Kettlebell Practice & Teaching Certification with Mixed Modality Education

Host facility: BEARFIT Athletics, Wakefield Massachusetts

March 6th-8th, 2026

Instructor: Phil Scarito

DV8 Kettlebell coursework is the most concise and effective kettlebell practice and coaching course and certification on the market today. So effective that other educators are taking the strategies as their own, including those marketing as gold standard. This coursework was derived fully by multi decade globally sought international instructor Phil Scarito, and you can learn directly from him at this course March 6-8, 2026.

Three days of premium education and more practical take home materials than you will find anywhere else.

We guarantee we will change your personal practice and your coaching practice, whether you practice solo or for a big box facility—no matter where you've learned prior or how long you've been practicing.

Immense replicable-and-quantifiable success, which is equally suited not only to coaches but also those who have no interest in coaching and instead just want to practice, and practice well.

For the coaches in attendance who wish to certify, you are not only taught to practice, but you are also taught to teach. You are also are tested on your ability to both practice and teach, utilizing the methods and materials gained learned throughout the course. Do your research to make sure wherever else you may be looking to certify in kettlebells ensures the same. (Read: not all kettlebell certifications teach you how to teach and then specifically test you on your teaching skills—we know this sounds counterintuitive, but it's true!)

We look forward to learning with you. See you there!

Two manuals with over 200 pages of manual content included, as well as rougly a dozen additional in-hand take home tools to use not only during the weekend, but also the minute you return to your at-home practice or facility practice.

Yes, you are still in the right room! Every single portion of the coaching sections will apply directly to your personal practice. Plus, you do not have to test out at the end, but we encourage you to try it as a dry run just for fun to see all that you have learned and accomplished in your weekend's coursework. You will very likely amaze yourself!

Kettlebell Movements

Kettlebell Deadlift

Kettlebell Clean

Kettlebell Snatch

Kettlebell Swing

Kettlebell Push Press

Kettlebell Jerk

Kettlebell Press (Strict/Military)

The Get-Up

Single Leg Deadlift

Bodyweight Movements

Push-Up Variations (Classic, One Arm, One Arm One Leg)

Barbell Movements

Barbell Deadlift (Sumo & Conventional)

Indian Club Movements

2 or more crucial circular patterns for priming the body and releasing tension in our training sessions (and on our rest days) through Indian clubs work. Mobility, stability, shoulder health, and bridging the gap to overhead work are the benefits you'll gain in this section of kettlebell complementary training.

DV8 Programming

(Note that the above is a base list; you will learn even more in this course than the above.)

A true coaching course from start to finish, from practice to testing:

Did you know? Unlike the norm in the industry, DV8 certification testing requirements are not based on a registrant's age, gender, or weight. Learning how to select appropriate load size—barbell, kettlebell, etc.— is a crucial skill for practitioners and coaches alike. Since this is a true practice and teaching certification, we not only instruct you on how to make these distinctions, but we test you on your ability to make them, and make them well. Just like you would with your students.

If you're a coach, whether solo or for a big box gym, retention is the name of the game. You are ill advised to fly blind on arbitrarily predetermined criteria in the real world when a client walks into your room. A client that is first day ... or ten years into ... their training with you. Test the way you should teach.

Perpetually enhanced material, never stagnant and never repackaged from anywhere else—DV8 operates on a platform that is educationally incentivized toward continuing education. A mixed modality approach to training practice, for self and students. Consistent, replicable results. And a true teaching certification—we teach you how to teach, from self to other. And in certifying as a DV8 coach, you are also tested on your teaching ability. This is not industry standard; come experience the difference.

DV8 Coursework introduces Phil Scarito’s method of modeling and teaching Strength Instruction: from Kettlebells to Bodyweight, Indian Clubs to Barbell. Though students certify in one particular modality in a given Certification, they learn that modality—and learn to hone and teach that modality—through a mixed modality approach. Think of it as a University, one that offers you a major with built-in, accompanying minors to help you forge your success. This application is aimed at, and suited to, teaching all learners—from those in the certification space, to those who will learn from them.

LESS DRILLS, MORE GET-IT-RIGHT-FROM-THE-START

We have all but eliminated the frustration that most Students face when learning a new skill, and we have made it easy for not only athletes and general population to practice it, but for coaches and instructors to teach it. Less drills, more get-it-right-from-the-start instruction. And where progressions are required, we prefer progressions to train the skills, progressions that are strengthening methods themselves, as opposed to crutches or training wheel type approaches that must be trained out of eventually.

Our approach to Strength, from values to the physical, is revolutionary.

The most affordable option on the market, with continued accolades in premier quality. How? Student experience is our bottom line.

What we continue to receive as our most consistent feedback:

"Developing students and educators, not pushing participants past the point of healthy practice as more of an 'initiation' type of certification into a strength or fitness club."

"Purely educational."

"Cutting to the quickest and most effective ways to learn, practice, and teach from the start."

"Education for education's sake, lacking traditional assimilate-or-go-elsewhere mentalities."

A clear lack of ego in every course, be it student or instructor.

DV8 TEAMS Certification

A vital concept to stability and sustainability: When corporate politics are set aside in industry, we affirm education, community, and excellence. A more difficult path, requiring an enhanced level of discipline and Strength of the individual and group.

"Though an age old adage, the importance of how we educate ourselves becomes increasingly more clear in the modern day. We are, and we continue to become, that with which we surround ourselves." — DV8

• Technique
• Endurance
• Aptitude in
• Movement &
• Strength

Dare to DV8!

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** This course includes practical and conceptual work with bodyweight training methods, barbell training methods, dumbbells, and Indian clubs.

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DV8 will help in providing you with any written materials required to petition for CEUs with your PT certifying organization, following your attedendance at this course.

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No refunds.

©2025 Phil Scarito; DV8fitness Inc.

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