CERTIFICATION
Learn to coach and modify the snatch, clean, and jerk in this 2-day certification combining weightlifting, functional fitness, and rehab
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Course Overview
Part 1: Coach and Modify the Olympic Lifts
Learn the snatch, clean, and jerk, and how to modify them for clients with pain or mobility limitations.
When athletes encounter pain with these technically demanding movements, there are a multitude of adjustments you can make: refining technique, reducing intensity, modifying volume, or adjusting ranges of motion.
This course organizes these modifications into a methodical, step-by-step framework. You’ll learn how to prioritize changes, address mobility restrictions, and ensure clients can continue training safely while building strength and confidence with these lifts.
Part 2: Apply Olympic Lifts to Functional Fitness and Rehab
The Ultimate Blend of Olympic Weightlifting, Functional Fitness, and Rehab
Olympic lifts are often the centerpiece of high-intensity training programs, requiring exceptional mobility, strength, coordination, and power. This course equips coaches and clinicians with practical strategies to scale these lifts for athletes of all levels, focusing on training around pain, improving capacity, and addressing movement limitations.
You’ll also explore specific drills and progressions designed to enhance mobility and build resilience, ensuring these lifts remain safe, effective, and accessible for everyone you coach.
Stop blindly tweaking technique or avoiding lifts altogether. Coaching Olympic lifts with pain requires a systematic, evidence-based approach.
You asked... we listened
In April 2021, we launched our first live course, the Barbell Rehab Method Certification. Since then, we’ve taught over 160 courses worldwide, bringing personal trainers, strength coaches, and rehab professionals together to improve client outcomes through collaboration.
One question kept coming up in thousands of reviews: How can BRM principles be applied to weightlifting and functional fitness? The answer: the Barbell Rehab Weightlifting Certification—a course designed to teach professionals how to confidently coach and modify the snatch, clean, and jerk for clients with pain or mobility challenges.
Earn the Barbell Rehab Weightlifting Certification (BRW)
Solidify your status as the go-to professional for coaching weightlifting movements safely and effectively.
By mastering the snatch, clean, and jerk—and learning how to modify these lifts for clients with pain or mobility limitations—you’ll stand out as a professional who helps clients avoid unnecessary surgeries and thrive through movement.
Earning the BRW credential demonstrates your commitment to bridging weightlifting, functional fitness, and rehab, empowering you to guide athletes and clients of all levels toward their goals with confidence and precision.
Course Creators
Dr. Hays Estes
DPT, MHA, OCS, USAW-L1
Hi, I'm Hays! While I have been in and around the weight room for over two decades starting with summer weightlifting sessions for football, I always hoped to further develop my athleticism and "motor" in the gym.
Once I was introduced to Olympic Weightlifting, my training took a turn for the better, and I've never felt more athletic and "finely tuned" than I do now in my 40s. This is why I wanted to create this course: to help athletes of all ages and ability levels stay athletic and at the top of their game for as long as possible. The old adage is true. Age is just a number. And while we may not be able to stop Father Time, I like to think we can slow him down.
Dr. Jessie Czarnecki
DPT, OCS, CSCS, CF-L2, USAW-L1
Hi everyone, I’m Jessie! Having sustained numerous injuries myself, my background in coaching and competing in Olympic Weightlifting and functional fitness fuels my passion for helping athletes reclaim their athletic potential.
Throughout my career, I’ve seen how traditional medical models often fall short in empowering athletes to return to the barbell. But as coaches and providers, we’re uniquely positioned to help athletes take those first crucial steps—to move beyond pain, rebuild resilience, and find success. Athletes need someone they can trust, who understands the complexities of returning to weightlifting and high-intensity training.
Course Syllabus
Day 1
Introduction, Pain Science, and BRM Framework
Mobility Interventions & Readiness Assessments
Equipment and Bracing
Coaching & Modifying the Snatch
Day 2
Coaching & Modifying the Clean
Coaching & Modifying the Jerk
Weightlifting Programming Principles
High-Intensity Functional Training Considerations
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