Youth Sports & Athletic Development
Certified Speed & Agility Coaching Course
The Brand New Certified Speed & Agility Coach™ Certification Course: Speed & Agility Education for Elite Coaches.
The Certified Speed & Agility Coach™ Course trains you to improve the speed & agility of any athlete from any sport — whether beginner or advanced. We’ve designed the certification’s hands-on information, strategies, and drills for you to use immediately in your own programming.
First, we teach you the foundational concepts of speed & agility training. If you need to know it as a coach, we teach it in the certification.
Then, we teach you exactly how to apply this information to your work in the gym or in practice to optimize your athletes’ performance.
You’ll learn a system for improving the speed & agility or your athletes that translates to their on the field or on the court performance – regardless of age or sport.
No other speed education program has that focus. I can tell you that because if there was, I would have taken it myself.
Written and coached by Lee Taft and edited by Toby Brooks, this resource can become a critical aspect of any athlete’s or clinician’s sports performance or rehabilitation program.
Grab the entire course for $395
Certified Sports Nutrition Specialist Course
The Certified Sports Nutrition Coach™Program was created to combine research-based guidelines with applied content to better help coaches, strength coaches, and other professionals, parents and athletes understand nutrition recommendations backed by science but grounded with application.
This comprehensive resource blends nutrition science and application to provide a clear understanding of how nutrition impacts sports, exercise and overall health, and athletic performance. Throughout this program you’ll find practical tips, strategies & methods and hear from renowned dietitians, strength coaches, and many other experts in the fields of performance to better help your athletes.
Written by Dr. Chris Mohr and edited by Toby Brooks, this resource can become a critical aspect of any athlete’s or clinician’s sports performance or rehabilitation program.
Grab the entire course for $295
Certified Program Design Specialist
The Certified Program Design Specialist™ Course doesn’t just give you plug-and-play training programs. Instead, it teaches you the ‘why’ and the ‘how’ behind great program design so that you can develop your own effective programming for any athlete from any sport — whether beginner or advanced. We’ve designed the certification’s hands-on information, strategies, and tools for you to use immediately and to take your program design to the elite level.
First, we teach you the foundational concepts of Program Design. If you need to know it as a coach, we teach it in the certification.
Then, we teach you exactly how to apply this information to develop and optimize your own training programs.
You’ll learn everything from the nuts and bolts of periodization to effective exercise selection – and everything in between.
Written and coached by Robert dos Remedios and edited by Toby Brooks, this resource can become a critical aspect of any athlete’s or clinician’s sports performance or rehabilitation program.
Grab the entire course for $395
Long-Term Athlete Development Course
As coaches, if we hope to create great athletes who have a chance at being successful for the long haul, then our programs must be based of Long Term Athletic Development.
Just like a baby must learn to roll over before crawling, crawl before standing, stand before walking, and walk before running, your athletes need to build a foundation for elite level athletic performance before they can reach their maximum potential.
When athletes specialize early and skip critical steps in building this foundation, they are at extreme risk for injury and burnout.
The trouble is building that foundation early isn’t always sexy. And often coaches may not understand the exact steps to building the foundation.
However, that’s not your fault! When it comes down to it, you have to produce results, and you’ve been told that specialization is the way to do it. Or worse, coaches have forced you to do it their way or you risk losing the chance to work with the team or their athletes.
But the trends are shifting, and it’s time to get back on the LTAD path! This digital-only resource includes a 200+ page textbook by Dr. Toby Brooks with input from industry experts Wil Fleming and Dave Gleason. Additionally, more than 120 coaching videos are included to help every coach or parent learn the essentials to developing basic motor skills.
Grab the entire course for $199
Youth Athlete Assessment Certification
The Youth Athletic Assessment Certification is the result of years of innovation and current research. The Youth Athletic Assessment Specialist Certification combines:
- Concepts and Application of Youth Athletic Assessment textbook by Dr. Toby Brooks, packed with more than 200 pages of theory and practical strategies to assess your athlete regardless of age or sport.
- The Big 5 Movement Assessment. This Assessment screens 5 different movement patterns that are commonly deficient in young athletes and allows you to score those patterns to better identify limitations and asymmetries to better allow you to program effectively.
- Sport Specific Testing Batteries. Nine individualized sport-specific testing batteries that will allow you to assess and evaluate performance over time.
- Practical Application. The use of specific tools, actual case studies and real world application to better empower you to implement testing protocols and serial athletic assessment.
Grab the entire course for $299
Crash Courses
Cram pack a whole semester of Structural Kinesiology into your schedule at a pace YOU decide with this course taught by university Professor Dr. Toby Brooks. This online course includes everything you’d enjoy in a formal undergrad kines course without the expense and hassle associated with registering and enrolling in a formal course.
- Essentials of Athletic Movement
- Upper Extremity Anatomy
- Lower Extremity Anatomy
- Core & Trunk Anatomy
Learn the terms, concepts, and content you need to stay ahead in the fitness and wellness industry!
Get all the courses for $99
High School Strength & Conditioning Specialist Certification
The High School Strength & Conditioning Specialist Certification includes the 200+ textbook, Fundamentals of High School Strength and Conditioning by Dr. Toby Brooks, Eric Cressey, Wil Fleming, Mike Robertson, Pat Rigsby, and Brian Grasso. Based on years of research and practical application to provide you with the most critical aspects of training High School athletes.
The High School Strength & Conditioning Specialist Certification will teach you:
- The IYCA’s revolutionary approach to Long Term Athletic Development. We’ve been preaching this unique training system for nearly a decade, before it became a hot topic in the industry.
- How to plan and approach your training to account for the specific needs of your high school athletes including sports specialization (when it’s necessary) and how to account for the difference in training needed for your freshman through seniors.
- What the best of the best are doing through hands-on, practical experiences. Eric Cressey, Mike Robertson, and Wil Fleming share their insights and knowledge gained from coaching thousands of high school athletes.
- Programming systems that will empower high school athletes to reach their full potential. These systems are results-tested and proven in the trenches in some of the best programs in the country.
Not only will you be able to access all of this (and more) as a High School Strength & Conditioning Specialist, but you’ll also have the ability to differentiate yourself from the crowd by holding a very specific credential that only the best coaches can claim.
You’re going to be in a very elite circle of coaches who have the skills, knowledge, and passion to truly make a difference in the lives of their high school athletes.
Grab the entire course for $299
Youth Fitness Specialist Level 1
The credential that started it all! The original Youth Conditioning Specialist course from 2006 was completely retooled in 2012, including a new 220+ page textbook by Dr. Toby Brooks and Dr. David Stodden.
The Youth Fitness Specialist Certification combines:
- The IYCA’s Revolutionary Approach To Coaching. Combining both the art and science of coaching, the IYCA’s coaching methodology addresses the needs of today’s young people and teaches you how to help you connect with and motivate the clients you serve to enhance their experience and results.
- The IYCA’s Revolutionary Approach To Long Term Athletic Development. The IYCA Youth Fitness Specialist Certification provides you with a complete approach to fitness and athletic development that takes into account the real world considerations of kids ranging from the differences in needs of 8 year olds and 18 year olds to the ever increasing challenges of early sport specialization.
- Real World Programming. Gain access to actual, proven sample training programs for young people designed by the industry’s top coaches to better empower you to implement your own effective training approach.
Grab the entire course for $399
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Brooks T, Crawford K, & Curry, E (2022). Unstable osteochondral fracture of the talus, osteochondritis dissecans, and chronic lateral ankle instability in an adolescent athlete: A case report. International Journal of Athletic Training and Therapy. (In press)
Brooks T, Bradstreet TC, & Partridge J (2022). Current concepts and practical applications for recovery, growth, and peak performance following significant athletic injury. Frontiers in Psychology. (In press)
Brooks T, Fleming W, Munger L, & Munger K (2022). Velocity-based training: Current concepts and future directions. Topics in Exercise Science and Kinesiology: Vol. 3: Iss. 1, Article 1.
Brooks T & Dendy D (2021) Implementing an injury prevention and performance enhancement program during a softball season for young female athletes. Strength and Conditioning Journal. September 07, 2021. doi: 10.1519/SSC.0000000000000675.
Jarman N, Brooks T, James CR, Hooper T, Wilhelm M, Brismée JM, Domenech M, Kotara S, & Sizer P (2017). Deep neck flexor endurance in the adolescent and young adult: normative data and associated attributes. Phys Med Rehab, 9(10):969-975
Haddas R, Sawyer S, Sizer P, Brooks T, Chyu M, & James CR (2016). Effect of volitional spine stabilization and lower extremity fatigue on landing performance in a recurrent low back pain population. J Orthop Sports Phys Ther, 46(2):71-78.
Brooks T & Cressey E (2013). Mobility training for adolescent and high school athletes. Strength and Conditioning Journal, 35(3): 27-33.
Stodden D & Brooks T (2013). Promoting musculoskeletal fitness in youth: Performance and health implications from a developmental perspective. Strength and Conditioning Journal, 35(3): 54-62.
Brooks, T (2008). Goal-oriented training: Five keys to athletic success. Stack Magazine.
Brooks T, Urrea L, & Valentine T (2004). Noncontact anteromedial knee dislocation with peroneal nerve injury in a collegiate football player: A case report. NATA News: From the Journal of Athletic Training, November, 2004: 59-63.
Brooks T (2003). Women’s collegiate gymnastics: Multi-factorial approach to training and conditioning. Strength and Conditioning Journal, 25(2): 23-37
Brooks T (2001). Madelung deformity in a collegiate gymnast: A case report. Journal of Athletic Training, 36(2): 170-173.