We just wrapped up the first Mixed Modal Apprenticeship in celebration of our newest course Mixed Modal. This three-day experience took place at OPEX HQ in sunny Scottsdale, AZ and was a meeting of the minds for seven top-level coaches led by James Fitzgerald. Over the three days, the apprenticeship focused on maximizing the expertise and experience of the participating coaches via, daily discussion topics, floor observation, debriefs, and AMA style sessions regarding the principles of mixed modal training. Here are what the participants had to say about the experience.

Aerobic training is a popular subject in the fitness and athletic development industry. If you are a coach you are most likely familiar with the basics of aerobic training, but may have trouble with the application of this knowledge in fitness program design.

Bioenergetics covers Energy System Training and the core biological adaptations required for competitive functional fitness such as metabolic specificity and the new power-time curve. This topic covers pace theory, metabolic training, and how to create the most efficient progressions of work possible. Learn how to create these efficient progressions with sample programming in Mixed Modal.

Here are eight key performance indicators (KPIs) for competitive functional fitness coaches and athletes, pulled straight from James FitzGerald’s latest course Mixed Modal. Understand these KPIs and take your athlete’s performance to the next level.

The Strength Continuum is a traditional strength and conditioning philosophy upon which different kinds of strength activities are classified. The Strength Continuum was developed as strength training was compared to the force-velocity curve and it was found that different forms of strength training needed their own categorizations as they fell into different areas of the force-velocity curve. The development of the Strength Continuum led to specific training for maximum expression of the different Strength Continuum categories. At first, it was believed that that only specific sports could manifest these expressions because of the individual nature of each category.

Mixed Modal is James’s latest contribution to the world of functional fitness. This course provides revolutionary thought through four chapters, Sport, Energy, Practice, and Skills, along with the sample programming needed to create a podium-caliber performance. Learn more about the course here.

In this weeks 10 Minutes of Fitness James FitzGerald and Micheal Pilhofer discuss James’ newest course, Mixed Modal. You can watch the full episode for yourself here.

Mixed Modal is the most comprehensive course on competitive Functional Fitness to date and the brainchild of James FitzGerald, inaugural CrossFit Games winner. This digital course is designed for coaches and athletes alike and details conditioning requirements, sport-specific program design, and a  breakdown of required skills. We are excited to announce that the fourth and final module of the course, Skill, has officially been released.