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Friday 21 October 2011:
07H00 - 08H00
101 - Fire-Up with Sh'Bam! By Les Mills
Friday 21 October 2011: 07H00 - 08H00
Tracy Minnoch-Nuku and Team
Featuring simple but seriously hot dance moves, SH'BAM™ is the perfect way to shape up and let out your inner star - even if you're dance challenged. SH'BAM™ is the ultimate fun and sociable way to exercise. Experience a SH'BAM™ class - vibrant, unique and varied.
102 - Combine360 Kick-Off Day 1 Challenge
Friday 21 October 2011: 07H00 - 08H00
Corey Stenstrup
Experience exciting challenge-based exercises you can share with your clients to ignite them to new levels. Kids, competitive athletes and adult athletes can engage in this dynamic new workout formula to earn new levels of performance. Workout #1 in an introduction to Combine Challenge with a Train to Improve focus - great for developing the foundation of the Athletic Engine. Be inspired!
103 - Awakening Celebration of Brain-Body-Breath
Friday 21 October 2011: 07H00 - 08H00
Lyndsay Murray-Kashoid
In this workout we will practice various forms of meditation, mindful movement, breath work, concentration, and a guided savasana practice to align our movement and life with a greater sense of inner calm and connection.
104 - RIP60 Kick-Start Workout
Friday 21 October 2011: 07H00 - 08H00
Jeremy Strom
In this dynamic morning workout, Rip60 will be used in a group situation and you will learn proper set-up, biomechanics, coaching cues and then run through a unique RIP60 program design. Participants will be led through a RIP60 Group X class.
105 - Start Your Day with ViPR Wars
Friday 21 October 2011: 07H00 - 08H00
Lisa Wheeler
The battle for evolutionary fitness is on! Meet the ViPR--a truly functional, whole-body training tool, promising to bridge the gap between movement and strength. Put it and your body to the test of endurance and fitness as the ViPR challenges your total body muscular strength, cardiovascular endurance and agility . Developed by Equinox, Lisa will take your from the basics to more advanced progressions to add some bite to your group fitness classes and personal training sessions. Serious sweat, serious excitement and serious results. Get bitten by ViPR!
09H30 - 11H00
111 - Fusion Fitness TrainingTM Toolbox
Friday 21 October 2011: 09H30 - 11H00
Helen Vandenburg
Fusion Fitness Toolbox combines Fitness conditioning, yoga and Pilates with the use of small equipment such as weighted plyo-balls, yoga blocks, Pilates rings, Pilates bands, yoga straps and fit discs. In this session you will experience a combination of yoga, Pilates and traditional Fitness exercises that can be blended together to create a dynamic challenge for your personal training clients and group exercise students. The integration of small equipment is used as a tool to help participants achieve better alignment in postures and/or exercises, to increase resistance and challenge strength, balance and flexibility to a higher degree. Learn how to incorporate small equipment and yoga/pilates blended classes into your classes and programs.
112 - Power Development through Olympic Lifting
Friday 21 October 2011: 09H30 - 11H00
David Sandler
This session addresses the development of power through the use of Olympic lifts in athletes and fitness clients alike. The relationships between force, strength, velocity and acceleration will be examined through application. This Learn-By-Doing Approach will have the participant experience the training that top athletes do, but leave with an understanding of how to implement a program for different clients' fitness levels.
113 - STOTT PILATES® Group Matwork Classes: Teaching Skills & Programming Choices
Friday 21 October 2011: 09H30 - 11H00
Sally Belanger
Teaching group classes can be challenging. How do you ensure all your clients get a good workout safely in a group situation? This workshop will focus on the programming, cueing, and correction skills you need to safely progress your clients through a series of Matwork classes. Learn to keep the class moving while giving individual corrections, make exercise choices that make sense in a group scenario, and give modifications and transitions that work.
114 - Top 18 Exercises for Training Myofascial Lines
Friday 21 October 2011: 09H30 - 11H00
Bill Sonnemaker
Myofascial Line Lines are all the rage these days and deservingly so! They connect us from head to toe and provide the most rational explanation for how we truly function. This session covers the following Myofascial Lines along with the best exercises to achieve maximal results: Front Functional, Back Functional, Superficial Front, Superficial Back, Lateral and Spiral Line
115 - FIST 4 FREEDOMTM Level I - Relate to Gait
Friday 21 October 2011: 09H30 - 11H00
David Weck
This workshop will teach you how to begin building a better base for enhancing all movement skills. Learn how and why your exercise program should enhance the two most fundamental human movements: Walking & Running. You will learn the optimal mechanics of barefoot gait and practical techniques and strategies to safely train and transition to moving your body with greater economy. Discover the secrets to Sprinting your fastest and how this knowledge improves your movement capabilities across a wide array of sports and daily activities.
11H15 - 12H15
121 - BYOB: Bring Your Own Body
Friday 21 October 2011: 11H15 - 12H15
Lisa Wheeler
Leave all your fitness equipment behind and show up with the most important tool of all - your body! Our students and clients don't always have time to make it to the gym or have space at home for large machines so why not offer a simplified yet challenging workout that can be done anywhere, anytime by anyone. Learn a series of body weight exercises, with progressions and regressions, that hit all major muscles groups and that work the body in an integrated way to help build usable strength and aid in weight management.
122 - Performance Training After 40
Friday 21 October 2011: 11H15 - 12H15
Pete McCall
Do you work with recreational athletes over forty who are looking for ways to improve their performance? Learn how to apply the American Council on Exercise Integrated Fitness Training (IFT©) model of exercise program design to help your recreationally competitive clients gain an edge on their competition. Learn specific principles, strategies and techniques for developing an exercise program to enhance the skills of power, speed, agility and quickness which are necessary for athletic success at all ages but are critical for those athletes still competing over the age of 40.
123 - Omega-3 Fish Oil: Optimizing Health and Human Performance
Friday 21 October 2011: 11H15 - 12H15
Hector Lopez
This session is a review of the science and potential applications of Omega-3 fatty acid supplementation from highly concentrated and purified fish oil. The scientific body of evidence supporting the use of fish oil for optimizing the health and well being of the general population has exploded over the last 10 years. However, there are many cross-over applications for the athlete and fitness enthusiast that are often overlooked. We will explore the dose recommendations and the importance of quality, purity, freshness and manufacturing process when choosing a product.
125 - Pilates Stick
13H15 - 14H15
131 - Les Mills Innovations Combo - CXWORX and Sh'Bam
Friday 21 October 2011: 12H45 - 14H15
Tracy Minnoch-Nuku and Team
Find out what les Mills has in store for you and why! CXWORX - a short, sharp workout that'll inspire clients to the next level of fitness, while strengthening and toning the body. Experience a combination of the new 30-minute format that really hones in on the torso and sling muscles that connect upper to lower body, ideal for tightening tummy and butt, while improving functional strength and assisting in injury prevention. It'll help you run faster ... play harder ... stand stronger! Then experience a sampler of Sh'Bam, LM new dance choreography.
132 - Combine360 - Athletic Movement
Friday 21 October 2011: 13H15 - 14H15
Corey Stenstrup
The C360 testing protocol is the ultimate tool to evaluate all aspects of the Athletic Engine for athletes of all ages. Experience part of the C360 testing protocol for speed, agility and quickness and then learn how to improve movement precision and reaction skills with the Athletic Movement Combine Training methodology. Leave this session with a full understanding of the value of athletic movement assessment and training along with all the tools to implement this training style into workouts for all your clients.
133 - Your Body Fat is Alive
Friday 21 October 2011: 13H15 - 14H15
Tim Ziegenfuss
Did you know that body fat is now considered an endocrine organ? In other words, it releases hormones that affect your risk for diabetes, cardiovascular disease, bone health, and even some types of cancer. Many scientists think that a lack of physical activity, exposure to environmental toxins, and an improper diet can make your body fat "sick". This presentation will show you how to fix your body fat and improve your overall health and wellness.
134 - STOTT PILATES® Intense Sculpting Challenge
Friday 21 October 2011: 13H15 - 14H15
Sally Belanger
Build challenge and diversity with this Level 4 Flex-Band® exerciser workshop. Learn how to challenge core and peripheral strength with the resistance provided by the Flex-Band® and increase exercise intensity in the areas of neuromuscular coordination, balance, strength and flexibility. This workout will offer exercise variations and options to motivate any group or private client.
135 - Using the Tools - Principles of Training
Friday 21 October 2011: 13H15 - 14H15
Chris McGrath
A principles-based look at training and movement and how to apply the same principles to the various tools. Summed up with the statement, "Functional training is not defined by the tools we use, but how we use them". A responsible and sophisticated approach to picking and using the tools of the trade.
136 - Barefoot Training - The Question
Friday 21 October 2011: 13H15 - 14H15
Fabio Comana & Lawrence Biscontini
Look around the gym or a fitness conference and you'll notice an ever-increasing number of people wearing minimalist shoes (e.g., vibrams). Barefoot training is all the rage, but is merely hype or is it actually supported through scientific research? In this session Fabio Comana and Lawrence Biscontini will breakdown the science and the applications to getting barefoot and barefoot training, discussing both benefits and risks involved with running, group fitness and weight training. Join us to gain great insight and answers surrounding barefoot training.
14H30 - 16H00
141 - Post-Natal Pilates
Friday 21 October 2011: 14H30 - 16H00
Melissa Wong
Most women will be able to return to exercise four to six weeks after a regular birth or when they get clearance from their physician. Many of the exercises they may have been performing during the second and third trimester of pregnancy will be suitable now, but other exercises can be added to focus on reactivating and stabilizing the pelvic floor, transverses abdominis and obliques as well as developing lumbo-pelvic stability. This gentle but effective workout will incorporate Toning Balls? to get moms back on the right track.
142 - TWIST TEAM Training - Together Everyone Achieves More
Friday 21 October 2011: 14H30 - 16H00
Arielle Nash
Want workouts that inspire your athletes to bring their best effort, appreciate their human machine, challenge themselves to push harder while experiencing a sense of competitive play? TEAM training methodology gives your workouts a buzz - more results, more camaraderie, more challenge and more fun. This new "Twist" on small group training ignites effort and passion to elevate training results and stamp the ‘feel' of the experience. Drive all levels of results to the next level. Experience it now!
143 - Outrageous Starts and Finishes for GX and PT
Friday 21 October 2011: 14H30 - 16H00
Lawrence Biscontini
Research tells us that the first and last five minutes of any group fitness experience are the sections of class that people most can remember. Treat yourself to a workshop exploring dozens of different ways to achieve safe, effective, and creative warm-ups and transition (formerly called "cool-downs") for a plethora of class types: cardiovascular, strength, and flexibility/mind-body. We will address classroom orientation, music, equipment, specificity, and group dynamics.
144 - An Integrated Approach to Sacro-iliac Dysfunction
Friday 21 October 2011: 14H30 - 16H00
Bill Sonnemaker
Attendees will become thoroughly versed with the physical structure and neuro-myofascial tissues of the Sacro-Iliac Joint. Through the use of movement screens and hands on assessments, attendees will learn to recognize common dysfunctional patterns and be able to design evidenced based interventions to reduce pain and postural dysfunctions in their clients.
The honest answer is that the body responds to novelty, variety, many different stimuli and triggers and also that each person responds differently so there is no one, simple answer.
In this “Core Impact” workshop you will led be systematically through 3 progressive stages including;
1. - Activating the deep spinal stabalisers
2. - Working on the superficial prime movers of the lower back and abdominal region in relative isoltation
3. - Working on both of the above in holistic, upright whole body integrated movements
Through this process you will discover the unlimited power of the freeFORM Board. You will connect to your core by working isometrically and isotonically both concentrically and eccentrically, you will work with open and closed kinetic chains and move through all angles of all planes of motion.
16H15 - 17H45
151 - Yoga Safety
Friday 21 October 2011: 16H15 - 17H45
Lyndsay Murray-Kashoid
In this workshop we will learn practical alignment principles to prevent the most common yoga injuries. Using anatomy and analysis of different yoga postures, we will delve into the more common complaints of the shoulder girdle, neck, hips, knees, wrists, lower back, and more. Come away with practical formulas for removing obstacles blocking the way to a safer and more enjoyable yoga practice.
152 - Ways to Walk the Sky: Proven Methods of Jump Training
Friday 21 October 2011: 16H15 - 17H45
Shawn Myszka
Improving jump performance is a key objective in the training for many sporting endeavors. Not only is the vertical jump at the core of some of the most exciting skills in sports, it can also be a tremendous predictor of success in speed and power sports. The purpose of this webinar is to educate coaches as to what science and research tells us about jumping and will give coaches direction towards proper training for the attainment of greater jumping capabilities. Emphasis will be placed on determining an athlete's specific weaknesses and identifying the proven training methods that should be utilized to optimize jumping proficiency and performance.
153 - Top 20 Most Asked Questions in Sports Nutrition
Friday 21 October 2011: 16H15 - 17H45
Tim Ziegenfuss
How much protein should I eat per day? What kind of creatine is best for building muscle? Which fat loss supplements really work? Come find out the answers to all of these and more in this highly interactive session with Dr. Tim Ziegenfuss, the Past President of the International Society of Sports Nutrition.
154 - SMRT-CORE training - Myofascial release and Functional Movement Training
Friday 21 October 2011: 16H15 - 17H45
Cassidy Phillips
SMRT-CORETM is an innovative system combining self-myofascial release techniques and functional movement using the GRIDTM to release, lengthen and strengthen while enhancing neuromuscular efficiency. SMRT-CORETM offers 3 levels of progression for each self-myofascial release technique and exercise, allowing for easy integration of SMRT-CORETM programming into a client's exercise regime. SMRT-CORETM can also be presented as a multi-level group fitness format appealing to a wide-range of fitness levels.
155 - FIST 4 FREEDOMTM Level II - Fundamental Object Manipulation
Friday 21 October 2011: 16H15 - 17H45
David Weck
This workshop will teach you how simple manipulation of the most elemental objects - Sticks, Balls, & Ropes (humanities oldest tools stemming from Sticks, Rocks, & Vines) - is key to unleashing your body's fullest movement potential. You will learn how to apply BOSU principles in your exercise program using these basic tools to create a more integrated and balanced body. Learn how to incorporate specific Balance and Footwork drills in addition to create "Both Sides Utilized" Muscle Memory to enhance your movement capabilities.