DCAC Fitness » Events » Houston TX - April 14-18, 2010 » Sessions/Workshops
Sessions/Workshops
Friday, April 16, 2010
Downloadable Main Session Schedule at a Glance
| # | Time | Session | Presenter | Description |
| 500 | 7am – 9am | POWER SYSTEMS® The Ultimate Kettleball Workout |
Irene McCormick | Learn how to create an intense total-body workout incorporating kettleballs. Kettleballs help develop total body strength through the fluid range of motion that can only come from the acceleration and control of this ageless training tool. Work your body through a wide range of angles. Don’t have kettleballs? No problem. Whether you use a kettleball or dumbbell you’ll gain the awesome benefits that can only come from kettleball style exercises. Workshop GE, PT |
| 501 | 7am – 9am | BOSU® Amped! | Jay Blahnik, Douglas Brooks, Mindy Mylrea, Stacey Lei Krauss & Shannon Fable | BOSU training just got caffeinated! Join the BOSU Team for the workout of a lifetime where you will 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 is also your opportunity to experience new BOSU accessories and training techniques that will give you more ideas than you can carry home. Perfect for Personal Trainers or Group Exercise Instructors, BOSU Amped is your chance to WORK IT OUT! Workshop GE, PT |
| 502 | 7 am – 9 am | The Step Balance | Manuel Velazquez | Break up the encrypted combinations, break thru the creative process to move through basic moves as they come and evolve. Build up a cardio challenge with those old step moves from your glossary to break a sweat as you move thru multiple movement planes, intensity levels, as well as rhythm and balance challenges. Embrace 32 count, bilateral combinations over and around the step. Workshop GE |
| 503 | 7 am – 9 am | Spinning® Split Symbol Success | Jeff Krabiel | Phase 2 of the Spinning Instructor Manual details the natural progression of profile creation from single movement concentration to flowing multiple symbol formats. This type of class design requires smooth transitions, proper cues, and evenly paced aerobic intensities. We’ll begin by discussing the differences between single movement and split symbol profile designs before moving on to specific suggestions for successfully communicating your transitions to the participants. Following the lecture, we’ll do a challenging 50-minute split-symbol ride. Workshop CY |
| 504 | 7 am – 9 am | Yoga Off The Wall | Leah Husk | Take your practice to a new level by incorporating the wall as a yoga prop. This style of practice allows you to bring a new level of awareness to your mind/body workout as you learn to use the wall to further support and deepen your postures. Workshop MB, GE |
| 505 | 7 am – 9 am | Bender Ball® Reformer On The Mat | Leslee Bender | This class was one of the best received of 2009! Simulating FUNCTIONAL reformer exercises utilizing small equipment that either the Pilates trainer or fitness professional can utilize instead of large equipment. This class offers the understanding of muscular weaknesses and how to address exercises for specific postural needs. Traditional Pilates was designed for dancers and not the general population. It is important to recognize today’s society and the way we move and the activities we are involved in. This class gives you the ability to put the student with the specific exercise. Workshop GE, MB, PT |
| 506 | 7 am – 9 am | Pilatesstick® Pilates without Limitations | Connie Borho | The Pilatesstick is a great new innovative tool that will enable Pilates trainers to take their show on the road! Experience how the Pilatesstick can be used to simulate many of the reformer exercises, almost all of the Cadillac exercises, and how to use it in Pilates mat classes to add spice and variety, as well as challenge. Workshop GE, MB, PT |
| 507 | 7 am – 9 am | Christ Centered Yoga™ | Becky Martin | Join us as we share a Christ Centered Yoga™ class; a class that ministers to the whole person by studying God’s word and allowing its truth to lay the mental and spiritual foundation by which we add the physical practice of yoga. By incorporating all that we are – mind, body, and spirit – into our yoga practice, it becomes a moving prayer of praise and worship. Come experience His goodness, His glory and His grace! Workshop GE, MB |
| 508 | 7 am – 9am | What’s Really In It? | Teri Gentes | “Oh yes, I eat really well” echo’s from most of the people/clients I work with. How many times have you told yourself this (or heard it from clients) yet continue to contend with a plethora of health issues, injuries and weight challenges? Your clients may believe they are eating quite healthy as they follow the ever powerful media mind washing to choose labels featuring claims such as ‘whole grains’, ‘omega 3 rich eggs’ and salmon’. They may ‘switch over to chicken and pork over red meat’; buy bars and cereals claiming to be ‘all natural and fiber rich’; low fat, sugar free, etc. Reality reveals despite these efforts real health continues to allude most. This session looks at what really is in the most commonly consumed foods. Lifestyle Wellness Consultant and ‘Real Foods For Real Health’™ Nutrition coach, researcher and author Teri Gentes will enlighten you with factual information on the food industry and impact the choices you and your clients/members are presently making. No matter who you are and what you do, you truly are what you eat and it impacts your every breath, belief, thought, word and action, Become more informed in order to become more discerning both personally and most particularly as a health/fitness/wellness professional who leads and enables by example. One need not be a dietician to positively influence healthier eating habits and every human being needs to know how to fuel themselves no matter what professional role they have. Lecture GE, MB, PT |
| 509 | 7 am – 9 am | Essentials Of Exercise Physiology | Fabio Comana | Foundational knowledge in the exercise sciences is critical to understanding how your clients reacts and adapts to the stimulus of exercise. Research within these areas is constantly revised and trainers need to remain current to better serve their trainers. These sessions review the fundamentals of the different physiological systems and discuss the latest research. They offer an opportunity to for structured learning in these areas for the first time or a welcomed refresher for the more experienced trainer. Lecture PT, GE |
| 510 | 7 am – 9 am | FFP – How To Develop Winning Strategic Alliances | Derrick Wilburn | Strategic alliances and joint ventures enable businesses to gain competitive advantages through access to partner’s resources including markets, technologies, capital and personnel. In this seminar, participants learn how to develop the “win-win” mindset which focuses on the fundamental truth that, by forming strategic partnerships and joint ventures we are able to gain more in less time and with less effort than if going it alone. Learn how to focus resources, identify the right partners, close and solidify relationships that will produce results for years into the future. Lecture PT, GE |
| 511 | 7 am – 9 am | Buddha Meets Mermaid | Lawrence Biscontini & June Kahn | Combine yoga and pilates for a fresh approach to aquatics. Embarking on a journey with the premise that evolved movement yields an evolved experience, capture the best of mindful stability and mobility for warm water. You will hold postures, move postures, and link postures and progressions with refreshing combinations. Workshop AQ |
| 512 | 7 am – 9 am | Total EXHAUST Aqua Circuit | Jeff McMullen | Step beyond the usual hum-drum follow the leader type approach in your classes and develop a true sense of camaraderie for your participants, circuit style. Partner up and discover the possibilities that this method of training has on improving cardiovascular fitness, muscular strength and endurance and power development! Examine the principles of circuit training as they apply to class design and format, equipment usage, and participant motivation and socialization. Have them waiting in line for your classes! Workshop AQ |
| 513 | 10am – 11:30am | Gliding™ Plug and Play | Mindy Mylrea | Are you ready to work core, legs, glutes, and upper body in a whole new way? Go beyond boring and traditional. We will use only Gliding Discs, med balls, and body weight to transform your tried and true routines into integrated magic. You will learn mini “plug and play” workouts for each muscle group along with routines that target the whole body. Workshop GE, PT |
| 514 | 10am – 11:30am | Resist-A-Ball® Boot Camp | Renee Spriggs | These days it seems no fitness center or personal trainer is complete without offering boot camp training. Fitness enthusiasts everywhere are lining up for tough, no-nonsense, total-body workouts that deliver as big on endorphins as they do on results. There’s no better way to get in this game than with Resist-A-Ball Boot Camp—think power, core strength and a whole lotta sweat. You’ll learn exercises and circuits for private or small-group personal training or group ex classes. You’ll come away with the knowledge and tools to begin your Resist-A-Ball Boot Camp sessions to challenge everyone from the new recruit to the toughest soldier. Workshop GE, PT |
| 515 | 10am – 11:30am | Bollywood Step | Sarina Jain | This class is easy to follow, very basic, however you are stepping Indian style! We use the latest music in Bollywood mixed with Hollywood to create a rhythm like no other. Come and have fun doing the simple basics of step, the turn step, and the repeaters all to music that will make you want to do more! Workshop GE |
| 516 | 10am – 11:30am | Spinning® Bike Fit | Josh Taylor | Introduce yourself to the brand new Bike Fit tool and Spin®-Fit-System designed by professional cyclist and Master Instructor Josh Taylor! Knowing how to properly fit someone on the bike is essential for any Spinning instructor. This is an area where you as an instructor can make a huge difference for yourself as well as your students. Optimal positioning on the bike is the foundation to safe and effective riding. You know you need to know this better! Workshop CY |
| 517 | 10am – 11:30am | The Athlete’s Yoga | Connie Borho | Traditionally, athletes don’t do yoga because of fear of painful stretching or because they think it’s too “far out”. Athletes want to move, they want power. But they also need focus, endurance, and strength within their flexibility. Ashtanga Yoga brings all this and more to the practice. By linking postures through flowing movements called vinyasas, and by supporting each posture with breath and pelvic locks, athletes will experience yoga in ways they can understand and see the value in. Even iron will bend if you heat it up! Workshop MB, PT, GE |
| 518 | 10am – 11:30am | Peak Pilates® Power Tools | Cherry Herzog | Ever wonder how to help students connect more deeply to Pilates exercises? Explore how to use small props like bands, power circles, balls and other fun tools, to deepen the experience of the intermediate mat exercises. Have fun and learn how to approach these exercises in new ways. This workout is perfect for all fitness levels, and no prior experience is necessary. Workshop GE, MB, PT |
| 519 | 10am – 11:30am | One Foot Up, Then Forward | Fabio Comana | Balance is the foundation to all training, yet often overlooked in most training programs. As balance improves physiological, cognitive and emotional function, why don’t we include it in every program, from beginner to expert? Come learn how to implement simple balance exercises, movements and progressions that utilize the body and basic equipment, and learn how to introduce them to all your clients with ease. Enhance the fun factor in your sessions with some challenging, but enjoyable drills. Workshop GE, PT |
| 520 | 10am – 11:30am | Indo-Row® The Perfect Calorie Burn | Jay Blahnik & Josh Crosby | The hottest workout in Los Angeles is making its way to DCAC, and you don’t want to miss it! Celebrated by athletes and celebrities, alike, and dubbed “The perfect calorie burn,” Indo-Row® is a one-of-a-kind rowing workout that will truly change the way you think about group exercise. Working in teams, partners and as one crew, you will get world-class coaching and a transforming total-body workout that will leave you begging for more. Easy to learn, Indo-Row is perfect for group p exercise instructors and personal trainers. No experience is necessary. Don’t be one to hear how great the session was, be one who got to experience it! Workshop GE |
| 521 | 10am – 11:30am | Analyzing The World Of Popular Diets | Scott Josephson | The media loves bestselling books about fad diets and weight control! Can they really help us get healthier, lose weight and improve athletic performance? Find out in this in-depth look at the practicality, sustainability and reality of today’s most popular diets including the South Beach, Atkins, The Zone, Sugar Busters, The Raw Food Diet, Hoodia, Volumetrics, Choose to Lose, Thin for Life and various others. Lecture GE, PT |
| 522 | 10am – 11:30am | Recycle ME! Seniors | Robert Sherman | The future of fitness and wellness is not trying to change the past behaviors, but to implement new ones. Your training has gotten you to where you are now, and your imbalance is telling you that something has to change. New habits are much easier to create than you think; you simply need the right tools and skill set to help change your approach. This workshop will provide assessments (tests), force orientations (strength training) and movement patterns (exercises) that will launch you training from (old school) to new school paradigm shifts and your approach to training. Lecture GE, PT, S |
| 523 | 10am – 11:30am | FFP – Start & Grow a 6-Figure Bootcamp Business | Scott Colby | This presentation provides exact details on who to start up a bootcamp business from scratch. Attendees will learn how to market and fill up a bootcamp in record time! Scott provides information on setting up referral systems to keep a steady stream of new camp members coming in, how to use transformation contests and fund raisers to grow camps, how to set up workouts to accommodate all fitness levels, and how to retain camp members and develop the best bootcamp in town! Lecture PT, GE |
| 524 | 10am – 11:30am | Zen & Zenergy | Melissa Layne | Experience an energizing and tranquil workout experience in one class. We will fuse cardiovascular workouts with mind-soothing yoga vinyasas in one flowing class to meet the goals of today’s’ hurried participant. Workshop AQ |
| 525 | 10am – 11:30am | Weigh-Less Workout | Laura Ribbins | Come share a design for success: Get “weigh-less” with an aquatic interval design for losing weight and keeping it off. Cutting edge research supports this experience of a training continuum that challenges both the aerobic and anaerobic systems as well as strengthening the core of exercise. Laura’s “weigh less” techniques will integrate the 200 minute philosophy with a S.M.A.R.T. program design, which is perfect for small groups or one on one training; delivering outstanding results. Workshop AQ |
| 526 | 12:30pm – 2pm | Cardio Combat Kickboxing | Janell Vela-Smith | Combat KB uses the back kicks, punches, and blocks from the martial art of Tukong combined with a cardiovascular/resistance workout. Combat KB is a total body workout that not only builds and tones muscle, but taught correctly will burn over 800 calories per hour. It will also teach students the basics of self-defense. This can be a great advertising tool to entice consumers into taking Combat KB, stressing the term “basics” of self-defense. Workshop GE, PT |
| 527 | 12:30pm – 2pm | TWIST Conditioning Complete Core Challenge | Douglas Brooks | Performance gains for sport and active life come from powerful core stabilization and rotation in a dynamic upright stance. Learn a systematic progression to achieve a broad spectrum of core development as you experience a variety of training tools and techniques. Easy to implement, immediately effective and applicable for all levels of athletes, the core challenge exercise repertoire expands your current ideas on core training and delivers outstanding results. Workshop GE, PT |
| 528 | 12:30pm – 2pm | Lyrical Fitness | Ilyse Baker | Discover YOU! Lyrical Fitness is a new session that is unique and is open to all levels. There is no choreography. Instead, Ilyse instructs you how to develop dynamic movement patterns and structured improvisation that promote individuality and self- expression. Learn to create an atmosphere of safety and acceptance for yourself. Get lost in the style and feel of you to discover how your body moves! Learn how to trust your own body parts to connect to the music, atmosphere, and most importantly your inner self Your mind gets a great workout along with the entire body. You will leave wanting more! Workshop GE |
| 529 | 12:30pm – 2pm | Spinning® The 5 Step Sprint | Jeff Krabiel | Sprints on both flats and hills are by far the most challenging of all Spinning movements. They require strong resistance loads, maximized physical efforts, and appropriate recovery periods. During this workshop, we’ll discuss a five-step plan for the creation of proper sprint segments within classes. We’ll break down each step and introduce specific strategies for communicating them effectively to the students. Following the lecture, we’ll engage in an intense 45-minute interval ride with plenty of sprint opportunities. Workshop CY |
| 530 | 12:30pm – 2pm | Balletone® Interval Intelligence | Shannon Fable | Explore intelligence in motion with a fusion-style, cardio-interval workout created with Balletone movements that anyone can do. This power-packed session alternates flowing fitness moves that get your heart-rate up with long-lever, strength and balance exercises that challenge muscular endurance, active flexibility and core strength. Whether you decide to use the class design from start to finish or mix and match pieces with current workouts, you are sure to find innovative ideas for your harshest front row frowner! Workshop GE, MB |
| 531 | 12:30pm – 2pm | Caffeinated Pilates | June Kahn | Energize and empower your students with this awakening, fresh and uplifting approach to Pilates matwork through a flowing combination of Pilates progressions in an undulating format. Experience core challenges that incorporate fluid transitions for seamless routines and gather endless ideas for your Pilates classes. Charge up your traditional routines by adding an eclectic twist to your Pilates workouts. Workshop GE, MB |
| 532 | 12:30pm – 2pm | Bodyblade® Core Like Never Before | Connie Borho | Unleash the power of your core using the Bodyblade. This workshop is perfect for personal trainers who want to learn a functional approach to training the core that enhances strength, stability, and balance. This rapid contracting, low-level vibration approach to core training will burn the calories and shrink your client’s waistline like never before! Workshop GE, PT |
| 533 | 12:30pm – 2pm | Foundational Beaming™ Sensational Sampler | David Mesirow | Come and experience this revolutionary new activity-based lifestyle program, designed to integrate physical and emotional balance, activating a shift in attitude and awareness. Beaming™ will teach you how to transform traditional exercise classes and personal training sessions into an experience that blends this consciousness with the physical activity performed on a specially designed, pliable, low grounded beam, encouraging significant lifestyle changes. The Beamfit™ balance challenges harmonize familiar physical movements with mind-body philosophy as you explore barefoot and somatosensory training while integrating balance, precision, stability, strength, endurance and stretch. Workshop GE, MB, PT |
| 534 | 12:30pm – 2pm | Healthier Eating Habits | Teri Gentes | Coach your clients to healthier dietary habits and shift them from conventional commercial crap to great tasting, nutrient dense quality eating and enjoyment. This session with Natural Nutritionist Teri Gentes, whose philosophy is ‘Real Food for Real Health’™ is rich in ideas and recipes for breakfasts, lunches, dinners and snacks. A long time Gourmet Nutrition chef, Teri is known for inspiring, educating and enabling a delicious transition to healthier, happier living and eating for the young and old, those healthy or not. This workshop may even include a few surprise food demonstrations and samplings. Leave with both a handout full of fabulous easy ideas that will wow your clients and a grab bag with samples of great products and coupons. Lecture GE, MB, PT |
| 535 | 12:30pm – 2pm | Yoga Is a Four Letter Word | Jane Vaganek | Fitness enthusiasts, weekend warriors, and elite athletes can all benefit from portions of a yoga practice. However, many fitness professionals continue to shy away from integrating yoga into their toolbox. This workshop bridges the gap between yoga and the fitness professional. Using simple techniques, give your clients and classes the amazing benefits of a yoga practice without scaring them away. Lecture MB, GE |
| 536 | 12:30pm – 2pm | Double Your Numbers, Double Your Fun! | Andrea Metcalf | Are you looking to increase your participation in your group exercise classes? Increase the programming to help your members loyal to your club? Do you need help getting your fitness trainers and instructors involved with your programming? Learn how to double your participation numbers. Learn how to market these programs with little or no money. Learn how to make your staff love their jobs and improve customer service. Lecture PT, GE |
| 537 | 12:30pm – 2pm | Aqua Disc | Linda Griffeth | The Aqua Disc is a revolutionary piece of aquatic equipment using hydrodynamic technology. This shallow water workshop is similar to the land Reebok Slide popular a couple of years ago and the “Gliding System” popular today. Working in the aquatic environment makes this unique versatile piece of equipment fun and gentler on the joints enhancing range of motion. Workshop AQ |
| 538 | 12:30pm – 2pm | Strength & Power H2O | Irene McCormick | This water-fitness program is designed for individuals demanding a high intensity water workout with training benefits for agility, speed, strength, and flexibility with body awareness. It also includes blends of yoga and Pilates for increased core strength and flexibility. This unique programming appeals to a spectrum of populations. Workshop AQ |
| 539 | 2:30pm – 4:30pm | Step CELEBRATION! | Jeff McMullen | Step is officially 20 years old! Let’s celebrate in style! You’ve been teaching step since its inception, through its evolution of lead changes, tap-free progressions, cross-phrasing, and elimination of the filler teaching styles. Now let’s pull out all the stops, tie up all the loose ends, and utilize the teaching tools from the past, present and future. Here’s your chance to inspire a new audience or revive your current step “fanatic diehards”! Walk away with a class design and enough choreography nuggets you can deliver Monday morning, ready to go! Workshop GE |
| 540 | 2:30pm – 4:30pm | BOSU® Xplode! | Mindy Mylrea | The ultimate cross-training workshop – done up BOSU style! Learn a unique system for incorporating elements of strength, cardio, core, balance and agility into one full body workout, and brand new exercises that use minimal equipment, minimal space, but give MAXIMUM results! Take the versatility of the BOSU® Balance Trainer to a whole new level, and be prepared for a total body meltdown! Workshop GE, PT |
| 541 | 2:30pm – 4:30pm | Flirty Girl Fitness™ Fun, Fit & Fabulous | Jenn Hall | You watch MTV and VH1. You love the moves, the music, and the magic of the amazing dance styles. You’ve thought about teaching current video style cardio-dance but didn’t know where to begin. Look no further – the Flirty Girl fitness program is everything you want and more. Our fun, easy to learn dance routines provide the perfect combination of cardio, total body strength training and targeted core chiseling moves – but the best part is your participants will feel like they’re part of a music video rather than in a cardio-intensive, muscle toning fitness class! Workshop GE |
| 542 | 2:30pm – 4:30pm | Spinning® Technical Training | Josh Taylor | Come and ride with Josh Taylor in a more technical setting that will help you think about what you are doing during a Spinning class or training session. This class has no fluff, just real tried and true training on the bike. This is a great session for those that are looking for more cycling specific techniques to be used in the Spinning environment. Workshop CY |
| 543 | 2:30pm – 4:30pm | Power Vinyasa | Robert Sherman | Learn the benefits and philosophy of ancient yoga traditions set in modern day fitness environments. Some students will be inspired to dig deeper after learning the practice and becoming more in touch with the connections on how to live a more integrated, compassionate lifestyle, or they will simply find physical benefit in the strength and flexibility gains of asana practice. The practice integrates a creative use of the primary series with the benefit of learning and listening to what their bodies and minds need most. This assessment becomes the asset the instructor needs to reach diverse populations, all receiving the message yoga gives without judgment or labels, only the truth. Workshop MB, GE |
| 544 | 2:30pm – 4:30pm | Peak Pilates® MVe® Chair Flex and Flow | Cherry Herzog | Feel successful learning several creative MVe® Chair progressions that you will be able to teach next week! Experience a balance between flow and breath along with precision and strength, as you move seamlessly and mindfully in and out of postures, positions and transitions. The first time through each sequence you learn the moves, the second and third time through you refine the movements, transitions and enjoy the flow. Move from the inside out, during this Pilates fusion workout, designed to improve balance, activate your core and gain a sense of inner control that will be unforgettable. You will reach new heights using the MVe® Chair to provide support and resistance as your body moves through a fluid work out. Workshop GE |
| 545 | 2:30pm – 4:30pm | Pilatesstick® The Class | Connie Borho | Experience a group class using the Pilatesstick that will combine the benefits of Pilates equipment work with a highly portable, easy-to-use, affordable piece of equipment. Find out what Pilates without Limitations truly is! Workshop GE, MB, PT |
| 546 | 2:30pm – 4:30pm | Indo-Row® The Perfect Calorie Burn | Jay Blahnik & Josh Crosby | The hottest workout in Los Angeles is making its way to DCAC, and you don’t want to miss it! Celebrated by athletes and celebrities, alike, and dubbed “The perfect calorie burn,” Indo-Row® is a one-of-a-kind rowing workout that will truly change the way you think about group exercise. Working in teams, partners and as one crew, you will get world-class coaching and a transforming total-body workout that will leave you begging for more. Easy to learn, Indo-Row is perfect for group p exercise instructors and personal trainers. No experience is necessary. Don’t be one to hear how great the session was, be one who got to experience it! Workshop GE |
| 547 | 2:30pm – 4:30pm | High Octane Fueling | Fabio Comana | Confused with misinformation regarding carbohydrates, proteins and fluids to improve your or your client’s workouts? Learn effective carbohydrate and protein feeding, and hydration strategies that will improve the quality of your workout. This session will focus on strategies to follow prior to, during exercise to improve the workout, and following exercise to improve recovery and replenishment. You too can learn how to fuel your body like a champion. Lecture PT, GE |
| 548 | 2:30pm – 4:30pm | Biomechanics of Shoulder Girdle Training | Mike Morris | What is scapulohumeral and glenohumeral rhythm? Let Mike open your eyes to understanding the complexity of the shoulder joint. This joint has more freedom of movement than any other single joint. Combine its movement with the scapula and throw some free weights into play and you have an opportunity for some good or bad things to happen in a “New York Minute”! You won’t find this stuff on your college kinesiology or personal training certification exam! Lecture PT, GE |
| 549 | 2:30pm – 4:30pm | FFP-The Success Express | Derrick Wilburn | Learn how to find and exploit a niche, business planning and development, and a host of traps and pitfalls awaiting the new fitness business owner. Lecture PT, GE |
| 550 | 2:30pm – 4:30pm | ¡Ay CarAmba! Aqua | Manuel Velazquez | Take the growing ¡Ay CarAmba! Latin dance fiesta from the ballroom to the beach! Drawing on a fusion of sound aquatic principles and authentic Latin dance, this first installment of the ¡Ay CarAmba! series teaches you how to make Latin accessible for every-body increasing core action: stability and mobility for every ability. Learn with Manuel what your hips really can do! Embrace it! Workshop AQ |
| 551 | 2:30pm – 4:30pm | Adrenaline Aqua Toolbox | Melissa Layne | Experience a fusion of energizing cardiovascular work, crossing the anaerobic threshold, with a focused concentration on resistance work utilizing the hottest and most effective tools in the water. We will also review the scientific principles behind interval training and the water principles that affect our tool usage. Workshop AQ |
| 552 | 5pm – 6:30pm | Masala Bhangra Workout® | Sarina Jain | This class I rooted in an Indian folk dance from Punjab India celebrating the love for life. Experience the drum beats as they flow and rise in your body through Bhangra and Bollywood dancing. The music and movement is nonstop making sure you feel the bhangra beats, the sweat, the expressions of letting go and having a blast while working out! Workshop GE |
| 553 | 5pm – 6:30pm | Resist-A-Ball® Hard Core | Renee Spriggs | It’s one of the top fitness goals on everyone’s list: a hard core. Your clients and gym members look to you for the coaching that will get those abs tightened, strengthened and defined. Can you deliver? Whether they’re looking for improved posture, relief from back pain, or simply a better-looking physique, it’s up to you to take them through a workout that really works. This course will show you why the ball challenges the abs and back like no other equipment can. You will learn the most effective trunk exercises with an emphasis on biomechanics and the reasons why these exercises work so effectively. Get ready for some new moves that will truly result in a hard core! Workshop GE, PT |
| 554 | 5pm – 6:30pm | Style Mix | Ilyse Baker | Get your groove on with a taste of the commercial world of dance. This session is a high-energy impact workout fusing together a variety of styles: jazz, hip-hop, funk, modern … you just never know what you will get with Ilyse’s mix. While a special emphasis is placed on technique, Ilyse believes in performance and will put her soul into your groovy moves. Expect hip moves with attitude to work up a sweat. Then Ilyse brings in the cardio and strength routines. Put them together and you have one hell of a workout. Workshop GE |
| 555 | 5pm – 6:30pm | Spinning® Creative Climbs | Jeff Krabiel | The Strength Energy Zone™ is one of the popular profile formats in the Spinning program. Participants love to engage strong resistance and feel the intensity of heavily loaded hill climbs. This workshop will identify, detail, and demonstrate several different strategies for presenting creative climbing profiles. Following the lecture, we’ll put our profile ideas into action during a challenging 45-minute strength ride. Get ready to take on the hills! Workshop CY |
| 556 | 5pm – 6:30pm | Dosha Yoga | Lawrence Biscontini | The old Indian Ayurvedic practice of balancing one’s constitution (called “doshas”) through yogic practice helps balance the body and soul. Together, first we will learn how to determine your dosha and second, we will experience some examples of how to complement your dosha with specific asanas. We will not only address progressions and regressions of some of the most popular yoga asanas, but we will learn the three approaches to doing every posture for the practice of honoring and balancing your dosha. Workshop MB, PT, GE |
| 557 | 5pm – 6:30pm | Bender Ball® Selected Stabilization | Leslee Bender | This is a hot program for all types of trainers utilizing the all new Bender Ball. Learn how to activate the deep core muscles that will lead to selected stabilization. You will lean great new core exercises that can be used either in personal training or group ex classes. Traditional crunches on the floor can lead to back and hip problems. You will learn that by using the Bender ball is 408% more effective for core training. Workshop GE, MB, PT |
| 558 | 5pm – 6:30pm | WillPower and Grace™ | Stacey Lei Krauss | WillPower is your ability to create change using the power of thought. Grace is how you land on your feet. WillPower & grace is the energetic, cardiovascular solution for all mindful modalities! This class is a cardio fusion of postures, drills , principles. Leave your shoes at the door… this hard-core workout integrates the newest barefoot training methods to help you strengthen your feet and correct imbalances in your ankles, knees and hips. In time you will stand taller, walk with greater confidence and move with integrity. Workshop MB, PT, GE |
| 559 | 5pm – 6:30pm | Beam-lates™ Basework | June Kahn | Beam-lates Basework is the first in a series of Beam-lates programs that combines Pilates principles and exercises with working on a specially designed pliable, low grounded beam. This intertwining of two dynamic mind-body disciplines presents the next layer to mat Pilates training to accentuate core work even more. The addition of the beam brings the workout experience to a higher level and makes it absolutely “floor-less.” You’ll realize how employing your experiential senses and somatosensory system provides another dimension to the Pilates Method. Walk away with a new appreciation and a variety of ideas that can be implemented immediately, working one on one with clients or in class. Workshop GE, MB, PT |
| 560 | 5pm – 6:30pm | Women, Metabolism and The Hormone Highway | Scott Josephson | Learn the specifics about “special concerns” of females including peri-menopausal challenges, gender differences, muscle strength, body composition, metabolism, the hormonal roller coaster and other physiological factors that play an enormous role in training. Explore practical and useful information to guide your female clientele about dietary intake, energy expenditure and exercise for a lifetime. Lecture GE, PT |
| 561 | 5pm – 6:30pm | Can You Feel What I See? – Assessment | Robert Sherman | Communication between a trainer and a client is essential to success in being able to reach the goals in any training setting. Are you hitting the target? Without assessing imbalance and correcting movement patterns a trainer could be missing the mark and spending time training poor movement quality, in essence, wasting the client’s time, and money. Frustrated clients are bad for business. This workshop teaches you the training system necessary to make the right exercise selections every time and how to open the lines of communication to give the corrective feedback necessary to stimulate change. Lecture PT |
| 562 | 5pm – 6:30pm | Optimizing Your Fitness Career | Andrea Metcalf | If you are looking to expand your fitness career beyond personal training or teaching classes, this class is for you. I have the secrets to help you optimize your fitness career from corporate wellness, weight loss programs, on line training to making in the major magazines like MORE, Fitness, and Self to appearing on network television. If you have passion for making people’s lives better, I can help you broaden your audience. Lecture PT, GE |
| 563 | 5pm – 6:30pm | Express Workout | Laura Ribbins | This is a water fitness class that gets right down to it! Time and money are precious in today’s world and this express 30 – 45 minute workout is perfect for those on the run! It’s ideal for those clients that need a “place to start” as well as for those challenged with their weight and need to be closer to the ground. Experience a focus on your core and it’s stabilizers that will overload and deliver results. Life is balancing act –it needs an Express Workout. Workshop AQ |
| 564 | 5pm – 6:30pm | Gentle Aqua | Irene McCormick | This low impact, non-rebounding water workout is an excellent choice for persons who cannot withstand the constant repetition of rebounding in water classes, such as people with Arthritis or Fibromyalgia and CFS. The hopping, jumping and running movements so prevalent in most aqua classes are replaced by muscle specific, precise movements performed through a full range of motion using yoga and Pilates-based exercise techniques. This workshop includes an abundance of ideas for flexibility and non-impact, shallow water toning. Improve your strength and flexibility, posture and cardiovascular fitness without the splash or the rebound. Workshop AQ |
| *** | 7pm – 8:30pm | Nightclub Cardio™ | Stacie House | Nightclub Cardio is a low-impact, high-intensity workout that fuses traditional aerobics with contemporary dance moves. The Nightclub Cardio format brings it back to the basics. Easy to follow repeaters set to the beat of popular music allow participants to focus on having fun and working up a sweat versus learning complex choreography.- Simple Moves- Soul Train Lines- Space for Self Expression. People want to be entertained and they want an experience why should your workout be any different? Workshop GE |
Saturday, April 17, 2010
| # | Time | Session | Presenter | Description |
| 565 | 7am – 9am | The Ultimate Boot Camp Challenge | Mindy Mylrea | When was the last time you called your workout intense, crazy, creative, and off the charts? This workshop will help you bring that sensation back to your challenge hungry crowd. Using the toys found around even the cheapest of gyms you will learn crazy kick butt choreography, experience an interval workout that is an explosion for the sweat glands, and go home with more drills, skills, and games then you could possibly imagine. Workshop GE, PT |
| 566 | 7am – 9am | Resist-A-Ball® Peak Athletic Conditioning | Renee Spriggs | Advanced clients demand advanced training. Your dedicated members who have achieved their fitness goals now have higher goals. The sports enthusiasts and weekend warriors who strive for optimal performance will stop at nothing to surpass their personal bests. And surpass them again. For these clients the ultimate goal is peak performance, and you need to be prepared. This workshop will take you through training blocks of progressive exercises designed by Resist-A-Ball creator Mike Morris. Be the fitness pro who takes training to the next level of strength, balance and flexibility for peak athletic conditioning. Workshop GE, PT |
| 567 | 7am – 9am | Step Choreography Carryout | Leah Husk | Stuck for combinations and moves for your step class? Too busy to find time to drum up ideas for a fun, cardio challenge? Choreography Carryout delivers! Tasty combos without a lot of complex ingredients. Perfect for the busy instructor who wants to serve up a satisfying step class, but is short on recipes and time! Bon appetite! Workshop GE |
| 568 | 7am – 9am | Spinning® Bike Fit | Josh Taylor | Introduce yourself to the brand new Bike Fit tool and Spin®-Fit-System designed by professional cyclist and Master Instructor Josh Taylor! Knowing how to properly fit someone on the bike is essential for any Spinning instructor. This is an area where you as an instructor can make a huge difference for yourself as well as your students. Optimal positioning on the bike is the foundation to safe and effective riding. You know you need to know this better! Workshop CY |
| 569 | 7am – 9am | 49 Push-Ups, 16 Links + More: An Ashtanga Yoga Practice | Misha Laird | Experience an edited-for-accessibility version of this heat-building, hip-opening, detoxifying, constantly-moving athletic practice commonly known as the First Series. Accompanied by modern music, participants focus on moving from one pose to another in sync with their breath while keeping the lower torso energetically and physically supported through internal muscular locks. Previous yoga experience is helpful. Workshop MB |
| 570 | 7am – 9am | P3: Partner Pilates Practice | Lawrence Biscontini | Reap the benefits from your Pilates practice with the exciting dynamics of another person. Practicing with another can deepen your kinesthetic awareness, improve your stability and mobility, and allow you to reap more benefits from partner assistance. Using both standing and floor-based Pilates progressions, learn how to use both “congruous” (doing the same movements simultaneously) and “unique” (each doing a different Pilates movement) progressions together with minimal other equipment. Workshop MB |
| 571 | 7am – 9am | 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. Workshop GE, MB |
| 572 | 7am – 9am | Indo-Row ® The Perfect Calorie Burn | Jay Blahnik & Josh Crosby | The hottest workout in Los Angeles is making its way to DCAC, and you don’t want to miss it! Celebrated by athletes and celebrities, alike, and dubbed “The perfect calorie burn,” Indo-Row® is a one-of-a-kind rowing workout that will truly change the way you think about group exercise. Working in teams, partners and as one crew, you will get world-class coaching and a transforming total-body workout that will leave you begging for more. Easy to learn, Indo-Row is perfect for group p exercise instructors and personal trainers. No experience is necessary. Don’t be one to hear how great the session was, be one who got to experience it! Workshop GE |
| 573 | 7am – 9am | Feasting On Health | Teri Gentes | Instructors and Personal trainers: Clients struggle with the ‘eating’ aspect of their health and fitness regime and need guidance to steer them in the right direction. Unhealthy eating habits impair their results, may increase risk of injury and/or exacerbate present injuries. Without violating the boundaries surrounding the nutritional info you can legally offer, this session will show you how you can assist them with their basic nutritional approach. Formulated in conjunction with medical expertise and a physio therapy team, it will provide you with handout info you can share to get client’s on the right track. Information includes the affects of food upon: their training/weight objectives, their energy levels, muscle growth and recovery, power and endurance and disease prevention. Resource suggestions, reliable books and websites will help to direct them to easily source out the specific information they need to address their personal challenges. It’s a must for trainers and will benefit instructors, wellness coaches, program directors and club owners. It may even be a must for you with your own personal nutritional adherence. Lecture GE, MB, PT |
| 574 | 7am – 9am | Fat Frenzy | Len Kravitz | This profoundly researched presentation will cover numerous recent topics including the purposes of fat in the human body, the role of fat for energy production, the role of fat in athletic performance, fat metabolism, unique gender differences in fat metabolism, current health issues with fat and countless myths and misconceptions about fat. Each participant will leave with countless practical and meaningful applications about fat from this well-balanced, informative and comprehensive presentation. Lecture GE, PT |
| 575 | 7am – 9am | Building Your Brand | Andrea Metcalf | If you don’t know your audience, you mission, your brand… then how do you make more money? This session will help you understand how to build your brand by expanding your platform, highlighting your strengths, learning PR secrets, creating a message and how to be consistent in your message while creating an emotional experience. Lecture PT, GE |
| 576 | 7am – 9am | Aquatic Rock | Laura Ribbins | Aquatic programs for the upcoming baby boomers will be in high demand with more than 50% of the USA being over 50 years old. Getting the healthy fit and fitter will be the goal and with the power of water at our finger tips- we have it made. Come get the program design, the metabolic boost exercise series and motivational tips to rock the baby boomers into greater heights of fitness, safely and effectively. Workshop AQ |
| 577 | 7am – 9am | Aquatic Navy Seals | Melissa Layne | Aquatic Navy Seals introduces an athletic-based, kickboxing, high intensity water workout that caters to the advanced participant and brings the males into the pool. Learn the secrets to drawing more males and advanced cross trainers into the water. We know it’s a great workout but we are missing the masses! Take home a variety of new athletic based moves that adhere to the principles of water and will fill your classes! Workshop AQ |
| 578 | 10am – 11:30am | Step Up and Shake It | Manuel Velazquez | Latin, creative dance moves and drama. Move your step class to another level with cardio-dance moves over and around the bench. Let your body experience how to get sweat with a little twist of rumba and rhythm using steps that you know with a new focus in fun and dance. Workshop GE |
| 579 | 10am – 11:30am | BOSU® Multiplied | Jay Blahnik | Are you ready to multiply your BOSU® Balance Trainer exercise library? This workshop is designed to teach you dozens of new drills, skills and sequences using multiple BOSU balls in a variety of shapes and patterns. Working independently, or with partners and in teams, you will walk away with a whole new perspective on BOSU conditioning and lots of fun, new drills that you can use on Monday morning. Perfect for personal training, boot camp, circuit classes, sport conditioning, kid’s fitness, and anywhere you would like to multiply your BOSU experience! Workshop GE, PT |
| 580 | 10am – 11:30am | Up On Stage | Ilyse Baker | This session will take any walk of life to the New York City stage for a night on Broadway. With Bob Fosse flair, Ilyse will show instructors how they can keep your heart pumping and your spirits lifted. Upbeat Broadway tunes to light up the DCAC Fitness stage. This is a non-stop cardio dance workout that has you dancing away. You will learn how to instruct the popular Broadway dance moves and end with one fabulous routine. Workshop GE |
| 581 | 10am – 11:30am | Spinning® Counting, Building, Loading | Jeff Krabiel | Phase 2 of the Spinning Instructor Manual describes an array of techniques that instructors can utilize to better guide and cue their students. Among these are: the counting technique, resistance loading, and cadence building. During this workshop, we’ll define all three and discuss specific strategies for incorporating them into your profile designs. Following the comprehensive lecture, we’ll engage in a challenging 45-minute ride that will demonstrate all three of these exciting and creative elements. Workshop CY |
| 582 | 10am – 11:30am | Exhalation to Inspiration: The Missing Link | Jane Vaganek | Fitness professionals are trying to assess the big picture need of the “whole client” with greater frequency. Breathing is the seemingly easiest thing clients/participants will do all day. This session will reveal the science of breathing, delving deeper into the anatomical and physiological full-body effects of improper breathing techniques. Learn how proper breathing truly affects the entire core connection, musculoskeletal, and nervous system. Lecture/Workshop GE, MB |
| 583 | 10am – 11:30am | Peak Pilates® MVe® Chair Spring Into Action | Stacey Lei Krauss | Propulsive and plyometric training are effective training methods for power and strength. The area that is generally overlooked when using these methods, however, is deceleration – something that is important for all populations. This session covers the advantages of plyometrics while also exploring how to control your weight and movement while being pulled back to earth. Overcoming gravity through graceful movement is a skill! This course uses the MVe Chair as a biofeedback tool to help you practice these movements and transfer the concepts to your students. Workshop GE |
| 584 | 10am – 11:30am | Total Body TOWELmoves™ | Cheryl Westerman | Here is a workout is a workout that challenges you to add fun and flair to your existing moves! Explore the many ways to sculpt your total body using a towel. Anytime! Anywhere! Functional strength is developed through core and abdominal stabilization. When using a towel, this creates resistance and stability for the body helping to maintain correct alignment through-out many of the TOWELmoves exercises. Workshop PT |
| 585 | 10am – 11:30am | Foundational Beaming™ Sensational Sampler | David Mesirow | Come and experience this revolutionary new activity-based lifestyle program, designed to integrate physical and emotional balance, activating a shift in attitude and awareness. Beaming™ will teach you how to transform traditional exercise classes and personal training sessions into an experience that blends this consciousness with the physical activity performed on a specially designed, pliable, low grounded beam, encouraging significant lifestyle changes. The Beamfit™ balance challenges harmonize familiar physical movements with mind-body philosophy as you explore barefoot and somatosensory training while integrating balance, precision, stability, strength, endurance and stretch. Workshop GE, MB, PT |
| 586 | 10am – 11:30am | Feed Me, I’m Yours | Scott Josephson | Did you know we eat approximately 50,000,000 calories in our lifetime? If you’re an athlete I hope you’re hungry because you need a lot more! There’s a huge fundamental difference between fitness and an athletic intake. Training like a pro requires eating like one! This lecture will cover several steps for specific nutrient timing, calorie intake, caloric quantities, helping hormones and the role of phytoestrogens, probiotics and antioxidants for the rookie to the pro! Understand how they play a vital role and their contributions to optimal health! Lecture GE, PT |
| 587 | 10am – 11:30am | Metabolic Training | Fabio Comana | Frustrated with ineffective cardio 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 that we currently use. Why use MHR-based programs when MHR offers no correlation to performance? Metabolism is as unique as a fingerprint, therefore cardio programs need to equally unique. Learn how to use new cutting-edge metabolism-based programs for weight loss and performance based off individual metabolic markers. Lecture PT |
| 588 | 10am – 11:30am | TWIST Conditioning The Essence of Athleticism | Douglas Brooks | Elite athletes inspire us with their effortless demonstrations of skill, strength and power. Deep inside everyone is an athlete that is waiting to be exposed – ready to enjoy powerful movement, fast and agile hand – eye coordination, explosive whole body strength and dynamic balance. Uncover the essence of athleticism in this innovative lecture as you evaluate the characteristics that combine to deliver performance improvements for sport and an active lifestyle. Incorporate challenging exercises into your workouts to capture the fun and competitive ingredients of this athletic training methodology. Lecture GE, PT |
| 589 | 10am – 11:30am | Fluid Fusion Bliss | Jeff McMullen | What are the benefits of Tai Chi to the senior population? What is the philosophy behind Qigong and how would my pre/post natal clients adapt to it in the water. Ponder no more. Thru a non-purist approach, embark on a physical, psychological and spiritual journey, exploring the philosophies and concepts behind Tai Chi, Qigong, Pilates and Yoga and how they interrelate to one another and are so great for all populations. Take the guesswork out of exercise selection and class flow in your aquatic fusion based mind body classes utilizing Jeff’s “free flow” approach to class design. Learn how to synergistically design choreographed exercise sequences from Qigong, Tai Chi, Pilates and Vinyasa Flow to heighten your participant’s states of awareness – all the while improving your participant’s muscular endurance, strength, coordination and core stabilization. Walk away with an exercise library you’ll be able to use, Monday morning, ready to go! Workshop AQ |
| 590 | 10am – 11:30am | Why Use 2 When 1 Will Do? | Irene McCormick | Discover how unilateral training enhances performance and improves function in this innovative cardio-endurance workout. This course places special emphasis on the effectiveness of hand-held buoyancy and drag by examining biomechanical and musculoskeletal considerations when using hand-held buoyant equipment in shallow water. Workshop AQ |
| 591 | 12:30pm – 2pm | Power Systems® Slam Dunk Sport Circuit | Mindy Mylrea | Get down and get dirty in this wild sport circuit sure to put a smile on even your toughest clients. You have experienced circuits before but non with this mix of intensity, variety, and pure fitness fun. Mindy will have you seamlessly transitioning between solo, partner, and team workouts and back again without you even noticing that you are working out harder then you can remember. You will learn 30 stations and at least 10 group or partner “challenges”. If you teach boot camp, circuit, or anything else in fitness you owe it to yourself to take this session. Workshop GE, PT |
| 592 | 12:30pm – 2pm | BOSU® Studio Pilates | Stacey Lei Krauss | The BOSU Balance Trainer is the perfect accessory to compliment a wide range of authentic Pilates exercises. In this workshop, you will have the opportunity to learn how to use the BOSU ball in a one-on-one and group setting, and learn to accommodate the most advanced to the most beginning Pilates students or clients. Find out how to incorporate the Balance Trainer into mat classes, and to use it in conjunction with other traditional Pilates accessories and equipment. Even if you don’t have Pilates exercise experience, you will take home a library of new exercises designed to target the core and train the whole body! Workshop GE, MB |
| 593 | 12:30pm – 2pm | dieHARD Step | Jeff McMullen | You’ve been teaching step since its inception, through its evolution of lead changes, tap-free progressions, cross-phrasing, and elimination of the filler teaching styles. Now let’s pull out all the stops, tie up all the loose ends, and utilize the teaching tools from the past, present and future. Here’s your chance to explore the distinct difference between the horizontal vs. VERTICAL approach to the step. Jeff will demonstrate effective techniques and strategies in implementing this class, giving it not only a different LOOK, but a new FEEL. Anyone can turn their step – but not everyone can take it to the next level! Inspire a new audience or revive your current step “fanatic diehards” with a new angle to step training! Walk away with a class design and enough choreography nuggets you can deliver Monday morning, ready to go! Workshop GE |
| 594 | 12:30pm – 2pm | Spinning® Riding from the Storm | Josh Taylor | Experience a Race Day like no other! In this edition of a classic ride by Josh Taylor, you will be taken to the power and elements of the real road. If you love the challenge of the Race Day Energy Zone™, come and leave the walls of the studio and enter into the storm! Workshop CY |
| 595 | 12:30pm – 2pm | Hatha Yoga | Robert Sherman | Finding balance is the root of centering one’s self in life, love and peace. The path can require patience and compassion. This practice will help to provide an awakening for the physical and mental body through a series of asana (poses) that not only educate, but also can unlock the “stickiness” felt in the body/mind on a daily basis. The principles of movement science will be addressed and the theory of strength receiving by embracing the masculine/feminine condition in all of us making this a universal practice. Workshop MB |
| 596 | 12:30pm – 2pm | Heart ‘N’ Sole | June Kahn | Combine the principles of Pilates’ matwork with standing cardiovascular rhythmic patterns. This barefoot training program is designed to burn calories and fat while building strength, stamina and balance. By using the large muscles of the body we can increase the heart rate and enhance the cardio respiratory system, while the Pilates inspired movements improve core strength, balance and flexibility; creating a longer leaner body. Workshop GE, MB |
| 597 | 12:30pm – 2pm | Ballet My Way, by Balletone® | Shannon Fable | Never thought a ballet conditioning class was for you? The idea of black leotards and pink tights bring back bad childhood memories? Never thought tutus were your thing? If you answered yes to any of these questions, this class is for you. No one can deny that the muscles of a dancer appear long, lean and extremely well toned. Discover a class that can give you the conditioning, without making you feel like an elephant on roller skates. Balletone® demystifies traditional ballet movements and creates dance phrases that anyone can do. The secret is in the creative process and teaching methodology. Everyone, no matter your background, will move quickly and easily through barrework while enhancing strength, flexibility and balance. No muscle is left untouched, and many muscles you forgot you had will be targeted. Balletone® is a perfect workout for anyone that understands the need for mind/body conditioning but looks for unique methods to sneak it in their routine. Come try a workout that is as individual as you are, Balletone® truly is a workout for everybody. Workshop GE, MB |
| 598 | 12:30pm – 2pm | Indo-Row® The Perfect Calorie Burn | Jay Blahnik & Josh Crosby | The hottest workout in Los Angeles is making its way to DCAC, and you don’t want to miss it! Celebrated by athletes and celebrities, alike, and dubbed “The perfect calorie burn,” Indo-Row® is a one-of-a-kind rowing workout that will truly change the way you think about group exercise. Working in teams, partners and as one crew, you will get world-class coaching and a transforming total-body workout that will leave you begging for more. Easy to learn, Indo-Row is perfect for group p exercise instructors and personal trainers. No experience is necessary. Don’t be one to hear how great the session was, be one who got to experience it! Workshop GE |
| 599 | 12:30pm – 2pm | Legislation Issues, Industry Effects & The Personal Trainer | Panel from W.I.T.S, IACET and ACE | If you are concerned about how pending legislation can impact you, your staff and/or your fitness facility, you don’t want to miss this presentation. We will discuss pending legislation regarding personal training, concerns about the quality of education and preparation of personal trainers and a proposed solution for industry self-regulation. Join us in this movement to be proactive rather than reactive in enhancing the professionalism and image of our industry. Lecture PT |
| 600 | 12:30pm – 2pm | The Female Training Advantage | Len Kravitz | This original lecture reviews recently published research documenting some unique female training advantages. Gender differences in fat metabolism, muscle fiber changes, muscle strength, muscular endurance, body composition, hormones and other physiological factors are discussed. Resistance and aerobic training program designs, specifically for women, are presented. This lecture is a ‘must attend’ for any fitness professional who trains female clients and for those female fitness enthusiasts who strive to attain the most optimal physiological benefits from their training. Lecture GE, PT |
| 601 | 12:30pm – 2pm | FFP – Developing Private Studios | Derrick Wilburn | Helping the fitness professional who wants to be in business for themselves navigate the difficult waters of entrepreneurialism and learn specifically how to realize revenue from their own personal and small-group training studios, with no investment dollars necessary. An exact description of how to locate, negotiate and open fitness training facilities utilizing resources already present in the community. This session specifically identifies methods for prospecting, approaching and ultimately opening fitness studios in pre-existing locations with little or no monetary investment. Topics covered include: Simple methods for locating excellent locations, business planning for initial meetings and proposal presentation, building worth and value into the studio location, and securing long-term relationship and viability. Lecture PT |
| 602 | 12:30pm – 2pm | Senior Power Hour | Laura Ribbins | This innovative workshop has been tested on seniors for a year and they love it! The older population is fitter than ever before and they want to continue feeling great. They want to move, be self sufficient, avoid injury and seize each day. Come learn how to deliver three different class formats consisting of exercise series that will inspire your senior to keep powering up! Workshop AQ, S |
| 603 | 12:30pm – 2pm | All Hands & Feet On Deck | Melissa Layne | Be sure to dress to teach on the deck because it is a solid workshop focusing on deck teaching skills, body awareness on the deck, music usage and building fantastic choreography. As our population ages and our classes grow, we spend more time on the deck and less in the water. Through practical skills and drills, you will leave feeling much more confident on how to coach your class from the deck while utilizing the 32 count phrasing of the music. This is A MUST for those who are ready to take their teaching to the next level. Workshop AQ |
| 604 | 2:30pm-4:30pm | TWIST Conditioning Maximum Metabolic Cost | Douglas Brooks | Everyone wants Results – burn more calories, build more muscle, improve posture and balance, move well and be injury free. To maximize results, every exercise in a workout must be chosen to overload the human machine to improve form and function. If you are a results oriented coach or trainer looking for innovative ways to challenge your athletes and clients, then this workshop will give you all the tools you need to take your training plans to the next level. Using a hands-on approach, you will learn a combination of mechanics, overload concepts, and difficulty progressions that can be readily applied to your workout design helping you create cutting edge training plans that are both challenging and fun. Workshop GE, PT |
| 605 | 2:30pm-4:30pm | Resist-A-Ball® Cardio Strength Interval | Renee Spriggs | If you’ve always thought ball training was just for strength, think again. Think calorie burning, muscle conditioning routines that give clients and gym members exactly what they seek–a time efficient, heart pumping total body workout that’s so much fun they won’t call it work. This workshop will show you how to combine easy-to-follow, yet challenging cardio moves and strength exercises in intervals, resulting in weight loss as well as toned abs, arms, hips and thighs. Workshop GE |
| 606 | 2:30pm-4:30pm | Masala Bhangra Workout® | Sarina Jain | This class I rooted in an Indian folk dance from Punjab India celebrating the love for life. Experience the drum beats as they flow and rise in your body through Bhangra and Bollywood dancing. The music and movement is nonstop making sure you feel the bhangra beats, the sweat, the expressions of letting of and having a blast while working out! Workshop GE |
| 607 | 2:30pm-4:30pm | Spinning Everest Ride – Mini Version | Josh Taylor | Back by popular demand! This is the ride that started it all! Come ride a shortened version of the most talked about Spinning journey of all time! The Everest Ride has been the subject of a book called Ultimate Fitness: by science reporter, Gina Kolata. It also has been talked about in Fitness Magazine and The New York Times, just to name a few! Are you ready for the climb of your life? Join Josh Taylor and take an adventure that is worth every drop of sweat and every breath of air! Workshop CY |
| 608 | 2:30pm-4:30pm | You Can’t Touch This: Safe Yoga Assists and Adjustments | Jane Vaganek | Physical assists can take your students’ practice to a whole new level. Deeper physical awareness is cultivated and the class experience is enhanced through this teacher-student connection. Learn safe and effective assisting techniques and how to empower students with this connection. Step off of the mat – this workshop will set your instructor skills apart from the others. Workshop GE, MB |
| 609 | 2:30pm-4:30pm | Power Systems® Total Body Conditioning | Lawrence Biscontini | Both group ex leaders and personal trainers will learn the major purpose behind foam training for myo-fascial release, muscular hydration, and even core training. In this workshop, we will experience flexibility, muscle therapy techniques, and core training applications, using the foam roller in the first half and the small balls in the second half. Join Lawrence as you learn the proper techniques for releasing stress in muscles to reach ultimate relaxation, improved flexibility, and better overall mobility. Workshop GE, MB |
| 610 | 2:30pm-4:30pm | Peak Pilates® MVe® Chair Sculpt | Cherry Herzog | Chisel your body with an MVe Chair fusion workout that will strengthen and tone muscles, as well as improve balance and coordination. Yes, we all teach alignment with weights and how that helps get results, but our students’ still find ways to “cheat”. Using a combination of weights with the MVe Chair, you will be surprised how different familiar movements feel. Are you ready to sculpt? Workshop GE |
| 611 | 2:30pm-4:30pm | Christ Centered Yoga™ Focus on Inversions | Becky Martin | Inversions often frighten us and invigorate us at the same time! With careful attention to alignment and awareness of our breath, we can safely enjoy these poses that give us the opportunity to explore how we respond when our world is literally turned upside down. Workshop GE, MB |
| 612 | 2:30pm-4:30pm | The Tri-Athalon Of Whole Health | Teri Gentes | Conscious health challenges – How many of your clients have the information they need and the coaching support necessary coupled with fabulous training programs yet still they struggle with attaining and sustaining their results? Self sabotage, fears of success and old belief systems are just some of the obstacles that interfere with their success/your success. Factor in their …Emotional health – Much of society lives in a state of chronic stress with little to no time to attend to their emotional well-being. Experts such as Dr Christiane Northrup, Deepak Chopra, Candace Pert, Dr Norman Shealy and Caroline Myss demonstrate the relation of our emotional well-being to our physical health which is also impacted by our…Nutritional health – Malnutrition is a predominantly common state even in our first world affluent countries. Compromised food quality and mass confusion with what a healthy diet truly is, along with epidemic eating and digestive disorder is killing us. Wholistic Lifestyle Wellness Consultant and ‘Real Food for Real Health’™ Nutritionist Teri Gentes’ basic guidelines on how to do it better will have you and your clients feeling/doing much better. This will facilitate better coping skills for handling our fast paced planet, support our ability to think more clearly and move more confidently in the direction of our goals. This session overviews how all aspects of our selves need to be nurtured in order to experience whole self health. It is geared for trainers, instructors, program directors, nutrition and wellness specialists and club owners with the objective of empowering and enabling you to go with-in for all you need to live life fully as an individual, a student, a teacher, a leader. Lecture GE, MB, PT |
| 613 | 2:30pm-4:30pm | Got Muscle? Want Some More? | Scott Josephson | Is your client’s goal to be more muscular or to get into superb shape? Learn alternative methods for increasing size, definition and symmetry for the hardcore workout junkie, and the everyday client looking to mix it up. You might not want to be a bodybuilder, but training for hypertrophy requires some strict guidelines. Learn how the quantities of protein, fat and carbohydrate intake in-conjunction with various exercise protocols can make a HUGE difference in you physique! Lecture GE, PT |
| 614 | 2:30pm-4:30pm | From Dream To Reality | Andrea Metcalf | Everything you need to know to start your own business. If you aren’t sure if you’re ready to jump in an open a fitness studio, this is a starting point. Learn how to start, market, price, promote and succeed in your own business. Those looking to expand their club training programs should come to this session to learn how to keep your trainers working for you. Both sides of the equation are addressed. Lecture PT, GE |
| 615 | 2:30pm-4:30pm | AQUA Fresh Start | Jeff McMullen | Are you new to the aquatic fitness arena? Maybe it’s time to explore the possibilities of expanding your fitness knowledge in the pool environment. Apply your land based knowledge to a new aquatic environment and expand your teaching and income possibilities. Examine the similarities and explore the differences that exist between land and water – learn the theory and examine the principles behind submerged resistance, drag, eddy, viscosity and buoyancy; appropriate music use and movement vocabulary, the advantages of teaching on deck and the benefits of aquatic exercise for working with special populations. Walk away with a class design you’ll be able to teach Monday morning, ready to go! Workshop AQ |
| 616 | 2:30pm-4:30pm | Never Too Old To Exercise | Irene McCormick | Loss of balance and mobility in the elderly population is a devastating problem, affecting the lives of both the older adult and those around him/her. It is now known that adults in their 80s and 90s respond to appropriate exercise training by becoming healthier and stronger. Strength training improves quality of life and helps get older people, especially those new to exercise, ready for endurance training. Learn about why creating a program for your older participants can help them to be fall-resistant, improve strength, balance and flexibility. This workshop will consider illnesses, medical concerns, assessment techniques and appropriate exercise prescriptions. Workshop AQ, S |
| 617 | 5pm – 6:30pm | Train Like A Pro Without the Dough | Fabio Comana | Sports conditioning continues to be a popular trend although there is some concern over the appropriateness of using them with some clients. Don’t become another “Monday Morning Madman” often seen as a result of fitness conferences. Here, trainers who learned advanced drills at a conference incorporate them to their clients’ programs the very next week without consideration for purpose and appropriateness, potentially doing more harm than good. This session teaches some of the movement patterns, skill drills and movement mechanics used by professional athletes, but adapted to be more suitable to your client’s skill- and conditioning-level. Whether for fun or performance, these movement patterns, exercise and drills are sure to add a new dimension to your programming. Enhance your client’s exercise experience and get them coming back for more. Workshop GE, PT |
| 618 | 5pm – 6:30pm | BOSU® Core Flow | Shannon Fable | Add fresh elements to your core training by using innovative flowing exercise sequences to challenge your core musculature like never before. As you explore the unique properties of the BOSU Balance Trainer and BOSU Ballast Ball, you will discover new ways to challenge every muscle in your “power center” while simultaneously improving your overall movement capability. Enhance both variety and effectiveness as you learn to link “chains” of core movement in fluid patterns that will give you creative new ways to deliver serious results. Workshop GE, MB, PT |
| 619 | 5pm – 6:30pm | Top Notch Kickbox Combos | Melissa Layne | Take another look at 32-count athletic combos to add variety to your drill based classes. You can take home all 12 combos or learn to mix and match with drills to create your own signature kickboxing class. You will leave with the skills to build and piece together common athletic moves that work with the music and leave your class kicking and screaming. Workshop GE |
| 620 | 5pm – 6:30pm | Spinning Standing Flats vs Running | Jeff Krabiel | These two movements require many similar skills while simultaneously offering unique training opportunities to each rider. During this workout, we’ll explore their similarities as well as their differences with regard to theoretical aerobic demands, cadences, resistance loads, and split-symbol design potentials. This is an intense ride with varying heart rates. Workshop CY |
| 621 | 5pm – 6:30pm | The Heart Of Yoga | Robert Sherman | The Yoga Powerhouse: Breathe, Bandhas and Dristi is a program centered on the focused teaching of yoga that embodies the spirit, strength and essence of movement and clarity. Yoga practice needs to have a common thread for it to have substance. The yoga tristana is this bond. The understanding of our repertory and ventilatory systems will be taught, along with the deep connection of locks or seals that have an affect in life and yoga practice. The all-important concept of focus and concentration will be explored and drills that will reinforce the power that these connections will provide the depth to any Yoga teaching. Students will learn asana, movement science and breathing exercises. Workshop MB |
| 622 | 5pm – 6:30pm | Bender Ball® Build A Better Bottom | Leslee Bender | This class will give you the tools to build better glutes. By utilizing the Bender ball you will learn all new exercises that will tone and lift the glutes. You will learn great new standing exercises that also challenge your balance that ultimately train the deep stabilizing glute muscles. The days of old donkey kicks are gone and bring in the new with efficient training for the glutes and hamstrings. Workshop GE, MB |
| 623 | 5pm – 6:30pm | Peak Pilates® Circle of Power | Cherry Herzog | Pilates is about movement- proper movement that can be successfully repeated and translated into daily activity. The body changes through movement, and movement heals! The Power Circle produces kinesthetic awareness and can produce desirable improvements in alignment and movement quality. They have an effect on the dynamics of movement and rhythm as energy is transmitted through the body. Props are a fun and effective way to create a greater awareness in your student’s body. Remember the goal is for the student to be able to work independent of all props – they are there as a teaching tool! This workout is perfect for all fitness levels, and no prior experience is necessary. Workshop GE, MB |
| 624 | 5pm – 6:30pm | Ex-Tension | Stacey Lei Krauss | Here’s a flexibility class with a whole different feel. In this workshop, you’ll learn to stretch your muscles effectively by strengthening the opposing muscle groups. The result is an energizing workout that appeals to students in all markets. We pay special attention to areas that really matter in today’s world: the extensors. Your students will eventually stand taller, look leaner and breathe easier. Get rid of stress and tension by opening up your chest and mobilizing your neck. These are the moves that you’ll be able to incorporate into your existing classes next Monday! Workshop GE, MB, PT |
| 625 | 5pm – 6:30pm | Trailblazing Strategies to Burn Calories & Boost Fat Metabolism | Len Kravitz | Join Len in one of the most comprehensive lecture’s ever explaining the detailed physiological and metabolic aspects of fat metabolism and caloric expenditure. Participants will learn, from a cellular perspective, the major terms of fat metabolism, the hormonal regulation of lipolysis during exercise, the effect of exercise on lipolysis, the effect of exercise on fat oxidation, the effect of glycemic index on fat metabolism, effective exercises intensities for fat loss, and strategies to enhance caloric expenditure with exercise. Six groundbreaking programs that maximize caloric expenditure will be presented. A must attend lecture for the fitness professional and personal trainer who truly wishes to understand fat metabolism and caloric expenditure. Lecture PT |
| 626 | 5pm – 6:30pm | Get Kranking® The Business Opportunity | Mike Morris | This session is to introduce the new Krankcycle by Johnny G, the man who brought Spinning to the fitness industry. Join Mike Morris, the pioneer of stability ball training as he explains the benefits of Kranking and shares his vision of the direction of this new training concept. This session will also unveil the business opportunities for fitness professionals to get involved with the launching of this new product and program. Lecture GE, PT |
| 627 | 5pm – 6:30pm | Cardio Training on the Edge | Douglas Brooks | Many questions and controversy exist as it relates to lactate threshold training (LT). This can be said: “All cardiovascular training revolves around LT and everyone should use it as a personal reference point.” Good or bad? For who, endurance athletes, fitness enthusiasts, the deconditioned? When do I train it–Never, always or sometimes? What’s the difference between AT, LT, OBLA and ventilatory threshold? Which is better, lactate heart rate training (HR) ranges or traditional HR training ranges? How do you determine LT and calculate lactate training ranges? Take the “acid bath” and join this informative discussion. Lecture PT |
| 628 | 5pm – 6:30pm | Get Wet & Shake Your Buddha | Lawrence Biscontini | Join Lawrence for a cardiovascular workout experience from a mind-body perspective, not only fusing different disciplines, but incorporating them into your traditional grapevines and step-touches in the water. You will playfully integrate stability and mobility, dance with your eyes closed, and entertain your inner child, mindfully. Workshop AQ |
| 629 | 5pm – 6:30pm | Liquid Jabs, Kicks & Pump | Manuel Velazquez | Learn the basics and then build various techniques into programs suited for all ages and fitness levels. Explore the physical and mental benefits of three modalities for kick boxing in the pool – stand-alone training, combination programming to enhance current aquatic exercise formats, and multi-sport fitness workout options. Workshop AQ |
Sunday, April 18, 2010
| # | Time | Session | Presenter | Description |
| 630 | 7:30am– 9am | Power Systems® Core Off The Floor | Shannon Fable | Tired of endless crunches??? Ready to learn how to take your “core off the floor”??? Remove the crunches, get off the mat and put kettleballs, medicine balls, BOSU Ballast Balls, tubing and Airopes in your hand to find out how! Learn to swing & clean, lift, shift & shake, rotate or throw & catch while engaging muscles so deep you’ll wonder what you’ve been doing all these years with your core training. Not only are the exercises effective, but they are functional training where you learn to ‘use momentum to your advantage’ and operate in a vertical manner – something you encounter every day. Not only will you experience a great core workout, you will also experience strength and endurance gains with a side of sweat. Workshop GE, MB, PT |
| 631 | 7:30am– 9am |
BOSU® ELEVATION |
Douglas Brooks | Elevate your workout with high-intensity training that focuses on speed, agility, explosive power and plyometrics. Using the BOSU® Balance Trainer and incorporating variations in height and intensity, you will learn brand new ways to super-charge your training and amplify your athleticism. Come prepared to be challenged with some advanced training techniques and break away from mainstream coaching! Workshop GE, PT |
| 632 | 7:30am– 9am | Flirty Girl Fitness™ Fun, Fit & Fabulous | Jenn Hall | You watch MTV and VH1. You love the moves, the music, and the magic of the amazing dance styles. You’ve thought about teaching current video style cardio-dance but didn’t know where to begin. Look no further – the Flirty Girl fitness program is everything you want and more. Our fun, easy to learn dance routines provide the perfect combination of cardio, total body strength training and targeted core chiseling moves – but the best part is your participants will feel like they’re part of a music video rather than in a cardio-intensive, muscle toning fitness class! Workshop GE |
| 633 | 7:30am– 9am | Spinning® Let’s Jump! |
Jeff Krabiel |
The title says it all: a challenging workout that explores and defines the various jumping techniques detailed in the Spinning Instructor Manual. Be prepared for a solid warm-up followed by higher cadence jumps along the flat roads along with strongly loaded jumps in the hills. Other key performance areas covered in this class include: the counting technique, split symbol design structures, and resistance loading. This ride is a physical challenge that will push your aerobic capacity! Workshop CY |
| 634 | 7:30am– 9am | Sweat, Flex and Flow | Misha Laird | Combine traditional yoga poses to the vibes of today’s music to hone skills necessary to soothe frazzled city nerves. Build a sweat-producing, rhythmic pattern of mindful movement that releases into a climatic on-your-own-flow. Linger in deep hip-openers to explore edges, physical and otherwise, before slipping into blissful rest. Workshop MB |
| 635 | 7:30am– 9am | Peak Pilates® Mat Fundamentals With Flow | Cherry Herzog | This workshop will help you learn how to advance your teaching skills by reprogramming movement orders and deepening connections for your students. Gain insight on how to layer fundamentals into a mat class with consistency, flow, and dynamics, without losing the “workout” and movement experience. This workout is perfect for all fitness levels, and no prior experience is necessary. Workshop MB, GE |
| 636 | 7:30am– 9am | FFP – Standing Pilates | June Kahn | This original Standing Pilates workout incorporates sequences of evolved Pilates progressions that focus on the deeper muscles of the core. Incorporating the TYE 4, an innovative piece of apparatus that connects the arms and legs via light bungee cords attached to an adjustable neoprene vest, learn and feel how the body works as a complete and integrated unit. Workshop GE, MB |
| 637 | 7:30am– 9am | Christ Centered Yoga™ “There Ain’t No High Like the Most High!” | Becky Martin | Join us the Sunday morning of the conference as we share a spirit filled Christ Centered Yoga™ class, aptly named, “There Ain’t No High Like the Most High”. This class will minister to you as a whole person by studying God’s word and allowing its truth to lay the mental and spiritual foundation by which we add the physical practice of yoga. By incorporating all that we are – mind, body and spirit – into our yoga practice, it becomes a moving prayer of praise and worship. Come experience worship in a whole new way! Workshop GE, MB |
| 638 | 7:30am– 9am | Sugar Sabotage! | Scott Josephson | It’s in everything! Hum? Sugar or artificial sweeteners? What should you use? Let’s see! There’s Splenda, Equal, Sweet-n-Low, Sugar Alcohols, Stevia, Asulfame K, Lakanto, real sugars and more! Learn the truth and understand the acceptable daily intake, the composition, metabolism and safety including their effects on appetite, weight loss, fat storage and your overall health. Highly effective for everyone! Lecture GE, PT |
| 639 | 7:30am– 9am | Current Controversies In Resistance Training | Len Kravitz | Join Len for a research round up of some of the most relevant and controversial topics on resistance exercise. This lecture will highlight some of the latest breaking studies on resistance training and weight management, resistance training and resting metabolic rate, cortisol and protein catabolism, delayed onset muscle soreness, overtraining, multi-set versus single set research, acidosis (the burn) and how to prevent it, resistance training and the after-burn, and much, much more. This is a must attend lecture for all personal trainers! Lecture PT |
| 640 | 7:30am– 9am | Functional Fitness For Kids | Irene McCormick | Physical development in children is an ongoing process. The development of gross and fine motor skills, muscle strength, balance, agility, listening and following directions, and even the capabilities of their own senses, are all skills that can be honed in early childhood. How does a fitness professional address these needs? What are the current guidelines for fitness professionals when working with children? How can a fitness professional help prepare kids for sports, fitness long-term health and success? This lecture will uncover the facts and offer inspiring ideas to apply when creating and implementing meaningful fitness programs for children. Lecture GE, PT |
| 641 | 7:30am– 9am | Aqua Body Moves | Manuel Velazquez | Never before a cardio dance class in the water was so fun and challenging! Choreography patterns that make your body move effortlessly blend with smooth transitions to make this workout the perfect venue to improve body awareness, coordination, cardiovascular fitness, and overall fitness in a total body dance moves workout in the water. Workshop AQ |
| 642 | 7:30am– 9am | The Art of Teaching With No Voice | Linda Griffeth | Ever lost your voice in class? Learn how “the art of teaching with no voice” is extremely beneficial to you as the instructor, and to your class participants. Learn how to protect your vocal cords and learn new techniques to teaching other than using your voice. All mouths are “silent” in this workshop. Learn to be a silent effective instructor and reap the benefits. Workshop AQ |
| 643 | 10am- 11:30am | Strong Step Drills | Leah Husk | This athletic based workshop incorporates activity on and off of the step. Recruit big muscle groups for powerful movement and an all around total body conditioning your classes will love! Workshop GE |
| 644 | 10am- 11:30am | Resist-A-Ball® Creative Choreography | Renee Spriggs | Creative Choreography is the ideal combination of energy, innovation and fun. You’ll learn a simple system that will allow you to mix and match an endless array of combinations into heart pumping, calorie burning, total body workouts. This workshop is loaded with blocks of creative ball choreography and ends with a master class workout that shows you how to put it all together and inspire your members to move! Workshop GE |
| 645 | 10am- 11:30am | Lyrical Fitness | Ilyse Baker | Discover YOU! Lyrical Fitness is a new session that is unique and is open to all levels. There is no choreography. Instead, Ilyse instructs you how to develop dynamic movement patterns and structured improvisation that promote individuality and self- expression. Learn to create an atmosphere of safety and acceptance for yourself. Get lost in the style and feel of you to discover how your body moves! Learn how to trust your own body parts to connect to the music, atmosphere, and most importantly your inner self. Your mind gets a great workout along with the entire body. You will leave wanting more! Workshop GE |
| 646 | 10am- 11:30am | Spinning® Legends | Jeff Krabiel | Ride to some of the greatest rock and roll bands of all time! The music will be our road and guide. This will be a legendary experience in the Strength Energy Zone™! Come and ride the Spinner® bike like a rock star! Workshop CY |
| 647 | 10am- 11:30am | En Fuego! Safely Teaching Advanced Yoga Classes | Jane Vaganek | Many yoga teachers, especially those in fitness settings, avoid taking students into advanced poses. Learn how to safely bring students “into the fire!” Learn how to effectively build heat and safely open up the body for more challenging postures. Learn the process of proper pose sequencing and how to teach advanced poses in a multi-level class structure. Guide your students to safely grow in their practice and keep them coming back. Workshop GE, MB |
| 648 | 10am- 11:30am | Bender Ball® Boot Camp | Leslee Bender | This high powered class gives you new and creative safer methods of high intensity training for all populations. You will utilize the Bender Ball and tubing for all body types to create better results. Ectomorph higher loads of strength, endomorph higher level of strength upper body and lower more cardio, mesomorph, consistent cardio without resistance. Many students get frustrated due to they are working out incorrectly and, you will discover how you can incorporate all body types but yet they will all be doing something similar yet different. This course is perfect for personal trainer or group fitness professionals looking to expand their knowledge of specificity training. Workshop GE, MB, PT |
| 649 | 10am- 11:30am | The Wonder Woman Workout | Irene McCormick | “Work, family, kids needs, social life – YIKES! How can I fit a workout into my day and more importantly, why should I try?” Women 30-something’s and those in their 40’s and beyond NEED to include resistance exercise and cardio into their daily routine, not by working longer, but by working smarter. This workshop brings to life effective and transforming resistance and cardio drills that teach and train the busy woman. Educate her on the need to maintain lean mass using the very portable and safe Slastix elastic tubing interspersed into cardio intervals. Walk away with tons of ideas for creating a quick, efficient, fun workout. Workshop GE, PT |
| 650 | 10am- 11:30am | Beaming™ Soulful Sole-Ful Synergy | Lawrence Biscontini | Join Lawrence for a mind-body fusion approach to incorporating traditional floor-based and standing mind-body disciplines into the hot new fitness craze of BEAMING. Using the BEAM, we will address stability and mobility in fitness applications to core training from yoga, Pilates, T’ai Chi, and other inspirations. Learn both group and personal training mindful BEAMING applications! Workshop GE, MB, PT |
| 651 | 10am- 11:30am | It’s What You Don’t Say That Counts | Shannon Fable | Some instructors have it…you can’t put your finger on the quality that elevates their class from a workout to an experience! Allow yourself to be introduced to NLP, neurolinguistic programming, and how you can integrate these communication techniques to improve your client and member retention. Learn to create rapport, influence your members, use body language to your advantage, visualize achieving results you want and practice effective negotiation and selling skills. Excellent communication can create excellent results, even in a Step class. Lecture AQ, GE, MB, PT, S |
| 652 | 10am- 11:30am | Biomechanics of Core Training | Mike Morris | Let resistance training specialist, Mike Morris, guide you through a process of evaluating, understanding and executing exercises to strengthen the core. Explore the science behind the role of the deep spinal muscles and how important the role of the hip and pelvic musculature play in the integrity of a healthy back and strong torso. This lecture and practical demonstration will lay the foundation to designing a strength-training program for your clients. Lecture PT |
| 653 | 10am- 11:30am | OMG! She’s Pregnant | Misha Laird | It’s a crash course on everything a yoga instructor needs to know to confidently welcome an expectant mother into a “regular” yoga class. Besides recognizing the pregnant body’s pre-packaged safety features, find out the key questions to ask, the structural stresses to understand, the poses to avoid, and the alternatives to recommend. This is a must for every yoga instructor. Lecture MB |
| 654 | 10am- 11:30am | Aquatic Rush 2 | Laura Ribbins | Interval training is where it’s at and Aquatic Rush 2 is a boot camp you don’t want to miss! Experience how to mix it up with three platforms of cardio “PUSH” intervals to take it to the next level. Come join in on this extreme fitness workshop experience to see if you have decided to commit and succeed- experience an aquatic boot camp – an aquatic rush! Workshop AQ |
| 655 | 10am- 11:30am | Bootcamp Gets WET | Jeff McMullen | Join Jeff for a whole new round of bootcamp style calisthenics and drills, sure to leave you breathless and clamoring for more! `Take the rave of this popular land based group exercise format to the pool and let’s get wet! Discover how to create unique and challenging water workouts by combining the intensity of interval training with the power of deep or shallow water. Learn the principles of interval training as they apply to class format and workout design. Varying intensity, speed, water depth, and ROM styles will enhance flexibility, muscular and aerobic endurance. Refresh your existing program by offering interval based activities in a bootcamp style format, suitable for all ages and abilities. Workshop AQ |
| 656 | 12pm- 1:30pm | Cardio Combat Kickboxing | Janell Vela-Smith | Combat KB uses the back kicks, punches, and blocks from the martial art of Tukong combined with a cardiovascular/resistance workout. Combat KB is a total body workout that not only builds and tones muscle, but taught correctly will burn over 800 calories per hour. It will also teach students the basics of self-defense. This can be a great advertising tool to entice consumers into taking Combat KB, stressing the term “basics” of self-defense. Workshop GE |
| 657 | 12pm- 1:30pm | TWIST Conditioning Dynamic Balance | Douglas Brooks | Multiple systems contribute to an athlete’s ability to maintain balance when movement speed, intensity and complexity are increased. This workshop satisfies your curiosity about how sensory and motor systems cooperate to maintain balance when strength, explosive power and multi joint movements are required for success in sport and active life. Peel back exercise progressions to develop a systematic training plan that builds valuable balance skills while experiencing simple to complex balance training techniques and tools and leave ready to safely push the boundaries of balance for performance gains. Workshop GE, PT |
| 658 | 12pm- 1:30pm | Buddha-Camp: Aggressive Mind-Body | Manuel Velazquez | Seen at Equinox clubs, this is his mindful answer to the boot-camp craze, with an aggressive fusion of effective and intense series that all flow from Yoga to Pilates to Thai Chi. Most uniquely; the only equipment used is bodyweight and an open mind and heart! Workshop GE, MB |
| 659 | 12pm- 1:30pm | Spinning® Transitions Are Key | Jeff Krabiel | Developing smooth, even, and clear transitions is an important variable to teaching a successful class. This workshop is an exploration of transitional techniques and philosophies. We’ll discuss their importance and multiple functions within a Spinning class. We’ll also take a look at the different types of transitions and the coaching expressions that can make them more effective. Following the lecture, we’ll do a challenging 45-minute ride that will incorporate a variety of transitional strategies. Workshop CY |
| 660 | 12pm- 1:30pm | The New Yoga | Robert Sherman | This workshop addresses the important need and understanding the movement science behind our yoga practice without losing the deep internal focus and message. Understanding the physiological and anatomic roots of movement can enhance the teaching of yoga postures. Your teaching can go from a generic flow, to a directed intensive class. This workshop will teach assessment and being able to recognize imbalances. You will then learn corrective patterns, which will lead to understanding and awareness to promote change. Workshop MB |
| 661 | 12pm- 1:30pm | Peak Pilates® Movement Patterns | Cherry Herzog | With so many exercises it can be daunting to learn to teach Pilates, but the basic movement patterns are really quite simple. Take a look at the basic patterns that are found throughout Pilates- and all movement based activities and gain a better understanding of guiding your students to healthy patterning. This workout is perfect for all fitness levels, and no prior experience is necessary. Workshop GE, MB |
| 662 | 12pm- 1:30pm | SCULPTmoves™ Build-A-Butt™ | Cheryl Westerman | Combine and create a circuit of lower body moves to enhance the butt! Session participants will learn a number of interval training techniques that can sculpt round firm glutes! Combing a towel and other small apparatus and energy creates dynamic movement with resistance from every angle. Maintain correct alignment during cardio and floor training. Build-a-Butt™ for a better body. Workshop GE |
| 663 | 12pm- 1:30pm | Indo-Row® The Perfect Calorie Burn | Jay Blahnik & Josh Crosby | The hottest workout in Los Angeles is making its way to DCAC, and you don’t want to miss it! Celebrated by athletes and celebrities, alike, and dubbed “The perfect calorie burn,” Indo-Row® is a one-of-a-kind rowing workout that will truly change the way you think about group exercise. Working in teams, partners and as one crew, you will get world-class coaching and a transforming total-body workout that will leave you begging for more. Easy to learn, Indo-Row is perfect for group p exercise instructors and personal trainers. No experience is necessary. Don’t be one to hear how great the session was, be one who got to experience it! Workshop GE |
| 664 | 12pm- 1:30pm | FFP – Using Social Media To Grow Business | Scott Colby | Social media is all the rage lately. Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, personal blogs, etc. It seems like a new way to communicate via the internet pops up every week. But there’s a big difference between harnessing the power of social media to grow business and just using it to locate old high school friends. This presentation discusses and shows exactly how to use social media to build a business, rank on the first page of Google and other search engines, and create a rabid following in the local market. Lecture PT, GE |
| 665 | 12pm- 1:30pm | Stardate 2010: The Next Generation Research | Len Kravitz | Join Len for a research round up of some of the most relevant and controversial topics on resistance exercise. This lecture will highlight some of the latest breaking studies on resistance training and weight management, resistance training and resting metabolic rate, cortisol and protein catabolism, delayed onset muscle soreness, overtraining, multi-set versus single set research, acidosis (the burn) and how to prevent it, resistance training and the after-burn, and much, much more. This is a must attend lecture for all personal trainers! Lecture PT |
| 666 | 12pm- 1:30pm | Get Kranking® The Business Opportunity | Mike Morris | This session is to introduce the new Krankcycle by Johnny G, the man who brought Spinning to the fitness industry. Join Mike Morris, the pioneer of stability ball training as he explains the benefits of Kranking and shares his vision of the direction of this new training concept. This session will also unveil the business opportunities for fitness professionals to get involved with the launching of this new product and program. Lecture GE, PT |
| 667 | 12pm- 1:30pm | AKWA Steppin | Linda Griffeth | The magic bullet does exist and it is called “AKWA STEPPIN,” by putting your best foot forward. Come get a wet dynamic workout just by walking in the water. Burn calories and fat faster and accelerate your muscle conditioning. AKWA STEPPIN is a shallow water workout with emphasis on proper locomotion, gait training and stabilization of the core. Learn to make your daily aquatic workout count in half the time vs. gravity based walking all while empowering muscular balance, strength training coordination and cardio conditioning. Workshop AQ |
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