Welcome to JC Online,

This education platform is designed to accommodate your needs around strengthening your knowledge and deepening your understanding around physical conditioning to improve movement, athletic and sporting performance. These educational resources are designed for physiotherapists and strength and conditioning coaches. We offer a variety of different courses, on different subjects. Explore what we have to offer below.

Courses for Strength and Conditioning Coaches

Are you a strength and conditioning coach, personal trainer or physical education teacher wanting to know more about physical conditioning to enhance athleticism, human and sporting performance of yourself or those you work with? Then you have landed in the right place! Confused or overwhelmed by the quantity of information out there? These online courses will filter, funnel and share the latest evidence based information to encourage new ways of thinking to compliment and grow your theoretical and practical knowledge. Take a look at some of the courses we have to offer for strength and conditioning practitioners.

Courses for Physiotherapists

Are you a physiotherapist, clinician or rehabilitation specialist wanting to know more about strength and conditioning to enhance the efficacy of your practice and accelerate your patient outcomes? Then you have landed in the right place. These tailored professional development courses will help improve your knowledge, competence and preparedness, to prescribe and bridge the gap between therapy and physical conditioning. Take a look at some of the courses we have to offer for physiotherapists.

Meet your Host

Professor John Cronin

PhD (Auckland), BEd, MA (Canada), Dip High Performance Coaching (Canada), Dip PE, Dip Teaching.

John is a professor in Strength and Conditioning within the Sports Performance Research Institute of New Zealand (SPRINZ), School of Sport and Recreation, at AUT University. SPRINZ is the number one performance based research fund rated sport research institute in New Zealand. 

John has the perfect blend of theory and practical. During his career John has worked with a variety of athletes and teams, ranging from youth development athletes to elite world champion individuals and teams. John has worked with National level cricket teams, netball, rugby union, rugby sevens, discus, boxing, wrestling, gymnastics, shooting, jet skiing and soccer. 

John is now primarily an educator, and has spent the last 20 years at AUT University lecturing in the undergraduate and postgraduate programs for sport and exercise science. He has supervised over 40 PhD and 40 Masters students in the area of strength and conditioning, and has over 400 peer reviewed papers.

Can't decide which course to choose?

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Research in Action

In addition to our large online courses, we also offer Research in Actions. These resources are created and presented by other academics in the field. The presenter talks about their PhD and the key practical take aways that practitioners can use to enhance their practice. A copy of the full thesis is also provided. Take a look at the Research in Actions we have to offer.

Research Bytes

Monthly subscription ($5 USD)

Our Research Byte subscription contains byte sized resources of previous research John has been involved in. The problem with a lot of published research, is that it is not easily accessible and therefore doesn't get seen by coaches and practitioners. These Research Bytes provide you with actionable steps and take home messages for each piece of research. A minimum of one new resource is added each month.

Free Resources

Testimonials and Reviews

PhD, CSCS Researcher, Educator, Coach, Athlete

Eric Helms

For the past decade, Professor John Cronin has been my mentor academically. He’s a prolific researcher in the areas of strength and power who has worked in strength and conditioning at all levels for decades. He is now offering his expertise and vast knowledge base in strength and conditioning online for anyone to access. I’ve learned so much from John over the years across the entire domain of my knowledge, from understanding reliability and measuring real changes in research and practice, to advanced muscle physiology, and even improving one’s emotional intelligence and communication skills. So for S&Cs, I can’t recommend John highly enough.

Crusaders and Canterbury Rugby Physiotherapist

Neil Tucker

I think a lot of it is such great information for physio’s to either revisit or get introduced to because the science around injury is rapidly catching up and more and more the focus is to restore the key metrics around strength and power.

Owner of Vital Strength, Exercise Physiologist MKin, BKin CSEP-CEP High Performance Specialist

Carla Robbins

John Cronin's course, "Optimizing Strength and Power - A Connective Tissue Approach" is a science-driven, video-supported, well-organized, and clear course that will help strength and conditioning and physical therapy professionals take their practical application of knowledge to the next level. I will recommend this course, and John's additional "Research Bytes" to those who want to elevate their practice through a thorough understanding of the science and how to transfer that to sport and training applications!

S&C Lead - Sports Authority of India, NCOE-Kolkata

Rupesh Choudury

I have been a consumer of Prof. Cronin's content on strength and conditioning for a long time. Very recently, I also had the opportunity to attend one of his lectures hosted by the Sports Authority of India. Having read his articles on his website and other forums, I must say that Prof. Cronin truly bridges the gap between the science and practice of strength and conditioning and I feel confident in recommending the content to fellow professionals in strength and conditioning."

Co-founder and curriculum director of Oko Weekly

Erin Feser

The JC Online resources are thoroughly evidence-based and evidence-informed, which is a gold mine for practitioners and coaches. But also, JC's ability to communicate important concepts and teach practical application has been refined by 20+ years of teaching experience. This is truly what makes these resources stand apart from other continuing education material available online. You can rest assured that you will have great learnings from your time input with the JC Online materials.

Strength & Conditioning Coach for the Chennai Super Kings (IPL Cricket Team).

Greg King

I have enjoyed the structure of the 3 sections within each topic. I feel the way this is set out gives a great balance between the theory, methods and considerations around assessment and how to practically train it. The content itself within the course is brilliant, there is sufficient detail but not so much that it overwhelms you. Your courses have stimulated a great deal of thought as to how I currently assess and train my athletes. Particularly getting me to think about how I can improve what I have been doing for many years.