Our DCAC Houston
2008 SESSIONS
The sessions below are separated by GROUPS (time slots). Click
on each link to view the workshops and lectures that are part of our regular
three-day conference schedule:
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Workshop
GE, MB
SPIN Pilates Rock Solid Pilates With Nicole Rogos
Course #: 500
Want a total-body workout that combines Pilates principles with traditional
strength training? This workshop offers the best of both worlds. Using large
stability balls, small sponge balls--combined with hand weights--you'll experience
a workout that will help you and your classes sculpt a rock-solid physique.
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Workshop GE
Not Your Momma’s Step With Patrick Goudeau
Course #: 501
Step outside the box and stimulate your body and your mind with this incredibly
fun and challenging workout. The choreography is EXCITING, it moves and it’s
definitely going to make you sweat! Whether you master all the layers or choose
to stay with the base moves, this routine is one BIG dance party on the step!
Patrick’s step is refreshing and innovative…definitely NOT YOUR MOMMA’S STEP…that’s
for sure!
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Workshop GE, PT
Power Systems: Short Circuit Your Workout
With
Robert Lindsey
Course #: 502
Interval training with lots of twists and surprises! Perfect for personal
trainers and small group instructors. Dynamic warm-ups and new interactive circuits
that will push you, challenge you and open your mind to new possibilities when
designing your next circuit training class.
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GE, PT
BOSU® Complete Total Body Sculpt With Stacey Lei Krauss
Course #: 503
Blast your body from head to toe while strengthening your core and improving
your balance! Using the protocol from the BOSU® Complete Workout System, this
workshop is designed to show you exercises for every major muscle group that
even the most serious client or student will love. Plus you will learn clever,
simple ways to progress, regress and adapt each exercise to accommodate even
your beginner clients or students. You’ll get more exercises than you can carry
home, and renew your ability to use the BOSU® Balance Trainer for sculpting
the entire body!
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Workshop GE, MB
Yoga To Unlock Your Body’s Potential With Robert Sherman
Course #: 504
Overuse, lack of mobility in the hips and weak core strength tend to limit
our participants or clients' potential for breaking through plateaus in training.
Explore new flexibility and strength training progressions to work the body
from the inside out by focusing on exercises that demand core strength and stability.
Control muscles that stabilize the pelvis and spine to not only increase performance
but also prevent injury and relieve pain. The class is taught in the tradition
of yoga.
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CY
SPINNING®: Bike Fit With Josh Taylor
Course #: 505
Bike fit is a must know topic for any Spinning instructor. This is an area
where you as an instructor can make a huge difference for yourself as well as
your students. To be able to fit someone properly on the bike is essential.
Come and learn about the latest updates and protocol to the fitting system within
the Spinning program. Optimal positioning on the bike is the foundation to safe
and effective riding. You know you need to know this better! So come join Josh
in this workshop that includes in-depth lecture and hands-on application.
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GE, MB
STOTT PILATES® Total Body Sculpting Flex-Band®
Level 2 With Sally Belanger
Course #: 506
This workshop teaches exercises that increase core and peripheral strength,
and add multi-dimensional joint movements, variety and challenge to the basic
Flex-Band® exerciser routine. Cues and corrections for safety and effectiveness
are also covered.
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Lecture PT
Nutrient Timing
With Len Kravitz
Course #: 507
Join Len for this groundbreaking lecture that explains the revolutionary
approach to enhance performance, promote recovery and improve muscle integrity
through Nutrient Timing. This technologically advanced presentation will explain
what nutrient timing is, the energy phase, the anabolic phase, the growth phase,
the metabolic physiology, and how to apply this totally new concept in training
for endurance exercise and resistance training. For personal trainers and fitness
professionals seeking to add a new dimension to their training, this lecture
is a must attend.
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Lecture GE, PT
Awaken The Coach Within With Mare Petra’s
Course #: 508
Do you want to help your clients achieve more success on and off the “treadmill?”
Do you have the seven traits to be an effective coach? Explore the world of
life coaching and how it’s potential to grow your business. Experience the coaching
experience and walk away with the three basic skills to insure greater success
for you and your clients.
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Lecture GE, PT
Healthy Eating – It’s A Lifestyle With Donna Manring
Course #: 509
As professionals, we are dedicated to achieving the best outcomes for our
clients. We are aware of the impact nutrition has on health and wellness. Learn
how to spread your enthusiasm on choosing to have a healthy eating lifestyle
to your clients. Often our clients are nervous and apprehensive to make changes.
You can inspire, motivate and get your clients excited about choosing a healthy
lifestyle. There are so many fad diets that set folks up for failure. Learn
how to cut through the diet craze. Get to the bottom of fad diets promoting
quick weight loss or unrealistic promises. Discover practical approaches on
choosing a healthy eating lifestyle.
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Workshop AQ
Hydro Dance Party With Jeff Howard
Course #: 510
This new cardio vascular work-out is set entirely in the water. For those
who love music and movement you will be grooving from Salsa to Hip Hop and getting
fit all along the way. Easy on the body and no dance experience needed. Let’s
get this DANCE PARTY started!
Workshop
GE
SPRI Slanted Riser™ Interval Workout With Kimberly Spreen
Course #: 511
Experience the best of both worlds with this incredibly unique cardio/strength
interval workout. Discover how to use the new SPRI® Slanted Risers™ to create
a power packed athletic-based interval training routine. This program transforms
a traditional step into both slanted step and incline bench, providing an extremely
innovative workout experience. Come join Kimberly Spreen and take the next step
in interval training!
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Workshop GE
Breaking Down Da Step Code With Manuel Velázquez
Course #: 512
Break up the encrypted combinations, break thru the creative process to
move into basic moves as they are, break even and break down those basic elements
from your old step moves glossary. Move thru multiple movement planes, intensity
levels and challenging turns to discover the mystery who involve a 32 count,
bilateral combination over and around the step. Discover and master … Da Step
Code.
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GE
Back To The Future! A Taste Of Zumba With Tony Witt
Course #: 513
Remember the fun and exciting days of the original Aerobic Dance programs?
A Taste of Zumba brings the fun back to fitness by combining high energy and
motivating music with unique moves and combinations that allow the Zumba participants
to dance away their worries. Zumba is a fusion of Latin and International music
– dance themes creating a dynamic, exciting, effective fitness system! It is
based on the principle that a workout should be 'fun and easy to do' and offers
a complete break down of all basic rhythms and movements – demonstrating how
each rhythm defines the movement. An explanation of the unique process by which
classes are choreographed and constructed will allow participants to experience
the simplicity of teaching a Zumba class. This session is based on the interval
training theory of fitness. Sponsored by ZUMBA.
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GE. PT
Living Large With Resist-A-Ball® With Cheri Groom
Course #: 514
It is time to make the exercises fit the body not the body fit the exercises,
if we want to inspire obese adults to move more and possibly affect our ever-climbing
national obesity rates. Accessible fun exercises that respect their larger body
size are the key to living large while envisioning positive changes in the future.
This population needs more than watered down versions of traditional fit person’s
exercises. Learn how to use the stability ball to overcome roadblocks that prevent
those with larger bodies from enjoying the benefits of exercise and being successful.
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Workshop GE, MB
Power Yoga 2K8 With Lauren Eirk
Course #: 515
Always a session favorite, this workshop is a modernization of the ancient,
eastern practice of Hatha Yoga that we westerners often call “Power Yoga.” Updated
for 2008, this Power Yoga class features Yoga postures choreographed to music
using familiar western fitness themes emphasizing core strength, flexibility,
and joint stability in a dynamic “vinyasa” flow.
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CY
SPINNING®: Cross Check With Reneé Spriggs
Course #: 516
Intensity monitoring is a critical component in helping your students reach
their fitness goals. Some of your students wear heart rate monitors, some don't.
Teaching both perceived exertion and heart rate monitoring will help you reach
all students in your class, by teaching them what it should feel and look like.
We will cover cueing ideas for perceived exertion as well as an overview of
basic heart rate training.
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GE, MB
Building A Better Back with The Bender Ball With Leslee Bender
Course #: 517
This class promotes a “healthy” back for today’s society of professional
sitters and weekend warriors that chronically have tight lower backs due to
muscular imbalances. You will learn ways to analyze postural deviations and
methods and exercises that are corrective and beneficial to assist your clients
into pain free movements and exercises. We live in a society of flexion and
poor standing techniques. This class offers some take home simple tools that
you will be able to apply in many circumstances to create a healthy back.
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All About Muscles and How To Train Them With Len Kravitz
Course #: 518
Using interactive computer-technology, Len will clearly show you the intricate
mechanisms involved in muscle force production for strength and hypertrophy.
Many questions about muscle will be answered regarding specific applications
to training including the following: muscle metabolism, motor unit recruitment,
eccentric versus concentric overloads, volume versus intensity training considerations,
and age-related phenomenon of muscle. A major part of this presentation is the
discussion of what really happens to muscles as they grow. The final part of
the lecture will include the newest research findings on the best training program
designs for improving strength and hypertrophy.
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Lecture GE, MB, PT
The Power Of The Mental Picture With Lisa Wheeler
Course #: 519
Imagery and visualization have proven to be very effective tools in changing
improper habitual movement patterns and to reinforce positive overall body posture.
In this lecture/workshop we will explore sensory, direct/indirect, and concrete/abstract
imagery as they relate to dynamic alignment and movement. Focus, positions for
imagery exercises, appropriate vocabulary and strategies for success will all
be covered. Whether you teach yoga, Pilates, kickboxing, Step or athletic training,
Lisa will help you integrate the power of imagery into all your classes.
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Lecture GE
So You Want To Be Fitness Famous With Jay Guillory
Course #: 520
Ever wonder how you become that extra in a fitness video, or the presenter
at the major fitness conventions? Join Jay and see if you’ve got what it takes
to become “fitness famous.” Learn the structure of the fitness industry and
figure out how to “get in where you fit in.”
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Workshop AQ
Aqualogical Abdominals With Terri Mitchell
Course #: 521
Training the trunk stabilizers is critical for functional movement on land,
from improved posture to proper body mechanics to back pain prevention. In the
water we can successfully strengthen the abdominals, back extensors and other
core trunk muscles, with or without equipment. Come find out how!
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SPIN
Pilates – The Pilates Tower Basics With Nina Montone
Course #: 641
This workshop is perfect for any Pilates instructor looking to learn more
about the works of Pilates. Since the Tower is basically a big mat with resistance
and assistance then it is great for Pilates instructors of all levels! Pilates
instructors or personal trainers will benefit from the knowledge and body awareness
gained in this workshop.
Workshop GE, PT
Moms, Babes and Balls With Sheila Watkins and Vicki Vertich
Course #: 522
Join the creator of Healthy Moms® Resist-A-Ball for an interactive “mommy-baby
fitness playgroup.” This class will help mom balance, strengthen and repair
muscle groups affected by pregnancy and birth while bonding with her baby and
socializing with other new moms. Class concludes with a 10 minute infant stimulation
and massage session including baby exercises, simple massage techniques and
bubbles.
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Workshop GE, PT
Sports
Performance Boot Camp
With Robert Lindsey
Course #: 523
A fun, dynamic, and intense circuit workout that incorporates all aspects
of sports performance: strength, agility, plyometrics, and core conditioning.
Workout includes a dynamic warm-up followed by challenging and exciting circuit
including Agility Ladders, Medicine Balls, Step Hurdles™, VersaDiscs™, Reflex
Balls™, and unique resistance training with sand bags. Develop total body fitness
with this unique hands-on class.
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GE, PT
Peak Athletic Conditioning with Resist-A-Ball® With Mike &
Stephanie Morris
Course #: 524
Looking to enhance your game? Whether you are training the weekend warrior
or elite athletes the ultimate goal is peak performance. This session will take
you through six different training blocks of specific exercises designed by
Resist-A-Ball® creator Mike Morris. Take your training to the next level of
connecting strength, balance, & flexibility for optimal strength and conditioning.
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GE, PT
BOSU®
Ballast Ball Core Challenge With Shannon Fable
Course #: 525
Take core training to the next level using new stability ball training techniques
on the BOSU® Ballast™ Ball. Add fresh elements to abdominal and back training,
and learn many new core exercises that effectively challenge every muscle in
your “power center” while simultaneously improving overall movement capabilities.
Do you think you’ve seen it all in regards to stability ball core training?
Lift it, shift it, shake it… and think again!
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Workshop GE, MB
Sensational Stretching and Flawless Flexibility With Robert Sherman
Course #: 526
Learn the reactive, PNF quality of partner yoga and flexibility. This training
is beneficial for increasing range of motion, but also allows for gains in balance
and muscular control. The connection to touch is deeply rooted in each one of
us and opening ourselves up to this can unlock very positive emotions and begin
to break down fears. This workshop can shed light on a compassionate and giving
future for yourself and those around you.
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CY
SPINNING®: Reaction Ride With Josh Taylor
Course #: 527
For every action there’s a reaction! Come join Josh in this unique Interval
Energy Zone ride that is all about reacting. This is an interactive ride for
both the student and instructor. Learn to use your mind body connection on the
bike all while having fun. It will be intense, so be ready to give your best!
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SPIN
Pilates Partner Pilates – Reformer & Tower With
Nicole Rogos
Course #: 642
Double your participation, double your fun! This new piece of equipment
from SPIN Pilates allows you to increase participation in your equipment-based
classes. While one participant utilizes the reformer, another participant can
use the tower on the back. A wonderful training effect is the result and adds
not only value but marketability to your Pilates program.
Workshop
GE, MB
Balletone® Interval Intelligence With Shannon Fable
Course #: 533
Explore intelligence in motion with a fusion-style, cardio-interval workout
created with Balletone movements that anyone can do. This power-packed session
alternates flowing fitness moves that get your heart-rate up with long-lever,
strength and balance exercises that challenge muscular endurance, active flexibility
and core strength. Whether you decide to use the class design from start to
finish or mix and match pieces with current workouts, you are sure to find innovative
ideas for your harshest front row frowner!
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Workshop GE
Hard Work Conditioning With Patrick Goudeau
Course #: 534
While getting in shape should be fun, it’s not always easy. This TOTAL BODY
workout is the real deal with no time wasted and no muscle left untouched. Creative,
compound exercises designed for maximum results in the shortest amount of time
possible. See why it’s so EASY to get hooked on Patrick’s HARD WORK CONDITIONING…and
remember, a little HARD WORK pays off in your end!
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GE
Zumba – Ditch The Workout With Tony Witt
Course #: 535
Zumba's Cardio Party kicks it up a notch! While incorporating all of the
basic rhythms used in A Taste of Zumba, additional rhythms are introduced and
more extensive choreography is added. The routines feature aerobic/fitness interval
training with a combination of fast and slow rhythms that tone and sculpt the
body. Zumba utilizes the principals of fitness interval training and resistance
training to maximize caloric output, fat burning and body toning. It is a mixture
of body sculpting movements with easy to follow dance steps.
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GE
Body Bar: Raise The Bar Higher With Sherry Catlin
Course #: 536
Dynamic, total body integrated strength training at its best! Expand your
workout options with new moves, creative sequences and challenging drills that
cover all the bases.. strength, endurance, balance, control and agility… with
some surprising twists that will make you say, “I never thought of it that way!”
Get a body that’s strong, defined and knows how to move with the power and grace
of an athlete or dancer. Just grab a bar, get ready to work and we’ll not only
raise the bar, but the roof as well!
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Yoga Integrated Science™ With Lauren Eirk
Course #: 537
This lecture includes a brief overview of the new educational program created
by Lauren Eirk as it relates to Science. Covered will be the relationship of
Hatha Yoga to various topics taught in the RTS® Programs, including InTension®,
Microprogression®, and the Functional Continuum™. An in-depth explanation of
Hatha Yoga and its relationship to the Central Nervous System. Learn how Yoga
really can affect the body from the inside and out, mind/body/spirit.
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CY
SPINNING®: Get Loaded With Reneé Spriggs
Course #: 538
Looking for take home ride profiles with a scientific approach? Loading
and unloading resistance and/or cadence are great ways to spice up your classes,
while providing challenging, engaging workouts. We will review cadence and resistance
loading techniques, learn how to put them into your profiles, and finish with
a ride to experience it all. Get ready to get loaded.
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GE, MB
The Bender Ball & Gliding Pilates Evolution With Leslee Bender
Course #: 539
Finally a course which offers a ball similar to a small arc barrel and gliding
which simulates a reformer. Mat classes will be revolutionized with these two
products. By simulation of traditional Pilates equipment the exercises are safer
and more effective for the general population who have trouble performing exercises
correctly. You will activate your deep core muscles more efficiently and effectively
through these specially designed exercises and products.
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Fad Diets, Cut Through The Diet Craze With Donna Manring
Course #: 540
Carbs, fats and calories, what really works to lose or manage weight? Get
to the bottom of fad diets promoting quick weight loss or unrealistic promises.
Learn how some fad diets can actually make you sick or trigger other health
problems. Discover practical approaches on choosing a healthy eating lifestyle.
Learn practical tips for eating out and on the run. Nutrition is not one size
fits all. Provide your clients a crock pot of ideas that they will be able to
simmer and serve what works for them.
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Lecture GE
The World Is Your Stage With Lisa Wheeler
Course #: 541
Everyone is looking for the next big thing.... is it you? How do you go
from good to great to phenomenal? What are the steps you need to take to move
from the group fitness studio to the presenter stage to the international scene
and possibly books and DVDs? This lecture will focus on practical information
on how to break into the convention circuit as a presenter, camera training
and tricks of the trade for TV and DVD and how to take your career to the next
level and beyond. What are conventions looking for in a presenter? Why do some
people connect on camera and others do not? What makes a great presenter so
great that people will want to be just like them? Lisa has been trained and
mentored by some of the best in the business including Gin Miller, Petra Kolber,
Sherry Catlin, Molly Fox, Cal Pozo, Carol Scott and Stephanie Montgomery covering
presenting, conventions, program development and camera work. Now she wants
to share some of her knowledge with you!
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Lecture GE, PT
The Seven Habits Of Highly Successful Motivators With Mare Petras
Course #: 542
Got motivation? As fitness professionals, we are in the relationship business!
Learn four different communication styles and best ways to motivate the different
styles. Discover ways to disarm & diffuse conflict. You want results? What good
is the latest move without the ability to inspire ACTION. Go for the burn without
getting burned out. Calling all motivators - ready, set...GO!
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Aqua Latin Party With Manuel Velázquez
Course #: 543
Experience an Aqua efficient cardiovascular Latin-dance oriented workout
using the water to build up endurance and muscular strength. Travel to almost
every Central, and South American country including the Caribbean and learn
how the similarities are more than differences combining some spicy Latin land
oriented sequences in the water. Add your own flavor and let’s party!!!
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GE, MB
SPIN Pilates – Beyond The Basics Reformer With Nina
Montone
Course #: 643
This session is designed to give clients an advanced workout and the instructor
a way to be creative with different exercises using the reformer. Understanding
the progressions of exercises and how the exercises flow will give you the confidence
to teach an advanced reformer class.
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Workshop GE, MB
Ex-Tension With Stacey Lei Krauss
Course #: 544
Here’s a flexibility class with a whole different feel. In this workshop,
you’ll learn to stretch your muscles effectively by strengthening the opposing
muscle groups. The result is an energizing workout that appeals to students
in all markets. We’ll pay special attention to areas that really matter in today’s
world: devoting our focus to the extensors. Your students will eventually stand
taller, look leaner and breathe easier. Get rid of stress and tension by opening
up your chest and mobilizing your neck. These are the moves that you’ll be able
to incorporate into your existing classes next Monday!
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GE
Body Bar 2008: Lift Leap & Dance
With Harold Sanco
Course #: 545
There’s more to working out with the Body Bar than bicep curl and overhead presses.
Join Harold as he shows you how to creatively combine multiple training goals-
strength, endurance, coordination, balance, dynamic flexibility- into one exciting
Body Bar workout. Go home with new routines you can teach to your participants
or clients right away, using everything from standard strength training to plyometrics
to dance moves!
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Workshop GE
Step Up 2 Get Down With Clay Grant
Course #: 546
Fun, intricate combinations with a step. Twist and spin to mix things up
to the right degree. Symmetrical, tap free step patterns built from the ground
up. zoom, zoom!
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GE
Resist-A-Ball® Cardio Strength Intervals With Cheri Groom
Course #: 547
Experience the fun of taking the Resist-A-Ball® to new dimensions that combine
aerobic moves and strength exercises in intervals, resulting in a great workout.
The rhythmic cardio movements will elevate the heart rate with challenging strength
work that emphasizes core training. This calorie burning, muscle-conditioning,
session will open your mind to the creative possibilities that Resist-A-Ball
offers.
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Workshop GE, MB
The Gift Of Yoga With Robert Sherman
Course #: 548
Yoga is not just for flexibility! Learn it’s benefits are simply a gift
for looking to find more meaning and new ways to approach our instabilities.
Explore new mental and physical techniques for range of motion, flexibility
and strength training progressions to work the body from the inside out by focusing
on exercises that demand core strength and stability. Control muscles that stabilize
the pelvis and spine to not only increase performance but also prevent injury
and relieve pain. The class is taught in the tradition of yoga.
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CY
SPINNING®: PRO: “The Ride” With Josh Taylor
Course #: 549
Ride a Race Day simulation of one of the United States PRO National Racing
Calendar (NRC) Events, with Pro Cyclist Josh Taylor. You could be Sprinting
for the “BIG WIN” at Philly (USPRO Championships), San Francisco Grand Prix,
or even New York City Championships. Get ready to experience the Race Day Energy
Zone in the PRO peleton. Will you find the pro in you and hit that finish line
first? Each surprise course will be the last 40 minutes of one of the largest
Road Races or Criteriums held in the United States. Spinning comes from the
real world of cycling. See you at the Start/Finish Line!
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GE, MB
STOTT PILATES® Intensifying Essential Matwork With
Sally Belanger
Course #: 550
Pre-Requisite: STOTT PILATES® Essential Matwork Workshop and/or previous
experience teaching or studying Pilates Mat exercise
This interactive workshop teaches participants how to challenge clients with
maximum safety and effectiveness by taking STOTT PILATES’ Essential Matwork
to a higher level of intensity. Participants will learn how to add variety and
increase the pace of the workout to improve muscular endurance and core stability,
without sacrificing control and quality. Cues and corrections for safety and
effectiveness are also covered.
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Lecture GE, PT
Reignited
& It Feels So Good With Myrna Brady
Course #: 551
If you want to "Change" the things around you, then you have to "Change"
the things around you! In other words you have take the responsibility into
your own hands to create the career growth you would like to experience. We
will identify what initially attracted you to this growing field and come up
with ways to "Reignite the Fire" and passion you once had or would like to take
your career to the next level. We will interact amongst ourselves in small groups
and come up with ideas that will enable you to make personal changes to fuel
your career growth. This workshop will leave you revitalized, excited and motivated
to re-embark upon and control your career.
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Intro To the Body Ecology Diet With Helen Terry
Course #: 552
Tens of thousands of people have already benefited from the Body Ecology
Way of Life. Discover how this lifestyle of eating can help you personally.
How to restore and maintain the “inner ecology” your body need-to function properly
and to eliminate or control the symptoms which can rob us of the joy of living.
Entertain how you may integrate this information to assist your clients and
build your business.
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Lecture GE, PT
Big Groups, Small Groups With Jay Guillory
Course #: 553
Ever felt like you were distant from your class or maybe even your personal
training clients. Come to this brainstorming session to share ideas and thoughts
that will allow us all to leave with new and fresh ideas on how to better connect
and service our clients and classes.
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Seniors and Senior-itas With Jeff Howard
Course #: 554
Learn aquatic combinations that address balance for our growing populations…seniors
of all ages… A Latin theme will help us add some fun! This workshop will help
you think outside the box leaving you with a plethora of ideas.
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GE, MB
SPIN Pilates – T.R.I.M. Pilates With Nicole Rogos
Course #: 644
Tower-Reformer-In-Motion - What do you get when you combine a Reformer with
a Tower? An incredible Pilates workout bound to excite the Pilates enthusiast.
All of the Pilates principles will be put to the test during this dynamic workout
– Concentration, Control, Centering, Flow, Precision and Breathe. Participant’s
focus and awareness improves as they are challenged by trying to maintain stability
in one area of the body while moving another. Discover the enhanced benefits
of marrying these two incredible pieces of equipment that provide participants
with a whole new training effect.
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GE, MB
Build A Better Booty with The Bender Ball and Tubing With Leslee
Bender
Course #: 555
What client does not want a tight tush?? By utilizing the Bender Ball and
tubing you will experience hot new exercises that will restructure your bottom
half! The glutes, hip extensors and rotators play a big part in all activities.
Also by having strong and flexible muscles, you go through life easier to perform
all other movements. This course is designed for the fitness professional who
is looking to add innovative core strengthening exercises into their routine.
All exercises are bio-mechanically safe and effective for all levels of students.
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GE
Project Body Bar: Strong, Lean & Mean With Clay Grant
Course #: 556
Do you think you have what it takes to "Make it Work"? We will incorporate
the use of the Body Bar with the step and a medicine ball and weave together
strength and conditioning circuits that aren't for the faint of heart! You will
learn great exercises for your weekend warriors, endurance athletes and boot
camp classes.
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GE, PT
Power Systems:
Group X-Treme With Robert Lindsey
Course #: 557
Take your group fitness classes to the extreme with Group X-Treme. Learn
fun and exciting alternative ways of training. Whether its medicine balls, kettlebells
or simply your own body weight, this class will take your fitness level to the
moon! You’ll learn alternative training and teaching methods as well as how
to format a class for beginners or X-tremists!
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Workshop
GE
Cardio Express
With Shannon Fable
Course #: 558
This action packed workshop will deliver an explosion of cardio drills guaranteed
to raise your heart rate and workout fun factor. Innovative movement patterns
can be linked for group fitness or used independently for personal training
or circuit workouts. Using the BOSU® Balance Trainer, learn unique drills that
will challenge your cardio fitness as will as improving your balance, agility,
coordination and athletic power.
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Workshop GE, MB
Yoga Prescription & Progression With Lauren Eirk
Course #: 559
With over 10,000 versions of yoga postures and infinite types of people
of which to apply them, this lecture/demonstration workshop is designed to help
you make educated decisions in the instruction of Hatha Yoga. Many of our students
come to yoga with various health-related issues, and it is up to the teacher
to decide which postures will be most helpful in achieving one’s goals. Once
this has been decided, a thought process is necessary to know how to teach the
posture and how/when to progress to the next stage of practice. A MUST for all
yoga teachers!
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SPINNING®: In the Zones, Running
With Reneé Spriggs
Course #: 1
Bored with your current Spinning profiles? Try this ride for a change, using
only seated and standing runs. Sound easy? Learn how to manipulate cadence and
resistance variables throughout all the Spinning Energy Zones to create a challenging,
motivating profile. This high energy interval ride will cover heart ranges of
50 to 92%of heart rate maximum.
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STOTT PILATES® Ultimate Body Sculpting Flex-Band®
Level 3 With Sally Belanger
Course #: 561
This workshop teaches Intermediate level exercises that challenge core and
peripheral strength, and add variety and multi-dimensional joint movements to
the basic Flex-Band® exerciser routine. Emphasis is on upper and lower body
working together while maintaining correct alignment and form. Cues and corrections
for safety and effectiveness are also covered.
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You Can Inspire Your Clients To Choose a Healthy Lifestyle With Donna Manring
Course #: 562
As professionals, we are dedicated and aware of the impact behavior has
on health. Learn how to spread your enthusiasm to your clients. Get beyond the
attitude of “this won’t work for me” to “I can make it happen!” Learn how to
educate using humor combined with other motivating factors that will enhance
learning. Receive practical tips and tools that clients may incorporate in reaching
their goals. You can be the professional and have fun too.
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Assess To Your Best With Monique Budd
Course #: 563
Enhance your body composition assessment knowledge and aptitude with this
interactive session. Learn applicable formulae and techniques for different
populations including youth, elderly, athletes, and the obese. Come dressed
to assess. Our objectives are: To know the formula for Pollock and Jackson skinfold
measurements, to learn how to use sum of skinfold charts for male and females,
to learn the current healthy guidelines for each population, to know which formulas
are best for each population and to learn the scientific names for anatomical
sites as well as the appropriate grips for each skinfold measurements.
Lecture GE
Teaching Techniques 101 For The New Instructor With Lisa Wheeler
Course #; 564
This lecture is designed for the new instructor who wants to move past pre-choreographed
workout routines and begin to develop their teaching skills. Cueing, musicality,
sequencing, exercise development and program design are all covered in this
interactive lecture/workshop. In 2008 group fitness instructors are expected
to be able to teach a multitude of class modalities, styles, and techniques.
But just because someone takes a workshop, passes a test and can read choreography
notes, does not a top instructor make. Lisa will guide you in ways to constantly
educate yourself and continue to improve on basic skills as well as help you
find your personal teaching "voice". Don't miss this lecture if you want to
pursue a long and satisfying career as a fitness instructor.
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Fluid Fusion With Manuel Velázquez
Course #: 565
Join this effective and dynamic Aquatic Interval Training workshop designed
to challenge and improve all the energy systems in your body. Cardiovascular
capacity, functional strength and muscle reactivity hand by hand to promote
the maximum caloric burning in and out of the pool.
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SPRI Slanted Riser™ Cardio Workout With Kimberly Spreen
Course #: 566
Join Kimberly and take the next step in step training with the new SPRI®
Slanted Riser™ Cardio Workout. This is where tradition and innovation collide,
providing a whole new angle to your cardio step workouts. This choreographed
step program incorporates both traditional and non-traditional step movements
performed on an inclined platform surface. This heart pumping, reactive movement
workout is one you need to experience to believe!
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Step Up & Shake It
With Manuel Velázquez Course #: 567
Latin, creative dance moves and drama. Move your step class to another level
with cardio-dance moves over and around the bench. Let your body experience
how to get sweat with a little twist of rumba and rhythm using steps that you
know with a new focus in fun and dance.
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Dance Fitness With Patrick Goudeau
Course #: 568
Patrick will teach you how to combine both fitness and dance into one amazing
workout! You won’t have a problem getting of keeping your heart rate up in this
nonstop, fun-filled cardio explosion. Patrick will demonstrate how to mix movement
and fitness together for an effective, dynamic body challenge. So, get your
groove on, get ready to sweat and let’s dance!
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Body Bar: Tenacity Endurance Challenge
With Sherry Catlin
Course #: 569
What are you made of? Need a workout to shake your plateau and challenge
your current level of conditioning? Combine the Body Bar for resistance with
the step to take it all to the next level of intensity to create the ultimate
workout for strength, endurance, power and agility. Maximal sets of multi-planar
and multidisciplinary exercises cover it all. Test your will, your spirit and
stubborn persistence in this fun but not for “the faint of heart” challenge!
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Limber For Life With Helen Terry
Course #: 570
A fun, effective, holistic mind body program for seniors utilizing principles
from the Nia Technique. Discover how a very ordinary senior fitness class (seated
or standing) can be easily transformed into an extraordinary experience.
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SPINNING®: Formula One Ride With Josh Taylor
Course #: 571
Ladies and gentlemen, “Start your engines!” A race day ride with all the
sounds and excitement of the F1 car racing world! Speed, power, and pushing
the limits is what Formula One racing is all about. Come and race a world-class
course and go for the big victory! A new twist on the Race Day Energy Zone that
is all about super high performance! See you on the track!
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SPIN Pilates – Think Outside The Mat
With Nina Montone
Course #: 572
Is your Pilates Mat class in need of an invigorating burst of creativity?
This workshop will demonstrate a variety of stimulating Pilates exercises that
have been borrowed from Pilates apparatus and placed on the mat. Dynamic transitions
and challenging exercises fill this non-stop workout that will allow you greater
ability to advance your participants and breathe new life into your Pilates
mat classes.
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Own Your Own Debt FREE With Marion Mauro & Linda Magee
Course #: 573
Do you think you can’t afford to own your own personal training studio?
Learn from two savvy business women who took $3,000.00 cash, no loans, sweat
equity, passion and priorities and turned it into a successful training business
that continues to flourish.
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Fitness GURU You With Mare Petras
Course #: 574
Shine! What gets and keeps clients – is it talent or people skills? Find
out what clients really want (and it’s not only the latest fitness craze). Learn
50 tips to build you, your business and keep your clients happy. Walk away with
ideas that fitness certification courses don’t teach you.
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Bigger By Volume With Richard Richey
Course #: 575
This presentation is designed to provide the fitness professional with a
better understanding of hypertrophy training (increase in muscular size) through
the manipulation of repetitions, sets, and intensity (volume). Specific training
styles in this presentation will be Strength Endurance Training, German Volume
Training, Escalated Density Training, along with others. Also discussed will
be the topic of overtraining while working throughout these different phases
and the importance of appropriate nutritional intake while training during these
phases.
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Senior Moments With Terri Mitchell
Course #: 576
Do the older adults in your aqua fitness classes shuffle their feet when
they walk, have slouched posture, and protruding abdominals! We can have a method
to our madness as we teach older adults to have improved flexibility, coordination,
balance and stabilization, while they have a lot of fun with performance.
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SPIN Pilates Tower Choreography With Nicole Rogos
Course #: 645
This workshop is a complement to the education of any Pilates tower instructor.
Learn how to program group tower and tower-reformer workouts that are creative,
safe and effective. The class discussion includes proven communication techniques
and hands-on teaching skills that will improve the performance of any Pilates
reformer instructor. The practical application portion of this class will teach
you how to create smooth transitions between exercises to minimize down-time
during your workouts.
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Balletone® Flow
With Shannon Fable
Course #: 577
F.L.o.W is the formula for success in Balletone®, a fusion style conditioning
program, designed specifically for the non-dancer. Enjoy a non-stop cardio and
strength fusion class that effortlessly blends training techniques drawn from
dance, Pilates, and fitness. First, align the body standing up in functional
posture with Pilates techniques, then blend Balletone® and traditional fitness
exercises to create dynamic sequences that are linked effortlessly from one
to the next without stopping. Discover F.L.o.W as a recipe for success and uncover
a body-blasting, fat-burning workout that develops muscular endurance, core
strength, stamina and agility without the use of equipment or props.
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Dance Inspired Step . . . for Non-Dancers With Harold Sanco
Course #: 578
Put a little soul in your step! See how familiar step moves you know and
love can be easily transformed into entertaining dance-based alternatives. All
it takes is a little creativity and a touch of soul. Step away from this session
with a formula for mixing traditional choreography with easy-to-teach dance
steps inspired by funk, hip hop, jazz and modern dance. No dance experience
required – for you or your participants.
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The Zumba Toning Method With Tony Witt
Course #: 579
Join Beto and break the rules of traditional fitness by experiencing TV's
hottest new sculpt and tone program. The ZumbaToning Method is a unique functional
core training program emphasizing the fusion of the unique, fun and interesting
Zumba Latin dance rhythms into an effective training program. The focus is on
muscles often missed or ignored in the old traditional strength programs. Let
Beto show you how to “spice up” your sculpt and tone classes the Zumba way!
Beto will demonstrate the ZumbaToning movements with and without light weights.
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BOSU® Mind Body Training With Stacey Lei Krauss
Course #: 580
Yoga, Pilates and Tai Chi are three of the hottest workout programs on the
planet. This workshop shows you how to take these modalities and make them more
effective by incorporating the new BOSU® Ballast Ball and BOSU® Balance Trainer.
Whether you teach full-length mind/body classes or are simply looking for innovative
stretch, core, and dynamic strengthening moves, you will get more ideas than
you can carry home. Learn how to make tough exercises more accessible and easy
exercises more challenging while adding balance, proprioceptive and agility
elements to your mind/body workouts.
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STOTT PILATES® Toning Ball
With Sally Belanger
Course #: 581
This workshop incorporates the use of soft hand-held Toning Balls while
interactively teaching participants select exercises from the STOTT PILATES
Essential Matwork repertoire. The use of Toning balls will not only target the
rotator cuff, but increase awareness and strength of the entire upper quadrant
as well as core musculature. Cues and corrections for safety and effectiveness
will be included.
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SPINNING®: Could you Repeat That? With Reneé Spriggs
Course #: 582
Get those creative juices flowing and experience a class with repeating
workloads, using varying intensities and movements. Take a simple profile and
repeat it as many times as you like, changing cadence, resistance, intensity
and length or any of the above. For sure, a Monday take-home ride profile.
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SPIN Pilates Reformer With Props With Nina Montone
Course #: 646
Feeling stale with your reformer classes? Taking this workshop will definitely
give you the creative mind on how to add props to your reformer class. Props
can add a new dimension to your workout session. Learn how to progress or modify.
Workshop GE, MB
Seven Steps To Great Yoga In A Fitness Environment With Misha Laird
Course #: 583
Too cold? No mats? Client’s who won’t take their shoes off? The challenges
of a fitness market ask yoga instructors to be innovative in integrating their
classes into a group exercise program. Whether a traditional yoga instructor
or a fitness instructor bridging over to yoga, these seven steps will give you
concrete ways to turn those challenges into opportunities to teach great yoga
in a fitness environment.
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Client Retention: Keep Them Coming Back! With Juliana Garcia
Course #: 584
Have you ever wondered how the most successful trainers make a living? Join
one of 24 Hour Fitness’s Elite trainers to see how it’s done. Learn the ins
and outs of client retention that every trainer should know, as well as methods
to keep your clients engaged in their training sessions. Also, learn how to
keep your clients focused on reaching and maintaining realistic personal fitness
goals.
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Seven Proven Tips For Living With A Positive Attitude With Donna Manring
Course #: 585
Humor and a positive attitude is a great combination! This program encourages
each of us to choose to live everyday with a positive outlook and a “generosity
of spirit.” Humor helps us get through many tough situations and is a great
tool to possess in our tool belt of life. A positive attitude is contagious
and can be spread around. Don’t let the negative attitude germ infect you or
your clients. This is an excellent program to assist in times of difficult changes,
to improve attitudes, or for personal development.
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Instruction Evolved Y28 With Jay Guillory
Course #: 586
Group exercise classes have come a long way, not only for participants but
for us as instructors as well. Come and learn some of the new instructional
techniques that group exercise instructors are now using to motivate and “coach”
their classes. Brainstorm with other instructors in new ways to help our students
become as successful as possible.
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Fast and Furious With Jeff Howard
Course #: 587
Calling all VO2 junkies! Get your engines started for a vigorous cardiovascular
workout designed to give you ten fabulous new ideas you can incorporate into
your water classes immediately!
Workshop GE, MB
The All New Reformer On The Mat 2008 With Leslee Bender
Course #: 588
This was one of the most popular classes in 2007 and even better for 2008
with new and innovative exercises to challenge the smaller muscle groups. In
mat classes there is entirely too much flexion and today’s society need functional
exercises that will improve their posture and strength. You will walk away with
just those exercises with easy to use props anywhere and anytime. This is a
session that brings in the concepts of a reformer and transfers them onto the
mat, especially ALL of the standing work. If you are a pilates mat instructor
looking for something much more innovative, then this session is for you!
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Body Bar: Spontaneous Combustion With Lisa Wheeler
Course #: 589
This workshop, a compliment to Lisa’s award winning “Lift, Leap, Lunge”,
follows the always effective circuit format of alternating cardio and strength
exercises to incinerate fat and define muscles. Using the Body Bar with dynamic,
athletic yet simple floor based movement patterns, this challenging workout
is designed for efficiency and results. Light a fire and ignite your entire
body!
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Power Systems:
Strength Without Boundaries With Robert Lindsey
Course #: 590
Innovative alternative strength training ideas for any situation or clientele.
Whether you train out of a facility or out of your car, this course is for you.
During this session, you’ll break away from traditional methods of strength
training to discover new ways of building muscle using kettlebells, sand bags,
medicine balls, bands, and body weight drills.
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BOSU® Skills & Drills With Jay Blahnik
Course #: 591
If you love the BOSU® Balance Trainer, and want new ideas…this is the workshop
for you! Learn dozens of exercises, drills, skills and activities that can be
done on the BOSU® Balance Trainer in a group or personal training setting. Discover
how to progress, regress and adapt each exercise to accommodate almost all fitness
and skill levels with minimal equipment. Walk away with ideas that can be used
next week with clients and in classes.
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Vinyasa Mat Training With Lauren Eirk
Course #: 592
Explore the strengths of Vinyasa Yoga and Pilates Mat training in a flowing,
core-strengthening, mind/body workout. The possibilities are endless for this
type of class! You will learn how to sequence the two to give your students
a taste of both disciplines. Vinyasa Mat Training will compare “powerhouse”
training in Pilates with the balance, grace, and symmetry of yoga.
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SPINNING®: 212: The Extra Degree With Joshua Taylor
Course #: 593
“At 211 degrees, water is hot. At 212 degrees, it boils. And with boiling
water comes steam. And steam can power a locomotive.” This is a ride based on
a book by Sam Parker and Mac Anderson. 212 degrees is a powerful and simple
idea that can and will empower you! Spinning instructors have a chance to touch
lives in so many ways. Join Josh as he takes you on a ride that is all about
that one extra degree!
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MBT Workout Experience With Helen Terry
Course #: 594
MBT is the first ever physiological footwear that has a positive effect
on the whole body. MBT’s unique construction around the Masai Sensor strengthens
muscles, relieves joints and burns calories. Come experience how MBT’s work
to provide you with an awesome workout. As a stability balance training tool
to increase workout, or as a devise that can rapidly increase recovery, this
revolutionary footwear is like the worlds “smallest gym.”
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Exercise Spells Relief With Marion Mauro
Course #: 595
Eight Million Americans, 80% of them women between the ages of 18 and 50
are affected with fibromyalgia. How do you motivate and train this special population?
Discover how to work with people suffering from constant aching and overpowering
fatigue. Learn the location of trigger points, appropriate exercises and how
to inspire this special population. When you instruct your client properly,
exercise can become the most important treatment they receive. If you have one
client who suffers from chronic pain, you can’t miss this lecture!
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But We Just Met: The Tools For The Optimal Pre-Participation Assessment With
Monique Budd
Course #: 596
Which forms are the most informative, which tests are the most accurate?
Learn how to make the most of your first meetings with your clients. This session
covers health screening forms, body composition assessments, cardiovascular
fitness, muscular endurance, and flexibility. Identify the appropriate formulae
for testing, and how to make the most of field-based testing.
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Working With Women: Beyond Back Fat, Bon-Bons & Bubble Baths With Mare Petras
Course #: 597
Discover ways to help your female clients stay healthy in mind, body & spirit
-beyond the gym. Encourage women to better care for themselves by building self
esteem, strong boundaries, flexibility through life passages (child-bearing,
peri-menopause & menopause) and improving life balance. As fitness professionals,
we can help! Don't miss this opportunity to discover exercises to help your
clients pump up their lives.
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PNF In The Pool With Terri Mitchell
Course #: 598
Understand the effectiveness of using diagonal patterns with arms, legs
and trunk in the water, with or without resistance equipment. Using PNF patterns
in the water, learn sport specific, coordination and strengthening exercises
for all abilities. Adapt your choreography using diagonals and spirals. Design
a circuit class to incorporate arm, leg and trunk strengthening exercises, using
PNF.
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GE, MB
SPIN Pilates Reformer Choreography With Nina Montone
Course #: 647
This workshop is a complement to the education of any Pilates reformer instructor.
Learn how to program group reformer workouts that are creative, safe and effective.
The class discussion includes proven communication techniques and hands-on teaching
skills that will improve the performance of any Pilates reformer instructor.
The practical application portion of this class will teach you how to create
smooth transitions between exercises to minimize down-time during your workouts.
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Surf Boarding Gliding™ Inspried With Mindy Mylrea
Course #: 599
You will love the moves, the music, and the pure exhilaration of this workout.
Using the unique and fabulous Gliding discs, and the balance challenge of the
half foam roller, a multitude of surfing skills will be introduced, practiced,
and perfected leaving your body toned and ready for the athlete in you to spring
into action. Cowabunga Dude!!!!!!
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Resist-A-Ball® Sweet 16’s Cardio Ball
With Stephanie Morris
Course #: 600
This “can’t miss” session is packed full of creative ball choreography!
You’ll learn exciting 16 count cardio and innovative strength combos plus a
formula for a year’s worth of choreography. Let us show you how to mix and match
these 16 counts combos to create an endless array of heart pumping calorie burning
total body workouts!! Resist-A-Ball® Cardio like you have never seen before!!!
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Body Bar: Step Up To The Bar With Clay Grant
Course #: 601
Are you ready to energize your strength class by motivating your
members to be creative with the choreography you give them?
This class will show you a new and innovative approach to
incorporate the Body Bar and step into a strength and conditioning workout.
We will show you base moves that your members can choose from, depending on
their skill level, to use within the choreography. So c'mon, let’s STEP out
of the ordinary and become extraordinary!
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BOSU®
Block Party With Jay Blahnik, Shannon Fable & Stacey Lei
Krauss
Course #: 602
Learn to develop high-energy athletic workouts using the BOSU® Balance Trainer,
soft fitness balls and stability balls. Whether you own one or all three pieces
of equipment, take home exercise progressions to help improve power torso training,
dynamic flexibility, core strength, shoulder stability, proprioceptive skills
and hand-eye coordination common to many sports. This workshop is not only enlightening,
but lots of fun, and will provide plenty of new challenges for all athletes,
clients and students.
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SPINNING®: Give Me Some Base With Reneé Spriggs
Course #: 603
If aerobic base building is so good for you, why aren’t your students doing
more of it? Aerobic base building is critical in developing a strong fitness
base by improving heart and lung efficiency, as well as the body’s ability to
both store and transport fuel. If that’s not enough, aerobic base building also
improves the body’s ability to burn fat, improves sleep, can reduce cardiovascular
disease, improves the immune system and increases energy levels while decreasing
stress. Come discover what it is, how to apply it to your rides and leave with
several Spinning tools to give your students more base!
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Floor Play With Jeff Howard
Course #: 604
This unique workout that uses both sports conditioning and mind body techniques
will bring your workout to the next level. These two principals are like yin
and yang. You will go from traditional yoga and Pilates sequencing to sports
drill that will be added to increase intensity. This workshop is designed to
get you heart racing, tone muscle move your participants to a higher performance
level.
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The New Faces Of Eating Disorders With Heather J. Anderson
Course #: 605
In a society obsessed with body image, thinness and quick fixes, disordered
relationships with eating and exercise take on new faces every day. Fitness
professionals have a unique role in understanding, identifying and managing
clients who have experienced these diseases firsthand. This workshop will redefine
the way we classify eating disorders through a frank and cutting edge discussion
of how body image, obsessive/compulsive behaviors, eating and exercise intertwine.
You will leave with a comprehensive knowledge of the topic and how to handle
it in your fitness practice.
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Health Paradigm – Comparison Between Bio Medical and Holistic With Helen
Terry
Course #: 606
Over the past ten years we have seen a rapid development/explosion with
mind body in the fitness industry. Explore the difference between the bio medical
(traditional fitness) and holistic (mind/body). Learn how to effectively integrate
a holistic process into any fitness business to optimize potential both personally
and professionally.
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Opportunities With AFAA With Lauri Reimer
(CANCELLED!)
Course #: 607
If you are a certified fitness professional with AFAA, come hear about several
opportunities which might interest you. This FREE seminar will explain eligibility
to become an AFAA continuing education provider, workshop host, examiner and
consultant . . . AND you will receive 1 CEU for attending!!!!
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Hydro Zen With Manuel Velázquez
Course #: 608
This is a non-traditional, calorie burning, mind/body Aqua class. You'll
learn techniques to build a unique, challenging, fun fusion aqua class; combining
strength, flexibility, and exercise progressions, perfect for all fitness levels
and facilities.
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SPIN Pilates Athletes + Pilates =
Performance With Nicole Rogos
Course #: 648
SOLD OUT
The benefits of Pilates for enhanced core strength and postural power is
undeniable. The need for a strong and flexible core for sports is also well
recognized. So how can you add Pilates to the athletic training regimen for
the best results? Come to learn the benefits of Pilates when applied to various
sports and how to execute a Pilates program to enhance performance.
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GE
All About Abs With Mindy Mylrea
Course #: 609
The core is the power house of the body and we should attack the core from
every angle and in every way. This workshop is jam packed with critical cutting
edge core research as well as three amazing abs and back routines using the
medicine ball, the stability ball and the gliding discs.
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Body Bar: XXX Hard Core With Sherry Catlin
Course #: 610
Using the Body Bar, learn an all new functional core training program designed
to improve power, core muscular strength/endurance, agility, equilibrium, core
stability and postural control. Learn innovative drills and exercises that challenge
the core muscles through all ranges and planes of motion. The program design
cycles between stability training, postural alignment exercises, strength moves
and balance exercises for a complete core fitness experience that finally teaches
your clients and students how to “turn it on”!
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“Back To The Future!” A Taste Of Zumba With Tony Witt
Course #: 611
Remember the fun and exciting days of the original aerobic dance programs?
A “Taste of Zumba” brings the fun back to fitness by combining high energy and
motivating music with unique moves and combinations that allow the Zumba participants
to dance away their worries. Zumba is a fusion of Latin and International music
– dance themes creating a dynamic, exciting, effective fitness system! It is
based on the principle that a workout should be 'fun and easy to do' and offers
a complete break down of all basic rhythms and movements – demonstrating how
each rhythm defines the movement. An explanation of the unique process by which
classes are choreographed and constructed will allow participants to experience
the simplicity of teaching a Zumba class. This session is based on the interval
training theory of fitness.
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More ABC With Patrick Goudeau
Course #: 612
Amazing Ball Choreography…the cardio ball workout named the “Most Innovative
Workout” of 2005 by Health magazine! And if you’re not on the ball yet, what
are you waiting for? Getting in shape should be FUN and this routine makes it
easy. Get ready to bounce, and you, too, will have a ball with this dynamic
cardio workout!
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Chakras – The Energy System With Helen Terry
Course #: 613
Across all spiritual traditions, Hindu Chakras, the Christian sacraments
and the Kabbalah’s Tree of Life we can see the wisdom of the body’s seven centers
of spiritual and physical power. Learn more about the Chakra System, how to
sense and correct an energy imbalance before it expresses itself as physical
illness and utilize the experience to align your energy system. This information
can be applied easily to personal training, warm up and cool down for workout
classes and enhance yoga/mind body classes.
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SPINNING®: Bike Fit With Josh Taylor
Course #: 614
Bike fit is a must know topic for any Spinning instructor. This is an area
where you as an instructor can make a huge difference for yourself as well as
your students. To be able to fit someone properly on the bike is essential.
Come and learn about the latest updates and protocol to the fitting system within
the Spinning program. Optimal positioning on the bike is the foundation to safe
and effective riding. You know you need to know this better! So come join Josh
in this workshop that includes in-depth lecture and hands-on application.
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Workshop
GE, MB
The Bender Ball Selected Stabilization To The Core
With Leslee Bender
Course #: 615
This course is designed to give you new and creative core exercises never
seen before for amazing results. By performing thousands of crunches against
a hard surface only leads to tight hip flexors and a sore neck and an overdeveloped
rectus abdominus. See how to train your deeper core muscles with a much safer
and effective approach. The studies have proved that crunches are not effective
and can do more harm than good. The Bender ball will create a softer surface
to the spine and extension while performing core exercises. If you are ready
to take your core training then this class is for you.
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Lecture GE, MB, PT
ELEVATE You With Stacey Lei Krauss
Course #:616
Learn to see our class through your manager’s eyes … in this session, you
will have the opportunity to evaluate your own classes and teaching style in
over 50 areas. Ony YOU can elevate your teaching technique. Take this unique
opportunity to rise above the rest.
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Lecture GE, PT
Motivating Forces / Attitude and Success! With Donna Manring
Course #: 617
Renew your enthusiasm in your career and see how contagious it is to others.
You can be the driving force! Bring as much enthusiasm to the table as you want
people to walk away with. Knowledge alone is only a piece of the leadership/teaching
puzzle. Discover how using motivation inspires your clients to reach for their
goals. This session is dedicated to you! Renew, revitalize and restore the spirit
within you!
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