The Exercise Mechanic Internship
Helping personal trainers level-up their income and their impact.
(Next cohort starts October 2024!)
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Personal trainers shouldn't be broke.
Far too many great personal trainers struggle making ends meet.
Our internship empowers personal trainers with the key concepts and principles they need to build profitable and impactful businesses.
The Exercise Mechanic Internship (TEMi) is a one-of-a-kind program that fosters excellence on the gym floor AND gives personal trainers the tools they need to build profitable businesses through the application of simple, high-return branding and sales principles.
✅ We drive excellence on the gym floor by going deep into our four pillars: Functional Anatomy, Exercise Mechanics, Pain Neuroscience and Behavioural Psychology.
✅ We help trainers build strong brands and make more money by leveraging simple, high-return branding principles.
"This course is absolutely essential if you want to step up your game and become a next-level coach or trainer. I'm so much more confident in my abilities, and clients have noticed too!"
Brett P.
"Best course I have taken yet!
Informative, exciting and super inspiring. I would take a follow up course without a doubt!"
Chris G.
"It is clear that anyone who takes this course cannot help but want to learn more and continue to grow and evolve beyond the stereotypical personal trainer. The big winners will be our clients."
Hana B.
Learn More. Earn more.
In our 16-week internship we cover the following:
- Functional Anatomy: We take functional anatomy beyond memorizing origins and insertions, we make it memorable and relevant to your career. Anatomy is the first pillar all fitness professionals must grasp, and we've got you covered.
- Exercise Mechanics: We go beyond exclusively biomechanics and we discuss the essential ingredient that drives tissue change: force application. The body is one thing - how it interacts with the world is another. We cover all of it and make the invisible, visible.
- Pain Neuroscience: How is movement created by the body? Where does tightness come from? Why do we hurt? The pain neuroscience pillar is absolutely crucial for the modern fitness professional. It's the domain that will completely change how you work with your clients.
- Behavioral Psychology & Coaching: The tool we use the most is our voice - yet we are significantly under-skilled. How do we get people to do what's in their best interests? How come so many of us foster self-destructive habits? To help people get what they want, we need to understand how the human animal works and how people make decisions. We cover this and more in our Psychology and Coaching modules.
- Brand Building - The Big Rocks: Whether you work for a larger gym chain or operate as an independent personal trainer, having a strong brand is essential. Having a strong brand attracts the right customers to you, and makes sales conversations much simpler. Knowing who you are, and who you are not is a powerful differentiator and when you stand out, you win.
Internship structure & curriculum:
From week-1 through week-16 we host weekly 75-90 minute curriculum calls, as well as a monthly 60-90 minute Q&A call to address questions stemming from the curriculum or from the work you're doing with your clients. We've built in group experiences, discussions and challenges designed to stretch your mind so as to guarantee the best retention and application as possible. Our goal is for this internship to be an interactive experience for you, not another course that you complete and forget.
(Note: The order and specifics may change so as to reflect the pace and preferences of the group)
Weeks 1-4:
- The Clinical Evolution, the modern fitness professional, and the power of purpose
- Building your Personal Brand: Part-1
- Functional anatomy of the trunk, lower body and upper body (bones, muscles, myths and misconceptions)
- Fascia, tensegrity and tissue properties
- Biomechanics essentials and regional idiosyncrasies
Weeks 5-8:
- Building your Personal Brand: Part-2
- Nervous system essentials
- Neurology of movement
- Pain science
- Injury vs sensitization
- Personal training, healing and predictive processing
Weeks 9-12:
- Sales mastery: Simple strategies for easier sales & committed clients.
- Resistance mechanics & properties of load
- Exercise mechanics & analysis
- Exercise design considerations
- Reconciling exercise mechanics with neuro and pain science.
Weeks 13-16:
- Psychology, linguistics and meaning
- Thin slicing and the importance of authenticity
- Why what the client hears matters more than what we say
- The stages of competence, and much more!
+ Bonus guest speakers EXCLUSIVE to Internship members!
- Mickey Anderson, Founder of 90-Day Campaigns, on Sales, Marketing, Branding and more!
- Ryan Taylor, Founder of Dynamis Athletic & The Exercise Mechanic Instructor, on maximizing your hyertrophy programs
- Brett Patterson, Founder of BP Training on Coaching and program design for Athletes.
Here's what past students have to say!
"Etienne has absolutely shaped, and in some ways revolutionized, my approach to being a fitness professional. Through his guidance, I have developed a deeper understanding of the base components of the human body, which in turn has allowed me to make more educated decisions regarding my own clients.
I would not be half the trainer that I am today if it wasn’t for Etienne’s help over the years, and anyone who has an opportunity to learn from him should seize it!"
Ryan Taylor
"As a student of Etienne’s, I’ve developed thought processes that have been fundamental to my overall understanding of exercise science.
If you have an opportunity to learn from Etienne, do not hesitate to take the chance. You will leave any teaching opportunity of his refreshed with new knowledge, and/or a more refined application of the knowledge you may already have. His sheer passion for his craft speaks for itself."
Lorenz Z.
"I had the great privilege of being mentored by Etienne and The Exercise Mechanic at the beginning of my career, and his tutelage shaped my understanding of how the body responds to the world around it. Be that a response to force, a response to perceived threat, or response from trauma/injury
Etienne does not have you memorize answers, he teaches you the formula. Armed with that formula, you can now look at whatever client “problem” you come across, apply the formula and come up with the answers yourself."
Shannon Branton
Your instructor:
Hi there, my name is Etienne Asselin. I'm the founder of The Exercise Mechanic and one of 5 Canadians to receive the Mastery Designation from RTS International.
As an instructor, I believe in creating a dynamic, tailored and judgement-free learning environment for my students. Learning new things can be messy and uncomfortable, my job is to share with you the lessons I've learned, and also teach you where to look.
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"Etienne is a really good educator and teacher. He has the capacity to take complex topics and make them easy to understand. I definitely recommend working with Etienne to anyone who wants to become a better coach."
- Jacob Hamel (founder of Quantum Training)
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