons, guided mentoring workbook, examination, certificate of successful graduation.
Duration
- Study at YOUR pace and availability
- Some students study FT daily and finish the complete course within one week.
- There is no race, study at your own pace. Our data suggests it is consistency not speed to completion, that most impacts course success and takeaway value
- Studying for just 2 hours each weekend while implementing what you learn into your own workouts all week, will layer up excellent knowledge and coaching skills.
- Other students select one night a week for course study, practicing what they learn in their workouts that week, to really embed the principles
- You’ll retain access to all study materials and digital course assets for an entire year, so you can return to refresh on any parts you want to brush up on
The Curriculum
THE ATTRIBUTES ATHLETIC MOVEMENT
MAKING THE CUT
THE VALUE OF COMPETITIVE EDGE
FUNCTIONAL TRAINING
SPORT PERFORMANCE
MINDSET MEDICINE
POPULATION-SPECIFIC APPLICATION
HIGH PERFORMANCE ELITE ATHLETES – GOING FOR GOLD
HIGHSCHOOL ATHLETES – GRADUATING LEVELS
YOUTH PHYSICAL LITERACY – GETTING A POSITIVE START
ACTIVE ADULTS – OUTDOOR REC & TRAINING AS A SPORT
AGING ADULTS IN ACTIVE LIFESTYLES
THE TRAINING SYSTEM
(1) ART of COACHING PHILOSOPHY
(2) SPORT ANALYSIS
(3) WHOLE BODY INTEGRATED TRAINING PARADIGM
(4) FUNDAMENTAL MOVEMENT SKILLS
(5) DECELERATION LOADING MECHANICS
(6) DYNAMIC WARM UPS
(5) NEURAL POTENTIATION & EXCITATION
(6) AGILITY TRAINING
(7) MULTI DIRECTIONAL QUICKNESS
(8) INTERNAL & EXTERNAL REACTIVITY
(9) PLYOMETRICS & READINESS ASSESSMENTS
(10) SPEED TRAINING
(11) BIOENERGETICS
(12) TWIST TRAINING PRINCIPLES
(13) EXERCISE METHODOLOGY & CORRECTIVE CUES
(14) MACRO SCHEDULING (periodization)
(15) LONG TERM ATHLETE DEVELOPMENT (progression pyramid)
(16) MINDSET – INTENT, SELF-TALK & SYMBOLISM
(17) Per Exercise PROGRESSIVE OVERLOAD
(18) Biomechanical COMPLEXITY PROGRESSIONS
(19) PER WORKOUT GENERAL TRAINING GUIDELINES
(20) COMPLETE STRENGTH & CONDITIONING PROGRAM DESIGN
(21) COACHING LEADERSHIP & SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL ACUMEN
(22) ATHLETIC MOVEMENT EXERCISE INVENTORY
THE SCIENCE
(1) THE NEUROSCIENCE OF BRAIN-BODY IMPROVEMENTS
(2) PHYSIOLOGICAL COMPONENTS OF ATHLETIC MOVEMENT
(3) MUSCLE CHARACTERISTICS
(4) MOTOR UNIT PHYSIOLOGY
(5) CONTROL OF CONTRACTIONS
(6) GRADATION OF FORCE
(7) PLYOMETRIC SCIENCE
(8) ENERGY SYSTEMS FOR SPORT
(9) PHYSICS & BIOMECHANICS OF ATHLETIC ACTION
(10) PSYCHOLOGICAL COMPONENTS OF ATHLETIC MOVEMENT
Questions? Send us an email and connect with a human: learn@twistconditioning.com
Skills You Will Gain
Who Is This Course For?
This course appeals to a wide spectrum of people who have a strong vested interest in improving human performance. Our graduates in 33 countries most commonly come from 1 of these 12 backgrounds or interests:
- Personal Trainers of Kids, Athletes & Active Adults
- Strength & Conditioning Coaches
- Sport Coaches
- Sport Camp Operators
- High School Teachers
- Professional, Collegiate and Olympic Athletes
- Parents of Young Athletes
- Active Adults Learning How to Coach Themselves
- Adult Students Shifting Careers into Fitness and Sport
- Patients Rebuilding from Injury and Illness
- Physiotherapists
- Fitness Enthusiasts who want to Train Right: *Most Applicable to a Long Term Active Healthy Lifestyle*
What Can I Do With This Course?
These are the environments past TWIST education participants went on to work in:
- Training Youth Athletes, Elite Athletes and Active Adults in Community Gyms
- Training 1-on-1 in Garage Gyms
- Remote Training, Traveling to the Homes of Clients
- Owning and Running Independent Training Facility
- Running Local Sport Camps
- On-Line Coaching with NO Geographical Limits
- Coaching Teams in High School Setting
- Collegiate Strength & Conditioning Coach
- Coaching Athletes in NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL
- Professional Tennis, Golf, Soccer, Rugby and MMA
- Summer and Winter Olympic National Teams
- Physiotherapy Clinics
- Sports Medicine Clinics
- Corporate Wellness
- Graduate School Research Programs
FAQ
- What exactly will I find in my online certification package?
-
-
- How to access your course information
- How to complete the course successfully
- PDF workbook with engaged learning, mentoring exercises, and learn-by-doing training along with practise knowledge questions
- Digital video courses with teacher instruction, ppts, practical exercise instruction
- PDF textbook – full color, premium quality, comprehensive manual
- Hard copy of textbooks are available at additional cost. Once students see the quality and depth of the on-line textbook, most also order a hardcopy and we price them to encourage that memorable resource
- A coach’s “cheatsheet” handout summarizing the training guidelines and progressions
-
- What is the best way to review information to prepare for the final exam?
-
-
- We want you to succeed! Which is why at the end of of each chapter there will be an exam that will count towards your final grade
- Complete each step in the chapter > your workbook will be especially helpful
- Many students find reading the entire textbook first sets them up for success. After reading the textbook they enter the full course progressing through the videos, workbook and manual (again) chapter by chapter.
- Take lots of summary notes, mark your workbook and manual printout. These are great to review plus the very act of making notes helps embed the information.
-
- Is it mandatory to complete the workbook?
-
-
- The Workbook and Study Guide provides assistance in the retention of the course material. You are not required to submit the workbook for grading. However, experience has shown that individuals who faithfully use the Workbook and Study Guide achieve greater understanding of the course materials than those who do not use a workbook.
- You will also find information in the workbook that is not in textbook that will be mandatory for answering certain questions on the chapter exam
- The workbook offers 80 engaged learning exercises to hardwire your understanding. The 80 questions are not just rote learning and retyping words from the manual or video. Rather the workbook offers excellent mentoring and additional teachings while contextualizing questions for you to think through. By completing the workbook your take away expertise is greatly enhanced.
-
- Do I have to complete all of the quizzes in the module?
-
-
- Yes. Each section of the module is ‘gated’ > meaning you can’t advance further into the course until you complete each step. It is set up this way because what you learn at each step informs how you look at subsequent sections.
-
- Will my final exam be online?
-
-
- Yes. After you complete each module of the course there will be an exam at the end – this will go towards you final grade
-
- What happens if I fail my exam?
-
-
- If you fail any portion of your Examination, you will be offered the opportunity to resubmit that portion of the examination, free of charge. (This is known as your second attempt at the examination.) Each retest beyond the second attempt (e.g., third attempt, fourth attempt, etc.) will incur an administrative fee.
-
- Are there CEU’s available for my certification course?
- As the most current certifications available, all newly published in 2022, TWIST will be securing CEU’s for the most common organizations. The specific CEU’s awarded per organization will be added to the web site as they become available.
- The TWIST certification courses are an industry standard that you can readily petition, which means submitting to your association requesting CEU’s. Track your study time and provide the course information to the organization you wish to request CEU’s for your continued education.
- What happens if I do not complete my course by the expiration date?
-
-
- For all TWIST University Certifications, if you do not finish within 6 months, your student account will become inactive. A 2-month extension may be requested for a non-refundable fee. Completion of the program beyond the final extension period requires re-enrollment.
To confirm the expiration date of a course, please log into your profile page at twistuniversity.inspire360.com, next, click on the profile icon in the top right hand corner of your screen to show the dropdown menu. Click on the ‘My Courses’ tab to see your certification details.
- For all TWIST University Certifications, if you do not finish within 6 months, your student account will become inactive. A 2-month extension may be requested for a non-refundable fee. Completion of the program beyond the final extension period requires re-enrollment.
-
- How do I change the credit card on my file?
-
-
- Log into your account at twistuniversity.inspire360.com, click on the profile icon at the top right hand side of the screen, then click on ‘My Account.’
- You will find the tab ‘Credit Cards’ located on the menu bar on the right hand side. Click on the heading. Once the page is open, click on the ‘+ Add Credit Card’ button and follow the instructions.
-
- Are there taxes?
-
-
- Applicable Sales, Use, GST, and VAT Taxes are collected and remitted where required by local tax authorities.
-
- Do I need a printed copy of the textbook?
-
- You can purchase printed copies of our most popular courses <<here>> at an additional cost.
- . Click here to look for your course and buy the book.
Course Commences November 2022

Course Highlights
MENTAL WELL-BEING CERTIFICATION
- At TWIST, we believe every child has the absolute right to receive unsurpassed education regarding holistic health, mental well-being and the physicality to find joy in movement; as they should clean air, water, forests and nutritious food.
- This course is developed in concert with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in particular curative solutions teaching behavior change, exercise methods and mindset strategies for healthy living, physical literacy, mental well-being, and social-emotional skills, mentoring future leaders for peaceful, inclusive, kind healthy sustainable cities, engaged in nature and its ecosystems, through high quality TWIST education.
- Growth and development is challenging for kids in any era, Covid19 raised the level of difficulty as does modern society, more sedentary living and social media.
- Low self-esteem, negative self talk, low motivation, low mood, depression, anxiety, PTSD, ADHD, eating disorders, and other forms of mental illness are factors in more sedentary unhealthy lifestyles, and lead to increasing substance abuse, harm of others and suicide. In this course you’ll examine holistic, biological, environmental, behavioral, physiological, neural, social, physical (and other) modalities that facilitate lifelong mental well-being.
- Created for teachers, fitness trainers, coaches, community leaders, active therapists and well invested parents.
- Designed so students can “own the process” aware of healthy inputs that positively affect their mental and emotional states
- Prevention is empowerment and this life-changing course sets leaders up to facilitate the adoption of life-long mental health skills
- Receive methods, lesson plans and activities that teach kids the spectrum of healthy inputs that are at their fingertips
- Learn-by-doing to experience how TWIST’s signature strength-balance-movement-core integrated exercise methods stimulate brain and body
- Students can experience mental well-being exercises solo, in partners, small groups, and large circuits in an inclusive process
- Integrates Social Emotional Learning – cooperation, collaboration, self challenge, fail-to-succeed sequences, overcoming difficulty, a me-to-we perspective.
- Symbolism: The pillars of strength, balance, movement and core, along with the actions executing them, associate with empowering takeaway meaning.
- Engage in gamified exercise programming based on the 4 pillars of popular video games
- A positive learning culture, uplifting instilling self belief and I can Do It attitudes
- Connecting personal aspirations to the process of getting Better Every Day!
Your Learning Experience
Inspiring, intelligent, heart-centric and motivating. Fascinating facts about your amazing body and brain. We focus on the practical strategies that optimize the exercise experience and healthful engagement. Your study sets you up to positively impact the mental well-being, holistic health, activity levels and happiness of grade school and high school aged kids.
- Listen, watch, study, practise – with a focus on the art of coaching and ‘learning by doing’
- Highlighted of the most results-producing exercise techniques, corrective cues, coaching language, motivational strategies
- Engaged learning, positive coaching, gamification
- Study the efficacy of classroom activities and lesson plans that help shift perspective, thoughts, social ability, and lifestyle actions.
- Applied learning, with how to connect learning to activity to homework
- Reflective learning, with specific application to your world
- Complex Made Simple: physical and cognitive exercises + key teaching points are summarized clearly to teach / coach / instruct with confidence including cues, guidelines and student flow.
- Layered Learning – step by step integrating information immediately into your own workouts + practise activities teaching to peers / friends
- The 3-step LEARN – DO – TEACH embeds the knowledge and skills deeper faster
- Bibliotherapy: gain double growth; as you study how to coach others you are being mentored by TWIST for your own personal growth
Resources
- High quality, visually artistic text book – your playbook to excellent coaching!
- Workbook, ppt of science and art of training, exercise inventory, how to coach videos, practical learning by doing lessons, guided mentoring workbook, examination, certificate of successful graduation.
- Visually inspiring artistic resources: teacher manual, engaged video learning, lesson plans, student booklets, fun family homework activities, measurement and key tips for success.
- Teacher / Trainer digital orientation and how-to facilitate student engagement
- TWIST sample lesson for in-gym activities, outdoor activities and classroom activities: from 20 minute primers to 60 minutes lesson plans.
- “Homework” that kids can engage parents and siblings at home “be the change” inside their home, inspiring healthier family behaviors. Kids transform from students to teachers!
Duration
- Study at YOUR pace and availability
- Some students study FT daily and finish the complete course within one week.
- There is no race, study at your own pace. Our data suggests it is consistency not speed to completion, that most impacts course success and takeaway value
- Studying for just 2 hours each weekend while implementing what you learn into your own workouts all week, will layer up excellent knowledge and coaching skills.
- Other students select one night a week for course study, practicing what they learn in their workouts that week, to really embed the principles
- You’ll retain access to all study materials and digital course assets for an entire year, so you can return to refresh on any parts you want to brush up on
The Curriculum
HEALTHY HAPPY ACTIVE STUDENTS
(1) OBJECTIVES AND LEARNING OUTCOMES
(2) INTRODUCTION
(3) OBJECTIVES OF CHILDREN’S DEVELOPMENT
(4) THE REALITY – STATE OF THE UNION
(5) YESTERDAY VRS TODAY – MODERATORS OF WELL-BEING
(6) TOMORROW’S CURATIVE SOLUTIONS
(7) HOW DEFINE A CHILD
(8) MATURATION – NEURAL, SKELETAL, MUSCULAR, HORMONAL, EMOTIONAL
(9) GROWTH & DEVELOPMENT GUIDELINES
(10) THE SOLUTION – INTEGRATED HOLISTIC EXPERIENCES
(11) NEUROPLASTICITY AND RIGHT-BRAIN ACTIVITIES
(12) PERSONAL STRATEGIES
(13) THE PERCEPTION>SELF-TALK>MINDSET> EMOTIONS> ACTIONS CYCLE
(14) GUIDING STUDENTS TO INNER PEACE
(15) MENTAL WELL-BEING & MOVEMENT
(16) EXERCISE GUIDELINES TO AFFECT MOOD, EMOTIONS, MINDSET
(17) MOVE WELL, FEEL BETTER, THINK BEST
(18) STRENGTH-BALANCE-MOVEMENT-CORE INTEGRATION
(19) EXERCISE GAMIFICATION – PURPOSEFUL PLAY
(20) SYMBOLISM – LEVERAGING EXERCISE TO MENTAL EMPOWERMENT
(21) MENTAL WELL-BEING IN NATURE
(22) THE TRIPLE PLAY – NATURE, MOVEMENT, MINDSET
(23) NUTRITION AND MENTAL WELLBEING
(24) GUT-BRAIN COMMUNICATION
(25) RESTORATION AND MENTAL WELL-BEING
(26) SOCIAL CONNECTION, TRUST, SAFETY, LAUGHTER
(27) ART AND MUSIC FOR MENTAL WELLBEING
(28) RHYTHM AND IT’S MENTAL HEALTH ROLE IN EXERCISE
(29) AGE-SPECIFIC ABILITY-SPECIFIC GUIDELINES
(30) MENTAL HEALTH TRAINING PRINCIPLES
(31) SOLO EXERCISES – SKILLS & DRILLS
(32) PARTNER EXERCISES – SKILLS & DRILLS
(33) COOPERATIVE GAMES
(34) COMPETITIVE GAMES
(35) INCLUSIVE GAMES
(36) GROUP CIRCUITS
MINDSET, FUNCTIONAL FOODS, LIFESTYLE
(1) FUNCTIONAL MINDSET
(2) WELL-BEING SELF-COACH ACTIONS
(3) FUNCTIONAL FOODS
(4) NUTRITION PROGRAM ACTIONS
(5) FUNCTIONAL LIFESTYLE
(6) HEALTHY LIVING ACTIONS
LESSON PLANS & HOMEWORK
(1) COMPONENTS OF THE LESSON PLANS
(2) ANATOMY OF A SINGLE PRACTICAL PHYSICAL EDUCATION CLASS WORKOUT:
- DYNAMIC WARM UP – MOVEMENT SKILLS PATTERNING, BALANCE, FUN GAMES.
- BALANCE
- MOVEMENT
- CORE
- STRENGTH
- CONDITIONING GAMES (BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER)
(3) SYMBOLISM
(4) PEER ENGAGEMENT
(5) ACTIVITY ENGAGEMENT
(6) 20 MINUTE PRIMERS – PER AGE CATEGORY
(7) 40 MINUTE PRIMERS – PER AGE CATEGORY
(8) 60 MINUTE LESSON PLANS – PER AGE CATEGORY
(9) CLASSROOM ENGAGEMENT
(10) HOMEWORK FOR STUDENTS (FAMILY ENGAGEMENT)
Questions? Send us an email and connect with a human: learn@twistconditioning.com
Skills You Will Gain
Who is this course for?
This course appeals to a wide spectrum of people who have a strong vested interest in improving the well rounded MENTAL WELL-BEING, physical activity and healthful living of grade school and high school students, in a way that hardwires a positive relationship to exercise, healthy living and an empowered mindset.
- School Teachers
- Active Therapists
- Community Leaders
- Well Invested Parents
- Personal Trainers
- Strength & Conditioning Coaches
- Sport Coaches
- Sport Camp Operators
- High School Students
- College Students
- Adult Students Shifting Careers into Fitness and Sport
What can I do with this course?
These are the environments past TWIST education participants went on to work in:
- Full-time Teachers for Physical Education
- Training Children and Youth in community gyms
- Small Group Training in semester long programs
- Training Children and Youth outdoors at fields and parks
- Teaching Physical Education Classes (visiting instructor contract)
- Remote Training, Traveling to the Homes of Clients
- Owning and Running Independent Training Facility
- Running Local Kids Camps
FAQ
- What exactly will I find in my online certification package?
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- How to access your course information
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- PDF workbook with engaged learning, mentoring exercises, and learn-by-doing training along with practise knowledge questions
- Digital video courses with teacher instruction, ppts, practical exercise instruction
- PDF textbook – full color, premium quality, comprehensive manual
- Hard copy of textbooks are available at additional cost. Once students see the quality and depth of the on-line textbook, most also order a hardcopy and we price them to encourage that memorable resource
- A coach’s “cheatsheet” handout summarizing the training guidelines and progressions
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- What is the best way to review information to prepare for the final exam?
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- We want you to succeed! Which is why at the end of of each chapter there will be an exam that will count towards your final grade
- Complete each step in the chapter > your workbook will be especially helpful
- Many students find reading the entire textbook first sets them up for success. After reading the textbook they enter the full course progressing through the videos, workbook and manual (again) chapter by chapter.
- Take lots of summary notes, mark your workbook and manual printout. These are great to review plus the very act of making notes helps embed the information.
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- Is it mandatory to complete the workbook?
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- The Workbook and Study Guide provides assistance in the retention of the course material. You are not required to submit the workbook for grading. However, experience has shown that individuals who faithfully use the Workbook and Study Guide achieve greater understanding of the course materials than those who do not use a workbook.
- You will also find information in the workbook that is not in textbook that will be mandatory for answering certain questions on the chapter exam
- The workbook offers 80 engaged learning exercises to hardwire your understanding. The 80 questions are not just rote learning and retyping words from the manual or video. Rather the workbook offers excellent mentoring and additional teachings while contextualizing questions for you to think through. By completing the workbook your take away expertise is greatly enhanced.
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- Do I have to complete all of the quizzes in the module?
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- Yes. Each section of the module is ‘gated’ > meaning you can’t advance further into the course until you complete each step. It is set up this way because what you learn at each step informs how you look at subsequent sections.
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- Yes. After you complete each module of the course there will be an exam at the end – this will go towards you final grade
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- If you fail any portion of your Examination, you will be offered the opportunity to resubmit that portion of the examination, free of charge. (This is known as your second attempt at the examination.) Each retest beyond the second attempt (e.g., third attempt, fourth attempt, etc.) will incur an administrative fee.
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- Are there CEU’s available for my certification course?
- As the most current certifications available, all newly published in 2022, TWIST will be securing CEU’s for the most common organizations. The specific CEU’s awarded per organization will be added to the web site as they become available.
- The TWIST certification courses are an industry standard that you can readily petition, which means submitting to your association requesting CEU’s. Track your study time and provide the course information to the organization you wish to request CEU’s for your continued education.
- What happens if I do not complete my course by the expiration date?
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- For all TWIST University Certifications, if you do not finish within 6 months, your student account will become inactive. A 2-month extension may be requested for a non-refundable fee. Completion of the program beyond the final extension period requires re-enrollment.
To confirm the expiration date of a course, please log into your profile page at twistuniversity.inspire360.com, next, click on the profile icon in the top right hand corner of your screen to show the dropdown menu. Click on the ‘My Courses’ tab to see your certification details.
- For all TWIST University Certifications, if you do not finish within 6 months, your student account will become inactive. A 2-month extension may be requested for a non-refundable fee. Completion of the program beyond the final extension period requires re-enrollment.
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- Log into your account at twistuniversity.inspire360.com, click on the profile icon at the top right hand side of the screen, then click on ‘My Account.’
- You will find the tab ‘Credit Cards’ located on the menu bar on the right hand side. Click on the heading. Once the page is open, click on the ‘+ Add Credit Card’ button and follow the instructions.
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- Applicable Sales, Use, GST, and VAT Taxes are collected and remitted where required by local tax authorities.
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- You can purchase printed copies of our most popular courses <<here>> at an additional cost.
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Springboard Off Our Success
Success breeds success. An athlete joining a championship team grows year by year markedly higher faster.
In 2022 you have the choice to learn from teachers who have resided on college and university campuses for decades, to gain knowledge, or, study under those who are out in the world like you, after achieving their own way to stand at the top leading their industry. This takes knowledge + demonstrating exceptional forward thinking practical skills and real-world leadership.
You can literally catapult your career being mentored by those who can show you “this is how I did it” while you study the ART of the science from those very best at their craft.
TWIST faculty have worked in professional sport, been recruited by foreign governments to modernize how national teams train and rehab, are in many USA and Canadian “Halls of Fame”, published 100’s of research papers that advanced their industry, led university sports medicine programs, developed Learn To Run races that get 50,000 participants each year, built High Performance Sport Camps hosting local and international athletes, operated athlete training centers expanded to four countries, and so much more! They know how to build career success – from first initial steps to the very top of their field – so be a sponge!!
You will learn the keys to ascending much higher in your career and life – not only the technical skills of a top coach, but how to be a self-starter, a top professional, a leader, and the best version of yourself.
TWIST certification courses accelerate your coaching abilities in the trenches where you can lead, impact and be a difference maker.
Some of the athletes TWIST has been fortunate to help become their very best include MVP’s Hakeem Olajuwon (Basketball MVP, 2x NBA Champion – USA), Mark Messier (Hockey MVP, 6x Stanley Cup Champion – USA/Canada), Christine Sinclair (Soccer 7x FIFA World Player of Year MVP, 1x Gold 2x Bronze Olympic Medalist – Canada), Henrik and Daniel Sedin (Hockey each a 2x Gold Olympic Medalist, scoring champion (& MVP Henrik), and Justin Morneau (Baseball MVP – USA/Canada). These champion athletes gave TWIST coaches close-up observation of the high performance habits and growth mindset of the best of the best, while helping them prepare for the pinnacle of the world stage.
Others who exemplify the strive to success include Julian Edelman (Football NFL Super Bowl Champion – USA), Shi Zhi Yong (Weightlifting 69kg category Olympic Gold Medalist & world record – China), Mariel Zagunis (Fencing Olympic 2x Gold 2x Bronze Medalist, – USA), Horst Bulau (Ski Jumping 4x Olympian, 13 World Cup wins, 26 podium finishes, Hall of Fame – Canada), Wu Dajing (Short Track Speed Skating Olympic Gold Medalist & world record – China), China Women’s Gymnastics (all-around team Olympic Bronze Medalists), Pavel Bure (Ice Hockey – named the Russian Rocket for his speed, 1x Silver 1x Bronze Olympic Medalist, 1x Gold 1x Silver World Championships – Russia), Canada Women’s Soccer Team (Olympic Bronze Medalist), Ding Ning (Table Tennis Olympic Gold Medalist – China), Cheng Long (Badminton Olympic Gold Medalist – China).
Your certification courses include everything you need to know about a developing the physical tools and mental attributes elite athletes require to make the team, stand apart, be their best when their best is needed, and keep graduating to new levels of sport. TWIST’s award winning certification courses have been curated down to the most valuable proven techniques you can apply directly to your clients’ aspirational goals and as well towards your own personal growth.
The coolest part of this for the TWIST Education and TWIST University Teams is celebrating YOUR success! Check out the Game Changing Careers = Game Changing Lives section for an inspiring look inside the life and career of Toshiya Koyanagi of Japan, whose career was bolstered to lofty levels in sport and fitness while studying with TWIST for years. From 8 year olds to 80 years olds and Olympic and Paralympic athletes, Coach Koyanagi enjoys a very rewarding career highly aligned with his core passions.
The more you can improve your coaching and training skills, the more significantly you can help others accomplish their most important goals. This grows your career which improves your life, and powerfully, also every client who trains with you.
It is time to define your specialization and advance your career to lead the way for clients who truly become thankful to be your customer. Can there be a more rewarding role?! How many businesses have paying customers who hug them and high five them exuding gratefulness?
This set-up-for-success better-every-day mission creates such an incredible culture in which everyone truly has the spirit of rising together!
The Team at TWIST is wholly grateful to foster this uplifting environment and share the key Intellectual Property and coaching how-to that empowers your achievements ahead.
Let’s Go!!
Specialized Career Certification
TWIST University teaches and mentors fitness, sport and health specializations.
1,000’s former students of all ages, passionate to train, coach, and treat athletes, kids and adult clients have graduated to work in Collegiate and Olympic sport, own their own training facility, land their dream job, and become a pillar of their local community, building a lifestyle around keeping people healthy and active for life.
When your presence, with the leadership, social-emotional skills, coaching knowledge and training skills that help others successfully progress to their highest goals, good things happen for you.
A full client list, the ability to choose your clients, retain them long-term and command profitable pricing make this a sustainable career. The fulfillment from making a positive impact setting others up for success makes it a very rewarding one.
Is it time to do what you love?
In the business of helping people become their best, your first step is to become yours – in the role of Coach and as the person inside the professional Coach.
TWIST University’s philosophy is to build up people, leaders, athletes and coaches with science-based methodologies made practical in replicable training systems. This allows us to focus most on the art of training so you become expert in the trenches on the floor orchestrating how clients move, lift and learn-by-doing.
Focussing on a specific Learning Pathway, quickly makes you an expert in that area. Narrowing your study from a generalist to a specialist advances your abilities beyond industry standards to differentiate yourself as you apply forward thinking ways to accrue maximum benefit for your athletes.
A specialized focus such as youth physical literacy, sport performance, or functional physique training, narrows your marketing efforts, matches client goals with your interests, establishes you as a top pro in that space. With the right clients receiving strong training methods, their results will give you the positive word of mouth that keeps feeding new clients straight to you.
With a philosophy of ‘Better Every Day’, you’ll be connected to other motivated TWIST professionals around the globe who speak the same language and share the same passions, making for great teammates with whom you can build supportive rapport to continue learning from each other in a long, lucrative and fun career.
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Discover Your Learning Pathway to Specialist Status
Let’s get you Fired UP! Find the exact career track most aligned with your passions, your heart, your SPIRIT!
Each individual course earns you certification status in that specific specialization (ie: Certified Athletic Strength Specialist). Study all 4 certification courses in one Learning Pathway, you are distinguished with a 5th accredited title (ie: Certified Sport Performance Specialist).
After Covid19 imposed restrictive challenges, everyone is more aware Health is Wealth + places premium value on quality of life. The key asset to enjoying full life is our strong mobile human vehicle, a great attitude and robust health. TWIST Learning Pathways are designed to help clients elevate.
TWIST graduates include those advancing to coach full time at the highest levels in collegiate, pro and Olympic sport. 1,000’s more enjoy the prestige and great lifestyle being of service in their local community, training young kids, high school athletics, and building great friendships with clients pursuing an active healthy lifestyle.
Fitness, sport, health and medicine professionals add TWIST specialized courses to augment how they can help their patients and clients.
Many other types of professionals – from accountants to retail managers to financial advisors – study to become certified in a side career they are much more passionate about. Many of those end up eventually shifting completely into a coaching leadership role.
At some point in life, we gain the clarity, courage and conviction to align what we do with who we are as a person. That in of itself is a big win!
Explore the specific learning pathways below to determine which speaks most to you, your background, current interests and the vision for where you want to go! There truly is no right or wrong answer – this is the opportunity you can truly “align your doing with your Being”.
When your mind chooses to study a specialized focus, make sure your heart is also saying yes yes yes! Think of the market of likeminded clients you will attract. Imagine the sense of belonging together. Affirmations around your sport and lifestyle passions and personal strengths make it clear which certification courses best set you up to create a personally enriching and financially rewarding future.
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Innovative Brain-Body 3D Training Methodology
Your body is like the HARDWARE – the physical elements of your computer, monitor, keyboard, printer. It starts functioning when software is loaded into the system and operates as well as the software is smart.
Your brain and its neural networks wired into the body is the SOFTWARE – the systems and programs that make computations to devise instructions telling the hardware how to perform a physical task.
The brain’s neural network has millions of receptors and sensors – most dense on hands and feet – plus all along the body via the long line of fascia from head to toe and, in joints and ligaments. These are positioned to detect what the body is doing, what is imposed on it, such as the terrain to navigate or opponents putting up a combative defense.
The whole body’s massive data set of sensory input is sent in real time to the brain to determine the next moves – calculating what muscles stabilize, which mobilize, which produce force, how much, where to shift hands and feet (etc) so the motor response is accurate, skilled and of the exact amount of strength and power needed.
The importance of brain body communication becomes obvious when noting the muscles and brain communicate at an astounding 170mph and the fascial system communicates with the brain at a mind blowing 700 mph. The sheer speed of communication highlights that this must be integral to physical performance and hence how it can best be best trained and improved.
TWIST Methods are the only training paradigm designed from the brain and neural networks back to the muscles and movement skill.
You’ll study 8 functions of strength in 30 key movement patterns required for sport excellence and a highly active lifestyle. After learning the training principles that best improve how the brain organizes the body for 3D motion, you’ll practise how to advance the overloading of muscle and mind to keep stimulating growth of strength and skill.
The human body in motion is best trained with a specific training system and overload strategy that is neurologically complex. The outcome is strength, power, speed and agility that transfers preferentially from the training room into athletic sport action.
This allows kids to be given an accelerated head start, aging adults to sustain their abilities deeper into life, and elite athletes to find a higher best.
You Belong Here
TWIST is a positive good energy community circled up together with like minded passion to learn and share forward thinking methods for an active healthy lifestyle and sport excellence.
Let’s take a closer look – it is so important you land in a really good place, that truly suits you and helps you grow to where you want to go!
The people we are for, know it right away. They can feel it in their heart, mind, spirit. If you feel TWIST is a place you’ve been searching for, even if you did not know it, we’d be honoured to land strongly aligned.
PASSION: You feel enthusiasm for fitness, sport, and outdoor recreation. Training to improve, time in nature and active healthy living are enriching pursuits.
CULTURE: You are attracted to positive attitudes, kindness and uplifting people. You respond well and grow best within this environment.
PERSONAL GROWTH: You feel ready, and drawn to, elevating into a higher version of yourself – your mindset, social emotional acumen, self talk, high performance habits, leadership, and more. You are ready for personal expansion and wanting to experience each day showing up at a higher level.
PROFESSIONAL EXCELLENCE: You are attracted to learning. You gain satisfaction achieving new skills. You take pride in giving your best.
CURIOUS: You are curious to learn more about our amazing body and brain, discovering methods that unify brain + body to express sport excellence. You could really get into discovering new training techniques that improve physical function for more skilled 3D motion in an active lifestyle you yourself want to live.
POSITIVE IMPACT: You feel motivated to help others overcome challenges and strive to new goals. You are drawn to being of service in your community. You sense that leading and training others to help set them up for success, would be fun and highly fulfilling.
YOU CARE ABOUT MORE: You want to be confident in specialized career skills that elevate clients’ fitness, sport, health and mental well-being. Joining our mission to help shift society to healthier happier body, mind, and spirt is a powerful scope of impact.
The philosophy of inspiring a more peaceful, positive, active, healthy and sustainable society sounds like a world you’d like to help create.
If the above characteristics of our education systems, training methods, community culture, and overall mission line up really well for you, we look forward to seeing you on our virtual campus and in the learning track most custom made for you.
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Integrated Science
The TWIST Sport Science, Performance Training and Rehabilitation faculty’s research focuses on applied science, examining the efficacy of specific athletic concepts, methods and techniques for high level kinetic motion.
See your body as your “human vehicle”. To discover sport excellence or the best way to an active lifestyle across the full lifespan, the secret key to unlock your fullest physicality is combining brain with body to net 3D movement skills. This type of physicality is like an “all-terrain human vehicle”, mobile, strong and agile in all directions.
In mainstream fitness, programs are developed to burn fat and build muscle. Body building techniques grow a thick lean physique but like a statue. Group fitness programs use fun movement mainly to produce sweat and burn calories.
TWIST’s roots are in sport and science, not in fitness.
That focussed our lens on sport performance, not fitness or physique, so every single decision prescribed training from proven research that produces exceptional athleticism and movement skills.
It’s important here to note that “the best athletes rise to the top”. The best well rounded athlete possessing 360 degrees of physical skill always exceeds the success of athletes who were streamlined too young in life into just one sport, netting a more narrow inventory of physical attributes.
TWIST Methodology was created to bridge these major gaps in traditional fitness and in sport-specific training by building brain + body together for 360 degree well rounded athleticism expressing 3D action.
Nothing in the body works by itself in isolation.
The human body is the most complex machine in the entire world – being alive and the effort to strive, train and compete in sport, require coordination of many systems inside the body, from head to toes, inside and out, brain and body, all integrated cohesively together to coordinate whole body movement with skilled dexterity.
TWIST studied all of the individual sport sciences + how they interact, cooperate and contribute to the chain of events each second of athletic action, then reverse engineered from the sciences to practical methods.
The power of TWIST Education is how it made complex simple.
What if you could become expert by focussing on the art of integrated training, learning by doing, coaching athletic functional movement.
Coaches who learn the practical exercise principles, movement methods and complete Training System can be confident it automatically honours the sciences and stimulates all the right improvements.
Above thinking and feeling, the brain is custom designed to MOVE!
Humans have been able to design computers that can out-think us. But no computerized machine comes close to a human’s ability to express sophisticated movement patterns, rhythm and full body skillfulness.
The brain’s main function is to generate movement. That is how we survived long ago and it is how we live today.
Our body’s actions are orchestrated by the brain and its neural highways. So integral is movement and loading muscles to the well-being of our body and brain, it is exercise, sport, recreation and play that bring the most benefits psychologically, emotionally, mentally and cognitively.
Neuroscience delves into how brains are rewired for learning, behavior change, acquisition of sport skills, physical movement skill, athletic strength and even happiness!
Our brain has the ability to adapt, change and grow new neurons through a concept known as neuroplasticity.
Many common exercises such as a bench press and actions like linear running are so simple and well rehearsed, our brain goes on auto pilot where we can do it without thinking. The brain is most interested and improvable when it is forced to be present in the moment solving the exercise challenge calculating how to coordinate the entire body. This literally grows brain cells, wires together more skillful motor programs and transfers into athleticism.
HOW you train changes the game.
Exercise methods optimizing neuroscience integrate physics that changes how you organize your body in an exercise. Examples include how your foot position forms a base of support, the length of your arms holding a weight, the pathway of your hands and the tempo you move such that these are devised to maximally stimulate the brain, build muscular strength and improve movement abilities together.
Breakthrough: When the brain is in its highest cognitive state, it will send instructions to activate the most muscle. The way to improve the most muscle and in the most meaningful way is through the brain. TWIST research verified their integrated strength-balance-movement-core exercise stimulating max sensory information to the brain increased muscle activation more than 1,000%, proving we can get strong in new ways beyond load.
For the longest healthspan, an active lifestyle, and, to the extremes pushing through to sport excellence, many sports sciences play an important role. TWIST Methods are devised by reverse engineering from the interdependent functions of these sport sciences:
- neuroscience
- physics
- biology
- physiology
- anatomy
- biomechanics
- kinesiology
- skill acquisition
- motor learning
- motor control
- bioenergetics
- biochemistry
- neuromuscular system
- endocrine system
- cardiorespiratory system
- physiotherapy
- sport psychology
- sports medicine
- performance diagnostics
- periodization
Fear not the study of in-depth sciences, TWIST has already done that for you. By reverse engineering from how the sciences integrate, and matching the demands of athletic action and human motion, TWIST devised practical exercise methods, coaching techniques and training principles that define how you teach a client to move, what to correct and improve, and how you progressively overload to be challenged in safe level appropriate ways that always accrue further growth and development.
For a look at how the sciences are applied into practical methods, please review the next section ‘Integrated Methods’ to discover what you can create from the TWIST training paradigm.
Integrated Methods
Discover why the TWIST Training Methodology was created as neural based training that overloads the athlete’s muscle communication system. This results in performing sport-specific movements stronger faster and more SKILLED in the athletic arena.
Reverse engineered from how the brain and body share information and compute whole body actions; this remarkable training paradigm integrates strength, balance, movement and core into every inch of every rep, every second of every drill, to link the body from feet to fingers while improving the brain software that orchestrates the body’s physical hard drive.
The exercise techniques, coaching methods and Training System account for the athletic characteristics sport requires, abilities of the most successful athletes and in the prevention of injury.
The most valuable result of TWIST Integrated Methods is transferring a higher percentage of gains made in the gym over onto the court, field, ice or wherever you and your clients like to play and compete.
This powerful advantage gained its genesis after intensive sport diagnostics. A time-motion analysis of the tempo and movement patterns in games, the biomechanics of technical sport skills, the physicality of individual tactics – those highlight reel offensive and defensive 1-on-1 maneuvers, along with positional variations and seasonal demands informed TWIST how the science is best expressed as training methods.
The Integrated Methods progressively train multi-directional movement skills, whole body linked strength, muscular power and endurance, athletic agility, reactivity, quickness, deceleration, speed and anaerobic conditioning.
Each of those performance attributes require other elements that are trained first, such as improving balance, joint stability and mobility before full body Linked Strength intensifies.
What if you could trust which physical attributes were best to improve today, with a proven order of training that protects your body while adding the abilities needed to strive higher next week – utilizing verified methods that define the how-to-train?
This accelerates the development of athletes of all ages and with well-defined guidelines TWIST Certified Coaches can make training level appropriate to confidently welcome all levels of adult clients.
Every day needs purpose, a plan and smart methods to keep athletes off the sidelines, getting better every day, and, in ways that transfer from the gym onto the playing field.
As a Certified Specialist you gain exclusive access to systemized training principles, coaching guidelines, biomechanical strategies, and exercise progressions + regressions to guide a spectrum of clients to their best ever.
These integrated methods make training much more sustainable – so clients can enjoy performing better 365 and for the lifespan. The methods to improve mind, muscle and movement together, and as instructed with TWIST’s Positive Coaching Program, have proven to also enhance mindset, attitude, social emotional skills and mental well-being, all key inputs to health, happiness and high performance.
Purposeful Periodization
TWIST students learn logical science based progressions that are simple to replicate with each athlete and client. It’s crucial all of our students feel confident in how to advance their clients and obtain the highest level of success while sustaining it long term, in a healthy way, preventing injury.
The physical, neural and skill-based attributes we train this month give the body the tools and the brain the ability to train other attributes next month.
Knowing WHAT to work on when, in the RIGHT ORDER, and HOW to stimulate the most significant improvement safely, layers up athletic qualities and aggregates the highest outcomes.
PRODUCTION OF ACCREDITED EDUCATION COURSES
TWIST Conditioning Inc. rocketed to global prominence upon introducing the world’s first Functional Training Certifications, with a mantra “Train Movement Not Muscle”.
This genre of training was launched with three certification courses that challenged existing sport performance models, fitness training and body building, adding a differentiated pillar to the how-to-train options. TWIST created Linked Strength, Athletic Movement and Performance Balance courses to improve how gym training can transfer into sporting environments allowing expression of one’s physical attributes when players are up on their feet executing 3D action in unpredictable game situations.
Today TWIST Education produces human performance courses for large brands and sport governing bodies. Education partners have included American Council on Exercise, IDEA World, Under Armour, IMG and the China Olympic Committee. Through these efforts, in corporate partnerships and private-public partnerships with sport governing bodies, TWIST has helped scale coaching expertise for grassroots youth sport while also modernizing how national team programs develop athletes for the world stage.
TWIST University teaches students directly to prepare and certify fitness, health and sport leaders internationally for specialty niche careers training kids, active adults and elite athletes with the proven TWIST Training System. TWIST Specialists are certified in the most forward thinking and evidence-based methods to help clients express skillful athletic sport action and the 3D movement patterns for an active healthy lifestyle. TWIST Specialists learn Positive Coaching that facilitates a client’s development, enhancing their social, emotional and mental well-being.
TWIST University has a suite of educational experiences for students to choose from (B2C), while TWIST Education produces customized globally recognized education courses bespoked for B2B partners. TWIST University and TWIST Education construct signature courses using the following curriculum development road map:
- Collaborate in research and review scientific literature across multiple disciplines.
- Assimilate the unique functions of each science relative to the course theme, for how each fact would inform training techniques.
- Nothing in the body happens in isolation – with an eye from the sky for 3D whole body athletic action, expertly integrate the key sciences together for each specific training goal.
- Develop the training paradigm.
- Establish the coaching philosophy and content key art of coaching that establishes the student’s leadership style, teaching style and culture they facilitate.
- Design an “exercise style” for the general movement patterns, rhythm and expressions of athletic prowess within exercises.
- Define training principles, guidelines, mechanical strategies, overload progressions and periodization to package a Training System that is highly replicable with continuity in quality.
- Create engaged learning experiences, gameification and symbolism that accelerates coaching excellence while also impacting mental well-being, mindset and social-emotional acumen.
- Write the book, manual, Powerpoints, instructional aides, workbooks, exams and validate each.
- Film all exercises and instruction, design the digital learning system and package everything into an on-line course.
- Develop Master Teacher resources to graduate teachers in each geographical area.
- Establish monthly mentoring for graduating students and for the Master Teachers to support their success and continued up level.
TWIST Methods reverse engineer from neuroscience and other integrated sport sciences to develop training techniques and systems that improve movement skill, athletic physicality, holistic health, mental well-being, and social-emotional acumen.
TWIST is on a mission to set coaches, trainers and health leaders up for success building specialized careers that help their clients overcome difficult setbacks and improve to the height of their greatest aspirational goals!
Our current development projects include the continuum from youth physical literacy to owning the podium programs, from overcoming injury to champion mindset and peak performance.
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THE FACULTY
FACULTY & ADVISORS
TWIST is very fortunate to receive advice on its mission to impact fitness, sport, health and mental well-being by a group of world class exercise science, sports medicine and holistic health thought forwarders and education experts.
Dr. Greg Anderson:
- Dean of Science at Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops British Columbia
- VP of Research and Education
- PhD in Exercise Physiology
- Management specialist for Curriculum Design and Project Management.
- Prolific researcher specializing in exercise physiology, instability and neural adaptations
- Recent research focuses on public safety, resiliency, coping strategies and well-being
- Dean of Research and Graduate Studies at the Justice Institute of British Columbia
- Chair of Kinesiology and member of the Board of Governors at the University of the Fraser Valley
- Recognized by awards for teaching excellence, research, innovation and leadership to the health and fitness fields.
- Exercise Physiologist 2008 Beijing Olympics with Canadian Women’s Soccer
Dr Jack Taunton:
- Founder of Sports Medicine in Canada
- Founder of University of British Columbia Sports Medicine Clinic
- Co-Founder of the Vancouver Marathon and the Vancouver Sun Run, a get-active learn-to-train 10km run mobilizing 50,000 runners each spring.
- Chief Medical Officer 2010 Winter Olympic Games
- Medical Doctor at ’84, ’88, 92, and 2000 Olympic Games
- Co-Creator of UBC’s Sports Medicine faculty, authoring its curriculum.
- Published researcher on injury prevention and rehabilitation techniques
- Most recently in Uganda teaching ACL surgery and rehab techniques to preserve careers of elite athletes
Tom Root:
- United Nations Wellbeing Network
- United Nations Sustainable Development Goals – Physical Literacy
- Foundation for Global Community Health, Co-Founder
- CEO, HOP Sports
- Development of a trademarked and peer-reviewed scalable wellness platform for kids, Brain Breaks, which currently reaches 2+ Million children/day in over 70 countries
- Delivered professional development to schools and after-school programs across the planet, with a global network of partnerships that include The Harlem Globetrotters, Cartoon Network, NFL Play60, The United Way, A.A.P.H.E.R.D, USRowing, USA Volleyball, WNBA, Blue Cross Blue Shield, the American College of Sports Medicine, American Heart Association, Cleveland Cavaliers, Chicago Bulls, Detroit Lions, and the US Army, to name a few.
- One of the very first early adopter developing multi-discipline approach training centres
- 30+ years working with Hollywood’s biggest kid stars, legendary Stuntmen, and world-class athletes
- In 2006, Tom was the recipient of the Hero of the Year Award from the Sports and Fitness Industry Association.
Dr. Cedric Bryant:
- President & Chief Science Officer, American Council on Exercise
- Dr. Bryant is responsible to ensure the scientific accuracy of ACE-commissioned studies, publications and all other course materials that ACE creates
- World Health Organization, Panel for Physical Activity
- CDC, Active People Healthy Nation initiative
- National Association of Physical Literacy’s Advisory Board
- Exercise Is Medicine’s Credentialing Committee
- Vice President of Education, American Council on Exercise
- Senior Vice President, Stairmaster Sports/Medical Products
- Director of Sports Medicine, Stairmaster Health & Fitness Institute
- Professor, Arizona State University
- PhD, Pennsylvania State University
Bruce Craven:
- VP of Physical Therapy and Education
- 31 years of experience working with athletes in over 40 different sports, competing at provincial, national, international and Olympic/Paralympic competitions
- Owner and Physical Therapist at Craven SPORT Services
- Associate clinical professor at the University of Saskatchewan School of Physical Therapy
- Canadian Paralympic Committee
- Sport Physiotherapist
- Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist
- Instructor for the National Coaches Association of Canada
- Physical Therapist, Canada Olympics Own the Podium
- Chief Examiner and Educational Chair for Sport Physiotherapy Canada
- Member of the Canadian Sport Centre’s National Sport Medicine and Science Committee.
Peter Twist:
√ Sport Scientist and Professional Coach
√ Scientific research, 20 books and manuals, 22 industry certifications, 44 DVD courses, 1,200+ articles and over 1,000 international lectures.
√ Canada’s representative on the Foundation for Global Community Health Scientific Advisory Board
√ 11 year NHL Strength & Conditioning Coach
√ Global Education Partner Under Armour, IMG Academies,
√ Founding partner of IDEA China
√ Content expert for American Council on Exercise
√ USA Hall of Fame, IDEA World Programmer of Year, NSCA President’s Award, CFP Presenter of Year, IDEA World Most Inspirational Award.
√ Coach Twist & TWIST Performance Inc specialists guided training and rehab for 2,000 pro and Olympic athletes + over 20,000 high school and university athletes.