POWER MONKEY COURSES
POWER MONKEY COURSES
new dates realeased monthly
2024
Power Monkey Courses
A FITNESS EXPERIENCE FOR EVERYONE.
During our Power Monkey Courses, you'll spend the weekend learning from some of the world's most elite athletes turned educators. Build your technique and skills and have a ton of fun.
We build our courses for beginner athletes, experienced athletes, coaches, gym owners, and others who want to learn, challenge themselves, passionate about fitness.
Come be a part of the Power Monkey Family!
WHO ATTENDS POWER MONKEY FITNESS COURSES?
FITNESS ENTHUSIASTS
We are all here to learn from each other. That's what makes our Power Monkey Courses so fun!
We break down high level movements into easy to understand drills to help you reach goals you never thought possible and keep you healthy in your movement patterns so you are working out for years to come!
ELITE ATHLETES
We focus on teaching you the importance of training for a standard of MOVEMENT.
Why? Because those standards never change, even when the competition standards do. Learn the points of performance that will keep you performing at a higher level.
COACHES & OWNERS
Coaches and Gym Owners not only expand their personal knowledge of movements patters, but can also benefit from learning the best cues and drills to help your community of athletes in their own spaces. Plus you have the added advantage of networking with other coaches and owners to exchange ideas and best practices throughout the weekend.
UPCOMING POWER MONKEY COURSES
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About power monkey courses
After traveling the world for the past ten years, teaching seminars and camps to athletes and owners of all levels, we've learned that what is missing for most people is the critical step of building better movement patterns through more stability and mobility-specific drills.
The drills and exercises in our courses are inspired by what we assign to our athletes. They're also the exercises we use in our training.
Our Power Monkey Courses is a collaboration and accumulation of more than 50 years of sport-specific training adapted to a population that has expressed a need for PROGRESSIVE and VALIDATED movement methods.
What you'll learn in a power monkey fitness course
GAIN CONFIDENCE IN YOUR
GYMNASTICS
- Overall Movement Philosophy and Gymnastics Hierarchy of Skill Development
- Shoulder/wrist health and basic warm up
- Assessment into stretches/corrective exercises
- Handstand Development and Technique: Handstand triumvirate and partner/spotting technique
- HSPU positioning for maximum potential, scaling options
- Handstand walking progressions and spotting technique
- Bar Work, proper hang technique, strict pull breakdown, kip mechanics.
strengthen your positions
weightlifting
- Squat Methodology & Technique: Back Squat - prioritizing mobility, comfort, and strength
- Overhead Positioning - ideal for longevity, skill transfer, and general health
- Snatch Methods: Foundational strength and movement priorities
- Pulling & catching the Snatch in ideal positions
- Drill work and progressions to optimize potential and health
- Jerk Methods: Foundational strength and movement priorities progressions to optimize potential and health
- Front rack mobility
- Clean Methods: Front Squat technique & shoulder/wrist mobility
- Pulling & catching the Clean in ideal positions
meet your coaches
DAVE DURANTE
GYMNASTICS
NCAA All-American at Stanford University
Multiple Time US National Champion
Multiple Time World Team Member
2008 Olympic Team Member
Co-Owner of Power Monkey Fitness
MIKE CERBUS
WEIGHTLIFTING
American Open Champion
Pan Am & Olympic Qualification Teams
Five Time National Medalist
Course Director & Lead Weightlifting Programmer, Power Monkey Fitness
CHAD VAUGHN
WEIGHTLIFTING
2-Time Olympian
9-Time National Champion
American Record Holder
Creator, Barbell Mobility
FABIAN HAMBÜCHEN
GYMNASTICS
4-Time Olympian (2004,2008,2012,2016)
2008 Bronze medalist
2012 Silver medalist
2016 Gold medalist
2007 World Champion
6-Time European Champion
40-Time National Champion
VANESSA MCCOY-NELSON
WEIGHTLIFTING
US National Champion
World University Medalist
Medalist in the 2016 Olympic Test Event
SHANE DEFRIETAS
GYMNASTICS
2-Time NCAA All American on high bar
1996 Barbados Olympian
Skill on parallel bars 'deFrietas'