Workshop // Belfast 2027
Join us for a workshop designed to help coaches improve their ability to analyse, coach and programme for the upper body with specific focus on the shoulder.
The workshop is a blended theory presentation with interactive tasks, individual assessments and practical exercise all delivered with a focus on application into your specific training environments.
You’ll be able to identify common movement compensations affecting upper body performance and work with athletes/clients or groups to reduce injury risk, shoulder pain, instability and increase clients’ confidence and performance.
ABOUT
DATE: Saturday, 16 January 2027
TIME: 10am to 4pm (6 hours including a lunch break)
VENUE: Fortius Strength and Conditioning
Unit 16, Somerton Industrial Park, Dargan Cres, Belfast BT3 9JB
Note: Places are limited
WHAT WE’LL COVER
The overall theme will be to work through the following:
Assessment + screening to classify shoulder issues and determine the best next steps for a client (when to coach and when to refer).
The principles of improving shoulder function in an athletic/physically active population (including an overview of the functional anatomy).
How to conduct a movement and strength assessment of the shoulder to inform training programme design and coaching support.
Quick shoulder wins for an SGPT environment (this will include the fundamentals of shoulder ‘health’ and look at training methods that generate great return on investment for shoulder performance).
Coaching cues, progressions and programming for the upper body.
WHY ATTEND?
Shoulders equate for around 60% of all CrossFit injuries and in overhead sports, on average 1 in 3 athletes will incur a shoulder injury during a given season. Furthermore, in contact sport, we know up to 55% of rugby players are competing with some kind of shoulder issue. This is all despite the best efforts of current rehabilitation and strength and conditioning programmes designed to improve upper body performance.
It is clear there is a significant opportunity to improve the performance of everyone from exercise enthusiast to performance athlete by better understanding and preparing the shoulder for the demands we wish to place upon it.
Tim has been a strength and conditioning coach in elite sport for over 15 years. He has himself had two shoulder surgeries following six dislocation during his rugby career and therefore knows first-hand what it is like to take an unstable shoulder and recondition it to a high level.
Dynamic Shoulders was created to provide the missing link between current rehabilitation and strength and conditioning practices and in this workshop, Tim will share the key principles, philosophy and methods he is using to build strong, stable shoulders his clients and athletes can trust.