Continuing Education Courses (CEU's)

Completed on 03/09/10

Topic: Correct & Effective Sport Specific Dryland Swim Training
Presenter: Steve Tarpinian

Learn how to utilize dry land sport specific strength training to make significant technique and power gains which translate directly to increased speed. This seminar will show how in an 8 week test group the average improvement of the swimmers was 26 seconds for 500 meters! The eight week program will be thoroughly explained so it can be added to any athletes training regimen. Dry land training is the perfect addition to a training program all season and is especially beneficial in winter and pre season to see swimming benefits all season long.

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Completed on 03/15/10

7 p.m. MST

Topic: Planning & Periodization
Presenter: Justin Trolle

Periodization & Planning is one of the key components of long term success in triathlon. It is very easy as a coach or athlete to plan to do well in one race but this webinar will describe in detail how to structure all of your season's races so that you or your athletes can have the best season ever. This webinar will also give you the skills to keep improving year in, year out as an athlete or as a coach and reach your full potential.
Key Topics Covered:
1. Building a long term plan, for yourself or your athletes using USAT's Yearly Training Plan (YTP) template.
2. Correct training volumes, training intensity and training frequency required for success in each discipline with athletes from Junior to Elite.
3. Breaking down your YTP into the 6 key training periods, Base, Strength, Strength/Endurance, Speed/Endurance, Race Specifics & Taper.
4. Understanding the concepts of,
a. 3:1 or 2:1 up down weekly ratios.
b. Overload & Recovery (As it applies to yearly plans & weekly plans.)
c. Reverse build

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03/16/10

6 p.m. MST

Topic: Race Weight Considerations & Cautions
Presenters: Mark Allen & Luis Vargas

Fit or Fat? Are these two issues mutually exclusive? Elements of body composition will be discussed including how and when weight loss should be targeted, tools for optimizing eating for body balance, carbohydrate/protein/fat issues for endurance athletes, and why the skinny guy never wins at Ironman!

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03/23/10

12 p.m. MST

Topic: Writing a Business Plan
Presenter: Mike Ricci

Writing a business plan is one of the keys to any successful business. Why write a business plan? For a business to be successful and profitable, the owners should have a clear understanding of the firm's customers, strengths and competition. They must also have the foresight to plan for future growth. Whether yours is a new business or an existing business in the process of expanding, finances are often an issue. Taking time to create an extensive business plan provides you with insight into your business that will help you make  the right decisions going forward.

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03/25/10

1 p.m. MST

Topic: Fueling the Female Multisport Athlete
Presenter: Bob Seebohar

This webinar will provide athletes and coaches information about the female athlete triad (osteoporosis, amenorrhea, eating disorders), sarcopenia (loss of muscle mass as we age) and iron needs for active females. This is a must for any female who participates in sport along with any coach who works with female athletes.

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Topic: The Physiology and Strategies of Pacing
Presenter: Ryan Riehl

Pacing Strategy is the single most important aspect of race day. Understanding the basic physiological variables and types of pacing is the key for a coach or athlete to develop the appropriate pacing and racing strategy for a race.

This webinar will delve into negative, all-out, positive, even, parabolic-shaped and variable pacing strategies, what factors should be considered and how they apply to training and racing triathlons. We will then go into the physiological and biomechanical determinants for pacing and how they determine the regulation of pacing.

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03/30/10

4 p.m. MST

Topic: Foundation and Application of Cardiovascular Training
Presenters: Cindy Miller & Sally Edwards

CVT, Cardiovascular Training, Coaching Fundamentals, Foundation, and Designing Training Plans
This webinar is focused on the development of a scientific-based and sound training program built on foundation principles that develop your coaching skills and knowledge. One of the keys to coaching success is results which are demonstrable in endurance, speed, and development of sport specific muscular strength. Using training tools like heart rate monitors, power meters, and metabolic testing devices, you can design safe and CVT training programs using progressive training load, testing and measurement protocols, and manipulation of FIT (frequency, intensity, and time) to achieve those results. Take CVT coaching webinar if you are ready to improve your understanding and application of zone training in three disciplines of triathlon.

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04/06/10

4 p.m. MST

Topic: Aquaphobia: Coaching Fearful Swimmers
Presenter: Drew Surinsky

Triathlon remains extremely popular among adults, yet a commonly expressed worry among new and even seasoned triathletes is getting through the swim. Besides the navigation and bumping in the water, which is a challenge for nearly every triathlete, many athletes suffer from fear of the water, in varying degrees, that interferes with their enjoyment of the sport.

This webinar addresses the origins of phobias/fears in general, fear of the water in particular, and how coaches can understand and help their aquaphobic athletes

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04/13/10

11:30 a.m. MST

Topic: Iron Deficiency & Endurance Performance
Presenter: Bob Seebohar

This webinar will discuss the role that iron plays in the body and its effect on endurance exercise. Specifically, the topics of iron absorption, blood work analysis, the stages of iron deficiency and a supplementation protocol for improving iron stores will be described.

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04/19/10

7 p.m. MST

Topic: Developing an Elite Squad
Presenter: Justin Trolle

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04/20/10

6 p.m. MST

Topic: Terrain Training: Customizing your workouts to be beady for any race profile!
Presenters: Mark Allen & Luis Vargas

Perhaps one of the least talked about subjects in training, in this webinar you will learn how to not only train smart, but to train on the terrain that will help you build the correct strengths for the races that you want to do best at. Included will be tips on how to blend flat, rolling and hilly terrains in your training to help maximize your results on each of these specific race course profile. Included will be keys learning how to periodize your terrain choices through all phases of training.

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Sport Performance and the Use of Legal Ergogenic Aids: This talk will review the use and application of 6 supplements that are currently very popular in sports: 1) Sodium Citrate, 2) Creatine, 3) Glycerol, 4) Amino Acids, 5) Beta-Alanine and 6) Caffeine. The rationale behind how these supplements can be used to enhance endurance performance will be reviewed. Application of these supplements to training and competition will be utilized to help illustrate the potential effects of these ergogenic aids.

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05/06/10

4 p.m. MST

Topic: Sport Rotation
Presenter: Mike Ricci

Getting faster is what most of us strive for in triathlon. If we have one glaring weakness, and who doesn't, then how are we going to get faster if we keep following the same routine, year after year? Focusing on one sport for a period of time will allow you to improve at that sport and help you take your weakness to a strength. Sport Rotation is the key to improving your overall triathlon skills. The webinar will include learning how to design your own plan based on your own weaknesses and balancing the three sports while improving the weaker ones.

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05/18/10

6 p.m. MST

Topic: Building Your Weakness: The Swim
Presenter: Mark Allen & Luis Vargas

Start from the ground up with training guaranteed to help you improve your swim times. Included will be specific training concepts to help you increase efficiency in the water, develop flexibility in your range of motion of the swim stroke, sample key workouts that show you how to increase your swim fitness. In addition, race tactics for the swim will be highlighted to help you start in the correct position, maintain arm cadence throughout the swim and navigate effectively in open water.

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For additional webinar and CEU opportunities, please visit Performance Webinars at www.performancewebinars.com.

Weekly webinars covering various topics such as Metabolic Efficiency Training for Athletes,  The Human Body: Understanding Limitations to Performance, Preparing to Train and Compete at Altitude,  Metabolic Efficiency Training for Athletes, Iron Deficiency and Endurance Performance, Race Day Nutrition Planning for Endurance Athletes, Training and Preparing for Competition in the Heat, Sport Performance and the Use of Legal Ergogenic Aids, Sports Nutrition Research vs. Reality, Fueling the Female Multisport Athlete as well as Understanding Your Metabolism: Energy Flux in Weight Management are among a few of the webinar topics that will be presented by Fuel4mance. 

USAT CEU credit will be awarded to all USA Triathlon certified coaches.   

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Topic: Video Analysis - The Art of Slowing What You See Down to Speed Athletes Up

The goal of this class is to teach coaches how to effectively slow down what they see in training and racing using video. Attendees will learn to effectively analyze what needs to be adjusted to allow an athlete to go faster in either the swim, cycle, run or transition components of a triathlon.

The class will cover the following things:

• What equipment coaches will need to use video effectively and professionally with athletes.
• How to collect accurate video of any triathlon discipline in any triathlon based situation (racing or training) for meaningful analysis.
• Breaking down training and racing footage and analyzing the critical parts of performance in Swim, Bike, Run or Transitions.
• Using video to add value to business, the service provided to athletes and increasing coaching based income.
• Each attendee will be provided with a video breakdown of the key things to look for when breaking down each of the 4 disciplines.

This class is a must for anyone who truly wants to improve the times of their athletes on race day or would like another tool for assessing their own performances.  It is also an essential clinic for business minded coaches who are looking to increase their services to athletes and income generating potential.

USAT Coaches earn 5 USAT CEUs.

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Topic: Video Analysis - The Art of Slowing What You See Down to Speed Athletes Up

The goal of this class is to teach coaches how to effectively slow down what they see in training and racing using video. Attendees will learn to effectively analyze what needs to be adjusted to allow an athlete to go faster in either the swim, cycle, run or transition components of a triathlon.

The class will cover the following things:

• What equipment coaches will need to use video effectively and professionally with athletes.
• How to collect accurate video of any triathlon discipline in any triathlon based situation (racing or training) for meaningful analysis.
• Breaking down training and racing footage and analyzing the critical parts of performance in Swim, Bike, Run or Transitions.
• Using video to add value to business, the service provided to athletes and increasing coaching based income.
• Each attendee will be provided with a video breakdown of the key things to look for when breaking down each of the 4 disciplines.

This class is a must for anyone who truly wants to improve the times of their athletes on race day or would like another tool for assessing their own performances.  It is also an essential clinic for business minded coaches who are looking to increase their services to athletes and income generating potential.

USAT Coaches earn 5 USAT CEUs.

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03/21/10

Boston, MA

Topic: Multisport World Coaches Education Course

Don't miss this incredible day of seminars and presentations from some of the best coaches in the region!  This clinic will feature presentations on Running Mechanics and Economy, Quantifying and Managing Fatigue with Technology, the Triathlon Swim- Improving technique and training with power and Overcoming Common Coaching Challenges.

USAT coaches earn 6 USAT CEUs.  

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Topic: Metabolic Efficiency Training: Teaching the Body to Burn More Fat

This 3-hour workshop will provide the participant an in-depth understanding of what metabolic efficiency is and more importantly, how to implement it with proper nutrition and exercise training recommendations.  Topics that will be covered will include the physiological background of metabolic efficiency, why it is important to teach the body to burn fat and preserve internal carbohydrate stores, how to minimize and eliminate GI distress and how to lose body fat and weight using this method.  Bob will teach the steps to becoming more metabolically efficient in a simple and easy to understand way that can be implemented into your lifestyle to support good health and performance.

This concept is revolutionary.  Gone are the days of stuffing the body with too many calories during training.  Through becoming more metabolically efficient, you will learn how to use your somewhat unlimited fat stores to supply energy for training and competition while protecting your internal carbohydrate stores to use when they are really needed.  Turn yourself from "sugar burner" to "fat burner" in a very short amount of time!

USAT coaches earn 3 USAT CEUs.  

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Topic: Effective Swim Coaching Utilizing Video Analysis and Dry-Land Training

Steve Tarpinian will use various video samples of swimmers (of varying technique flaws) and how to systematize not only seeing and describing what can and should be corrected, but how to create a prescription of what drills will best be used to facilitate the improvement. This is a hands-on workshop that will include the use of sport specific dry land exercises that not only help teach superior technique but can be used to increase power and speed.

This three-hour workshop will provide attendees with:
-An in depth analysis of swim technique; and how to improve it.
-The format for doing a video swim technique analysis for swimmers at every level.
-Each participant will be taken through Dry Land exercises to see and feel their effectiveness.
-A proven 8 week Dry Land training program that will improve a swimmer's 500 meter time 26 seconds on average.
-Simple exercises to eliminate shoulder injuries in 90% of all swimmers will be demonstrated and practiced.

Steve will help the attendees sort through all the technical gadgets for swimming and share the ones that work and are worth the investment for a coach/athlete.

USAT coaches earn 3 USAT CEUs.  

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04/11/10

Morrisville, NC

Topic: Supplemental Training for Triathlon - Three Part Seminar

This triathlon seminar will focus on yoga and flexibility and why flexibility is important, functional core training and strength training in and out of the weight room and will aslo address running form and how speed drills and improved mechanics can improve running and performance for triathlon.

USAT Coaches earn 6 USAT CEUs.

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Nutrition, Supplements & Performance Enhancers - 1 CEU

You have all heard the advertisements from companies that make performance enhancing products. "Drink this and you will run faster, eat this and you will get a PR", and the list goes on. A lot of times the marketing of these products is way ahead of the science, which makes it confusing. In this informative class, Registered Dietitian and Board Certified Sports Nutritionist Cassie Dimmick will explain what you really need to be eating and drinking to perform at your best. She will go over the science behind the recommendations, along with false claims that are out there. Don't waste your time and money on a product that is just hype! Learn from a sports nutrition expert what you need to include, and what you can leave out, in your training and racing diet to perform at your best.

Biomechanics and Injury Prevention - 1 CEU

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Topic: QUEST TO BE YOUR BEST -  Specific Customized Mental Skills Training Plan Design

Finally a way to ensure that all the physical training pays off on race day!

Analyze actual sport psych evaluations (that you have brought along from triathletes you work with or have completed yourself) & design an annual plan to address these findings - includes exercises, drills, reevaluations & a series of pre-race plans that match the physical training & racing plan

This is a unique opportunity to spend time creating an effective realistic tool to provide yourself & your triathletes with the most crucial unifying process in the quest for peak performance.

USAT certified coaches earn 3 USAT CEUs.

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Topic: Coaching Business Successfully

This course is the first step in a well-planned learning agenda that prepares coaches to make astute personal economic decisions. This course will present an overview of functional areas of business and the basic concepts of the business world. In order to foster coaches' ability to think critically, this course emphasizes an integrated approach that provides opportunities for study of the synergy among business functions.

Course Objectives:

• Identify current business trends both locally and nationally.
• Explain how proper business management/insurance benefits the coach and the athletes.
• Analyze and explain the basis your company.
• Compare and contrast the different types of business ownership.
• Evaluate and classify various marketing strategies.
• Explain the marketing process and how it drives business activities.
• Verbalize both oral and in writing how technology can help a business manage information.
• To understand the challenges, risks, and opportunities of coaching business.
• Explain how firms use accounting/taxes.
• Analyze sources of financing for businesses.
• Appropriate equipment and resources for coaches

 USAT certified coaches earn 3 USAT CEUs.

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Topic: QUEST TO BE YOUR BEST -  Specific Customized Mental Skills Training Plan Design

Finally a way to ensure that all the physical training pays off on race day!

Analyze actual sport psych evaluations (that you have brought along from triathletes you work with or have completed yourself) & design an annual plan to address these findings - includes exercises, drills, reevaluations & a series of pre-race plans that match the physical training & racing plan

This is a unique opportunity to spend time creating an effective realistic tool to provide yourself & your triathletes with the most crucial unifying process in the quest for peak performance.

USAT certified coaches earn 3 USAT CEUs.

Click here for complete information and registration.

Topic: Video Analysis - The Art of Slowing What You See Down to Speed Athletes Up

The goal of this class is to teach coaches how to effectively slow down what they see in training and racing using video. Attendees will learn to effectively analyze what needs to be adjusted to allow an athlete to go faster in either the swim, cycle, run or transition components of a triathlon.

The class will cover the following things:

• What equipment coaches will need to use video effectively and professionally with athletes.
• How to collect accurate video of any triathlon discipline in any triathlon based situation (racing or training) for meaningful analysis.
• Breaking down training and racing footage and analyzing the critical parts of performance in Swim, Bike, Run or Transitions.
• Using video to add value to business, the service provided to athletes and increasing coaching based income.
• Each attendee will be provided with a video breakdown of the key things to look for when breaking down each of the 4 disciplines.

This class is a must for anyone who truly wants to improve the times of their athletes on race day or would like another tool for assessing their own performances.  It is also an essential clinic for business minded coaches who are looking to increase their services to athletes and income generating potential.

USAT Coaches earn 5 USAT CEUs.

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Multiple Dates

Gardnerville, NV (Lake Tahoe

Topic: Marc Evans Technique Development Camps

This development camp will include 3 days and 2 nights of hands on applied coaching instruction by former USAT World Championship and elite team Head Coach Marc Evans with comprehensive movement screening assessment modules and movement analysis. In-depth curriculum and instruction manuals for technique assessment and development for teaching and coaching swimming as well as cycling and running for beginner through elite athletes. The full curriculum is focused upon providing practical teaching and assessment of movement for coaches to improve how they work with clients.

USAT coaches earn 10 USAT CEUs.

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2008 Art and Science DVD Set

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2008 Art and Science DVD Set

USAT has partnered with Endurance Films to bring you the 2008 Art and Science of Triathlon International Coaching Symposium DVD set and CEU quizzes. Coaches can earn up to 8 USAT CEUs by earning a passing grade on all of the quizzes. To purchase the DVD set and CEU quizzes, please visit the Endurance Films website.

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ITCA Certified Triathlon Coach

ITCA Certified Triathlon Coach is an in-depth training for the sciences needed for triathlon coaching and a business model which will help coaches create financial abundance. This personal success as a coach will keep good coaches in the triathlon community longer, thus growing in the sport.

USAT Coaches earn 7.5 USAT CEUs for this certification.

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