Become a Certified Inclusive Kettlebell Coach

Next Cohort starts July 2024.

WHAT’S INCLUDED

Coaches Corner is a 6-month Kettlebell Teaching Certification Program and Mentorship for coaches, bodyworkers, clinicians and fitness professionals.

Book out your classes and private sessions teaching kettlebells from an inclusive lens.

In this course, become a certified Inclusive Kettlebell Coach who can support everyBODY. Learn how to coach beginners to fitness, through to the Kettlebell Athlete.

Adapt for any body shape, size or ability.

We teach person-based coaching and creating safe spaces for very personal fitness journeys.

Personalized
video feedback

12 months access to all classes and recordings

Safe Kettlebell handling guide

Simple homework practice and daily accountability

Chat directly with Coach Damali on Discord

Create your own Video Exercise Library for each movement

Over 22 MODULES

The ONLY Kettlebell Certification Program with a size-inclusive, trauma-informed approach to Kettlebell teaching .

Introduction to Coaching and Kettlebell Basics

Serving people of all different personalities, values, backgrounds and bodies. Where do we start? Uplifting coaching with size-inclusive considerations and trauma-informed care principles. Crawl, walk, run is the process and we all start with our breath.

The focus here is to learn how to create and teach full body tension, from the ground up. We get comfortable holding the kettlebell and start your personal coaches manual.

Become Kettlebell Athletes

Explore mobility and flexibility for kettlebell enthusiasts. Design warm-ups and movement prep ideal for the journey of a kettlebell athlete. Understand and learn to coach the multitude of athletic drills, transitions, kettlebell flows and complexes needed to lead the industry as an Inclusive Kettlebell Coach. Celebrate the diversity of kettlebell training styles through practice. Develop your Coaches’ Eye while honing your programming skills to meet all your students’ goals.

Intersectional Kettlebell Coaching

As personal trainers and coaches, we are guaranteed to work with trauma survivors, whether we are aware of it or not. This curriculum will fill in the gaps of kettlebell coaching by amplifying the voices of marginalized communities. Learn how to coach and design your coaching practice from a size-inclusive and trauma-informed lens that is intersectional and anti-oppression.

Learn about the engagement journey and how to create a content strategy.

Gain helpful tools and templates for supporting your business through, Trello, Canva, and more.

This is a 6-month program with 2 phases, developed to continue growing your kettlebell skills to include confidently teaching advanced skills like; The Get Up, Snatch, Jerk and all the basics with double bells.

BUILD ON THE BASICS

Phase 1 (months 1 - 3): 12 modules and 40+ deep-dive lessons on how to uplift your kettlebell toolkit for you and your clients with beginneer to advanced kettlebell skills.

  • Implement your own coaching manual. Get direct and timely personalized homework reviews and feedback.

  • Train together and learn to teach through consistent individual practice of your skills. Take the hassle out of programming for yourself.

    Engage with like-minded fitness professionals who are navigating kettlebell training from social justice perspectives including anti-racism, anti-diet culture, size-inclusive and trauma-informed lenses.

  • Get curious. Explore the diversity of Kettlebell training with modules and guest instructors: Kettlebell Sport, Kettlebell Juggling, Mobility and Flexibility for Kettlebell Athletes

TRUST THE PROCESS

Phase 2 (months 4 - 6): Who are you and who do you serve? [Re]evaluate your business and what it means to make intersectional values a priority in your coaching practice.

  • One-on-one coaching twice per month. Work on the specific strategies that you need to support your growth as a kettlebell coach and the needs of your community. Get deeper into your skills, advice on programming, culture check.

  • Do the math, pricing with your energy business model.

    Learning to program, define anti-diet coaching, make social media simple, content managment strategies.

  • Whether your a new personal trainer or an established entrepreneur or studio owner you will learn to navigate the tools and systems required to book out your practice.

I created this course to break down the barriers to kettlebell training, making it accessible to all bodies regardless of race, religion, gender, ethnicity, body size, ability or sexual orientation.

Meet your instructor

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Meet your instructor ✳

COACH DAMALI FRAISER

A results-oriented author, speaker and coach committed to her mission to foster a community of Kettlebell Coaches who will lead the industry in making kettlebell training become more accessible. With me as your Coach, you won’t just include diverse bodies you will become a coach who considers it fundamental to design and program all aspects of training with kettlebells for every BODY.

Damali is an industry leader in making Kettlebell training accessible for all bodies.

This certification is ideal for BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, people with disabilities and anyone who has been marginalized due to systemic oppression.

Damali brings to the wellness space a unique blend of technical experience with her expertise in physical fitness and exercise. All from an intersectional lens. She has 20 years of process engineering, software development lifecycle, project and organizational change management to complement 10 years in health and wellness as a Kettlebell and Nutrition Coach. 

Damali explores the strength of the community seen through kettlebell exercises. She believes the body is a community, each system depends on every other system. When we don't see ourselves represented in our communities it becomes a source of disconnection within our bodies.

FEATURED IN:

  • Are personal trainers, yoga, pilates, strength and movement coaches who may or may not already be certified Kettlebell instructors

  • Are a JEDI Fitness Coach - A Fitness Professional or Bodyworker who prioritizes Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI).

  • Want and need more than 3 days to get certified

  • Want to have the confidence to pick up a kettlebell and know exactly how to teach the basics on all body types

  • Want to compliment sports performance and joyful movement practices

  • Put safety first and want to ensure the kettlebell is handled appropriately to reduce likelihood of injury

  • Need simple ways to quickly identify proper technique and form with kettlebell movements

  • Want to increase confidence in utilizing the kettlebell for teaching either one on one or within group fitness classes

  • Want their teaching approach to be simple and welcoming, where the student is the expert of their body

Coaches Corner is for you if you:

TUITION

INCLUSIVE KETTLEBELL COACH CERTIFICATION

$3,000 CAD

or Payment Plan.

6 Payment of $500

The ONLY course with a size-inclusive, trauma-informed approach to Kettlebell teaching.

Choose the Plan that’s right for you:

Be an industry leader.

  • "If this course is in your consideration list, move it from there and put it in the to-do list because this course is well worth it." 📍Canada

    Marjorie Francis (she/her)

    Certified Inclusive Kettlebell Coach

  • "Practical tips, discussion and information that will definitely help me to improve how I coach clients with different shapes, sizes and considerations. Thank you Damali!!" 📍Ireland

    Maggie Lawler (she/her)

    Certified Inclusive Kettlebell Coach

  • The whole course has made me a more confident coach and trusting more in my own abilities... I'm most grateful to have learnt new key ways to coach fundamental set ups that help every body find strength, power and speed with a kettlebell" 📍 England

    Sheldon Amosu (they/them)

    Certified Inclusive Kettlebell Coach

FAQs

  • Not just for the Kettlebell enthusiast. Coaches Corner models the learning journey into an easy-to-digest sequence you can immediately apply to your teaching. You do not need any previous experience teaching kettlebells, everything will be taught to you in the program;

    For a safe way to progressively lock into your kettlebell skills

  • Class will be Mondays at 1:30pm EST.

    There will be group workouts every other Friday. The way the program runs there’s classes weekly for the first half which are very skills oriented and in the second half we continue with the skills and then we start talking about ethical business practice with some modules and guest coaches.

    One on one sessions start in Month 4, every other week they’ll be class, on the alternate week there will be 30min one on one coaching calls, which will scheduled according to our are availabilities.

  • You will have access to the course materials for 12 months.

    During the duration of the 6-month intensive your effort is approximately:

    • 1.5 hours per week for the live group calls, Mondays at 1:30pm EST.

    • Prep time for each session approx. 30 mins each week.

    • Kettlebell practice time approx. 15 mins a day,

    • Homework weekly 45 mins each week.

    • 45-min group workout every other week.

  • We take a weight-neutral approach to training.

    All our programming will aim to support your clients personal goals. However, we are clear that there is no presumption that weight loss is a goal or priority. Everybody has different size limbs, some bellies protrude, some hang or jiggle.

    Kettlebell training at Lift Off is inclusive of all sizes, smallest to largest. We also consider impacts of weight sigma, weight bias and take a health at every size approach to fitness.

  • We believe that kettlebell training can be a form of weight lifting adopted as an adjunct intervention for trauma. We address the impact of trauma within individuals and within their communities when participating in a movement practice with kettlebells. We also ascribe to the essential principles of Trauma Informed Weight Lifting (TIWL)

    Trauma Informed Weight Lifting is committed to principles of practice that incorporate anti-oppression and anti-racist frameworks (Do Less Harm) and values as well as trauma-informed frameworks and values (Then Do Good).

  • All live sessions will be recorded and made available in the student portal.

  • The student portal open on January 15, 2024.

    Pre-reads, downloadable reading list and prep homework will be available at that time. The first live group coaching call is on January 22, 2024.

  • The investment is $3,000 or 6 payments of $500

“I walked away with much more then just the kettlebell skills specifically, but a lot of golden nuggets to help me fine tune my skills as a coach in general”

- LISA MASTRACCHIO

“She taught me so much as a coach— less is more, trust the process, and think differently about things you think you know best. While she is an amazing coach for any and every level, she is the coach this industry needs and who professionals can learn so much from.”

- CHARIS COOK

Wondering if this is right for you? Meet coaches who have completed this training,