Pre-Recorded
Sessions
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Welcome To The Pre-Recorded Sessions.
These sessions were recorded at recent Mania® events and are included with your purchase of the recordings package. With this option, you’ll receive access to all of these session videos plus all the videos being recorded at Live Stream Mania® 2026. To purchase this option, please click here.
Pre-Recorded Sessions
Pro Athlete Recovery
Dane Robinson
Join pro athlete Dane Robinson for an experiential dive into recovery-focused programming. Learn how to design intentional recovery workouts that go beyond rest days. This session offers key insights and a practical blueprint for smarter recovery strategies that you can implement with your clients for optimal performance.
Basic To Badass: Progressive Training Protocols
Siri Chilazi, MBA, MA
Go from sexy squats to a badass booty. Progress and regress exercises with tools and variations for specific outcomes. Distinguish between progressive exercises and progressive training by
designing results-driven programs for PT clients, small group training, and GX classes alike!
Mobility Training – Online or In-Person
Ruston Webb, MS
Unlock the power of mobility training! Learn to integrate effective mobility sequences into group sessions to boost client results, retention, and revenue. Experience firsthand how these movements elevate performance and tap into a growing fitness trend. Join Ruston and stay ahead in today’s competitive market.
Pack Your PT Sessions: Successful Sales
Ann Gilbert, Amber Toole, Deborah Rothschild, MS, & Ruston Webb, MS, FMS II, TPI-CGFI III
Whether you’re a seasoned personal trainer or a studio owner, this session is your crystal ball to future-proof your business. Learn the art of selling with expert insights, debunking myths, and crafting strategies tailored to diverse clientele. Join our interactive panel and elevate your sales game to new heights! (Lecture)
Kettlebell Training for Women
Master Phil Ross, MS & George Corso, CSCS, NSCA-CPT
Empower your fitness journey with kettlebell training designed specifically for women! This session focuses on building strength, enhancing endurance, and sculpting muscles through dynamic, functional movements. Perfect for all fitness levels, you’ll learn techniques to maximize results and boost confidence. Join us to lift, swing, and transform your body in a supportive and energetic environment.
Strength & Grace: Back to Power
Rosie Lemons, MS, ERYT-200
Unlock the power of a strong, resilient back! Learn how to design effective programs that improve posture, relieve pain, and prevent injuries. Gain expert insights into common back conditions and refine your skills to help clients move with confidence. Build strength, stability, and flexibility for lifelong wellness!
Hip Mobility for Peak Performance
Gail Bannister-Munn
Unlock your full potential with targeted strategies to enhance hip mobility, flexibility, and strength. This session explores techniques to optimize movement efficiency, prevent injuries, and boost athletic performance. Improve range of motion, reduce discomfort, and build a powerful foundation for peak performance in sport, fitness, and daily movement.
Glute Training: Beginner to Advanced
Greg Johnson, MS
All hail the king of athletic performance! The glutes are finally getting their well-deserved place in the gym, despite our quad-driven fitness world. From glute activation, isolation and enhancement to correction, strength, power, and hypertrophy, you will learn the best exercises for all clients and goals.
Creative Core Solutions
Tricia Madden
This workshop utilizes all three planes of motion in both prone and supine positions, along with small apparatus tools to give you endless ideas for your next core class or client session. Walk away with a library of new moves that students will love and feel successfully challenged in your next class or training session.
Glide & Grind
Tanisha (Tani) Haggard
Slide into strength! This high-energy fusion of cardio, balance, and core training uses slider discs to challenge muscles in new ways. Move seamlessly between floor and standing drills to build stability, boost endurance, and elevate coordination—all while breaking a serious sweat.
Metabolic Disruption
Tara Turner
HIIT Tabata Monster Sets with a twist! Learn complex metabolic drills that can be used for 4- to 6-week workouts with progressions, regressions and added challenges so clients FEEL progress from week to week. Experience drills that challenge cardio strength and core with variations that will keep the workout results happening.
Intervals Reimagined: Strength – Power – Roll
Christine Conti, MEd
Discover how seamlessly integrating pressure point techniques into interval training enhances physical, emotional, and cognitive benefits. Learn key pressure points to boost focus, memory, circulation, and reduce stress. Elevate your fitness routines for enhanced recovery, vitality, and overall wellness.
Pilates: Mat to the Max
Abbie Appel
Max out your Pilates Mat class with 10 authentic advanced exercises from the original repertoire. Revisit Pilates principles and optimal alignment to understand what it means to be “advanced”! Dissect each exercise and discover how to modify and progress movements for your intermediate to expert students. Take your Pilates practice up a notch by safely and successfully adding challenges.
Ayurveda for Self-Care
Tracy Jennings-Hill, E-RYT 500, C-IAYT
Discover the transformative power of Ayurveda Yoga in this dynamic workshop! Dive into the three doshas—pitta, vata, and kapha—and learn how to weave these ancient principles into your self-care and client yoga practices. Experience a vibrant mix of theory and meditation to invigorate and enhance your holistic well-being.
The Recovery Barre
Ashlynn Howe, MEd
The Recovery Barre blends a recovery-style meeting with a beginner-friendly barre workout, creating safe spaces for those sober, sober-curious, or in long-term recovery. Explore movement, gratitude, and connection through trauma-informed, body-neutral, and choice-driven instruction. Gain tools to design inclusive classes that expand access and support lifelong recovery.
Gentle Yoga For Mobility
Sara Kooperman, JD
This yoga practice emphasizes joint health, muscle tension release, and a mindful approach to alignment through core stability. The movements can be incorporated into your daily life, helping to maintain or improve mobility, stability, and flexibility for functional, healthy aging.
Qi Gong: Breathe, Balance, Energize
Elian Haan
Recharge with Qi Gong! Flow through gentle movements and breathwork to boost energy, reduce stress, and restore balance. Improve vitality, clarity, and strength in this mindful movement practice. Perfect for all levels, this session leaves you refreshed, centered, and empowered from the inside out.
Pilates Functional Powerhouse
Lauren George, MS
Fuse Pilates precision with functional training in this dynamic session! Explore unilateral moves, anti-rotation drills, and standing sequences that challenge core stability, balance, and total-body control. Take your clients beyond the mat with purposeful movement that builds real-world strength and coordination.
The Battle for Mobility
Irene McCormick, MS, CSCS
The relationship between flexibility, mobility and stability includes components that are largely misunderstood. Mobility is about the joint, flexibility is about soft tissue, and stability is a major influencer. This session explores the science of flexibility and mobility, how to care for your fascia for greater mobility, and spinal stability.
Breath Empowerment
Joshua Craddock
Uncover the science of breath and its impact on health and dysfunction. Learn how improper breathing may affect clients and explore techniques to build energy (qi). Experience a powerful breathing method that oxygenates, heals, and promotes a heightened sense of qi and overall well-being.
Dynamic Stretching
Shalom Singer
Kickstart your client’s session with dynamic stretching and unlock serious benefits—think better mobility, faster recovery, fewer injuries, and less stress. By customizing stretches to their tight spots and goals, you’ll prime their body to perform and crush workouts. It’s the ultimate warm-up with purpose and power.
Sleep Habits: Key to Fitness
Melissa Layne, MEd
Discover how sleep optimizes performance and recovery. This session covers how quality rest improves muscle repair, energy, metabolism, hormonal balance, and overall fitness. Learn practical, research-backed strategies to enhance sleep patterns for better health and athletic results. (Lecture)
Stretch-Breathe-Recover
Kimberly Spreen-Glick
Strength isn’t just about how hard we push, but how fast we recover. This practice helps reboot the nervous system and promotes recovery between workouts, leaving you feeling rejuvenated. Give yourself the gift of self-care as we reset, recharge, and enjoy a collective exhale together.
Teaching Restorative Yoga Without Props
Gusti Ratliff, MEd, E-RYT 500, C-IAYT
Restorative yoga promotes relaxation and stress reduction through release—muscular, mental, and energetic. Focused on peace, it allows compassion, connection, and courage to emerge. With external support providing steadiness (sthira), true ease (sukha) comes from mental and physical softness, fostering deep relaxation and release.
Stability Ball Breakthrough
Gail Bannister-Munn
The Stability Ball Workout blends balance, flexibility, and core strength for total-body results. Train major and stabilizing muscles with effective, versatile, and fun exercises. Discover fresh drills that improve function and form—keeping you and your clients strong, engaged, and ahead in today’s fitness landscape.
Functional Training with Foam Rollers
Herson Garcia
Foam Rolling is not just for flexibility anymore. Integrate exercises perfect to promote mobility, proper posture, integrated strength, and core stability. Learn simple strategies to effectively assess your clients promoting total body conditioning. Utilize traditional foam rollers as well as the new smaller rollers perfect for all demographics.
Total Body Shaping
Sheldon McBee, MS
Old school meets new school! Studios all over the world are creating brilliant programs that feature a combination of functional training, strength training, circuits, metabolic conditioning, yoga, and more. Experience a successful class that focuses on bodybuilding principles designed to develop and shape muscle. Leave this workout with inspiring and effective programming ideas.
Nail the Perfect Warm-Up
Siri Chilazi, MBA, MA
If you ever struggle to come up with a good warm-up for your class, this session is for you!
Learn a simple checklist for creating functional, engaging warm-ups for any class and leave with
5 full warm-ups perfect for different modalities (general group exercise, Pilates/core, HIIT, Barre,
and dance).
Chair Yoga
Kimberly Spreen-Glick
Chair yoga is growing in popularity among the active aging population. It’s accessible and adaptable for all ages and fitness levels. Discover how to successfully integrate this valuable practice into your offerings as a fitness professional or yoga instructor.
No Gym Equipment? No Excuses!
Herson Garcia
Transform your clients’ workouts with bodyweight movements that are simple, yet highly effective. This session teaches you how to elevate mobility, flexibility, and strength with no equipment needed. Keep your clients motivated and engaged with creative exercises that deliver real results, ensuring they keep coming back for more. No excuses—only success!
Tubing Xpress
Kimberly Spreen-Glick
Think exercise tubing is just a piece of rubber? Think again! Lightweight, portable, and cost-effective, it offers incredible full-body workouts in minimal time with endless variety. Join us to explore the power of resistance tubes, have fun, and expand your fitness toolbox with new challenges!
Do This, Not That!
Keli Roberts
Selecting the right exercises for your client is an art. This workshop explores the biomechanics and kinesiology of popular exercises, offering more effective alternatives. Through hands-on application in an interactive setting, learn how to choose the best exercises to match your client’s needs for optimal results.
Prime Performance for 50+
Dane Robinson
For coaches training older adults, this session covers sport-specific programming to keep clients strong, agile, and functional. Learn to design workouts that boost cognitive function, enhance performance, prevent injury, and promote a high quality of life, ensuring longevity in both sport and daily activities.
Arms, Butts & Core On the Floor! – NEW
Gail Bannister-Munn
Discover the power of ground-based strength training! Learn to lead full-body classes using floor-based exercises that maximize muscle engagement and intensity. This dynamic session covers key techniques and progressions to elevate your programming, expand your skills, and add fresh energy to your strength training approach.
Don’t Forget Your Unilateral Exercises
Rosie Lemons, MS, ERYT-200
Everyday movements often rely on one limb or one side—are your clients prepared? This session covers how unilateral training enhances strength, corrects imbalances, improves balance, and incorporates multidirectional movement. Learn to safely and effectively integrate these powerful exercises in both group fitness and gym-floor programming.
Pickleball Power & Performance
Sara Kooperman, JD
Experience the best techniques used to train for power and performance for the ever-growing sport of Pickleball. This incredibly creative strength-focused tubing workout uses effective and manageable resistance techniques. Enhance speed, increase endurance, and decrease the risk of injury by training off the court. Hit the ball harder. Chase the ball faster. Enjoy the sport longer. This pickleball press program ensures your clients will compete at the highest level.
Alcohol & Aging: Myths vs. Facts
Gregory Charlop, MD
Is moderate alcohol consumption helpful or harmful as we age? Explore the latest research on alcohol’s effects on brain health, metabolism, and overall well-being. Learn how to make informed choices that support longevity, cognitive function, and a balanced, healthy lifestyle. (Lecture)
Pause. Power. Perform.
Jennie Phillips, MS
Harness the power of the pause to recharge your energy, crush burnout, and unlock next-level performance. Learn science-backed tools to regulate your nervous system, lead with grit, and create lasting impact. Walk away fired up—with strategies your clients will feel and follow. (Lecture)
Boost Your Pre-Workout & Recovery
Sara Kooperman, JD, Melissa Layne, MEd, AmberToole, & Keli Roberts
Unlock your body’s full potential with personalized pre- and post-workout strategies. In this fireside chat, discover how tweaks in nutrition, supplementation, and hydration can optimize energy, performance, and recovery. Learn what works best for your body type, including tips for HIIT, fasted cardio, and more. (Lecture)
Cancer Wellness Strategies
Christine Conti, MEd
Gain confidence in supporting clients affected by cancer. Chronic disease specialist Christine Conti shares safe, science-backed exercise and wellness methods to enhance recovery, strength, and quality of life. Ideal for fitness pros, caregivers, and survivors seeking practical, positive strategies to make a lasting impact. (Lecture)
Shoulder Savior
Brendan Fox
Shoulder pain doesn’t discriminate—learn how to fix it fast. In this interactive session, practice simple, effective assessments and techniques to improve shoulder posture and function. Gain practical tools for all ages and fitness levels using minimal equipment—leave ready to restore strong, pain-free movement with confidence.
Wellness is the New Fitness
Kimberly Spreen-Glick
Many fitness professionals focus mainly on the physical, as that’s the foundation of our industry. In this lecture, discover a more holistic approach that embraces six aspects of well-being. Learn how to integrate these elements when partnering with clients to help them lead healthier, happier lives. (Lecture)
Preventing Common Fitness Injuries
Dr. Edward Laskowski, MD
This session will discuss common fitness and sports injuries seen in a sports medicine practice. Evidence based strategies for recognizing and preventing these injuries in your training population will also be discussed. (Lecture)
Stretching Strategies: Flexibility, Recovery, Performance Panel
Sara Kooperman. JD, Gail Bannister-Munn, Ruston Webb, MS, Brendan Fox, & Christine Conti, MEd
Enhance your knowledge on effective stretching techniques with our expert-led Stretching Panel. Discover methods to improve flexibility, prevent injuries, and optimize recovery. This session will cover dynamic, static, and PNF stretching, offering insights for all fitness levels to incorporate safe, impactful stretches into any routine. (Lecture)
The Purpose-Driven Fitness Formula
Ruston Webb, MS, FMS II, TPI-CGFI III
Unlock your clients’ potential by uncovering 3 hidden mental filters that cause self-sabotage. Learn how purpose drives lifelong success, boosts adherence, and transforms lives. Elevate your fitness business with this breakthrough formula for lasting results and client transformation. Join this EPIC session! (Lecture)
How You Move Matters
Dr. Edward Laskowski, MD
Learn how proper movement patterns impact both sports performance and resistance training. This session will cover evidence-based strategies to reduce injury risk and enhance performance. Whether you’re an athlete or fitness professional, gain practical tools to improve movement mechanics and optimize results. (Lecture)
Living by Design or Default?
Jennie Phillips, MS
Live with purpose, not autopilot! Break free from burnout with energizing tools that restore balance and reconnect you to what truly matters. Elevate your own vitality while gaining powerful habits, language, and strategies to ignite lasting change—for yourself and every client you coach, train, or lead. (Lecture)
Debunking Exercise Science Myths
Melissa Layne, MEd
Discover the truth behind commonly misunderstood topics in fitness. We’ll debunk myths about lactate, metabolism, protein synthesis, heart rate variability, the thermic effect of food, and more. Explore the research and gain clarity on these key concepts. Don’t miss this informative session! (Lecture)
