CST Professional

Delve completely into CST taking the path to CST Coach or even Head Coach!

The CST Professional Pathway involves participation in the CST group Fitness modules and then a two day CST IC.

CST Professional Pathway is for the discerning health & fitness professionals who strive to development not only their physicality but also their financial health. The CST Professional Pathway also opens the door to become part of the CST AUS Team- which provides with you regular work and coaching opportunities.

CST Professional is a qualified pathway. Go through the Qualifying questions below and follow the steps to self assess if the CST Professional pathway is for you.

Team CST AUS

Be part of the internal team contracted to CST AUS wearing the CST AUS uniform and have work provided to you by CST AUS. A complete training package and wellness program has been built by CST AUS that allows you to train private clients; sporting teams and corporate.

Once part of Team CST AUS all you have to do is put on your uniform and turn up! Your training and competency is complete.

Qualifying questions for Team CST

Are you a Registered Fitness Leader/ Personal Trainer/ Sports Coach? *Y/N

If so you need the minimum Cert III/ IV for fitness with a minimum of 5 years experience in the field.

Do you have a Health & Wellbeing mindset? *Y/N

What are your current health & fitness goals?

Do you attend classes and programs run by other instructors; other facilities; other exercise styles?

Do you walk your talk and live by example?

Do you look after yourself with regular Manual Therapy sessions and timeout/ recharge days?

Do you have your own trainer or coach? *Y/N

If so, have you documented your progress and discoveries?

If no, consider doing so and track your experience and progress.

Are you willing to take on a coach/ mentor whom will be your unreasonable friend and take you to new heights and dimensions of health/ wellbeing and movement?

Do you want to learn more than just fitness? *Y/N

Are you willing to take on a professional career with world class business coaching?

Are you willing to accept the challenge of business KPI’s and a growing client portfolio?

Are you willing to think outside the box of ‘sets & reps’ and take on your own turn key business?

*If you answered no to ANY of these questions, then look into what you need to do to change all your answers to Yes… once that is achieved, then contact us to potentially join Team CST. To get started go to cstworkout.tv and sign up for online coaching now!

CST Instructor Certification

Minimum Physical Competency Expectations:

Intu-Flow® to level of Beginner & Intermediate (Cardinals and Circles).

Responsibilities and Opportunities:

At the instructor level, the focus is on grasping the foundational material, learning to teach the basic courses, and coming to own that material through personal practice. It's necessary to live the material in order to own it.

Instructors are being prepped as specialists in CST Personal Training. They're not experts at CST Poise Analysis, like the Coaches are expected to be. However, in order to make it to Coach, Instructors are working on the programmatic integration of the 3 Rings of CST. They’re learning how to create CST programs for personal training clients without CST Poise Analysis, but in such a way that they will learn how to master CST Poise Analysis as they continue to train more clients.

At the CST IC seminar Instructors will study examples of how the 3 Rings integrate in a program design: which mobility exercises prime the target joints for a specific Clubbell® exercise, and which body-flow movements / yoga poses unload the tension used by those components. The CST 6D Matrix program.

Certified Instructors are strongly encouraged to be present on the RMAX Forum. This is no longer a requirement at Instructor level, but an opportunity. It’s how you begin to build your presence in the organization, it’s how you start making a name for yourself, and it’s where you’ll practice answering basic CST questions from the general public.

If you’re ever unsure of an answer or want to discuss a piece of advice from the open forum, we encourage you to bring it up in the Instructor Cadre forum, where we can debrief it as an exercise for everyone. There are no stupid questions! The Instructor Cadre forum is your locker room, so please use it as such. There’s no shame in not knowing something or not being great at something. There is shame in knowing you’re not measuring up but doing nothing about it. The entire cadre is here to help.

Instructors are able to conduct CST classes, but not CST workshops or seminars. Instructors are not able to teach programs they haven’t been instructed in.

A certified CST Instructor who wishes to try for CST Coach may attend the CST II Coaching Certification course, after which they will undertake the examination process.

CST Coach Certification

Minimum Physical Competency Expectations:

Intu-Flow® to level of Advanced (infinities and diagonal infinities).

Responsibilities and Opportunities:

At Coach level you’re working to master the 4367 Poise Analysis protocol, component theory, compensatory movement, mobility from a biotensegrity standpoint (isolation within a field of total influence), and degrees of freedom. Coaches should be practicing CST Program Design (the 3 Ring integration) through CST Poise Analysis (4367) without CST Periodization (THP), in such a way that they come to develop competency with the THP.

As a CST Coach you’re being introduced to the concept of finding your own unique brand or story, how you can begin to explore that brand, and how to make it prosper beneath the RMAX International umbrella. You’re studying to go beyond being a "CST Personal Trainer or Group Ex Instructor." This is where you learn to tell your unique story, to frame what you have to offer, and finally to come into a sense of ownership of the CST material as it relates to your unique experience and background.

In order to tie each individual story into our overall brand and to leverage the weight of that brand behind each of our people, our public stories will all culminate in how our life paths led us to find RMAX and CST, and how we each came to realize that it’s the best organization and system in the history of physical culture to date. Our integrated stories carry more weight than any individual story does, because by tying them together we’re all supporting each other.

Coaches are responsible for answering questions on the RMAX Forum. A minimum of 5 hours per month of forum participation is a requirement at this level, because a Coach is a more visible representative of the organization. This is also where the Faculty gets to see you in action so we can offer feedback on your online coaching. In addition to answering forum questions, Coaches are required to post a minimum of three 28-day training blogs per year. You are responsible for drawing the Faculty’s attention to your blog links in a thread on the Coach forum.

Coaches can conduct CST seminars, either alone or in collaboration with other Coaches or Instructors. Coaches cannot produce resources such as DVD’s, manuals or downloadable programs. Coach level people are studying and beginning to implement unique program designs, but they have not built the necessary experience to start marketing those same designs.

A certified CST Coach who wishes to try for CST Head Coach may attend the CST III Coaching Certification course, after which they will undertake the examination process.

CST Head Coach

Minimum Physical Competency Expectations:

Intu-Flow® to level of Master (clover leaves).

Responsibilities and Opportunities:

A CST Head Coach is expected to have mastered the entire 3DPP, and is able to apply that template to skills and disciplines outside of their individual background.

At Head Coach level we're also working to help you solidify the niche you discovered in your “personal branding story,” and to take that branding to much bigger places.

The Head Coaching title comes with increased responsibility. HC’s are responsible for maintaining a regular forum presence, and for mentoring CST Instructors and Coaches.

Head Coaches are also responsible for presenting modules at the IC seminars at the request of the Faculty. When Head Coaches present at IC seminars, they’re representing RMAX rather than themselves. Presenting at these seminars is not work or volunteering; it’s expected as part of your development as a teacher and a coach.

Finally, Head Coaches are responsible for participating in specific projects and tasks at the request and direction of the RMAX Faculty (including research on such things as an integrated RMAX marketing strategy, instructor development seminars, etc). They are required to present their results to the Faculty for consideration and for possible further action.

Head Coaches must stay in regular contact with the Faculty coaches and with RMAX. If you’re going to drop off the radar for travel, family responsibilities, your studies, etc that’s completely understandable, but you’re responsible for letting us know. This should take the form of regular updates on the Head Coach forum, but special allowance will also be made for those HC’s who are working in close cooperation with one or more Faculty coaches.

Head Coaches are able to teach any of the classes that they’ve been instructed in, and to create their own classes and seminars. Head Coaches are not licensed to conduct certifications of any kind.

Head Coaches are able to create products with the written permission of RMAX and with a Faculty member’s supervision. All projects, whether by Head Coaches, Faculty or Coach Sonnon, must be proposed to and approved by Corporate. There are no exceptions. Obtaining this stamp of approval is the first step. Head Coaches must work on their projects in close consultation with a Faculty Coach. It is the Faculty Coach’s job to oversee the project, to ensure that it remains true to the principles and Doctrine of CST, and that it embodies our health-first outlook. It is the Head Coach’s job to keep the Faculty member updated concerning their project, and to ask questions and seek advice. The Faculty advisor’s name does not appear on the finished product, and they get no royalties for taking on this mentoring role (unless the project is a collaboration or co-authorship).