Think you need dumbbells, bands, bells and whistles for total body toning? Nope! This session features seven “blocks” focused on 1) Chest 2) Quads and Glutes 3) Back 4) Glutes and Abductors 5) Biceps 6) Triceps and 7) Core. Experience stable strength, compound movement, and all-out dynamic strength for the ultimate muscular endurance, metabolic workout-with bodyweight only!
As we age, the core, proprioception and balance become more important to prevent falls, maintain proper gait and keep us active. With core work, often comes floor work which can be uncomfortable for the aging population. This session is jam packed with muscular core facts, activity ideas and core exercises off the floor!
LaBlast’s easy-to-follow formula of interchangeable patterns (PATTERNography) is changing the way both instructors and participants look at their workout by allowing them to get more involved physically, mentally and emotionally. Why spend time worrying about steps or memorizing long routines when you can be applying that energy to movement, i.e., working harder, smarter and burning more calories?!
Equipment: Dumbbells/2 Water Bottles
Need ideas for quick training, ready-made class routines using minimal to maximal equipment? Each customized workout offers blocks consisting of option-based exercises that include partner training. These workouts offer instructors hardcore, turn-key classes that participants will use to improve their fitness performance and reach their training goals.
If you are going to do it all, do it right! When it comes to Indoor Cycling, our motto at Schwinn is Ride Right. And while we love motivating the masses on the bike, we also know that what we do off of the bike is an integral part of a well-balanced fitness program. This workshop takes a good look at the ranges of motion and common muscular imbalances involved in indoor cycling, and arms you with the tools to create complimentary flexibility and strength-based programs to counter the riding position on the bike. You will experience 2 different cross-training programs that integrate mobility, strength and cardio while staying true to the promise of doing it right.
Equipment: Bike/Chair
Help your students resist and splash their way through the water with this science based HIIT program. Study the benefits of high intensity interval training, practice new cueing and coaching techniques and study with an aquatic master trainer who is determined to make teaching innovative, tumultuous and safe for all types of aqua participants.
Tab-Aqua Quickies is the exciting new component of Tab-Aqua Bootcamp. Work HARD for 30 seconds, HARDER for 20 seconds, and HARDEST for 10 seconds for six cycles and then rest 10 seconds. Let the music guide you without worrying about watching the clock. Get motivated with aquatic moves that produce results fast.
Is your kitchen your happy place, or is it sabotaging your goals? Join fit-pro foodie-RD to learn which essentials to stock in your pantry and fridge, which gadgets are must-haves, go-to recipes for active people, perfect snack-stashes, meal-prep tips, and practical kitchen rules to live by. (LECTURE)
In today’s fast-paced world, nutritional choices have become mundane and routine. We will explore how this affects our bodies and minds and our hormones, neurotransmitters and vitamin and mineral intakes. Learn about the latest research on superfoods and how we can utilize this research to optimize our health and increase longevity.
Join Carrie Kepple as she discusses and shares the valuable lessons she has learned as a fitness industry business owner during the COVID-19 pandemic. Find out which methods and modalities of fitness instruction will become the new normal as she presents a detailed look into the future of the industry. You will leave this lecture with the knowledge and confidence to easily navigate and adapt to the “new normal” of the post-pandemic fitness industry. (LECTURE)
This crash course is your fast track to training online ASAP with all the tools necessary to keep your current clients and attract new ones. Identify your ideal client, create your unique training method and harness impactful systems that you’ll be ready to launch now! (LECTURE)
Intermittent fasting and carb cycling are extremely popular in weight loss research. In this session, we will address these topics as well as three other types of fasting; prolonged, dry and wet fasting. We will explore the effects on weight loss, the immune system and the life of our cells.
Kathy has stood at the forefront of the fitness industry for over 30 years. Forbes calls Kathy a “Fitness Titan” – the Kathy Smith empire boasts over $500 million in sales with a collection of New York Times bestselling books, videos, lifestyle products and fitness equipment along with Video Hall of Fame honors.
Everyone loves Core Training! Blend traditional training and mind/body principles to sneak core training into any workout. Tune up your teaching techniques and alter intensity variables to add innovation to standard exercises and make them feel like “new”. Discover how mixing slow, controlled movements with speed and tempo changes heightened body awareness, build core strength and spinal stabilization and add intensity that challenges your most demanding class participants.
Active Aging is in a new era! Chronological age and physiological age are very different. The ability to objectively assess each individual’s fitness level requires skill and patience. The revolutionary SPARTA method reacts and adjusts to physical and cognitive strengths and opportunities for enhancement associated with active agers and helps them set short and long term goals to extend healthy life expectancy and improve quality of life.
Functional Training continues to be a top trend. Discover how Pilates techniques enhance functional training methods. Built on a foundation of science and movement mechanics, acquire strategies and techniques to develop functional movement programs and explore the principles in order to access movements that create conscious habits for effective results.
Equipment: Small Pilates Ball
Aqua kickboxing doesn’t have to mean standing in one place and throwing repetitive jabs and stationary kicks. How about some combinations to move you through the water and up the calorie burn? Front, side, back, diagonal and even in a circle. It’s past time to take your kickboxing out of the box and into the entire pool!
One of the biggest challenges we hear is how to design effective and safe exercise sessions, especially with a wide range of fitness levels in clients aged 55-75. Review several case studies & learn how you can design programs for 4 functional levels and train your clients more effectively at a wide range of levels, experience and ability. (LECTURE)
Is your kitchen your happy place, or is it sabotaging your goals? Join fit-pro foodie-RD to learn which essentials to stock in your pantry and fridge, which gadgets are must-haves, go-to recipes for active people, perfect snack-stashes, meal-prep tips, and practical kitchen rules to live by. (LECTURE)
It is important to realize that having fears is a natural part of being human and does not make you weak or prevent you from moving forward in your life. It’s what you do to embrace fears’ discomfort that will help open your mind to the unlimited potential of its power. In this session we will work through 6 strategies to guide and support you in facing your fears so that you can rise and reinvent yourself. (LECTURE)
Searching for ways to generate more time in your work week, this workshop is for you. Time management is the name of the game and there’s an APP for it! From class creation to marketing, learn about the apps, programs, and systems that can give you your time back. (LECTURE)
Our panel members will address how you can approach social media and maintain your professional responsibility to the fitness industry. Learn to integrate social media into economic survival strategies that include how you approach Live Classes and Online PT sessions to teach at home and reach beyond physical distancing.
Staying connected with members and keeping them accountable and motivated from anywhere is more important than ever. In this session, you’ll learn how to use wearable technology to enhance your members’ experience, in-person and virtually. Try a virtual bootcamp with Myzone to see for yourself how effort tracking and gamification make members feel good about exercise and keep them coming back for more.
Equipment: Myzone Belt, Dumbbells/2 Water Bottles
Comprehensively examine stability/mobility relationships of the aging body to provide a foundation which enhances and respects this precise equilibrium. Learn effective methods to increase core stability while developing mobility in key areas to improve gait efficiency. Apply strategies for falls prevention through effectively training key areas for body balance.
Equipment: Tubing, Small Ball, Stability Ball
Are you looking for a unique format for your virtual classes? In this powerful practice, you’ll use a wall for assistance and resistance; enhancing joint mobility and muscular flexibility. The feedback of the wall provides a deep sense of security and confidence – leading to emotional healing. During this slow flow we’ll breathe deeply with mindful mantras and you’ll be amazed at how healthy and invigorated you feel!
Equipment: Open Wall, Mat, Yoga Block/Small, Firm Pillow
Soul Clap Fitness brings 60s, 70s and 80s Soul music to the dance floor while strengthening the Mind, Body and Soul with fundamental dance cardio movement. Test your rhythm without the music by adding elements of body percussion like stomps, claps and polyrhythms. This session is guaranteed to add some flavor to your fitness!
Active recovery is a crucial exercise modality that is easily overlooked in group fitness for various reasons. It is credited for its effectiveness in balancing out High-intensity interval workouts by promoting muscle recovery while maintaining a healthy habit of working out. Learn how MASHUP® programming incorporates this component effectively into a group fitness experience for all fitness levels.
Equipment: Dumbbells/2 Water Bottles
Spice up your shallow aqua fitness program with this blend of ballroom dance and strength training based on all the dances seen on Dancing with the Stars. Learn how to fuse dance and strength endurance while utilizing proper principles of water, all while having a “BLAST” dancing to the Quickstep, Lindy Hop, Foxtrot, Waltz, Tango, and more!
You will identify typical functional declines related to aging and consider ways to adapt your aquatic programming to create effective formats to improve walking efficiency, general mobility and confidence. This encourages greater program adherence and member retention as well as an overall improvement in the quality of life for your students. Participating as an active aging member would for a better understanding of how a well-designed format will increase confidence and decrease the fear associated with falling and muscular imbalances.
Bunions, Big Toes, and Brains, Oh My! The subtle intricacies of walking influence the entire Kinetic Chain, physically, systemically, emotionally, and mentally. Delve into the detective science of failed Biomechanics and the global implications of ambulation on all of those systems and how they impact your fitness and health. Warning: you may never look at feet the same! (LECTURE)
Stress Eating can affect us all- trainers, clients, even nutritionists. We naturally turn to food in moments of stress to self-soothe without realizing we are doing it. However, this doesn’t have to be the way. Learn how to identify triggers for stress eating and replace them with healthier more beneficial behaviors.
Do you want to train more people in less time and earn more income? Yes please! But without a signature class, dynamic cueing and coaching, or a sound price structure this great idea can quickly turn into a nightmare. Learn how to avoid these obstacles, and understand the EXACT blueprint Dane used (and still uses) to scale a small group training brand for a major health club. In addition, this session is perfect if you’re ready to take your training online, too! (LECTURE)
Inclusion and diversity are major factors in the success or detriment of every business, industry, and community. Everyone “should” feel like they are welcomed, appreciated, supported, and recognized. Too many times, poor equity, poor access, and poor protection go unchecked. Now is the time to address positive strategies and actions to take to ensure fitness industry fair and equitable business practices. (LECTURE)
This webinar will focus on the various alternatives for Barre training including Boogie Barre, Ballet Barre, Boxing Barre, Chair Barre, Center Barre, and Aqua Barre. We will review the benefits of these unique alternatives to traditional Ballet Barre training. Explore why these special programming alternatives have exploded in popularity!
Are your core workouts just featuring crunches? Ready to elevate your clients core training into an integrative system and approach? This half lecture and half workout will coach you on the fundamentals of core training and how to create stellar core programming for private and small group clients!
The shoulder is one of the most complex and most injured joint systems in the body. In this live session, dive into the function of the shoulder, common mistakes when training it, and best practices to maintain optimal shoulder function and health.
MASON your MIND and SPIRIT with this vinyasa Yoga based class which starts slowly and gradually builds into a dynamic flow providing for fluid transitions and continuous movement from posture to posture. This practice builds strength, flexibility, and endurance while re-connecting you to your mind and spirit.
Equipment: Mat, Yoga Block/Pillow
Country Fusion® is a new fitness workout that incorporates country music and dance. This workout can burn up to 500 calories in its 50min class! Country Fusion® is designed for all levels, ages, and for male and females. The fitness aspect increases your heart rate which then speeds up your metabolism and you burn calories. The dance aspect you are learning how to dance, flexibility, and correct posture alignment. The dance consists of country, latin, hip hop, jazz, and swing. This is a total body workout that you will be addicted to. Learning how to dance, getting an amazing workout all while having fun!
When the music and coaching are spot on, Rhythm Riding can be a magical experience. The RIGHT Rhythm ride doesn’t need smoke and mirrors or unnecessary distractions. Discover how to capture and captivate your riders the RIGHT way and provide your members with a memorable, results based, musically amazing cycling experience.
Equipment: Bike/Chair
Give your water workout a PUNCH! Experience a truly unique workout to reduce fat, strengthen your core, and tone arms and legs while improving coordination and flexibility. This class is full of jabs, punches and kicks all in the water using Liquid Gym Gloves! Add Liquid Gym Acqua Tone Loops for the extra leg work to energize your whole body with less stress on your joints.
Equipment: Liquid Gloves, Loops
Baby Boomers Unite! Heat up your water workouts and burn calories, sculpt and strengthen your entire body in a great movement environment – the pool. Stoke the fire of your internal furnace by using ability-based, low-impact and multi-joint movements. Learn to stabilize your core while benefiting from improved stability and mobility.
Health and fitness professionals have the opportunity to join allied health professionals in addressing the major epidemic of cognitive decline and neurodegenerative diseases. We will review the research on how modalities of exercise can affect the brain, and provide a framework for the assessment of cognitive health within exercise programs.
Are you considering adding vegetarian or vegan days to your lifestyle? Concerned about where you will get protein? Come find out how to replace all the protein your athlete body requires with plant-based nutrition and how it can add better performance and longevity to your fitness career. This is not a conversion lecture, meat eaters welcome!!
2020 has shaken us to our core. Many pressures of life have been applied to us as individuals and as a society. A reset. A blank piece of paper. New rules. As always, there is a choice in how we manifest ourselves moving forward. We are being called to be more. Join Emma and learn to practically apply the C.A.L.M. Method (Connect, Act, Laugh and Move) to traverse the terrain of the next chapter in our lives. (LECTURE)
The future is ONLINE. Learn simple broadcasting and production tricks and tips to improve your cueing for online fitness videos, instructor toolbox, and consumer experience. This lecture-based workshop is an exploration and examination of best practices and presentation skills for producing online and live streaming fitness video content. (LECTURE)
We discuss how to keep loyal aquatic students active and healthy during the COVID-19 pandemic. You learn how to best transition our Boomers to Zoomers, so clients of any age can join our classes. We will also discuss how to earn income online – our aquatics communities need us, and we need them!
In this seminar we explore levels of iso and dynamic activation that will drive results for clients before, during, and even after they leave the gym. Gone are the days of jumping on the treadmill for 5 and diving into any kind of training. Time to ditch the warm up and get that body activated.
Chairs are not just for sitting, we can use them in a fitness class for so much! Experts agree that there are numerous benefits to performing a HIIT routine with those considered to be active agers. Launch a new format shown to efficiently and effectively increase strength, endurance and aerobic capacity while decreasing joint impact in a shorter period – from a chair!
What is Polga? Introduce yourself to some of the best “vertical barre” exercises that can be used to achieve a stronger, more flexible body. Polga combines pole fitness with yoga to create an unbelievably fun workout. Be one of the first trained in pole yoga and experience something NEW in the yoga world.
Falling is the leading cause of fatalities in older adults. The ‘Big Balance Theory’ helps active agers restore strength, improve balance and regain confidence and states: The fear of falling can be conquered, and the risk of falling can be reduced! Learn to create a fall-prevention program that fuses theory with practical application.
Bring your beast mode! Journey into the many ways you can monkey around with HIIT. Experience multiple modalities, discover techniques for optimizing effort, learn how to tweak time and organize effective work intervals that lead to greater client or member success.
Enjoy this fantastic workshop with two of our Maniac men of Aqua! The pool will never look the same once you experience this tidal wave of energy, creativity and enthusiasm. Manuel and Jeff will focus on different styles/formats of aquatic fitness techniques, pushing you to the next level. Leave with a flood of new ideas to make a big splash in your own water fitness sessions.
Equipment: Hand Buoys/ 2 Water Bottles
With the growth in the number of members challenged with our nation’s epidemic of obesity, it is time to implement a weight loss program that focuses on aquatic exercise as the catalyst to weight loss success. Learn proven strategies that allow you to launch your start-up program this season.
An increasingly common trend in current diets is Intermittent Fasting (IF). Many claims have been made about this as a dietary choice ranging from fat loss and increased energy, all the way to combating cancer and diabetes while increasing longevity. If these prove to be true, Intermittent Fasting is potentially a powerful dietary intervention and should be considered. Join Sam for his insights on this promising development in dietary science.
Looking to boost your immunity? Learn which foods and lifestyle practices enhance immunity, and which ones decrease your body’s ability to fight infection and illness. Gain practical tips, and enjoy eye-catching nutrition demonstrations to help inspire you to eat for better health and immunity.
Want an easy way to get online in fitness? Create a simple virtual group fitness studio. In this cutting-edge session, learn to combine your skills and talents to create a fun, thriving online community. The state of the industry has changed and savvy instructors and trainers will pivot with it. Get the details on the programs, technology, marketing and branding strategies to build your own wildly popular virtual group fitness studio. (LECTURE)
Come join social media gurus and fitness marketing experts as they explore ways to wade through the white noise of Digital and Social Media Marketing like our finest millennials. Discuss the dos and don’ts, myths and misconceptions, and learn how to use diversity of Social Media for yourself, your business and your clients. (LECTURE)
Get ready to usher in the “Quaranteenies” – or “Gen C” – babies born as a result of the recent quarantines. Even without a pandemic, every year millions of women enter the “ultimate athletic event” of pregnancy – often unable to predict the physical challenges that will follow. Do you have pregnant women who are taking your classes or training with you? Do you know how to approach them and help them during your sessions? Increase your marketability by expanding your understanding and approach to your pregnant clientele. Both GX and PT pros will benefit from this educational and entertaining session.
Looking for ways to increase intensity for your most demanding Barre students? Learn the BIIT formula with a fresh interpretation of classic barre exercises fused with cardio intervals for an enhanced, high energy class. Move beyond rhythmic movements and experience targeted circuits that make teaching not only fun but easy on Monday morning.
Equipment: Mat, Dumbbells/2 Water Bottles
Unleash your inner beauty and beast! This new spin on cardio kickboxing is a high-energy knockout of a workout both on and off the barre. This 60-minute workout will certainly have you feeling stronger, leaner and more energetic. Please note that there is no actual fighting or physical contact.
AMRAP, EMOM, Tabata….another language? No, all killer HIIT timing protocols commonly used to add dimension to our training routine and our conditioning classes. In this session, identify and breakdown traditional work to rest ratios, to effectively train all of our clients. Discover the true qualities of HIIT and why recovery, passive and active, are equally as important as the work. Walk away with 4 different HIIT timing challenges that can be taught alone or mixed-and-matched to maximize workouts.
Give your water workout a PUNCH! Experience a truly unique workout to reduce fat, strengthen your core, and tone arms and legs while improving coordination and flexibility. This class is full of jabs, punches and kicks all in the water using Liquid Gym Gloves! Add Liquid Gym Acqua Tone Loops for the extra leg work to energize your whole body with less stress on your joints.
Equipment: Liquid Gloves, Loops
Come experience Tabata in the water. This exciting exercise strategy is sweeping the country and includes alternating bouts of short intense anaerobic exercise with less intense recovery periods. Experience this exhilarating workout in the comfortable environment of the pool. Use this program as cross-training for athletic land-based performance or as a buoyant alternative to land Tabata training.
Learn about the delicious components and benefits of the Mediterranean diet. See why those following the Mediterranean diet have less heart disease and lower death rates than those following a typical American diet. Get inspired to cook by watching a cooking demonstration of a mouthwatering Mediterranean stir-fry dish and salad.
Intermittent fasting and carb cycling are extremely popular in weight loss research. In this session, we will address these topics as well as three other types of fasting; prolonged, dry and wet fasting. We will explore the effects on weight loss, the immune system and the life of our cells.
The landscape of group fitness has been forever changed by the current world health crisis. Join these top MANIA presenters as they guide you through what lies ahead for group fitness. Take away invaluable solutions, answers to pressing questions, and effective solutions to set yourself up for success moving forward in the new normal for Group Ex. (LECTURE)
You have a lot of followers on Social Media but somehow, it doesn’t translate into money in your bank account. . Learn how to transform social media fans into paying clients and use strategies that will contribute to generate income even when you are not with your clients. (LECTURE)
Intermittent fasting and carb cycling are extremely popular in weight loss research. In this session, we will address these topics as well as three other types of fasting; prolonged, dry and wet fasting. We will explore the effects on weight loss, the immune system and the life of our cells.