In-person
coach education.
Melbourne. December 2026–February 2027.
Learn with Dale Hansford. Three focused weekends for personal trainers and strength coaches who want to make better programming and movement decisions.
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Choose your focus.
Program design, long-term planning or movement assessment. Explore the course that fits your coaching.
Two-day course
Essentials of
Advanced Program Design
Connect the variables of a training session to the complete plan. Learn how repetitions, sets, tempo, rest, loading and exercise selection work together—not as isolated choices.
- Match session prescription to the adaptation you want.
- Organise microcycles, mesocycles and complete macrocycles.
- Apply the decisions through worked programming examples.
Course manual, programming resources and Periodization Lab access included.
Periodisation for
Strength and Power
Go beyond changing rep ranges. Understand how to organise training over time, choose a periodisation model and coordinate the variables that drive strength and performance.
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- Connect training objectives to a suitable periodisation model.
- Coordinate volume, intensity and exercise selection across training phases.
- Understand when to use different loading methods and specialised techniques.
Biomechanical
Optimisation
Identify movement restrictions and learn targeted methods to address them. Connect joint-by-joint assessment with myofascial stretching, neuromuscular resets and joint decompression.
Explore the learning focus
- Work through a joint-by-joint assessment process.
- Explore myofascial stretching and global fascial chain elongation.
- Apply neuromuscular resets, joint decompression and end-range flexibility methods.
Find your next step.
Looking for a different learning format? Explore Dale’s coach education and one-to-one program design mentorship.