Progress Your Career & Become A Fully Qualified Kettlebell Instructor

Learning how to instruct kettlebell exercises is a key addition to the Fitness Professional toolbox. This unique piece of kit is versatile, portable, and provides variety for your clients.

Course Overview

Welcome to the Level 1 Kettlebell Instructor Course. This one-day CPD course will advance your coaching skills, whilst mastering key kettlebell exercises.

Learn how to blend strength and cardiovascular training for 1-to-1 clients and group-based sessions. You'll uncover 12 kettlebell exercises including multiple variations and adaptations. Familiarize yourself with many methods of teaching each exercise, so you are prepared to instruct your clients with confidence.

Whilst you are here to master Kettlebells, you'll build your overall instructing confidence. You'll be able to transfer everything, to your existing modes of training and supercharge your overall client results.

Incorporating kettlebell training into your FITPRO business is a smart move, enabling you to access strength training with limited equipment. Grasp the concept of challenging your clients to overload and create progressive plans with confidence.

A key part of the course is being able to mix with other like-minded fitness professionals for a full day. Leave this one-day course buzzing with ideas and enthusiasm to integrate into your current FITPRO practice.

Upon completion, you will be armed with a new tool that is functional, dynamic and fun, adding variety to all client sessions.

Course Structure

Workshop 1: While many have incorporated kettlebells into their own workouts for exercises like swings, this workshop delves into the nuances of proper kettlebell handling and hip hinging to ensure safe and effective movement.

Often underestimated, the kettlebell swing is explored in-depth with 7 progressions, serving as the foundational skill for various other kettlebell exercises. This workshop emphasizes that a kettlebell swing is more than just a swing.

Workshop 2: This workshop will focus on your skillset as an instructor, including tone of voice, teaching position, coaching cues and observations. These skills are refined whilst learning and practicing these lower body exercises:

Workshop 3: After lunch we'll start with "how to plan a 121 and group based session". We'll explore key session variables to ensure all your future planing isn't time consuming or overwhelming. We'll finish Workshop 3 exploring the:

Workshop 4: Here we'll deep dive into a short business section on how you might offer kettlebell training to clients, what a kettlebell package/class might look like and how you'd price and implement it. We'll conclude the final session with learning the:

Each workshop is formatively assessed... meaning you are assessed throughout the day as you coach 121 and in small groups. This is a 1-day CPD course, we do not want you stressing about a final practical assesment. We find this ongoing assessment of "Show, Practice, Assess" means you learn far more and leave the day confident and remembering everything.

We've qualified over 2500 Kettlebell instructors since 2010. We look forward to you being the next one.

You'll Get 2 Certificates

1️⃣ Level 1 Certificate In Delivering 121 Kettlebell Training

2️⃣ Level 1 Certificate In Delivering Group Based Kettlebell Training

Entry Requirements

To complete this course, you must already hold a Level 2 Gym Instructor qualification or equivalent. This could be Level 2 exercise to music, aqua, or level 3 Yoga and Pilates.

If you don’t already have this, you can complete it alongside this qualification with our 'Level 2 Gym Instructor course'. Many of our learners complete the Level 2 Gym Instructor and Level 1 Kettlebell instructor Course as a bundle package.

How you'll be assessed

In each workshop, your assessment is ongoing throughout the day, conducted formatively as you coach individuals and small groups. This one-day CPD course is designed to eliminate the stress of a final practical assessment.

Our approach of continuous assessment through "show, practice, assess" ensures a more effective learning experience, leaving you confident and retaining the knowledge gained throughout the day.

This means we stand by our product 100%, no matter what, no questions asked, no holds barred, no ifs, no an