The Trojan Workout Instructor certification process is a two day course, containing multiple physical tests, a written exam and an instructor exam, where your teaching skills will be reviewed. All participants will receive a Trojan Workout Manual. After passing all the required tests you are certified up to three years.

Full participation is required to be able to certify. The course will consist of a mixture of lectures techniques, training and workouts. Basic knowledge and skills with regard to bodyweight and kettlebell training will help complete the certification process succesfully.

BENCHMARKTESTS AND REQUIREMENTS PRIOR TO CERTIFICATION

To be able to partake in the official certification process, a set of minimal requirements must be met prior to the course. The minimal requirements are the correct execution of :

1. Trojan Pose
2. Push up test
3. Basic Plank test
4. Bodyweight Squat test

A candidate must be able to show he or she is capable of generating both maximum and optimal muscle tension through Trojan Pose of Trojan Plank. These capabilities ensure the correct technique and safe execution of the different kind of exercises.

• 10 x Push Ups for men, 3 Push Ups for women
• 10 x Bodyweight Squat, ending each repetition in a correct Trojan Pose
• 2 minute regular Plank test, choice between high or low plank. Not a Trojan Plank.

REQUIREMENTS SUCCESSFUL CERTIFICATION

Prior to certification a candidate must pass each exam part succesfully. This is determined by the assigned Senior or Master instructor.

The exam consists of the basic elements explained throughout the course

1. Kettlebell techniques
2. Bodyweight techniques
3. Attitude
4. Teaching and instruction skills
5. A full understanding of the Trojan Workout Principles

If a candidate does not meet these criteria, he/she can reschedule to be tested at a later point in time. The candidate has, at the start of entering the course, three consecutive months to redo those parts that were not successfully completed.

This can be done in two ways:

1. Sending in a video (after consulting with the Senior or Master instructor)
2. Scheduel re-exam with a Senior or Master instructor to be personally re-examined with additional costs.

The candidate can also choose to re-examen within a year against reduced costs.

NO PROFESSIONAL AMBITIONS TO TEACH TROJAN WORKOUT?

You don’t need to have professional ambitions to certify as a Trojan Workout Coach. A lot of candidates certify for their own gains without entering the examinations. The candidate will not receive a Trojan Workout certificate, but a certification of participation.

KNKF CERTIFICATION

Trojan Workout has the KNKF quality mark (Dutch Powerlifting Bond), provided by the national sportsorganisation NOCNSF. After certifying you will receive the KNKF quality mark with a onetime payment of €40,-. This includes a one year subscription to KNKF. After certifying you will receive an e-mail with all the necessary details. The certificte will be sent to you via mail. 

TROJAN WORKOUT LICENSE

Gyms and/or instructors that want to proudly communicate can make use of our services as licence holder. During the course we will share our view and methods how we will stand stronger together and empower the world.

RESUME YOUR GROWTH AS A TROJAN WORKOUT COACH

This certification makes you a certified Trojan Workout Instructor. You will learn how to empower people physically and mentally with the most effective training method there is. After certifying you can resume your growth with the course as Trojan Workout Coach. As a coach you will learn how to empower people in any situation  through coaching and focus. You will gain skills to help yourself and to ones around you to guide your attention, grow confidence to face new challenges, expand your limits and overcome fears. You will develeop a higher conscience for threats and opportunities and experience the impact these skills will make on your personal goals.

EXAM REQUIREMENTS

Testing technique

The candidate will be tested on the following exercises and related indivualized variations.

Kettlebell weights

Beginners:

In these guidelines a candidate’s bodyweight has not been taken into account.

Instructors:

 In these guidelines a candidate’s bodyweight has not been taken into account.

Kettlebell techniques

• Swing (10 hh. swing-weight)
• Cheat clean (1 hh L, 1 hh R, swing-weight)
• Press (5 hh L, 5 hh R, press-weight)
• Squat (10 hh, swing-weight)
• Lunge (5 hh L, 5 hh R, swing-weight)

Isometric

• Trojan Pose.
• Exercise left at one’s own discretion.

Bodyweight explosive exercises

• Exercise left at one’s own discretion.

Grinds

• Exercise left at one’s own discretion.

Trojan set

• Execution of a full Trojan Set, consisting of three exercises at one’s own discretion.

Exertion and attitude test

During the examination days, candidates will participate in several Trojan Workout classes. They are expected to be fit enough to actively participate in these classes and meet Trojan Workout standards of movement and technique in terms of intensity and technical execution. Part of the certification is that the candidate demonstrates an instructor-worthy attitude during the course and especially during class, when intense physical and mental effort is expected.

Teaching Test

Candidates will demonstrate competency as an instructor by offering a customized Trojan Workout group lesson to a group of students using exercises and principles taught during the course.

Performance will be evaluated using the teaching test form. Criteria include the ability to provide a safe and effective workout in which each participant undergoes the maximum achievable intensity of training at their own level. We will focus on the ability to implement the exercises taught with different variations, the use of the Trojan Workout Principles and the candidate’s coaching skills.

Active participation in the teaching exams of other candidates is quite strenuous on body and mind and is a requirement for certification.

Theoretical knowledge requirements

Candidates must be able to design a class in which a diverse audience of different backgrounds, fitness levels and body composition can participate simultaneously, in a safe and effective manner. Candidates will be given a theory exam with questions that test knowledge, understanding and skills related to Trojan Workout.