Sessions include a lecture plus a circuit-type practical training session. Sessions may vary by location.
Water, Sports Drinks and Energy Drinks: Facts, Fables and Fibs
Len Kravitz
Sports drinks and energy drinks are multi-billion dollar industries. How good are these products? When is water the best hydration fuel and when are sports drinks truly needed to optimize the exercise performance. This all-inclusive lecture will discuss the many physiological mysteries of water in the human body, the need for hydration during exercise, hydration and disease, hydration and mental performance, and answer numerous pertinent questions about hydration, sports drinks and energy drinks.
Stretching: A Multi-Dimensional and Multi-Discipline Approach
Charlie Hoolihan
Stretching research has been more confusing than conclusive in recent years. This session examines the theory that most research has studied stretching in isolation and that a more integrated approach to stretching and activating muscle systems may be the answer to the confusion. Myofascial release, trigger point therapy, three dimensional movement stretching and dynamic stretching will all be discussed in this eye opening presentation.
Balance: Training on the Edge
Shannon Fable
This sessions covers all aspects of balance training for multiple populations; seniors, youth, competitive athletes, and everyone in between. 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.
Fat Loss Without Kardio
Larry Jusdanis
This session is designed to better educate the fitness professional enabling them to aid their clients in leaning up in the fastest time. The “Fat loss without Kardio” protocol is a thorough program unlike your typical fat loss program. It provides the following topics to develop lean clients: What energy system will maximize your gains; How to use the weight room for maximum results; Unusual implement training for fat loss and the proper way to do intervals!
kor-elating Into Success: Total Training with kor Kettleballs
Don Bahneman
In this workshop, we will explore some traditional lifts as well as some progressive movements using kettleballs as the main modality. This workshop will engage the entire body and force you to make the mind-body connection for success. This session will shake you to the kor!
The Bodyweight Training Blueprint for a Healthier Knee
Brian Schiff
Whether you train athletes or the general population, it is vital to understand how the knee functions and absorbs force during training and movement. This presentation will review knee anatomy and pathophysiology, but more importantly will teach you how to select the right bodyweight exercises and progressions for the well, post-rehab and injured client. Practical demonstration will review how to use bodyweight in conjunction with various equipment such as bands, hurdles, balance discs and stability balls to promote optimal knee health.
Energy Balance and Nutrient Timing for Optimum Performance
David Sandler
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.
TAP – The Winning Edge: Training for Athletic Performance
Don Bahneman
When working with athletic populations, the need to maximize result in minimal time is critical. Using the TAP principles this workshop will provide a springboard to success with your athletes. Utilizing many different drills, exercises and techniques to bring back to your athletes - there is something in this session for everyone. Concepts from this session can be implemented into most periodization schemes for your athletes' training protocols.
Training Seniors: A New Approach
David Sandler
The fastest growing population is senior citizens. They are now 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!
Core Off the Floor
Shannon Fable
Tired of endless crunches??? Ready to learn how to take your “core off the floor”??? Remove the crunches, get off the mat and put kettlebells, medicine balls & BOSU Ballast Balls in your hand to find out how! Learn to swing & clean, lift, shift & shake, or throw & catch while engaging muscles so deep you’ll wonder what you’ve been doing all these years with your core training. Learn exercises that are multi-planar, multi-directional and multi-effective. Not only will you experience a great core workout, you will also experience strength and endurance gains with a side of sweat.
Strength and Conditioning Games: Disguising work with Play
Jay Dawes
Unfortunately many people consider training a monotonous task. In this session attendees will learn how to integrate a variety of games aimed at improving strength, conditioning and overall physical performance while, keeping clients and athletes motivated to keep training.
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.
Strength, Speed, and Power Training: Theory and Application
David Sandler
In recent years, the idea of functional training has overshadowed much of the training that personal trainers employ. However, pure strength training is still the method of choice for most strength and conditioning coaches. This lecture provides answers to the problems facing practitioners who train a variety of populations. Recommendations relative to choice of exercises, frequency of training, rate of progression, and philosophical aspects of program design will be given to help develop the proper program for the specific sport athlete. Participants will learn how to individualize the training programs based on the athlete's physical, psychological, and emotional maturity level as well as the demands of the sport.
Advanced Concepts in Bodyweight Training
Bill Sonnemaker
There is a common misperception in the fitness world that clients must have access to free weights, dumbbells and machines in order to experience significant strength training and results. Personal trainers recognize that bodyweight training can be a powerful tool in any training arsenal. Suspension training is simply one more tool to add to that arsenal. This session will focus on creating an assortment of training programs that not only enhance overall strength, but have a profound effect on flexibility, balance, reaction and SAQ.
