This seminar is designed for fitness professionals who want to deepen their understanding of training qualities—power, speed, strength, endurance, mobility, and stability—and learn how to apply them in group fitness settings.
Coaches will explore how the six foundational movement patterns (squat, hinge, push, pull, lunge/single-leg, and carry/core) serve as the framework for training these qualities. You’ll learn how to program with intention, coach effective progressions, and provide scalable options so every client in a mixed-level group can train toward the same quality successfully.
By the end of the seminar, you’ll have the tools to confidently design progressive programs, coach with clarity, and create training experiences that develop qualities beyond just “working hard.”
What you will learn:
A deeper understanding of the six training qualities (power, speed, strength, endurance, mobility, stability)
How to coach and program these qualities through the 6 foundational movement patterns
How to modify progressions in real time while keeping the intended training effect
Practical cueing and coaching strategies for group settings with mixed levels
Templates and progression ladders you can apply immediately in your own coaching
Pricing
$400 (Sat & Sun 2-5pm)
Please note: All classes & workshops are subject to 4.5% NYC sales tax.
About the Instructor
Esme Hovekamp
Strength & Conditioning Coach
Meet Esme Hovekamp, coach and founder of EVOLVE. Through EVOLVE, Esme programs for both virtual and coaches in-person clients and leads workshops across the tri-state area that bring advanced skills and kettlebell training to gyms and their members. Her clientele ranges from general population to certified coaches and youth athletes. Esme’s coaching experience spans from running her own group fitness classes under EVOLVE to previously teaching at Bodied Fitness Club and Strength Society. She has also built a thriving virtual team program that delivers progressive training to clients online.
Esme holds certifications including KBCU II, SFL, RKC II, DSPCC II, and USA Weightlifting. She has assisted in DSPCC and RKC certifications under DSP founder Darius Gilbert and currently serves as a shadowing team leader with KBCU under Hunter Crine.
Beyond coaching, Esme is a national-level Olympic Weightlifter with USAW. Before Olympic Weightlifting, she began her movement career as a ballet dancer in New York City, training with ABT, SAB, and Manhattan Youth Ballet.