SMALL OR LARGE GROUP FITNESS/PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

The Ultimate Kettle Bell Workout

Learn how to create an intense total-body workout incorporating soft kettle bell training techniques. Kettle bells help develop total body strength through the fluid range of motion that can only come from the acceleration and control of this ageless training tool. Work your body through a wide range of angles. Don’t have kettle bells? No problem. Whether you use a kettle bell or dumb bell, you’ll gain the awesome benefits that can only come from kettle bell style exercises.

The Wonder Woman Workout


How can women fit a workout into their busy days and more importantly, why should they try? Women should include aerobic and resistance exercise into their daily routine, not by working longer, but by working smarter. This session is intended to educate the busy woman on the importance of strength and endurance training (using ACSM interval ratios of 1:1, 2:1, 1:2). We’ll use resistance tubing, hand weights, Kettle bells, medicine balls and old fashioned body weight in this extraordinary, time efficient, metabolic workout.

A Fitness Professional’s Guide to Getting Published

This workshop examines the process of getting your writing noticed. We will explore the options available for getting published in the fitness industry; how to query an editor, appropriate topics to explore, how to hone your writing skills, work with co-authors, interviewing subject matter experts, understanding the fee-scale, working with publication time lines and finally, getting published. This workshop may open doors to yet another avenue of fitness income as well as increased visibility and enhanced professional credibility.

Stabilization Cardio

Participants can learn to demonstrate purposeful movement patterns in high/low choreographed classes by incorporating lower-weight medicine balls in 2, 4 and 6 pound increments. Learn to focus on proper alignment, posture and core strength while increasing aerobic capacity. The movements emphasize simultaneous engagement of the anterior lower core and the posterior upper core, so participants gain greater kinesthetic awareness through core integration and stabilization. Learn how to slow down and stabilize while keeping the intensity level high. Variety and precision are integral to execution and safety, and intervals can easily be created to meet the needs of both entry-level fitness enthusiasts, to moderate and highly conditioned group fitness participants.

Body Barr Cardio Blast

Get your cardio and strength training needs met in less than one hour! Combine strength training with a body bar and cardio intervals with a medicine ball for one simple, yet progressive class. Utilize the body bar for upper and lower body combinations. Participants will ask a little more from their bodies and get a powerful cardio & strength training workout.

Head to Toe Tubing or T-N-T: Top Notch Tubing

Get a total body workout with one of the most affordable training tools available – resistance tubing. Tubing is a safe, effective alternative to free weights and cable machines; travels well, and can be used in both fitness and in-home personal training settings. Learn basic moves as well as complex patterns for the entire body. Discover how elastic properties promote endurance and intensity, cross the line between muscle strength, definition, and cardio training as well as being appropriate for all levels of fitness.

The Sweatless Format

Worksite wellness programs are the ideal place for making use of the powerful benefits of foam rollers. Rollers assist with flexibility, reduced recovery time between workouts and releasing muscle tension by identifying muscle restrictions. Learn to perform self-massage, spinal lengthening and Pilates-based movements, improve core strength, reduce stress and increase flexibility. 


Equipment: Power point presentation/overhead projector, foam rollers, yoga mats
Format: Lecture with demonstration.
Time: 2.0 to 4.0 hours (depending on format requested)
Focus: Worksite wellness, mind body, fitness programming

Why is My Back Killing Me?

When you no longer have acute pain, you may be ready for gentle strengthening for your core and flexibility exercises, which may not only help decrease low back pain, but also aiding in recovery, preventing re-injury Using full foam rollers. They have enormous utility in fitness either one on one, or in small group sessions. Learn how to use them for spinal length, increased flexibility, relaxation and recovery. Perfect for work-site wellness.

R&R - Relax & Restore Foam Roller Training (DVD)

Relaxation, core strength and recovery are as important to a body as a high-intensity workout is. By using foam rollers to perform self-massage and core strengthening, participant’s can release muscle tension to increase flexibility, address posture and spinal alignment issues, and identify spots where muscle restrictions may lend themselves to potential injuries. Posture and body awareness is improved immediately. This DVD offers trainers and instructors the chance to create meaningful, purposeful relaxation sessions as an entire class or at the end of any workout using full, foam rollers. An effective venue for deconditioned populations, avid exercisers and worksite wellness programs and the results are immediate, sweatless and amazing!

“Take 5” – Pilates for Your Abs

Get the abs you want from Pilates! These 5 exercises are easily blended into any fitness format. They are quick and easy to teach, cue, and extremely effective for a strong core and a beautifully toned mid-section. This workshop focuses on the following 5 mat exercises; single leg stretch, double leg stretch, scissors, double leg lower lift, and criss cross.

Moms in Motion – Strength (DVD)

Research tells us pregnant women enjoy and benefit tremendously from exercise during all three trimesters of pregnancy as well as after delivery. However, her changing body can create some unique postural and muscular imbalances. Addressing common postural imbalances, the potential causes and the solutions can assist the fitness professional in customizing a program that can go a long way in achieving better results from her exercise program during pregnancy and beyond.

WATER FITNESS

Water Walking

Water walking can be a tremendous fitness activity and an alternative to traditional shallow water aerobic dance workouts. Learn techniques and options for teaching this highly adaptable format. Appropriate for overweight, de-conditioned, older adults, and general populations.

Length: 2.0 hours
Format: Workshop
Focus: water fitness training, obesity

Water Tools

Water fitness instructors have many portable, functional and performance-based tools at their finger tips. These tools can be used for enhancing performance, intensity, and participant fitness levels in water fitness classes. The key is knowing how, when to use them, and why. This workshop will focus on helping instructors learn the purpose, precision and progressions of using these tools in the water fitness classes. Walk away with dozens of exercises for cardiovascular, muscle endurance, flexibility and core.

Zen and Zenergy H2O

Powerful water movements combined with body mind intervals make this class a creative and arousing water fitness experience. Zen includes mindful, yoga-inspired water fitness and teamed with Zenergy, you’ll get explosive, adrenaline influenced rebounding power in a single water fitness experience. This class is twice as fun and extremely replicable. Workout.

Moms in Motion – Aqua (DVD)

Exercise during pregnancy can be safe, effective and fun! Research has shown us that there are numerous benefits associated with water exercise during pregnancy that offer both short and long term benefits to both the fetus and the mother. Buoyancy, hydrostatic pressure, resistance and water temperature all play an important role in the ideal water fitness environment for prenatal exercisers. Understanding the information necessary to develop an individualized program can assist the fitness professional in customizing a program that can go a long way in achieving better results from exercise during pregnancy and beyond.

Strength & Power H2O

This water-fitness program is designed for individuals demanding a high intensity water workout with training benefits for agility, speed, strength, and flexibility with body awareness. Also including blends of yoga and Pilate’s for increased core strength and flexibility. This unique programming appeals to a spectrum of populations.

Gentle Aqua (DVD)

Non-rebounding water workouts are an excellent venue for persons who cannot withstand the constant rebounding in traditional water classes. The hopping, jumping and running movements so prevalent in aqua is replaced by muscle specific, precise movements performed through a full range of motion using yoga and Pilates-based techniques. This workshop includes an abundance of ideas for non-impact, shallow water exercise.

Why Use 2 When 1 Will Do!

Discover how unilateral training enhances performance and improves function in this innovative cardio-endurance workout. This course places special emphasis on the effectiveness of hand-held buoyancy and drag by examining biomechanical and musculoskeletal considerations when using hand-held buoyant equipment in shallow water. Walk away with cardio and endurance exercise for water fitness when minimal equipment is available, or just to add some much needed variety into your water fitness classes.

Gentle Aqua for Rheumatoid Conditions

Equipment: Power point presentation/overhead projector
Format: Lecture with demonstration.
Time: 2.0 to 4.0 hours (depending on format requested)
Focus: Water fitness, older adult, special populations

What’s Old is N.E.W. (No Equipment Water)

Explore the benefits of water exercise by examining basic physics and the basic format for shallow water classes. Participants will depart with a sample class format appropriate for healthy populations. Make it an awesome exercise experience using the properties of water and the enthusiasm of your class.

OLDER ADULTS

Sit and Get Fit

Physical movement in the aging population is critical to preserve and develop the skills and abilities of muscle strength, balance, agility and even the capabilities of their own senses. How does a fitness professional address these needs? What are the current guidelines for fitness professionals when working with older adults who may not have the mobility to stand and exercise? How can a fitness professional help prepare adults for graceful aging and long-term health? This workshop will uncover the facts and offer inspiring ideas to apply when creating and implementing meaningful chair fitness programs.

Never Too Old to Exercise Gets Wet

Loss of balance and mobility in the elderly population is a devastating problem, affecting the lives of both the older adult and those around him/her. It is now known that adults in their 80s and 90s respond to appropriate exercise training by becoming healthier and stronger. Aqua training can improve quality of life for adults, who may be sedentary. Learn to create a water program for your older participants can help them to be fall-resistant, improve endurance, balance and flexibility. This session will consider appropriate exercise selection using neutral and grounded moves in addition to socialization opportunities.

Format: Lecture with aqua component
Time: 2.0 hours
Focus: Older adult programming, aqua

NUTRITION

Food Label Savvy/Fit Fueling

Research has shown that eating a balanced and nutritious diet reduces the risk of diseases and cancers, not to mention assists in weight control. The grocery store shelves are full of foods with packaging promising to help do that, but it's important to take a close look - beyond the promises - at the nutritional values, ingredients, and calorie counts in the food you're buying. Do you know how to read food labels properly? Understand how they DO factor into your healthy eating. Food labels provide information and allow for informed healthy food choices to help meet your client’s nutritional needs.

Body of Evidence

The scientific approach to weight loss (and exercise) has a tendency to contradict everything we know through the constant exposure of our clients to diet-books, talk-show hosts, and weight-loss gurus who have promoted a dizzying array of methods for shedding pounds. Tired of the hype? Take advice from research experts that shed the limelight for the lab.

Bikini Satisfaction: Diet and Exercise vs. Cosmetic Surgery

Equipment: Power point presentation/overhead projector
Format: Lecture
Time: 2.0 hours
Focus: Nutrition, physiology, exercise science

EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY 101 SERIES

Exercise Physiology 101: Tools, Toys and Techniques

The fitness industry is exploding with portable, functional and performance-based tools suitable for group fitness classes. The key is knowing how and when to use them. This workshop will focus on learning the purpose, precision and progressions in utilizing fitness equipment in the group fitness or small-group personal training setting.

Exercise Physiology 101: The Female Strength Advantage

As a personal trainer, you should be maximizing your female clients time in the gym. How do you accomplish that? Based on my recently published book of the same title, learn to teach movement that maximizes muscle activation and the variety of movements that can be used. Come and learn the research findings that support the best exercises, hand positions and grip for lat development, abs, chest and more. Women need to understand what works best for their body!
Format: Lecture
Time: 2.0 hours
Focus: Personal training, exercise science

Exercise Physiology 101: The Energy Systems in Plain English

Equipment: Power point presentation/overhead projector
Format: Lecture
Time: 2.0 hours
Focus: Physiology, exercise science, fitness programming

Exercise Physiology 101: Physiology Refresher

When is the last time you brushed up on a few basics about the human body? You can probably remember studying for your certification exam, but after it was over, you probably used and heard familiar words but forgot their medical definition, the precise functions, or even the distinction between one term and another. This physiology review will revisit the respiratory and circulatory systems, the musculoskeletal system, the nervous system, the digestive and urinary tract. By maintaining familiarity with this vocabulary, you will feel more confident and effective while working with clients; just answering everyday questions or explaining the way this incredible machine we call the human body works.

Exercise Physiology 101: Correcting Mistakes and How to Fix ‘Em

Compensations and muscle imbalances may contribute to client injuries and failure to achieve results. However, teaching personal trainers screening techniques, modifications and progressions for strength training empowers them to create exercise prescriptions that can become safer and more effective. This workshop looks at screening techniques, exercise recommendations and the “Top Ten Common Mistakes” personal trainers make in exercise implementation and programming.

Exercise Physiology 101: Pregnancy and Exercise (IDEA DVD)

Research tells us pregnant women enjoy and benefit tremendously from exercise during all three trimesters of pregnancy as well as after delivery.  However, her changing body can create some unique physiological and biomechanical changes. Personal trainers need to understand these dynamic systemic changes in biomechanics, physiology and stability in order to customize a safe and effective fitness program. Trainers will understand the FIVE most frequently neglected areas of training pregnant/post natal clients. This informative workshop can prepare the trainer to take the client a long way in achieving better results from her exercise program during pregnancy and beyond.

Exercise Physiology 101: The Female Athlete Triad

Most women have concerns about the size and shape of their bodies, but those who develop the condition known as the female athlete triad have certain risk factors that set them apart. Women who exercise intensely are at risk for a health crisis that consists of three conditions: disordered eating, amenorrhea, and osteoporosis. She can have one, two, or all three parts of the triad. This workshop examines these health concerns and the potential impact these imbalances create.

Exercise Physiology 101: Sweeter than Diabetes

Type 1, type 2, insulin resistant, foot ulcers, blindness…what’s the risk? The reality is that a growing number of Americans (especially children) are developing Type 2 diabetes at an alarming rate. Get up to speed on this potentially life threatening disease by understanding how diet and exercise can help people manage their diabetes.

KIDS/CHILDREN’S PROGRAMMING

Fear Factor Food-KIDS RULE

Children (and their parents) need education about proper nutrition. But how in the world are you going to get them to try new foods? Learn how to educate children in a group setting on the importance of nutrition and WOW them with some fun games that will ensure their appetite will allow them to explore different nutrition and food options. Together, we’ll try some new foods and talk about the nutritional content of each. KIDS LOVE THIS. This is an excellent workshop for the fitness professional who works with children in camp settings, in schools, or in small-groups.

Performance Enhancement for Youth Athletes

Can you imagine showing up for a major league baseball camp or an NFL combine without any off or pre-season sports conditioning? Young teens who participate in sports programs need performance enhancement and movement assessments for optimal training outcomes. Flexibility, core strength and so much more need to be assessed explained and implemented. Learn the necessary skills to market, teach, train and be successful with this population.

FUNctional Fitness for Kids

Physical development in children is an ongoing process. The development of gross and fine motor skills, muscle strength, balance, agility, listening and following directions, and even the capabilities of their own senses, are all skills that can be honed in early childhood. How does a fitness professional address these needs? What are the current guidelines for fitness professionals when working with children? How can a fitness professional help prepare kids for sports, fitness long-term health and success? This lecture will uncover the facts and offer inspiring ideas to apply when creating and implementing meaningful fitness programs for children.