High Performance Training

Sport Specific Conditioning for Soccer: Soccer (also known as "football") is widely accepted as one of the most popular sports in the world, with a growing number of soccer enthusiasts and players world-wide. Despite this fact, strength and conditioning programs for soccer are often neglected or outdated. Except at the professional level, many athletes and coaches still focus only on skill development and endurance training (i.e.- running), and ignore the other important elements of fitness such as:

• Strength and strength endurance training
• Speed and power
• Flexibility, warming up and cooling down
• Agility training
• Nutrition

Trainer Profile

Josh Hewitt
Certified Personal Trainer, Strength & Conditioning Coach

• CANFITPRO Personal Trainer Specialist
• ACE Certified Personal Trainer
• Resistance Training Specialist Certification
• Effective Strength Training Certification
• BA in Kinesiology
• Emergency Medical Care Attendant

Josh holds a degree in Kinesiology from the University of Western Ontario, as well as personal training qualifications from several agencies including CanFitPro. He is a qualified fitness professional with over 14 years of involvement in the health and fitness industry including employment, academic, competitive, and volunteer experience, training both privately and with various athletic organizations (fitness clubs, high performance training centers and rehabilitative facilities).

Josh is consistently pursuing continuing education in the athletic, health and fitness industry and his focus is on providing professional, quality training. He has experience training and coaching a wide variety of clients, from beginners to experienced athletes, with many different fitness, rehabilitation, sport and exercise goals. Whether your goal is to improve your health and fitness, excel at your sport or hobby, or to recover from an injury, Josh is prepared to motivate and guide you toward reaching your objective.

Skills and Achievements

Organizational Skills:

• organized Ontario's first official University Power lifting Club
• coordinated events, training sessions, meetings and clinics
• own and manage Top Form Fitness, my personal training business
• organized and promoted strongman competitions
• implemented performance assessment for National Ballet of Canada

Leadership Ability:

• coached strength athletes
• trained athletes from a variety of sports (including soccer, hockey, basketball, skiing, golf, MMA)
• designed and implemented exercise programs for personal training clients
• instructed group exercise classes
• lead educational seminars and club meetings

Communication & Interpersonal Skills:

• related correct exercise technique to clients
• instructed swimming lessons, first aid and all levels of CPR
• provided televised commentary at Ontario's Strongest Man Competition
• contributed articles to a regular fitness newsletter column