Sports Condition and Resistance Training Course

  • Healthy Horizons, the College of Education, and the HRC:

Healthy Horizons has partnered with Brandon Cole, a faculty member in the College of Education who instructs the Sports Conditioning & Resistance Training course for COE students.  This course teaches students how to develop sport and fitness programs with an emphasis on individualized resistance training and conditioning specific to your sport.  This program is ideal if you are getting started with a strength training program or you want to fine tune your current program.

Under the supervision of Brandon Cole, you will be paired up with a student trainer from the Sport Conditioning & Resistance Training course , receive a Baseline Fitness assessment, and 5 weeks of complimentary personalized training. If you are interested in this opportunity, you will need to commit to meeting with the student trainer on the following dates during one of the time frames listed.   Please note, if you plan to participate we will need to obtain a medical release from your primary care physician.

Key Dates

Healthy Horizons Appointment: to be completed before October 14th (the short, 15 minute initial assessments will be schedule Tuesday, Oct. 6 and Tuesday, Oct. 13th between 1:00 and 7:00pm in Healthy Horizons)

  • This 20 minute appointment will include a blood pressure, weight, BMI and body composition assessment.
  • A consent form and medical disclosure form will be sent to you prior to your appointment.
  • Weekly Personal Training appointments will take place on either Tuesday or Thursday from 8:10-9:10am .  You can select either Tuesday or Thursday as your training day.

Location:  Butler HRC

November Dates:
Tuesday 3rd                                      Thursday 5th
Tuesday 10th                                                 Thursday 12th
Tuesday 17th                                     Thursday 19th
December Dates:
Tuesday 1st                                       Thursday 3rd
Tuesday 8th                                       Thursday 10th

After your Baseline Fitness Assessment, the student will develop a 5-week physical activity plan customized to your goals. At the conclusion of the semester students will develop a 3 month training program which will be shared with you to continue on the progress you made.

If you would like to sign up for this program or have further questions, please email healthyhorizons@butler.edu or call 8143.