Total training for professionals by professsionals Power Systems

Sessions include a lecture plus a circuit-type practical training session. Sessions may vary by location.

Alternative Training

Scott Hines
This course will teach you how to use weighted implements and bodyweight exercises to create a workout program. We will discuss how to use nontraditional weights and weight equipment and how to create a total-body strength and fitness program.

Balance Training for All

Chat Williams
No matter your age, gender, or goals in life, balance is a key motor skill to maintaining a high quality of life, performing daily activities, and excelling at sports. This presentation will show you proper progressions and multiple modalities of balance using ground-based exercises, stability balls, balance discs, balance beams, balance boards, and BOSU® balls.

Bars, Bells & Bands

Power Systems Education
Learn how simple and effective exercises can crossover using common tools of the trade. For the personal or small group trainer, these tools can be your greatest assets. Limitless movement patterns will be discussed in this session. You’ll walk away with a large library of exercises and routines that compliment one another to make you the best trainer in the gym!

Building a Profitable Boot Camp

Brian Schiff
This workshop is designed to teach you how to set up, market, run, and grow your own boot camp business in today’s difficult economy. It will cover the “how to questions” from hiring instructors and developing business systems to integrating specific training methods within each workout. If you do not teach boot camps or you currently enjoy only modest success with them and want to dramatically increase profits and job satisfaction, this course is for you. You will learn valuable strategies from someone who currently runs multiple successful boot camps.

Combining Kettlebells & Bodyweight Exercise for High-Powered Total Body Conditioning

Steve Cotter
With all the high-tech options out there today, the foundation of lifelong fitness and athletic development still lies in the simplicity of everyday tools and activities. In this session, Steve Cotter shows you how to put together simple programs for exceptional fitness using just one or two kettlebells and your own bodyweight. These workouts can be done anywhere and anytime, not a lot of space is needed, and you can accomplish them in minutes a day. It’s not what you do, it’s how you do it!

Creating Open Training Drills to Improve Reaction Time in Sports

Jay Dawes
Closed sports drills, or those drills that occur in a predictable and unchanging environment, require the use of a set movement pattern to be performed effectively. However, since the amount of environmental feedback required to perform this type of drill is relatively minimal, these drills do not allow the athlete to develop certain decision-making and perceptual skills required to anticipate, read, and respond in a competitive situation. The development of these skills may allow the athlete a competitive advantage that transcends sheer physical ability. This session will focus on the use and development of open-skilled training in practice sessions to help bridge the gap between training and competition.

Developing “Reactive Field Speed” in 2 Steps

Dave Schmitz
In the world of speed development, a great deal of attention is given to absolute or top end speed. A tremendous amount of time is spent on training 20-30 or 40-yard dashes as well. Yet in the real world of athletics, it truly comes down to who wins the first 5 yards. In this course, you’ll learn an efficient, easy way to teach and train an explosive multidirectional first step. You’ll perform each drill and learn about anatomical switches that turn on power centers regardless of direction of movement. Additionally, this course will reveal the 7 key exercises that make up all athletic movement. Finally, you’ll gain an understanding of what it means to train the “Point of Transformation.”

Effectively Building a Prehab/Rehab Training Business

Ed McNeely
This course focuses on the role that energy balance and nutrient timing play in maximizing training effects and recovery. There is a critical nutrition period that occurs around a training session where proper pre, during, and post exercise nutrition can enhance protein synthesis, delay fatigue, enhance glycogen resynthesis, and improve recovery. Participants will learn to calculate energy expenditure and individualize nutrient intakes for this critical period.

Energy Balance & Nutrient Timing for Optimum Performance

Fitness Acceleration

Power Systems Education
This is the results maker! Your clients or athletes can explode through plateaus and accelerate functional and athletic performance. Learn skills needed to train for explosive power through speed, strength, and plyometric routines. This session will give you all the tools necessary to start or enhance your current training programs.

Fuel Like a Champion

Chris Mohr
Nutrition is often the missing piece to the performance puzzle. Optimal performance not only requires smart training and rest but also the right nutrients. This presentation will focus on the key dietary and supplementation strategies that can bring performance to the next level. Attendees will learn how to blend science and practical application to translate research into proven results.

Functional Training for Sports

Larry Jusdanis
The purpose of the FAST protocol is to better educate the fitness professional, enabling them to enhance sports performance in their athletes in the shortest amount of time. The FAST protocol is a thorough program unlike your typical speed and agility program that provides the following topics in developing athletes: assessment for speed, strength training for speed, alternative exercises for speed, proper body composition, muscular imbalances and correction for speed, and use of other resistance methods. With a growing population of sports performance coaches, the FAST protocol will inform all of alternative methods for speed enhancement.

Innovative Youth Fitness Training

Jodi Townsend
Gain insight into the value of fitness training for youth ages 6-16. This session will combine exercise science and practical training to show you how to create, market, and lead individual and group training for youth. Through lecture and demonstration, you will learn circuits, obstacle courses, agility and partner drills, and other activities that will keep today’s youth motivated and having fun while improving their health, fitness, and athleticism.

Kettlebell Basics for Group Training

Scott Hines
This course will teach basic kettlebell lifts and how to implement those lifts in a group setting. It will also explain how to use kettlebell training for strength, work capacity, and general conditioning. If you are a personal trainer, sports performance trainer, or coach, you can benefit from this course. If you are training one client or a team of fifty athletes, you will be able to use this system of training.

Nutrient Timing: The Future of Peak Performance

Len Kravitz
This groundbreaking lecture 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.

Running a Successful Boot Camp

Chris Mohr
Boot camps have grown in popularity in the fitness industry. But what does it take to run a successful boot camp? It’s not personal training, it’s not group exercise, but there is a very precise formula to make sure you thrive in this competitive market. This session will provide an overview of how to run a successful boot camp and provide your clients the biggest bang for their buck!

Small Group—Big Results!

Don Bahneman
In this session, we will alternate between lecture and workout to give the fitness professional ways to maximize profits in minimal time by initiating strong and diverse group personal training sessions. Multiple workouts will be explored, so you can provide for all levels of participants.

Sports Performance Training

David Sandler
Whether your client is looking to be a top-level fitness competitor, a first-round draft choice, or just trying to improve overall fitness for a weekend tennis game, this lecture is a must! It explores specific programming from the research and practice of the top strength and conditioning coaches and scientists and provides practical application, which the personal trainer can apply to his/her client. Explore the world of sports conditioning with real-life practical application and proven scientific results!

Training on the Edge—Balance Training

Shannon Fable
This session covers all aspects of balance training for multiple populations: seniors, youth, competitive athletes, and everyone in between. We’ll take a look at why balance must be trained as well as unique and challenging ways to work with your clients. This hands-on session will include working with balance cushions, wobble boards, foam rollers, balance beams, and stability balls.

Training Seniors: A New Approach

David Sandler
The fastest growing population is senior citizens. They are living longer, requiring more care, and driving costs through the roof! You can help reduce costs, improve their health, and improve your bottom line. This workshop will show you how to evaluate strengths and weaknesses, zero in on specific exercises to improve balance, strength, and coordination, and develop programs that will drop decades off your client’s physical age!

Understanding Back Pain

Justin Price
This fully interactive hands-on workshop reveals the functional anatomy of the lumbo-pelvic hip girdle and teaches you how faulty movement patterns and/or biomechanics lead to structural malalignments, pain, and/or dysfunction. You will learn how to assess imbalances of the lumbo-pelvic hip girdle and have the opportunity to personally practice these procedures. You will also learn an array of corrective exercises, as well as create your own, to help alleviate client pain and improve function.

Utilizing Effective Prehab & Rehab to Maximize Physical Performance

Brian Schiff, PT, CSCS
Whether you train the general population or elite athletes, it is essential to implement prehab training as part of your overall program design and to understand how exercise is used to heal the body after an injury. This presentation will teach you how to prevent typical training and sports-related injuries as well as demonstrate exercise strategies, progressions, and modifications to return athletes to play without limitations. Practical demonstration will include functional assessment tools and practical exercises using cones, ladders, bands, medicine balls, stability balls, and various balance equipment.

Utilizing Movement Analysis to Increase Athleticism

Justin Price
The ability to assess a person’s movement patterns enables you to understand where a client may experience limitations or compensations when they move. This revealing information is vital when trying to improve athletic performance because it not only can help alleviate pain but it also can improve functional capabilities and performance. In this session, you will learn the assessments as well as the exercise warm-ups, progressions, and appropriate regressions to help improve athletic performance.

Winning at Losing: The Truth About Successful Weight Loss

Len Kravitz
Positively one of the most all-inclusive reviews ever compiled on understanding weight management for women. Topics include genetics, ethnicity, bodyweight perceptions, behavioral approaches, dieting, lifestyle management, exercise, maintenance, successful strategies, and future technology directions. With the growing concerns for weight loss and management, fitness professionals will learn all key issues to successfully grapple with this unrelenting epidemic.

Youth Training for the Personal Trainer: Fitness & Performance

Chat Williams
This presentation discusses the critical value of youth fitness and provides trainers with ideas and suggestions for designing appropriate programs. After learning the science, participate in fun and challenging games, drills, and exercises that may be added to your programs to enhance the health and performance in today’s youth.

Alternative Training
Scott Hines
This course will teach you how to use weighted implements and bodyweight exercises to create a workout program. We will discuss how to use nontraditional weights and weight equipment and how to create a total-body strength and fitness program.

Balance Training for All
Chat Williams
No matter your age, gender, or goals in life, balance is a key motor skill to maintaining a high quality of life, performing daily activities, and excelling at sports. This presentation will show you proper progressions and multiple modalities of balance using ground-based exercises, stability balls, balance discs, balance beams, balance boards, and BOSU® balls.

Bars, Bells & Bands
Power Systems Education
Learn how simple and effective exercises can crossover using common tools of the trade. For the personal or small group trainer, these tools can be your greatest assets. Limitless movement patterns will be discussed in this session. You’ll walk away with a large library of exercises and routines that compliment one another to make you the best trainer in the gym!

Building a Profitable Boot Camp
Brian Schiff
This workshop is designed to teach you how to set up, market, run, and grow your own boot camp business in today’s difficult economy. It will cover the “how to questions” from hiring instructors and developing business systems to integrating specific training methods within each workout. If you do not teach boot camps or you currently enjoy only modest success with them and want to dramatically increase profits and job satisfaction, this course is for you. You will learn valuable strategies from someone who currently runs multiple successful boot camps.

Combining Kettlebells & Bodyweight Exercise for High-Powered Total Body Conditioning
Steve Cotter
With all the high-tech options out there today, the foundation of lifelong fitness and athletic development still lies in the simplicity of everyday tools and activities. In this session, Steve Cotter shows you how to put together simple programs for exceptional fitness using just one or two kettlebells and your own bodyweight. These workouts can be done anywhere and anytime, not a lot of space is needed, and you can accomplish them in minutes a day. It’s not what you do, it’s how you do it!

Creating Open Training Drills to Improve Reaction Time in Sports
Jay Dawes
Closed sports drills, or those drills that occur in a predictable and unchanging environment, require the use of a set movement pattern to be performed effectively. However, since the amount of environmental feedback required to perform this type of drill is relatively minimal, these drills do not allow the athlete to develop certain decision-making and perceptual skills required to anticipate, read, and respond in a competitive situation. The development of these skills may allow the athlete a competitive advantage that transcends sheer physical ability. This session will focus on the use and development of open-skilled training in practice sessions to help bridge the gap between training and competition.

Developing “Reactive Field Speed” in 2 Steps
Dave Schmitz
In the world of speed development, a great deal of attention is given to absolute or top end speed. A tremendous amount of time is spent on training 20-30 or 40-yard dashes as well. Yet in the real world of athletics, it truly comes down to who wins the first 5 yards. In this course, you’ll learn an efficient, easy way to teach and train an explosive multidirectional first step. You’ll perform each drill and learn about anatomical switches that turn on power centers regardless of direction of movement. Additionally, this course will reveal the 7 key exercises that make up all athletic movement. Finally, you’ll gain an understanding of what it means to train the “Point of Transformation.”

Effectively Building a Prehab/Rehab Training Business
Don Bahneman
In this lecture, we will look at how the fitness professional can continue to maximize business potential by marketing their ability to train in a pre/post rehab capacity to clients. Principles of pre/post rehab, marketing strategies, and conditioning concepts will be explored.

Energy Balance & Nutrient Timing for Optimum Performance
Ed McNeely
This course focuses on the role that energy balance and nutrient timing play in maximizing training effects and recovery. There is a critical nutrition period that occurs around a training session where proper pre, during, and post exercise nutrition can enhance protein synthesis, delay fatigue, enhance glycogen resynthesis, and improve recovery. Participants will learn to calculate energy expenditure and individualize nutrient intakes for this critical period.

Fitness Acceleration
Power Systems Education
This is the results maker! Your clients or athletes can explode through plateaus and accelerate functional and athletic performance. Learn skills needed to train for explosive power through speed, strength, and plyometric routines. This session will give you all the tools necessary to start or enhance your current training programs.

Fuel Like a Champion
Chris Mohr
Nutrition is often the missing piece to the performance puzzle. Optimal performance not only requires smart training and rest but also the right nutrients. This presentation will focus on the key dietary and supplementation strategies that can bring performance to the next level. Attendees will learn how to blend science and practical application to translate research into proven results.

Functional Training for Sports
Larry Jusdanis
The purpose of the FAST protocol is to better educate the fitness professional, enabling them to enhance sports performance in their athletes in the shortest amount of time. The FAST protocol is a thorough program unlike your typical speed and agility program that provides the following topics in developing athletes: assessment for speed, strength training for speed, alternative exercises for speed, proper body composition, muscular imbalances and correction for speed, and use of other resistance methods. With a growing population of sports performance coaches, the FAST protocol will inform all of alternative methods for speed enhancement.

Innovative Youth Fitness Training
Jodi Townsend
Gain insight into the value of fitness training for youth ages 6-16. This session will combine exercise science and practical training to show you how to create and lead individual and group training for youths. Through lecture and demonstration, you will learn circuits, obstacle courses, agility and partner drills, and other activities that will keep today’s youth motivated and having fun while improving their health, fitness, and athleticism.

Kettlebell Basics for Group Training
Scott Hines
This course will teach basic kettlebell lifts and how to implement those lifts in a group setting. It will also explain how to use kettlebell training for strength, work capacity, and general conditioning. If you are a personal trainer, sports performance trainer, or coach, you can benefit from this course. If you are training one client or a team of fifty athletes, you will be able to use this system of training.

Nutrient Timing: The Future of Peak Performance
Len Kravitz
This groundbreaking lecture 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.

Running a Successful Boot Camp
Chris Mohr
Boot camps have grown in popularity in the fitness industry. But what does it take to run a successful boot camp? It’s not personal training, it’s not group exercise, but there is a very precise formula to make sure you thrive in this competitive market. This session will provide an overview of how to run a successful boot camp and provide your clients the biggest bang for their buck!

Small Group—Big Results!
Don Bahneman
In this session, we will alternate between lecture and workout to give the fitness professional ways to maximize results in minimal time by initiating strong and diverse group personal training sessions. Multiple workouts will be explored, so you can provide for all levels of participants.

Sports Performance Training
David Sandler
Whether your client is looking to be a top-level fitness competitor, a first-round draft choice, or just trying to improve overall fitness for a weekend tennis game, this lecture is a must! It explores specific programming from the research and practice of the top strength and conditioning coaches and scientists and provides practical application, which the personal trainer can apply to his/her client. Explore the world of sports conditioning with real-life practical application and proven scientific results!

Training on the Edge—Balance Training
Shannon Fable
This session covers all aspects of balance training for multiple populations: seniors, youth, competitive athletes, and everyone in between. We’ll take a look at why balance must be trained as well as unique and challenging ways to work with your clients. This hands-on session will include working with balance cushions, wobble boards, foam rollers, balance beams, and stability balls.

Training Seniors: A New Approach
David Sandler
The fastest growing population is senior citizens. They are living longer, requiring more care, and driving costs through the roof! You can help reduce costs, improve their health, and improve your bottom line. This workshop will show you how to evaluate strengths and weaknesses, zero in on specific exercises to improve balance, strength, and coordination, and develop programs that will drop decades off your client’s physical age!

Understanding Back Pain
Justin Price
This fully interactive hands-on workshop reveals the functional anatomy of the lumbo-pelvic hip girdle and teaches you how faulty movement patterns and/or biomechanics lead to structural malalignments, pain, and/or dysfunction. You will learn how to assess imbalances of the lumbo-pelvic hip girdle and have the opportunity to personally practice these procedures. You will also learn an array of corrective exercises, as well as create your own, to help alleviate client pain and improve function.

Utilizing Effective Prehab & Rehab to Maximize Physical Performance
Brian Schiff, PT, CSCS
Whether you train the general population or elite athletes, it is essential to implement prehab training as part of your overall program design and to understand how exercise is used to heal the body after an injury. This presentation will teach you how to prevent typical training and sports-related injuries as well as demonstrate exercise strategies, progressions, and modifications to return athletes to play without limitations. Practical demonstration will include functional assessment tools and practical exercises using cones, ladders, bands, medicine balls, stability balls, and various balance equipment.

Utilizing Movement Analysis to Increase Athleticism
Justin Price
The ability to assess a person’s movement patterns enables you to understand where a client may experience limitations or compensations when they move. This revealing information is vital when trying to improve athletic performance because it not only can help alleviate pain but it also can improve functional capabilities and performance. In this session, you will learn the assessments as well as the exercise warm-ups, progressions, and appropriate regressions to help improve athletic performance.

Winning at Losing: The Truth About Successful Weight Loss
Len Kravitz
Positively one of the most all-inclusive reviews ever compiled on understanding weight management for women. Topics include genetics, ethnicity, bodyweight perceptions, behavioral approaches, dieting, lifestyle management, exercise, maintenance, successful strategies, and future technology directions. With the growing concerns for weight loss and management, fitness professionals will learn all key issues to successfully grapple with this unrelenting epidemic.

Youth Training for the Personal Trainer: Fitness & Performance
Chat Williams
This presentation discusses the critical value of youth fitness and provides trainers with ideas and suggestions for designing appropriate programs. After learning the science, participate in fun and challenging games, drills, and exercises that may be added to your programs to enhance the health and performance in today’s youth.

2009 Scheduled Seminars:

Total Training 2009 Course Summaries