Programming Around Pain- Boston, MA

Hosted at Lifetime Westood

Dates: September 27-28, 2025

Times: 11-5 Saturday and Sunday (30 Lunch Break Halfway Through).

Programming Around Pain is the tangible blueprint for coaches to help their clients in pain. The 2-day intensive course is designed to equip coaches with plug-and-play protocols that they can implement immediately to improve the lives of their clients with shoulder, knee, hip and low back issues.

Attendees will have immediate and actionable strategies to navigate exercise selection and programming for clients experiencing pain. They will not only learn how to do these exercises themselves, but they’ll learn how to identify, navigate and implement next steps.

Dr. Justin Farnsworth PT, SCS, CSCS

Dr. Justin Farnsworth is a Doctor of Physical Therapy and Board Certified Sports Clinical Specialistwith over a decade in medicine and over 20 years in high performance and general fitness as a coach. He has led over 100 in person certification courses since 2020 and has been on all sides of the training to rehab spectrum as a coach, professional athlete and clinician.

He believes that good training and good rehab are one and the same and has a goal of empowering both coaches and clinicians with practical knowledge that is evidence-based, actionable, and adaptable to real-world client needs.

He currently manages his own training and education business that helps both coaches and clients truly “bridge the gap” between rehab and performance while understanding how to truly utilize exercise as medicine.

Course Overview

✘ 12 hours of course content with 50% lecture and 50% world-class, hands-on lab based learning in major focused areas
✘ Pillars of Pain-Free Function: Understand the foundational principles that create long-term client success, not just quick fixes.

✘ Programming A Holistic Client Session: Learn how to design full sessions that support the whole person—not just the injury

.✘ Programming Around Hip, Knee, Shoulder and Low Back Pain:

✘ Step-by-step frameworks for managing pain using scalable strategies that meet clients where they are.

✘ Using Biomechanics and Client Tolerance to Guide Successful Exercise Selection

Course Curriculum

Day 1 Curriculum

Introduction: The Pain Problem

• The Biggest Predictor Of Pain: Belief.
• The Medicalization Of The Human Experience
• Pain Does Not Equal Harm.
• Pain Explained

Pillars Of Pain-Free Function

• Adaptations vs. Exercises vs Tools
• Mobility, Stability or Skill
• The Ultimate Goal Of Training
• Getting The Exercise Dose Right
• Practical: Where “Pain Free” Stars

Programming: The Lowest Hanging Fruit To Address Dysfunction

• Intra-Session Strategies For Pain
• Programming Around Patterns
• Programming Around Physical Traits
• Programming Blue Print
• Be Better Than 3x10
• Make People Fit, Not Just Tired
• Power For Pain
• The Anatomy Of A 60 Min Client Session
• Practical: Programming Applied

Programming Around Hip Pain

• The Most Complex Joint
• The Coaches Approach To Common Pain Points + Surgeries
• Practical: Finding The Weak Link
• • Hip Mobility Assessments
  • Hip Stability Assessments
• Practical: How To Open The Hip
• Practical: Priming For Stiff Hips
• Intrasession Programming Strategies For Stiff Hips
• Hip Programming: Applied

Programming Around Knee Pain: The Most Misunderstood Joint

• Stuck In The Middle
• The Coaches Approach To Common Pain Points + Surgeries
• Keys To Knee Health
• The Swelling Problem
• Practical: The Gold Standard Knee Assessment
• Practical: Training With Anterior Knee Pain
• Knee Programming Applied