Practical Strength & Conditioning for Rehab Professionals Workshop

This practical two-day workshop, led by Dr. Tim Gabbett, is designed to enhance the strength and conditioning skills of rehabilitation professionals.

The workshop bridges the gap between training theory and rehabilitation practice. Participants will learn lifting techniques, including progressions and regressions, athletic development drills, speed, repeated sprint and aerobic testing and training protocols. A key outcome of this course is the ability to write programs, including daily and weekly schedules to optimize training adaptations, when loading ‘around’ injured tissues.

WORKSHOP FOCUS POINTS

• Load-response principles for tissues and systems
• Return-to-sport progressions for jumping, running, throwing and collision sport athletes
• Speed, agility and repeated-sprint development
• High-intensity aerobic training and maximal aerobic speed training
• Dose-response principles for speed, strength and aerobic adaptations
• Developing practical training and monitoring plans

WORKSHOP PROGRAM

Day 1: 31st October 2026
Speaker: Dr. Tim Gabbett

Day 2: 1st November 2026
Speaker: Dr. Tim Gabbett

Target Audience

This workshop is relevant to physical therapists, physical therapy assistants, and physical therapy students, chiropractors, strength and conditioning coaches, athletic trainers, and sport coaches.

Learning Methods

This workshop uses a combination of lectures, focus groups, roundtable discussion, practical sessions, formal and informal question and answer sessions to enhance learning.

Participants will be encouraged to interact, ask questions and apply the presented concepts to real-world rehabilitation and performance scenarios.

About Dr. Tim Gabbett

Dr. Tim Gabbett has 30 years of experience working as an applied sport scientist with athletes and coaches across a wide range of sports. His work focuses on high performance, progressive overload in rehabilitation and training, maintaining skills under pressure and fatigue, and preparing athletes for the most demanding passages of play. Tim holds a PhD in Human Physiology and has completed a second PhD in Applied Sport Science, with special reference to physical demands, injury prevention and skill acquisition.

Informed Consent

All practical components that involve physical activity are completely voluntary. However, as some of these activities involve strenuous physical activity (within your individual capacity), participants will be required to complete a Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire (PAR-Q) and informed consent.

Conflict of Interest

Gabbett Performance Solutions, event committee and the presenters for this seminar do not have financial or other associations with the manufacturers of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services or commercial supporters.

This workshop does not involve the unlabelled use of a product or product under investigational use. There is no commercial support for this activity.

LOCATION

Health & Performance, Ivanská cesta 30/D
821 04 Bratislava, Slovakia