Sessions

Group 1 Friday 7:00am – 9:00am

501 Lebert Fitness – Cool New Tools & Programming For Bootcamps & Group Ex – Marc Lebert description

502 BOSU® HIIT Extreme – Keli Roberts description

503 COREBAR HIT® – Anita Tonne & Lene Kristine Dahl description

504 Schwinn® Cycling: The Trend Report 2012 – Shannon Fable description

505 YOGA I.S.® Secrets Behind the Poses – Lauren Eirk description

506 Healthier Eating Habits – Teri Gentes description

507 Mat! Mat and More Mat! – Ariel Hernandez description

Group 2 Friday 9:30am – 11:00am

508 Optimized Elastic Training – Stabilization, Strength and Power – Fabio Comana description

509 Savvier Fitness® Tabata Boot Camp Teaser – Mindy Mylrea description

510 Powder Blue Where’s the Party? – Melissa McAllister & Christine Dwyer description

511 Schwinn® Cycling: Ride One, Get One FREE – Helen Vanderburg description

512 Full Circle – Amy Dixon description

513 NPI Analyzing and Assessing Posture and Body Alignment – Ken Baldwin description

514 Bender Ball® Beyond Bootcamp – Leslee Bender description

Group 3 Friday 11:30pm-1:00pm

515 R.I.P.P.E.D. – The One Stop Body Shock® – Alex Isaly & Terry Shorter description

516 BOSU® Multiplicity – Amy Dixon & Keli Roberts description

517 STREET KATA: Past the Art of Kickboxing (Level I) – Bishop Garland description

518 Schwinn® Cycling: Short and Sweet – Mindy Mylrea description

519 Yoga I.S.® YOGression: Creative Yoga Sequences for Core Strength – Lauren Eirk description

520 Conditioning the Core From the Inside Out – Teri Gentes description

521 Yoga Pilates Boot Camp – Ariel Hernandez description

Group 4 Friday 1:30pm–3:30pm

522 Body Bar® Tabata – Sherry Catlin description

523 Lebert Fitness Making Your Workout Epic – Marc Lebert description

524 Zumba Fitness® Party “Feel the Music” Experience – Vanessa Lupercio description

525 Schwinn® Cycling: So You Think You Can Race – Season 2 – Keli Roberts description

526 Leeann Carey Yoga: Yaapana: The Practice – Melissa Smith description

527 Engage .. Ignite .. Empower .. © – Fabio Comana description

528 Powder Blue PiYo™ Strength: Make The Mat Your Friend – Sara Easley & Christine Dwyer description

Group 5 Friday 4:00pm–5:30pm

529 Body Bar® Flex: Fusion – Helen Vanderburg description

530 BOSU® Pilates 3D – Shannon Fable description

531 COREBAR HIT® – Anita Tonne & Lene Kristine Dahl description

532 Schwinn® Cycling: Cycling HIIT It! – Amy Dixon description

533 NPI Corrective Body Weight and Tubing Exercises To Enhance Posture & Body Alignment – Ken Baldwin description

534 Eating Better – Feeling Better: How, What, Why, When EATING ESSENTIALS – Teri Gentes description

535 Above The Barre – Leslee Bender description

Group 6 Friday 6:00pm–7:30pm

536 STREET KAMP: Body Weight Sessions – Bishop Garland description

537 Flirty Girl Fitness® – Jenn Hall & Mindy Mylrea description

538 Zumba Toning® –Julie Kelly description

539 Schwinn® Cycling: Release and Relieve – Helen Vanderburg description

540 Leeann Carey Yoga: Yaapana: Happy Hips – Melissa Smith description

541 Cardio Reinvented – Fabio Comana description

542 Roll With It – Amy Dixon description

Group 7 Saturday 7:00am – 9:00am

543 Lebert Fitness – Cool New Tools & Programming For Bootcamps & Group Ex – Marc Lebert description

544 R.I.P.P.E.D. – The One Stop Body Shock® – Alex Isaly & Terry Shorter description

545 COREBAR HIT® – Anita Tonne & Lene Kristine Dahl description

546 Schwinn® Cycling: The Wake-Up Workout – Amy Dixon description

547 Functional Flexibility The Truth in Training – Leslee Bender description

548 The Sports Conditioning Trifecta – Fabio Comana description

549 Mat Pilates with Props – Ariel Hernandez description

Group 8 Saturday 9:30am – 11:00am

550 Body Bar Core 3 x 3 – Keli Roberts description

551 BOSU® Crush It – Mindy Mylrea description

552 Zumba Gold® – Vanessa Lupercio description

553 Schwinn® Cycling: 10 Minutes to Your Next 10 Rides – Shannon Fable description

554 YOGA I.S.® YOGression: Creative Yoga Sequences for Arms and Shoulders – Lauren Eirk description

555 NPI Goniometry Assessments – Joint and Muscular Range of Motion Testing – Ken Baldwin description

556 Body Weight RX – Helen Vanderburg description

Group 9 Saturday 11:30pm-1:00pm

557 Powder Blue Let the Rhythm Move You, by Turbo Kick® – Melissa McAllister & Sara Easley description

558 BOSU® Amped! – Shannon Fable description

559 Flirty Girl Fitness® – Jenn Hall & Mindy Mylrea description

560 Schwinn® Cycling: Ride One, Get One FREE – Amy Dixon description

561 Leeann Carey Yoga: Yaapana: Lower Back Luck – Melissa Smith description

562 POWER TO GO: Pre and Post Workout Fueling – Teri Gentes description

563 BUILD-A-BUTT™ Bustin’ Booty Partner Drills – Cheryl Westerman description

Group 10 Saturday 1:30pm–3:30pm

564 Lebert Fitness – Making Your Workout Epic – Marc Lebert description

565 STREET KONTACT (The Partnered Katas – Garland Bishop description

566 Zumba Fitness® Party “Feel the Music” Experience – Julie Kelly description

567 Schwinn® Cycling: HIIT IT! – Helen Vanderburg description

568 YOGA I.S.® Samtosha: The Art of Being Content With Your Body and Your Practice – Lauren Eirk description

569 NPI Establishing a Successful Posture Assessment Based Business Model in your Facility– Ken Baldwin description

570 Mat! Mat and More Mat! – Ariel Hernandez description

Group 11 Saturday 4:00pm–5:30pm

571 Body Bar® Lean Mean Legs! –Sherry Catlin description

572 BOSU® Strong and Stretched – Amy Dixon description

573 No Equipment Necessary Take Two – Shannon Fable description

574 Schwinn® Cycling: Ride One Get One FREE – Keli Roberts description

575 Leeann Carey Yoga: Yaapana: Doing, Being, Still – Melissa Smith description

576 WHAT’S REALLY IN IT 2012? CONSUMER ESSENTIALS Do you know what you’re eating? – Teri Gentes description

577 Anatomy In Action – Leslee Bender description

Group 12 Saturday 6:00pm–7:30pm

578 STREET KATA: Warrior Glide Style (Level II) – Garland Bishop description

579 Savvier Fitness® Booty Camp – Mindy Mylrea description

580 Powder Blue Hip Hop HUSTLE™: On the Outside Looking In – Christine Dwyer & Sara Easley description

581 True Metabolic Conditioning – Fabio Comana description

582 Graceful Grand Finales – Shannon Fable description

583 WAIST-ed™ with TOWELmoves™ –Cheryl Westerman description

SESSION DESCRIPTIONS

Friday 7:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

501 Lebert Fitness – Cool New Tools & Programming for Bootcamps & Group Ex – Marc Lebert

This session is sure to keep your Group EX and BootCamp sessions fresh, fun and challenging with the amazing portable Equalizer™ and Buddy System™! Everything from agility and mobility drills, compound bodyweight movements, unique uni-lateral rowing and manual resistance exercises, partner training, athletic conditioning drill sequences, unique class programming and more! Your toolbox will be full after this one! BACK TO TOP

502 BOSU® HIIT Extreme – Keli Roberts

Intense, focused, efficient, challenging, rewarding, and jam packed with action from start to finish. Learn the science of high intensity interval training and its application to both fitness and sport. Take home a variety of short, plug-n-play high intensity interval sequences that are realistic for both high level athletes and mere mortals, and are guaranteed to raise your heart rate, fitness level, calorie expenditure and the FUN factor! BACK TO TOP

503 COREBAR HIT®: The new bar in the US – Anita Tonne & Lene Kristine Dahl

5 years of European success is hitting the US market hard! COREBAR HIT™is a totally new approach to high intensity training AND core training. This training form has it ALL! A total body, high intensity, interval-based cardio and conditioning program, guaranteed to get you in the best shape of your life! Non-stop movement, non-stop super sweat! COREBAR® is intense, energetic, playful, diverse, deliberate, focused and…FUN! Each class leaves you exhilarated from the experience and already looking forward to the next one! Most of all, COREBAR®, is effective, it’s tough; this is the ultimate calorie burning workout to test your levels of fitness and endurance. Using a weighted bar, you’ll re-contour, re-define and re-shape your muscles with particular focus on your core, using signature COREBAR®positions, signature moves and signature combinations. All in 60 minutes, helping you become COREBAR® “STRONG”. COREBAR®IS the body makeover workout to take you to your potential. Have fun, Train Hard or Go Home! BACK TO TOP

504 Schwinn® Cycling: The Trend Report 2012 – Shannon Fable

Times, they are a changin’ and it pays to keep up. What are today’s hot cycling trends, and what do they mean for instructors who coach indoor rides? This workshop, refreshed for a new year, digs into five of the top things that matter most right now in the world of cycling: pedal speed, pedaling technique, bike geometry, training with wattage vs. heart rate, and the use of accessories to improve performance. Come uncover the controversies, get the updates and head back to your classes informed and inspired. BACK TO TOP

505 Yoga I.S.® Secrets Behind the Poses – Lauren Eirk

Why do so many people have a transformative experience with the practice yoga asana, pranayama, and meditation? What is really happening on the inside? Why are people drawn to specific postures? Why do they invoke emotional responses as well as physical? Uncover some of the reasons why a yoga practice can develop the mind and the body. In this workshop, discover some of the secrets to the practice of yoga asana that were written centuries ago and still being realized today. Experience these magical secrets in a flowing, guided practice, complete with cues and affirmations that you can use to help your students feel the healing power of yoga! BACK TO TOP

 506 Healthier Eating Habits – Teri Gentes

MENU ESSENTIALS‘Real Food – Real Health’™Teri givesyou all the necessary guidelines for the most fundamental dietary components- Adequate ‘whole foods’ fueling and nutritional replenishing for health and training success. Great ideas/recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks! Simple, sensational food demo’s and tastings; fabulous easy ideas that wow your taste buds andgreat commercial convenience. Learn how to transition to healthier habits with ease and enjoyment! BACK TO TOP

507 Mat! Mat and More Mat! – Ariel Hernandez

This is a beginner/ intermediate class designed to introduce the instructor and personal trainer to the basics of pilates. Topics covered include: alignment; neutral pelvis, how to find it and keep it as well as working with different breathing techniques and why bigger moves are not better moves. Body awareness and how to identify and recruit the proper muscles will also be discussed and demonstrated. BACK TO TOP

Friday 9:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

508 Power Systems® Resistance Tubing 2.0 – Fabio Comana

Elastic training offers numerous benefits that extend beyond simple portability that allow us to effectively manipulate the principle variables of load, volume and power. Learn unique ways to incorporate elastic tubing for any population group; from de-conditioned clients and older adults to elite athletes. This session teaches you how to systematically include elastic resistance into your training phases that address Stabilization, Strength and Power. If load, speed and angulation are part of your training repertoire or you’re seeking unique training ideas, then look no further. BACK TO TOP

509 Savvier Fitness® – Tabata Boot Camp Teaser – Mindy Mylrea

When was the last time you saw a complete total body turn around in you or your clients? How many of your students credit you for their fitness and weight loss success? If the answer is not as many as you’d like then you need Tabata Bootcamp. Learn how to implement and execute Mindy’s 6 and 30-minute micro burst interval training workouts and find out how you too can become a Tabata bootcamp trainer. BACK TO TOP

510 Powder Blue – Where’s the Party? – Melissa McAllister & Christine Dwyer

Make every class you teach the talk of the town by simply changing your approach to class preparation, delivery and post-class clean up! Powder Blue formats (Turbo Kick, Hip Hop Hustle and PiYo) are known for their laid back, fun approach to fitness that pack studios world-wide. The success is no accident. Come learn the 7 simple steps used by Powder Blue instructors that help create a party-like atmosphere designed to take your classes from backyard, Bar-B-Q fun to an Oscar After Party, WOW experience that will leave guests talking. From initial planning to day of preparation, as well as examining hosting duties and when to ‘shut it down’, you will take home a goody bag that will keep on giving. Want to pack your classes? Don’t miss THIS party! BACK TO TOP

511 Schwinn® Cycling: Ride One, Get One FREE – Helen Vanderburg

Here’s a ride well worth the price of admission! Expect an indoor cycling workout filled with world-class coaching, motivation, incredible energy and style. Then wipe the sweat from your eyes as your Schwinn® Master Trainer hands you not only one detailed handout with all the components of this ride broken down including music, cueing, imagery, and cues, but a second complete ride ready to go, for FREE. It’s the ultimate cycling 2-for-1. BACK TO TOP

512 Full Circle – Amy Dixon

Embody and unleash the physical and ageless powers of the Four Directions: North, South, East and West. Power Vinyasa Yoga infused with seamless bouts of athletic cardio drills, body sculpting, balance and alignment training, and dynamic core conditioning. The fluid directional movement patterns will work your body and mind collectively in a beautiful circular full range of motion and emotion. Come FULL CIRCLE and create your very best body.  BACK TO TOP

5I3 NPI Analyzing and Assessing Posture and Body Alignment – Ken Baldwin

This course prepares trainers/group instructors (Pilates, Yoga, TRX, Body Pump, etc..) and allied health/medical professionals to assess and educate theirs client in all areas of posture and body alignment. The lecture develops a logical flow and sequence to understand, analyze, and assess a client/patients posture and body in an easy to follow manner. Participants will be educated in the following: How to implement this essential key assessment into their facility or organizations current health and exercise testing program, review how poor posture and body alignment develop and evaluates the anatomical structures of the vertebral column and other extremities using a Posture and Body Alignment Grid and client/patient evaluation sheet and techniques to analyze and evaluate body alignment, posture, and muscle fiber direction, how to assess and organize your posture assessment protocols and procedures. This course is 70% lecture and 30% interactive hands-on training. A hands-on approach is used for demonstrations and experiential learning in small group settings. Attendees should wear tank-tops, sleeveless t-shirts, or sports bras and shorts. BACK TO TOP

514 Bender Ball® Beyond Bootcamp – Leslee Bender

Many boot camp styles are only for the extremely athletic student with a trainer barking orders. Not in this session! Not only will you walk away feeling like you had the best workout of your life but exercises with a purpose. Muscles are stronger when lengthened not shortened that will lead to injuries eventually. The body is an integrated system and when trained with ground reaction forces with the understanding of all three planes you are now a trainer who can change the way a student bio-mechanically moves for life. This session will give you the tools to go from good to great!! BACK TO TOP

Friday 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

515 R.I.P.P.E.D.– The One Stop Body Shock® – Alex Isaly & Terry Shorter

Experience and learn about this total body workout, utilizing resistance and body weight, which masterfully combines the components of R.I.P.P.E.D.— Resistance, Intervals, Power, Plyometrics and Endurance along with Diet suggestions to help you attain and maintain your physique in ways that are fun, safe, doable and extremely effective. The deliberate combination of the R.I.P.P.E.D. elements and how they are precisely organized in theR.I.P.P.E.D. class format provide the basis for the One Stop Body Shock System, by stimulating both, different energy systems and muscles in each workout segment. Along with driving, motivating music, participants jam through R.I.P.P.E.D. with smiles, determination and strength. No boredom here, for all levels, R.I.P.P.E.D. is effective, it’s tough yet doable; R.I.P.P.E.D. will absolutely challenge your levels of fitness and endurance! BACK TO TOP

516 BOSU® Multiplicity – Amy Dixon & Keli Roberts

Get ready to multiply your options, multiply the challenge and multiply the fun! This workshop is designed to teach you dozens of brand-new, interactive athletic drills, skills and challenges using multiple BOSU® Balance Trainers that can be used in personal training, boot camp, circuit training, interval training, sport conditioning and kid’s fitness workouts. You will work solo, in partners and in teams, and walk away with an entirely new library of BOSU exercises that can be used straight away. BACK TO TOP

517 STREET KATA: Past the Art of Kickboxing (Level I) – Bishop Garland

Control, fluidity, and massive style bring unparalleled energy to these stylized fight sequences or “katas”. Driven by a musicality that is as varied as the martial arts techniques incorporated, there are no boundaries in the ways of innovative combo progression. This is an evolution to kickboxing. Welcome to martial movement! BACK TO TOP

518 Schwinn® Cycling: Short and Sweet – Mindy Mylrea

Want to attract new blood to your cycling program? Ditch the hour-long timeslot and keep it short and sweet. The 30 minute workout is the #1 way to create a new batch of committed riders whether they’ve never tried the bike or they want to “have it all” during their gym time, but have just an hour in which to do it. This workshop shows you how to successfully put together and coach two energizing, physiologically sound workouts that fit neatly into half an hour, one for those new to cycling and one for those who are fit but need it fast. BACK TO TOP

519 Yoga I.S.® YOGression: Creative Yoga Sequences for Core Strength – Lauren Eirk

Hatha Yoga is meant to be a life-long practice. The best teachers are the ones who can bring their students to new levels by creating an experience that unknowingly improves strength, awareness, and passion for their mind, body, and overall health. In YOGression, learn what progression in yoga really means, in terms of many small, logical, creative steps that we can take towards achieving our most healthy expression of Yoga Asanas.Learn why longer practices, acquiring more rigorous adjustments, or forcing oneself into more difficult positions are not the way to achieve the goal of achieving a particular position. In this session, experience several creative sequences targeted to trunk, hip, and pelvic regions. Your students will love it! BACK TO TOP

520 Conditioning the Core From the Inside Out – Teri Gentes

DIGESTION ESSENTIALS! Want to know the best way to get the best abs? Forget about more crunches, harder cardio, no carbs etc! Your core challenges result from an unhealthy gut, fermenting foodscausing bloating, back-up, even distension.Many perceived ‘fitness foods’ can wreak havoc within your intestines,causing toxic wastes to accumulate along the insides of your 26 plus feet of digestive tract. Cleaning out your pipes is the best way to flatten out your six-pack and reduce the risk of numerous diseases associated with excess abdominal weight. Natural ‘whole self health’ nutrition researcher, educator and coach Teri Gentes shows you the best way to the best core conditioning for healthy, picture perfect abs! BACK TO TOP

521 Yoga Pilates Boot Camp – Ariel Hernandez

This will be an open level class, think of this as Yoga, meets Pilates, with lots of standing balance work. There will be lots of modifications, progressions, add on’s .No matter what your fitness background or knowledge of any of these methods, you can participate and gain knowledge and insight.The class starts with standing balance and posture work (no shoes please). BACK TO TOP

Friday 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

522 Body Bar® Tabata – Sherry Catlin

Challenge yourself with Body Bar®’s unique approach to incorporating the Tabata method into a balanced high intensity cardio/strength interval training workout. Increase muscular endurance, aerobic fitness and anaerobic capacity as you burn fat, create definition and improve performance. Include balance, mobility and coordination intervals to round out one fine workout! BACK TO TOP

523 Lebert Fitness – Making Your Workout Epic – Marc Lebert

This EPIC workout combines strength training with muscle endurance work, compound movements with intense isolation and blurring the lines between aerobic and anaerobic. All this with the Lebert Equalizer, Buddy System and some EPIC new programming. You are going to write home about this one! BACK TO TOP

524 Zumba Fitness® Party “Feel the Music” Experience – Vanessa Lupercio

Exhilarating Moves, Live Music, Non-Stop Energy!Get down and dance with The Zumba Performance Team like you’ve never experienced!The Zumba program is no longer the best kept secret in town. It’s a global “Fitness Revolution” with more than 12 million Zumba enthusiasts all over the world – dancing and partying to the Zumba beat. Since 2001, the Zumba program has spread like wildfire, and has become the single most influential movement in the fitness industry. Why? Because it’s the best and healthiest party around.Come experience the Latin passion, exotic rhythms and sexy beats that no other fitness program can offer you. Experience new choreography techniques, and a non-stop, get-down-and-dance, calorie burning, high-energy workout! Feeling the music and getting fit never felt so good! BACK TO TOP

525 Schwinn® Cycling:So You Think You Can Race – Season 2 – Keli Roberts

Whether it’s track, road, mountain, cyclocross, or time trial, if you’re on two wheels, and you’re riding to win, it’s a race and that means it’s ON! Capture the thrill of bike racing in your indoor classes and bring an authenticity to your rides that will inspire your students to train hard and fight for the finish. This workshop includes a primer on bike racing and a how-to for implementing indoor training plans specific to each sport. In “Season 2” you’ll participate in an all-new “Omnium Race”, a sample of five different race events, and explore facets of competition beyond the physical that make for an unstoppable athlete! BACK TO TOP

526 Leeann Carey Yoga: Yaapana: The Practice – Melissa Smith

Yaapana (yah-paw-nah), an Ancient Sanskrit Word Meaning the Support and Extension of Life. Yaapana yoga practice is an innovative blend of vinyasa flow to warm and prepare the body for poses that are held dynamically and restoratively using props for therapeutic support. Developed and presently exclusively by Leeann Carey Yoga, Yaapana practice is a fun and intelligent approach to being and breathing on the mat. Poses are easily modified and adapted to meet the individual needs of students at all levels of experience and skill. BACK TO TOP

527 Engage .. Ignite .. Empower .. © – Key Behavioral Change and Lifestyle Coaching Strategies – Fabio Comana

What differentiates great trainers from good trainers? It is their ability to engage individuals to build rapport, ignite their passions to help create a vision for change, and then empower these individuals self-sufficiency with memorable experiences. These skill sets transcend far beyond the exercise sciences. It is an art form involving the much-needed skills in rapport-building, motivational interviewing, distinguishing ambivalence from resistance, personality indexing, neuro-linguistic programming, behavioral change / stage of behavior skills; and avoiding personality conflict. Join this session to learn key coaching strategies to use to empower clients. Rise above the mediocrity of the masses – differentiate yourself to become a great professional. BACK TO TOP

528 Powder Blue PiYo™ Strength: Make The Mat Your Friend – Sara Easley & Christine Dwyer

Never thought mind-body formats could be your thing? We’ve been there. We know we should do it, but some of us need to find a class that meets us where we are and encourages us to explore where we need to go! Thank you, PiYo Strength! Designed to be a mind-body inspired workout that moves, discover ways to embrace the mat and bring pilates and yoga benefits to those that might have resisted in the past. Not sure you can be quiet for an hour? Ain’t worth it unless you’re dripping? Trouble keeping still for more than 2 seconds? We’ve gotcha covered. Experience a no equipment, strength workout with a side of core and flexibility that will leave you rocked from head to toe. Whether you decide you want to teach the format or take away pieces to use for core classes and cool downs, PiYo Strength will make the mat your friend. BACK TO TOP

Friday 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

529 Body Bar® Flex: Fusion – Helen Vanderburg

In this workshop experience a fusion of yoga, pilates and fitness exercises with the Body Bar® Flex. Learn how the unique principles of the Body Bar® Flex can assist or resist in the exercises to give your clients a perfect balance of strength, balance and flexibility. BACK TO TOP

530 BOSU® Pilates 3D – Shannon Fable

Are you ready to dimensionalize your Pilates repertoire? The BOSU® Balance Trainer and Ballast Ball are the perfect accessories to bring a wide range of Pilates exercises into the third dimension. In this workshop, you’ll experience ways to execute traditional mat and equipment based Pilates exercises, coupled with the Balance Trainer and Ballast Ball. From the most advanced to the least experienced, this workshop will leave you with unlimited ideas as well as dynamic and fresh content to use with a student, client, one-on-one training and in group settings. Come challenge your core and train the whole body! BACK TO TOP

531 COREBAR HIT®: The new bar in the US – Anita Tonne & Lene Kristine Dahl

532 Schwinn® Cycling: Cycling HIIT It! – Amy Dixon

High Intensity Interval Training is all the rage, and it continues to grow in popularity across all workout platforms. But is this type of training really more effective than other types? And what are the best ways to execute this approach in your cycling classes? Learn the science and, more importantly, the psychology of high intensity interval training, and experience new ways to deliver, measure, recover and repeat high-intensity intervals to your riders that produce results and keep them coming back for more! BACK TO TOP

533 NPI: Corrective Body Weight and Tubing Exercises To Enhance Posture & Body Alignment – Ken Baldwin

This presentation teaches participants corrective body weight and tubing exercises that will enhance their clients/patients posture and body alignment.Students will learn how to teach, perform, and analyze/evaluate exercises that can be performed in a facility one-on-one or in a group exercise setting. Participants will be educated in the following: a systematic process to correct alignment, reverse patterns, improve posture, relieve back pain and train people cognitive methods via the Four Points of Posture™ through exercise/non-exercise movements, specific upper, core, and lower body resistance training and flexibility exercises designed to correct posture and body alignment and how to develop an exercise program to correct a client’s/patients posture in Four-4-Weeks. This course is 10% lecture and90% interactive hands-on training/workshop. A hands-on approach is used for demonstrations and experiential learning. Attendees should wear tank-tops, sleeveless t-shirts, or sports bras and shorts. BACK TO TOP

534 Eating Better – Feeling Better: How, What, Why, When EATINGESSENTIALS – Teri Gentes

You know you need to eat betteryet constant conflicting information makes it so confusing. In this presentation, International Presenter / Lifestyle Wellness Educator, Coach and Cookbook Author Teri Gentes provides clear comprehension of ‘what’s truly better for you, tastes great, is easy to make, and still affordable. Learn exactly what to start with and how to stick with it. Accomplish goals; overcome chronic conditions; prevent disease; feel and look better than ever. Real Food for Real Health is the focus and foundation of the research and information provided. With fabulous support resources and Teri’s transitional approach, embracing healthier every day living for life is easy, enjoyable, sustainable and ever so rewarding. BACK TO TOP

535 Above The Barre – Leslee Bender

Why are so many students getting injured in Barre studios? The answer is simple severe overutilization of the hip flexors! In this session you will not experience pain in the back or the hips guaranteed! All exercises promote a completely safe and systematic way to create symmetry and integration of the muscular system. The Above the Barre method will allow the student the ability to feel their myofascial slings lengthen rather than shorten against gravitational resistance which creates better overall posture and function of the body. This class offers flowing movements and choreography for all levels of students and you do not need to be a dancer!! BACK TO TOP

Friday 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

536 STREET KAMP: Body Weight Sessions – Bishop Garland

KAMP is in session: Body weight style! Utilizing your body weight and the body weight of others as resistance, this dynamic military and urban race inspired workout strives to open doors in your mind that may have been holding the body back. Guaranteed to hit most fitness aspects this workout w/ also tap into the spirit of Unity: One group, One workout, One fitness Nation! BACK TO TOP

537 Flirty Girl Fitness® – Jenn Hall & Mindy Mylrea

You watch MTV and VH1. You love the moves, the music and the magic of this amazing dance style. You’ve thought about teaching cardio dance but didn’t know where to begin. Well, look no further: The Flirty Girl Fitness Booty Beat program is everything you want and more. Our popular, easy to learn dance moves provide the perfect combination of cardio and strength training. You will feel like you’re part of a music video rather than in a cardio-crazy, core-chiseling, booty- toning, arm-sculpting workout class. BACK TO TOP

538 Zumba Toning® – Julie Kelly

“What’s intense, easy to follow and is a fantastic workout? Zumba Toning – The Workout. Learn how to sculpt and tone your body by incorporating the hottest and most challenging choreography using the Zumba Toning Sticks. The Zumba Toning Workout will get your heart and muscles pumping while you are dancing to the new Zumba routines. This class is your opportunity to expand your fitness knowledge in a fun and brand new way! BACK TO TOP

539 Schwinn® Cycling: Release and Relieve – Helen Vanderburg

You know cycling is fantastic for cardiovascular training, calorie burn and an all-around strengthened lower body, but like other sports that demand big power in a limited range of motion, tension and discomfort can too often be the aftermath of a great ride. Not just for cyclists, this workshop pulls the best flexibility, relaxation and self-myofascial release techniques using easy to access equipment into simple sequences you can teach anywhere. Learn how to relieve the hips, back, shoulders and legs, rejuvenate the joints and restore maximal performance to a tight and tired body. This workshop includes a 30-minute cycling workout. BACK TO TOP

540 Leeann Carey Yoga: Yaapana: Happy Hips – Melissa Smith

Learn and practice warm-ups, and dynamic and relaxing supported poses that balance mobility, flexibility and stability for happier and healthier hips! You’ll explore your free range of motion in yoga sequences that invite you to meet and play your edges. BACK TO TOP

541 Cardio Reinvented – Fabio Comana

Frustrated with ineffective programs that fail to deliver? Do your programs fail to hit weight loss goals or push athletes through plateaus? Blame it on older standardized programming guidelines. Why use MHR-based programs for cardio when MHR offers no correlation to performance? If metabolism is as unique as your fingerprint – so should your programs. Learn the latest research and metabolic significance behind VT1 and VT2 and understand how to program around these markers for true results for weight loss and performance. Rethink the way you train for cardio…retrain the way you think about cardio programming. BACK TO TOP

542 Roll With It – Amy Dixon

The perfect half and half foam roller workout designed specifically by Amy Dixon to help you find the perfect balance between work and relaxation. Stabilize, roll and rotate your way to a rock solid core and feel the deep release of muscular tension through self myofascial release. Learning how to roll with it just might be the medicine you need to stay lean, strong and injury free. BACK TO TOP

Saturday 7:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

543 LeBert Fitness – Cool New Tools & Programming For Bootcamps & Group Ex – Marc Lebert

544 R.I.P.P.E.D. – The One Stop Body Shock® – Alex Isaly & Terry Shorter

545 COREBAR HIT® – The new bar in the US – Anita Tonne & Lene Kristine Dahl

5 years of European success is hitting the US market hard! COREBAR HIT™is a totally new approach to high intensity training AND core training. This training form has it ALL! A total body, high intensity, interval-based cardio and conditioning program, guaranteed to get you in the best shape of your life! Non-stop movement, non-stop super sweat! COREBAR® is intense, energetic, playful, diverse, deliberate, focused and…FUN! Each class leaves you exhilarated from the experience and already looking forward to the next one! Most of all, COREBAR®, is effective, it’s tough; this is the ultimate calorie burning workout to test your levels of fitness and endurance. Using a weighted bar, you’ll re-contour, re-define and re-shape your muscles with particular focus on your core, using signature COREBAR® positions, signature moves and signature combinations. All in 60 minutes, helping you become COREBAR® “STRONG”. COREBAR®IS the body makeover workout to take you to your potential. Have fun, Train Hard Or Go Home! BACK TO TOP

546 Schwinn® Cycling: The Wake-Up Workout – Amy Dixon

It takes a special kind of instructor to grow and maintain a sold-out indoor cycling class in those early morning time slots. But crack the code and you’ll find yourself coaching of a pack of the most loyal riders in the club. This workshop covers the Top 5 “musts” for winning in the morning and you’ll experience a wake-up ride to make you rise and shine. Don’t worry about getting up in time to have your coffee first. In this workshop we supply the coffee too! BACK TO TOP

547 Functional Flexibility The Truth in Training – Leslee Bender

Muscles are tri-plane movers and are much more powerful when lengthened than shortened. Whether you are a trainer specifying in athletics or weekend warriors understanding the importance of integrated flexibility in all three planes will help with the necessary strategies to improve strength, posture and performance. You will have a greater understanding of the relationship between fascia and our muscles and how it affects the quality of performance and the prevention of injuries. BACK TO TOP

548 The Sports Conditioning Trifecta – The Recipe For Winning! – Fabio Comana

Successful sports conditioning demands more than just good program design. It requires athletes to pay close attention to their nutrition and hydration habits. This enlightening session takes an in-depth look at the elements that make up the training prescription (i.e. anaerobic energy system training, timing, layout, pre-requisites, etc.) as well as reliable pre-exercise, during and post-exercise nutrition and hydration strategies that will help your client to discover the champion within. BACK TO TOP

549 Mat Pilates with Props – Ariel Hernandez

We’ll begin with a discussion on how to recruit stability muscles for movements that require balance. Get out of your comfort zone and experience pilates with props in creative and innovative ways. BACK TO TOP

Can you balance? We’ll see!

Saturday 9:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

550 Body Bar® Core 3 x 3 – Keli Roberts

The Body Bar® provides the ideal overload to create a simple system to train the body from the inside out that not only improves muscular endurance, but also posture, alignment and sports performance. Learn functional sequences that incorporate tri-planar movement in a tri-set format than includes exercises in stance, quadruped, prone and supine positions. Train the body from the inside-out with this simple effective system. BACK TO TOP

551 BOSU® Crush It – Mindy Mylrea

BOSU® Crush It is for you, your clients and your athletes, and it will test your strength, weaknesses and your limits! Compete against yourself and rate your athletic skill in the areas of balance, agility, core, cardio and strength. After each measurable challenge, learn drills to improve your athletic ability in that area of fitness. Learn how the challenges and drills can be integrated into goal specific workouts for all fitness levels. Are you ready to take your fitness to the next level? BACK TO TOP

552 Zumba Gold® – Vanessa Lupercio

Did you know that the number of Americans over the age of 65 is expected to double to over 70 million by 2040? This population grew up dancing, this population helped create the fitness industry as we know it today, this population still has energy passion and the need for fun! BACK TO TOP

553 Schwinn® Cycling: 10 Minutes to Your Next 10 Rides – Shannon Fable

Let’s make class design super-quick so you can get on the bike and deliver that knockout ride! Come learn a simple system for creating an endless library of exciting cycling workouts that are easy to remember, a blast to coach and physiologically make good sense. Learn to create stages of work based on the Schwinn® Cycling intensity scale and ways to categorize your music for easy plug and play. Now watch, as that one great class becomes your next ten rides! BACK TO TOP

554 Yoga I.S.® YOGression: Creative Yoga Sequences for Arms and Shoulders – Lauren Eirk

Hatha Yoga is meant to be a life-long practice. The best teachers are the ones who can bring their students to new levels by creating an experience that unknowingly improves strength, awareness, and passion for their mind, body, and overall health. In YOGression, learn what progression in yoga really means, in terms of many small, logical, creative steps that we can take towards achieving our most healthy expression of Yoga Asanas.Learn why longer practices, acquiring more rigorous adjustments, or forcing oneself into more difficult positions are not the way to achieve the goal of achieving a particular position. In this session, experience several creative sequences targeted to the upper extremities. Learn how to progress your students in several arm-balancing poses, complete with ways to strengthen hands, wrists, elbows, shoulders, and cervical regions using various interpretations and variations of traditional Yoga Asanas. BACK TO TOP

553 NPI Goniometry Assessments – Joint and Muscular Range of Motion Testing – Ken Baldwin

This course prepares personal trainers/fitness professionals, athletic trainers, and allied health/medical professionals to assess their client’s joint and muscular range of motion (ROM) using a Goniometer. The lecture teaches attendees how to analyze and assess a client implementing a goniometer as a measuring and evaluation tool.Participants will be educated in the following: how goniometry assessments are an important component of the health/fitness screening process to design the proper flexibility/stretching program for your client, how goniometery assessments will allow for the design of a complimentary exercise program focusing on measuring and improving joint range of motion (ROM), how to implement the Goniometer assessment program into their facility or organizations current health and exercise testing program, the measurement procedures and techniques of performing goniometric assessments and procedures of how to explain assessment results to a client-patient. This course is 40% lecture and60% interactive hands-on practical training. A minimum of 90 minutes is required depending on the number attendees. A hands-on approach is used for demonstrations and experiential learning in small group settings. Attendees should wear tank-tops, sleeveless t-shirts, or sports bras and shorts. BACK TO TOP

556 Body Weight RX – Helen Vanderburg

Wouldn’t it be nice for a change to not have to haul a bunch of equipment to give your clients an effective workout? In this workshop you will learn a variety of exercises for the upper body, lower body and core using your own body weight as resistance. Whether you are a personal trainer or group exercise instructor you will be able to use these efficient exercise routines with absolutely no equipment and achieve results. BACK TO TOP

Saturday 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

557 Powder Blue Let the Rhythm Move You, byTurbo Kick® – Melissa McAllister & Sara Easley

It’s true – music makes the people come together (thanks, Madonna!) Most people are motivated by music and turn it up when it’s time to work out. Group Fitness rooms are equipped to get loud and members expect good tunes when they hit the floor. Whether you’re teaching kickboxing, cycling or strength, the music you choose and the way you use it (or don’t) can take your class from good to great! We’ll discuss recent research about music’s effect on exercise intensity, review music structure and how it can be used to help with choreography breakdown, repetition tracking and more, as well as ideas for selecting your soundtrack and cueing without getting lost in the music. Whether you’re new to teaching and haven’t quite mastered the phrase thing or a vet looking to be inspired, this workshop is for you. We’ll finish with a fabulous TurboKick class that will highlight just how much music matters. BACK TO TOP

558 BOSU® Amped! – Shannon Fable

BOSU® Training just got caffeinated! Come experience brand-new exercises, sequences and drills designed to amplify the energy and the results! Full of hard-core training, and hard-core fun, this workshop will leave you with solo, partner and team exercises that can be done with just one BOSU® Balance Trainer per person. You will even learn some new and easy ways to incorporate the BOSU® Ballast Ball (or a stability ball) into your BOSU® workouts. Simple, unique, and full of creativity, this workshop will WORK YOU OUT! BACK TO TOP

559 Flirty Girl Fitness® – Jenn Hall & Mindy Mylrea

dance moves provide the perfect combination of cardio and strength training. You will feel like you’re part of a music video rather than in a cardio-crazy, core-chiseling, booty- toning, arm-sculpting workout class. BACK TO TOP

560 Schwinn® Cycling: Ride One, Get One FREE – Amy Dixon

561 Leeann Carey Yoga: Yaapana: Lower Back Luck – Melissa Smith

Learn and experience for yourself, the method for using yoga as a way to heal the lower back. Simple assessments can help to determine who you are in all segments of your spine, whether on or off your mat. You’ll explore the best modifications for your lower back in all groups of asanas: standing, sitting, back bending, twisting, forward bending and inverting. BACK TO TOP

562 POWER TO GO: Pre and Post Workout Fueling – Teri Gentes

Pre and Post Workout Fueling FUELLING ESSENTIALS Improve performance, endurance and results! Expedite recovery!Reduce inflammation and muscle soreness!Real Food, Real Health® Nutritional Gourmet Teri Gentes shows you how to optimize Pre and Post Fitness Fuelingwith natural nutrition that replenishes, repairs and rebuilds muscles mass and bone strength. Learn exactly what you need for short and longer duration workouts and optimal post workout meal ideas. Teri suggests preferred products, supplement guidelines and shares super recipes. Break away from media misunderstandings about what’s needed. Rather than sugar laden, inflammation enhancing chocolate milk, discover what really enables optimal performance and recovery. BACK TO TOP

563 BUILD-A-BUTT™ Bustin’ Booty Partner Drills – Cheryl Westerman

Join us for a bustin’ booty good time! This fun, total body TOWELmoves session emphasizes targeted muscle groups using a towel and the assistance/ resistance of a partner. Team up combining cardio drills, towel toning techniques and motivational partner power! BACK TO TOP

Saturday 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

564 Lebert Fitness – Making Your Workout Epic – Marc Lebert

565 STREET KONTACT (The Partnered Katas) – Garland Bishop

Duck, dodge, slip, strike in this dynamic martial movement session. Utilizing gloves and strike pads, you shall be taken through a series of movements (Katas) that become live and full effect when faced with a partner and you begin to “Fight”. Light contact drill work mixed with solid technique and a lot of style equals KONTACT! BACK TO TOP

566 Zumba Fitness® Party “Feel the Music” Experience – Julie Kelly

567 Schwinn® Cycling: HIIT IT! – Helen Vanderburg

568 Yoga I.S.® Samtosha: The Art of Being Content With Your Body and Your Practice – Lauren Eirk

Comparing oneself to others or to a picture in a book can cause frustration and haste, wanting to achieve a position no matter the cost. Santosha, is learning to be content with the body we are given. This is further validated by many scientific facts, given that joints have specific planes of motion capabilities. Add genetics, injury, tissue, and muscle inhibition to name a few factors, and this further affects our outcomes of a Yoga practice. We can only progress as fast as the slowest component, and we have to learn to live inside the body we have been given. Learn ways to incorporate these ideas in your yoga classes, giving students permission to make adjustments and modifications. BACK TO TOP

569 NPI Establishing a Successful Posture Assessment Based Business Model in your Facility – Ken Baldwin

The presentation will teach personal trainers/fitness managers, group exercise instructors and allied health/medical professionals how to establish a posture assessment based-business model in your health/fitness facility that will lead to greater membership retention/personal training client base. Attendees will learn how to establish this Business Model into a facility using the National Posture Institute’s structured posture assessment/corrective exercise program, marketing/administration materials, staff training/education, and a complete business plan to initiate the posture program. This lecture/workshop is one of the educational modules required to receive the National Posture Institutes-Certified Posture Specialist™ designation. BACK TO TOP

570 Mat! Mat and More Mat! – Ariel Hernandez

Saturday 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

571 Body Bar® Lean Mean Legs! – Sherry Catlin

Step up to the “Bar” … Everyone wants the long lean sexy athletic legs that work as well as they look…So get ready to ignite your lower body training with sure-fire sequences of kick butt exercises that hit all the trouble spots…define your thighs, minimize your hips and rock “dah butt”… Then increase the intensity by integrating your core and upper body… You will have a cutting edge workout that develops the power and grace of a dancer or athlete and the body that looks like one too! BACK TO TOP

572 BOSU® Strong and Stretched – Amy Dixon

The BOSU® Balance Trainer is one of the fitness industry’s best strengthening and stretching accessories, and this workshop covers both! First, you will learn brand-new athletic, total body exercises and sequences that are designed to functionally strengthen the body from head to toe, and can be used in any type of strength, sculpt or conditioning workouts. Then, you will learn a variety of yoga-inspired stretch sequences that utilize the Balance Trainer to make easy stretches more challenging, and tough stretches easier to do! These stretch sequences can be broken up to be used for short and sweet cool-down routines, or connected together for full-length stretch workouts. Don’t miss this chance to get the best of both worlds! BACK TO TOP

573 No Equipment Necessary Take Two! – Shannon Fable

Whether you experienced the first installment or not, No Equipment Necessary – TakeTwo is a great workout that takes minimal space and produces maximum effect. In Take Two, we’ll move beyond a strictlystrength workout and combine interesting cardio and strength combinations with balance and flexibility challenges fora full body workout. Ease the intimidation factor by removing the equipment while increasing the effectiveness through elevated cueing techniques. Use what you’ve got and take your workouts beyond what you ever dreamed possible…no clean up required! BACK TO TOP

574 Schwinn® Cycling: Ride One Get One FREE – Keli Roberts

575 Leeann Carey Yoga: Yaapana: Doing, Being, Still – Melissa Smith

In this workshop you will experience traditional supported yoga, using all recommended props, combined with current methodologies of yoga and class development to support your needs and the needs of your students. This practice leads to understanding Yoga Therapy from a restorative perspective. You learn both stimulating and pacifying treatments to help correct physical and emotional imbalances and restore general wellbeing. BACK TO TOP

576 WHAT’S REALLY IN IT 2012? CONSUMER ESSENTIALS Do you know what you’re eating? – Teri Gentes

Do you know what you’re eating? Dispelling popular misconceptions of the perceived ‘Healthy Foods’ diet Wellness Consultant and ‘Real Foods For Real Health’™Natural Nutritioncoach, researcher and author Teri Gentes enlightens you with factualinformation on the food industryand impact of the choices you arepresently making. No matter whom you are and what you do, you truly arewhat you eat. It impacts your every breath, belief, thought, word and action,Become more informed in order to become more discerning. Leave withinside informationfrom researchers and authors such as Michael Pollanand Marion Nestle on exactly what you are eating and how to eat better.Session Focus: The real ingredients in foods and clarity of a truly healthy ‘real foods’ dietary approach. BACK TO TOP

577 Anatomy In Action – Leslee Bender

Based on Applied Functional Movement. Have you ever wondered about what happens when the foot hits the ground? There is a chain reaction of the system when it loads and unloads to create movement. This session explores why we have dysfunctional posture and poor movement quality and cannot get the results we are seeking. Once you can understand how to train the body three dimensionally you can create results. Muscles need far more to be lengthened than shortened and how it will dramatically affect the health of the fascia when done so. This session will give you tools and strategies to look at how your body is in constant motion and how to train it efficiently. BACK TO TOP

Saturday 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

578 STREET KATA: Warrior Glide Style (Level II) – Garland Bishop

Control, fluidity, and massive style bring unparalleled energy to these stylized fight sequences or “ katas”. Warrior explores next level footwork, movement vocabulary, and progressions. Driven by a musicality that is as varied as the martial arts techniques incorporated, this level is geared towards those who already have a solid understanding of martial techniques and thrive for enhanced fight simulation. Martial Movement to the next power! BACK TO TOP

579 Savvier Fitness® Booty Camp – Mindy Mylrea

You have heard of Boot Camp but have you ever heard of Booty camp for the Bun and legs? Take your below the belt classes to camp with this whole new approach to Buns and legs training – circuit style. You will experience the best lower body station ideas on the planet and then you will hook up with a buddy, team, or just survive solo for a lower body challenge that is booty crazy. BACK TO TOP

580 Hip Hop HUSTLE™: On the Outside Looking In – Christine Dwyer & Sara Easley

Dance formats are HOT! But, let’s face it … many dance programs leave members on the outside looking in. Ever noticed members casing the studio; hanging out on ellipticals and watching through the windows? They want to be part of the fun but fear they won’t know the moves or won’t be able to ‘move that way’. Enter Hip Hop Hustle where we encourage you to find an alter ego and let it shine. Discover the ‘secret sauce’ to making dance work for you and your nay saying, non-dancy types. Find creative ways to sneak dance into any class you teach and how to add the “SO WHAT” factor to help people break out of their comfort zone! Whether you think you can dance or you’ve always been a wallflower, it’s time to put on your dancin’ shoes. BACK TO TOP

581 True Metabolic Conditioning – A Scientific Approach To Boosting Your Metabolic Burn – Fabio Comana

P90x™, Crossfit™ – you may know the names, but what are they all about? Metabolic Conditioning is hot, and while many personal trainers grasp the basic concepts to this training philosophy, they may not fully understand the physiological principles that support these training methodologies. Although metabolic conditioning varies by purpose, for most it involves strategies that boost your metabolism throughout the day, not just in your workouts – to transform from fat-to-fit, but are they just snake-oils or do they actually deliver results? In this interactive, session workshop we explore current metabolic research, training philosophies and strategies that fitness professionals can utilize to influence metabolism and total daily energy expenditure. Learn how to appropriately apply biological stressors that elicit key neuroendocrine, psychological and emotional adaptations to accelerate results while avoiding injury, attrition and failure. BACK TO TOP

582 Graceful Grand Finales – Shannon Fable

Leave a lasting impression … how your participants feel when they walk out the door has a strong connection to their eventual return. Help increase their chances by creating a final cool–‐down that is sure to leave them feeling relaxed, fulfilled, and successful. Uncover the top 10 ingredients to an Inspirational finale including movement and motivation. You will learn 5 three to five minute Finales choreographed to inspirational tunes perfect for any class you teach. Use them as you experience, or mix and match movements to create breathtaking finales of your own. Take home a list of additional tunes you can choose from to create additional finales throughout the year. No matter what has happened from minute 1–‐55, the last five minutes of your class has the power to inspire; learn how. BACK TO TOP

583 WAIST-ed™ with TOWELmoves™ – Cheryl Westerman

Is your Body on the Rocks? Let’s shake it up! This workshop combines sculpt moves using a towel, other small apparatus, and waist- education to get rid of the Belly Hangover! Lose your love handles by changing eating habits and attacking the 6-pack! Team-up total body towel moves and cardio core intervals in a circuit to core discipline! BACK TO TOP

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