The Exercise Mechanic Internship

Go from Average to Industry-Leading in 16-weeks.

(Next cohort starts Fall 2024!)
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Personal Trainers shouldn't be broke.

Our internship empowers personal trainers with the skills and principles they need to build profitable and impactful businesses.

How do we do it?
One word: Expertise.

Building a profitable and impactful business naturally flows outwards from career excellence and intellectual depth. Our internship prioritizes cultivating a clinical understanding of personal training so that you can tackle with confidence the problems you face at work, distinguish yourself form your peers, and make a great living.

Because people will always pay for the best. But it doesn't end there.

Our Internship also empowers personal trainers with effective branding, marketing and sales training proven to convert cold leads into paying clients.

 

 

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"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.

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We make success predictable with our 5 pillars:

  • Functional Anatomy: We make functional anatomy simple, actionable and relevant. We not only walk you through the key points, but we help you connect the dots. Anatomy is a foundational pillar in personal training success that 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: Why do we hurt? And how can we help our clients get out of pain? The pain neuroscience pillar is absolutely crucial for the modern fitness professional. Our pain neuroscience and rehabilitation modules will completely change how you work with clients in pain.
  • Behavioural Psychology & Coaching: Arguably the most powerful tool at our disposal is our voice and yet we receive little training on how to influence people. Want to learn how to get people to do what's in their best interest? Are you curious why so many of us fail to overcome self-destructive habits? To help people get what they want, we need to understand how people make decisions. We cover this and more in our Psychology and Coaching modules.
  • Sales & Marketing: The Achilles heel of personal trainers: Whether you work for a larger gym chain or operate as an independent personal trainer, building a strong brand that attracts your ideal customer is essential. Strong branding 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. We cover high-return branding, sales and marketing strategies in our Sales & Marketing modules.

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 hypertrophy 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!"

Taylor R.

"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 B.

Your instructor:

Hi there, my name is Etienne Asselin, I'm the founder of The Exercise Mechanic.

As your instructor, my goal is to empower you. This means I may not always give you the answers you're looking for on a silver platter. I may make you work for them. I do this because learning requires active engagement not passive consumption. My goal is to take you beyond surface level memorization and into the rare air of understanding.
The rare air of mastery.

I believe in creating a dynamic, engaging, tailored and judgement-free learning environment for my students. Learning new things can be messy and uncomfortable, my job is to not only share with you the lessons I've learned throughout the years, but 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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