2022 ENROLMENT OPEN!

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Are you...

• A L3 Personal Trainer who wants to learn more sport specific applications for your exercise programming?
• A health professional currently using exercise prescription to help your clients with performance or rehab and looking to help them gain the equestrian edge?
• A movement professional with relevant qualifications?

Yes? Then this course is for YOU!

This course will help you

• learn about rider anatomy and asymmetry- reasons behind postural habits and how to improve them
• build a biomechanical profile of your riders and form specific exercise plans to target their individual needs
• offer that ‘something extra’ to your clients
• stand out in your area because you provide specialist coaching for equestrians
• learn effective new ways of solving common riding problems which will enable your client to achieve new levels of performance with their horse
• be part of a team with a established brand in the UK and international equestrian industry

Not just what's going on with your riders, but why...

You asked (and asked, and asked!)- we delivered!

Since we began our teacher training programmes in 2011, our courses have catered specifically for riders who are also Pilates teachers, or riders who want to train to be Pilates teachers under our branding Equipilates™.  In that time, we've had loads of enquiries from Personal Trainers and health professionals who would love to work with riders and join our team.  Some choose to enrol in our complete training pathway which includes the Pilates Level 3 Diploma, but for others that is not a fit for them.  So, we've built a special course, in association with Biomechanics Education, which means everyone with the relevant skillset can join the party!  The new sister branded Intrinsic Equitation Biomechanics Trainer™ course offers you the skills to help your clients be the riders their horses would choose.

Don't guess...assess!
In this course, we dig a little deeper into your rider’s intrinsic biomechanics to advance your knowledge, increase your confidence and help you provide your clients with special techniques to change their movement patterns, help them move more freely (and even reduce pain) including: 

• Could stretching be the wrong way to increase the length of their muscles?

• Could the way their pelvis is functioning be influencing their lower back pain or how they feel in the stirrups?

• Is their pec minor function the cause of their unwanted upper body position or uneven contact in the saddle?


Why is a muscle shortened? 

Find out why ‘tightness’ is only one reason why muscles can be short, or restricted. 
Here we look at the evidence proving to be the most common reason for a muscle being shortened and what this means to your exercise prescription. You will have immediately implementable skills that enable you to screen the intrinsic biomechanics of your clients or potential clients in the studio or on the gym floor. Demonstrate how you can identify easily if they are functioning optimally within seconds and then correct these issues by with very simple release techniques there and then.  

Build a whole-body biomechanical profile

PELVIC ASSESSMENTS

• LLD – Identify a leg length difference
• Downings Sign – then identify if it is functional or structural.  Does this link to how they feel in the stirrups?
• 4 sign test – Does the pelvis function normally?
Does this influence how can move in the three planes of motion with the horse?
• Modified Thomas Test – Are the hip flexors inhibited?  Is this why they tip forward?

​HOW WELL IS THE SPINE MOVING?

• QL Test – Do they have a spinal hinge?
Is this why riders 'collapse' to one side?
• Spinal mobility tests – Confirm where the lack of spinal mobility is coming from- is this why they struggle to turn one way?

SHOULDERS 

• Pec minor screen – Poor posture? Identify a key biomechanical pillar in shoulder problems.  Does this link to why your riders have rounded upper bodies or uneven contact?
• Upper traps screen – Upper back and neck issues​​

PLUS ​

• Explore how to help your clients in dismounted awareness sessions with our ‘Riders’ ABC’
• Contact the psoas/diaphragm complex and releasing tension through breath.
• Coach your riders to engage their riding specific core muscles effectively
• Discover simple techniques to help your clients use their bodies correctly to ride ‘transitions’ ‘half halts’ and ‘sitting trot’
• Emotional/fear response and the effect on rider performance and muscle recruitment
• The rider’s ‘suspension system’; techniques to mobilise and release tension for the muscle groups which tend to be restricted in riders
• Mobilisation and isolation of the ‘boxes’ with the unique Equipilates™ Standing Series, to unwind restricted postural patterns. 
• Cutting edge group class format 6 week Equipilates™ fundamentals programme
• The Equipilates™ Ball Series; swiss ball exercises to synchronise rider position, movement and breath flow

The course fee is £695 which includes all of your virtual learning access, two hours of one-to-one tutorials either here at the studio or via Zoom with your course tutor and your assessment fees.  You'll also benefit from support for your peer group who are studying the course too, plus 12 months of mentor support via email, phone or Skype.

Want to chat and see if this is the right choice for you?  Already thinking 'I've been waiting long enough, sign me up now!'?  Either way, drop us a line and we can help!  ​

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How it works

Simply click here to complete the course enrolment form and schedule a fifteen minute online induction where you'll meet your course tutor; we can show you how to access all of your learning materials and answer any queries.  After your induction is booked you'll make payment and once completed, we will set up your access to your pre-course learning.  After you have worked through the modules, you will be able to schedule two one-hour tutorials with your course tutor.  Once each module is completed, this will be marked and feedback given within 14 days.  Your tutorials can be online via Zoom, or booked in a single block here at the studio if you prefer to see us in person.  During your tutorials, you will be able to discuss practical tasks given through the course, plus any queries and areas of personal development identified.  Your tutor is available throughout via your learner Facebook group and via email; we aim to respond to all emails within 48 hours.  After your tutorials, you will be able to schedule your practical assessment.  We have practical assessment days regularly throughout the year so you can find one to suit.  Following this, you can crack on with your case studies!  Your assessment must be scheduled within six months of initial course enrolment.  

Assessments

There is a practical assessment of the intrinsic biomechanics skills and ABC delivery, on location at Equipilates™ HQ in Derbyshire.  This lasts around one and a half hours including viva.   In case of referral, one free resit will be offered.  You will also be required to submit two case studies comprising four sessions each no later than twelve weeks after the course. ​ After successful completion of the case studies, you're a fully fledged Intrinsic Equitation Biomechanics Trainer™ and can use all of the IEBT branding!

The usual course format, delivered with 32 hours in total of face to face learning has been converted into online format.  We would advise to devote a minimum of this time plus approximately fifteen hours of post-course study to complete case studies. 

​Contact us if you'd like more information

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Benefits of joining our teaching team

Fees

As well as meaning you can offer something extra to your clients, stand out in your area and increase your earning potential, joining the Equipilates™ Teaching Team as a licensed Intrinsic Equitation Biomechanics Trainer™ will mean you will improve your own riding and give you access to a nationwide and international team of colleagues to help you build your business.   We are really proud of the Equipilates™ ethos and you'll find real support and encouragement from us as a company as well as the fantastic team members who are also super-passionate about helping riders, horses and colleagues everywhere in the world.  

Here at Equipilates™ we are committed to continuous development to ensure our team stay at the forefront of Industry developments. As such our teaching team commit to annual CPD to stay up to date with their licence. 
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The total course fees are £695, and we've made it really easy for you to spread the cost.  When you enrol, you'll make an initial payment of £495, with the balance of £200 scheduled automatically for 6 weeks later.  This second payment covers your tutorials and assessment fees- giving you six whole weeks to study and immerse yourself in the EBT learning experience.  Don't worry if you're ready to schedule your tutorials earlier than this- you can bring your payment forward.  Likewise, if you aren't ready to schedule your tutorials after six weeks, once you have your booking code, you can book them in to suit your diary commitments.  Just remember that they, along with your assessment, need to be completed within six months of your enrolment or you will incur an additional administration fee.  You can find details on our cancellation policy here.

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