DST provides training and certification as a

• DST Instructor,
• MBT Walking (Max Body Toning) Instructor
• DST Therapist
• DST Pilates-in-Action Instructor
• DST DRUM Fitness Instructor.

All courses include manuals, CPD hours, certificates, and equipment as necessary.

DST Instructor Course

Prerequisites: Basic training in MBT footwear, with general sports/fitness, or therapy background

Continuing Personal Development Credit: 10 Hours

Course Summary:

Learn the Basic and Intermediate level movements of DST. We will also be working with a stability ball in part of the course to measure changes in stability and balance, as well as providing you with access to a new set of tools to empower your customers to get the most of their dynamic stability: whether it be standing in MBTs, sitting or laying on a stability ball, or both (try using your stability ball with MBTs for a more intense use of postural muscles).

Training Includes:

• 4 stages of Proper Foot Loading using MBT
• Maximizing Foot, Hip and Shoulder motors in creating natural Counter Rotations in Dynamic motion
• DST Biodynamics and Neuro-Kinaesthetics using MBT
• How to Reprogram the muscles in Dynamic motion
• Creating Maximum Leg Drive While Improving Upper Body Coordination and Balance
• Body Toning using MBTs
• Activating and Isolating Postural Muscles
• Brain Balancing
• 4 Stages of Roll trotting and Roll Jogging using DST
• Improving Overall Coordination, Balance and Stability
• Coaching tips in working with athletes, injuries, and seniors.
• A DST Instructor Manual

Price: £325 in UK ; $600 in US

Locations: United Kingdom, United States, Hong Kong

DST Therapy Course

Prerequisites: DST Instructor certification, MBT Trainers, Physiotherapists, Osteopaths, Chiropractors, Yoga and Pilates Instructors, Therapists, Body workers

Continuing Personal Development Credit: 5 Hours

Course Summary

DST uses biomechanical processes for improving how we walk, jog, run, and exercise while equally distributing body weight, foot load, and muscular movement to the primary stabilizing muscles. The DST Therapy course is of interest to those who want to gain a deeper understanding of the clinical research conducted on MBTs, look at basic biomechanics and how MBT affects gait and posture, and learn various DST exercises using the MBT as an unstable shoe to improve muscle coordination and proprioception, and achieved targeted muscle strengthening and toning for injury prevention and rehabilitation.

MBT offers great potential to successfully treat and prevent muscular skeletal problems and is applied and recommended by leading medical specialists in different countries. This seminar will give you an understanding of biomechanics, DST, various medical studies on MBT and DST, and will enable the optimal utilization of the MBT as a rehabilitation tool using DST Therapy exercises. Graduates will be listed under the therapy section on MBT-UK website.

Training Includes:

• The fundaments of biomechanics, proprioception in relation to posture and gait
• The effects on the muscular, skeletal system
• Application as a daily therapeutic tool
• Advanced spotting techniques and how to resolve abnormalities in posture and gait (corrections and exercises)
• DST Manual for Therapy Instruction
• MBT Calgary Study
• DST/MBT Sheffield Study
• Edinburgh Study on Heel Pain
  
  Price: £195 in UK; $350 in US

Locations:

United Kingdom, United States, Hong Kong

MBT Walking (Max Body Toning) Instruction

Prerequisites: DST Instructor certification

Continuing Personal Development Credit: 3 Hours.

Course Summary: Take your DST classes to another level with MBT Walking (Max Body Toning)

Recent studies show that during a 30-minute MBT Walking (Max Body Toning) workout you will achieve:

• 26% more cardiovascular output and increased heart rate than normal walking
• 17% more cardiovascular output and increased heart rate than jogging
• 78% more activation in the buttocks
• 45% more activation in the hamstrings
• 70 % more activation in the gastrocnemius at heel strike
• 3 % more activation in the multifidus

All Hallam University figures are maximum values taken at various stages of the gait cycle. All MBT Academy figures are taken as an average of various time intervals using heart rate measurements.

Training Includes:

• What is MBT Walking (Max Body Toning)
• How does DST fit in with MBT Walking (Max Body Toning)
• The MBT Walking (Max Body Toning) business concept
• The MBT Walking (Max Body Toning) system
• The MBT Walking (Max Body Toning) 5 week programme
• The new MBT Walking (Max Body Toning) exercises
• MBT Walking (Max Body Toning) lunchtime class

Your course fee includes:

• MBT Walking (Max Body Toning) Instructor Manual
• 1 set of HeavyHands (hand weights)
• CD Rom with exercise tables and other materials
• Instructor audio CD for use in your classes

Price: £175 in UK; $325 in United States

Locations: United Kingdom, United States, Hong Kong

DST Pilates-in-Action

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DST DRUM Fitness Instruction

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