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This fast-paced athletic training circuit will push you out of your comfort zone and beyond your expectations! Using a variety of functional training equipment, this high-energy workout encourages you to meet challenge and unpredictability head on. Leave with a unique circuit format that will train your body from head to toe. Train the rebel in you and push the boundaries!

Mobility plus force production is a great recipe for functional strength, lean muscle and performance gains for your clients. Experience how to bring functional strength to the next level with these principles and sequences of practical TRX strength-training tactics. This session utilizes the new TRX Duo Trainer and other TRX training modalities to demonstrate the next wave of advanced training concepts and strategies. You may be strong, but are you TRX STRONG?

What's the best way to get better legs…squats, deadlifts?  What about variety?  Exercise selection isn't always "one size fits all" and successful trainers know they need a number of exercise variations to match the different ability levels of clients. Attend this hands-on session and you'll leave with dozens of exercise variations, including metabolic "finishers" that will improve the strength and work capacity, as well as tighten and tone the lower body!

Rubber bands are a known source of resistance used by rehabilitation specialists and power lifters alike. Why? They’re effective! In this session, we’ll explore “time under tension” principles and why elastic resistance training is thought to be more effective than free-weight training for strength and power gains. Now you can learn how to use bands to maximize the mechanical advantages of eccentric and concentric strength phases for better range of motion, strength gains and more complete stimulation.

The Pacific Northwest is definitely a HOT market when it comes to personal and small-group training. We’ve gathered together five of Seattle’s finest trainers to lead a workshop that is chock-full of information for trainers eager to expand their small-group client base and boost retention. Just as “one size does not fit all,” not all business models and small-group training structures work for every trainer. Come to this session and gain insight and ideas from trainers who have realized success in their own markets!

Exercise programs that focus FIRST on teaching movement, mobility and strength skills, and dynamic balance provide the foundation for client success. These skills are necessary before your client can progress to higher intensity, metabolic workouts that enhance aerobic conditioning. In this informative session, trainers will learn how to classify and match the different outcomes clients want with how to program workouts that deliver results, all while paying attention to foundational skill development. Walk away with specific strategies and techniques for designing programs with appropriate and challenging progressions.

Want more clients and more money? Rachel will share powerful, yet easy-to-implement, world-class marketing and money-making strategies to turbo-charge your client base. You'll leave with simple tools to instantly achieve incredible success while boosting client results. Fitness professionals who are new to the industry are encouraged to attend, as well as veteran trainers who wish to fine-tune their marketing efforts.

Six-pack abs. Tight butts. Lean, vibrant, flawless health. That’s what the fitness industry is selling. Ever wondered what that costs? What you have to do more of? And what you have to give up? Make no mistake, there are trade-offs as you lose fat and improve your health. Adam takes you through each one so you can help clients balance getting the body they really want with living the life they really enjoy.

Are you interested in utilizing technology to improve your client’s results and your efficiency as a trainer but you aren't sure where to start? In this workshop, we will discuss important aspects of behavior change and how the booming fitness tracking and technology field can support those changes. We'll cover what you can use in the gym and what your clients can use at home, so you can leave confident that you have new ways to create exciting changes in their behaviors.

Functional training has been one of the top trends and preferred ways to train for over a decade. As with many things popular, variations can stray from purpose and original intentions get lost. Thus leading to arbitrary application of exercises rather than linking back to what "functional training" was originally designed to accomplish… functionality! This session explores a new definition of functionality and re-examines our approach to functional training so we can build better programs for our clients.

Do you view your athletes’ training experience as a window of opportunity to achieve their athletic dreams? This workshop introduces unique concepts on how to effectively and efficiently assess and train athletes in any setting. Whether you train entire teams, mixed groups of multisport athletes, young athletes, the pros, or even one-on-one, this session will illustrate key concepts that need to be in every coach's program to help their clients become the best athletes they can be.

High-intensity intervals based on strong, focused movements! Experience this high-intensity multimodality workout that employs the most advanced, effective and safest programming approach this genre has ever seen. This advanced session will illustrate innovative TRX coaching practices and emerging new programming in a high-energy, multimodality setting. Bring your programming, mindset and training to the next level with a practical experience you won’t soon forget!

Some female clients feel they could never be both female and an athlete. By addressing some common movement faults and exploring a better mindset, we can close the gap. This program uses FMS to identify gaps in the movement foundation and addresses limitations common to women. We’ll provide exercises and strategies to help trainers rebuild this foundation, allowing your female clients to move with confidence, achieve better recovery and reach personal goals.

Athletes train differently throughout the year to ensure they are in the best shape to perform. Why not use these same high-level coaching and programming techniques with all clients? In this workshop, you’ll experience sports-based circuits that identify different training focuses and goals. You’ll also gain insight on how specific top-level coaching principles can be utilized to enhance the client experience. Walk away with tips on how you can create athletic-based circuits that are tailored to your individual and small-group clients.

Training for power is becoming more mainstream and more popular with clients. Clients want to do explosive exercises that they enjoy and feel will get them in better shape. As a trainer, you have to ask yourself, “Are they ready for this type of intense training?” This workshop will address proper progression, as well as foundational program design elements that will ensure safe and effective power workouts for your clients.

When it comes to function, we already know that we need to look at the body as a fully integrated unit, yet traditional assessment techniques tend to focus on local or isolated joints and movements. Although vital to understanding function, local assessments need to be performed and incorporated into a global analysis to properly assess the true global functional abilities and needs of the individual. Join us for this unique look at true functional analysis.

Thinking about opening your own brick and mortar studio? Don't miss this exciting panel discussion led by successful studio owners and industry experts who are ready to share their top tips and lessons learned.  Discover essential strategies on how to finance your studio, establish a simple, yet realistic business plan, market your new business to get clients in the door, and grow and develop a strong team. Get the knowledge you need to execute your plan and achieve your dreams.    

Most individuals have only a limited amount of time to devote to their fitness and they want to maximize their efforts to get the best results.  Proper nutrition and hydration before, during and after exercise are key in capitalizing on the rewards of exercise.  Learn the latest nutrition research—including recommendations for optimal recovery—and gain practical nutrition tips for you and your clients to ensure maximum benefits from workouts.

Our clientele range from advanced fitness levels to obese clients who struggle to get started and maintain healthy habits. So why would we ask everyone the same questions and provide the same questionnaires? It is almost impossible to provide comprehensive, individualized solutions to such a wide array of clients using generic questions. This session will help you uncover the most important pieces of information when interviewing clients, thus establishing client trust, motivation and goal attainment, all while expanding your client base.

Many of the best athletes and recreational exercisers utilize altitude training to attain a competitive edge. This first-time-ever lecture at IDEA will explain the current facts and research on cardiopulmonary physiology, and the physiological benefits of this type of training. Next, we’ll discuss the three most common ways to use altitude training for improved performance. Finally, learn about the efficacy of altitude masks, the use of simulated altitude chambers, and proposed altitude exposure strategies for improved performance.

This action-packed workshop will teach you innovative movement patterns that require top-down instability the way it happens in life. Imagine a firefighter holding a surging hose, a parent holding a wiggling toddler, or an MMA fighter breaking a hold. The Surge harnesses the physics of quickly-changing fluid dynamics to replicate unstable demands on the body and creates incredible think-react muscle actions. Learn the techniques, methods and overload principles to orchestrate reactive stability exercises that challenge even your fittest clients.

This session utilizes the TRX Rip™ Trainer to delve into what is perhaps the most important yet under-trained of all of the foundational movements. Learn why and how to integrate rotation into your training regimen. This eye-opening session will take you through a rotational journey from how to coach the basic mechanics of rotation, all the way up to producing rotational power in high-speed movements to benefit functional strength and high-intensity training.

Come to this practical workshop and discover the time-tested, "secret" strategies elite fitness professionals use to quickly and easily create programs that deliver awesome results. Brett will uncover three programming mistakes fitness pros make that result in wasted time AND programs that don't work! Experience this simplified programming and discover how fast, uncomplicated programs can be more effective! Leave with a template you can use right away, and spend less time writing programs and more time creating success for your clients!

As a trainer, you’ve probably seen and tried a variety of small-group training approaches. So how do you choose one that makes sense for your clients? In this session, we’ll take a look at how “tensegrity,” or tension integrity, can be employed to design powerful small-group training sessions. This approach reinforces the importance of stability and mobility, which can be overlooked in the group training environment. Come to this session and experience closed-chain dynamic movement that emphasizes quality over quantity.

Whether you train competitive athletes or weekend warriors, you need to keep them healthy and injury free. Discover global approaches to warm-up and recovery protocols and how to apply these principles in group settings or as homework for your clients. This course reviews the basics of the fascial system, and provides hands-on methods you can use tomorrow for overall muscle maintenance and trigger-point release.

The body functions as a kinetic chain. If one joint can’t move, others are forced to move more, thus causing pain and injury. Learn how to use TriggerPoint’s Myofascial Compression™ Techniques and dynamic stretching, along with core, balance and reactive training for better nervous system integration, and walk away with a fresh approach to assessments. Not only will this workshop introduce intelligent and efficient soft-tissue work, it will also cover the steps needed after foam rolling for optimal control.

What would it feel like to finally be debt free? Would you sleep better at night knowing you owe nothing? This illuminating session offers solutions for building a financially fit business in three easy steps. Just think about it…you could reward your team with higher pay, paid CECs and travel, and even paid vacations. How would you serve your clients differently knowing you and your team are taken care of financially? Regardless of the amount, you CAN get out of debt and WIN with money!

There is an art to communicating with your female clients. Rachel will reveal strategies to help them “breakthrough” and achieve the body they have always dreamed of. You will learn exact scripts and dialogue to help your clients overcome the psychological barriers that have been holding them back. See how you can create an environment that is supportive to their success. Walk away with world-class coaching tools that are proven to work, and get ready to put to them to use on Monday morning.

Workout nutrition has become all the rage. Many sports nutrition experts are even claiming it is so critical to improving health, body composition and performance, that without it, your training is useless. In this presentation, Adam will review the full body of evidence on workout nutrition, and give you practical information on what a good workout diet (before, during and after) looks like.

Getting your body back post-baby is an important goal for many postnatal women. Before embarking on this journey with your new mom, it’s important to have an understanding of the pre- and postnatal body, plus the physiological and psychological path that you will be travelling together. Armed with an exercise grab bag full of ideas and a game plan (think shorter sessions for the time-challenged mom), this session will get her far beyond the bump and on to a future that is happy and healthy!

There are two types of tissue in the human myofascial system, skeletal muscle and elastic connective tissue. People who perform repetitive movements over a long period of time run the risk of injuring these tissues. By applying a concept known as movement variability, trainers can help their clients to increase the strength of both tissues while reducing the risk of repetitive injury. In this session, we’ll explore the research and introduce tools and program design options that can be successfully integrated into any client’s program.

Blending mobility, stability and strength exercises into a smooth training program isn’t as easy as it seems. Come to this hands-on session and discover how to teach a variety of mobility, stability and strength exercises. In addition, learn how to blend these elements together to create a balanced and seamless training session for your clients. You’ll be surprised at how the practical skills learned in this interactive workshop will enhance your clients’ training program.

Practically every trainer has served a client who has poor body awareness, balance, reactive movement and locomotor skills. In these cases, a “pre-training” program that introduces trainers to a base-building phase prior to functional and standard strength training protocols may be the link to success for these clients. This session highlights the basic big-four movement patterns and offers a specific methodology that is used to teach movement patterns while assessing a client’s deficiencies and strengths.

Let’s tuck away those front-of-the-body moves and take time to pay attention to the back of the body. We’ll discuss the imbalances that occur between back and front, and how certain exercises can help to correct these imbalances. Next, we will focus on the anatomy of movements, and choose and experience the best exercises to strengthen the lower and upper back, glut complex and legs. Get ready to stand taller and get noticed as you walk out the door!

Functional breathing is grounded in the ability to respond to the needs and demands of the body. It has a powerful connection to how clients move, and how they handle higher loads and recover. In this session, we’ll discuss the impact breathing has on the body’s biomechanical, biochemical and psychophysiological states. Come to this session and learn the Functional Breathing Screen to help you identify breathing dysfunction, and apply corrective exercises and strategies that can be integrated into your training sessions.

Despite big headlines regularly touting the success of new fad diets, 90% of all diets fail miserably. The majority of dieting and weight-loss programs demand unreasonable sacrifice: give up a whole food group, fight hunger pangs around the clock, or undertake grueling and exhausting exercise regimes. These approaches are unrealistic, unhealthy and are incongruous with more sustainable behavior change practices. Come to this enlightening session and learn how we can fix the way we lose weight while maintaining a healthy, enjoyable lifestyle.

Now more than ever, middle-aged and older clients need credible information on how to live a long, healthy, functional and fulfilling life. Cut through the hype and establish yourself as an authority on healthy aging with credible, evidence-based information that attracts new clients and helps your current clients maximize their results.  This session will review the latest scientific evidence on strategies to extend the human lifespan, with special emphasis on exercise and nutrition.

Most trainers agree that client success doesn’t necessarily hinge on the 3 hours a week they spend with their coach. Rather, it’s most likely due to the decisions and habits they establish the other 165 hours each week. In this participatory lecture session, trainers will be introduced to a systematic approach for providing “habit-based” coaching. We’ll examine specific case studies, and how this approach can be used to help clients with their goals such as weight loss, improving health, and event athletic performance.

More than 3 billion people are already online and 3 billion more are coming in the next 5 years. The business of fitness is evolving and the fastest growing media today is online and mobile. Come and learn how to put your expertise on the World Wide Web so you can reach thousands more with your products and services, and create an online business from scratch. Vito will teach you how you can deliver value, grow your leads and make money online and offline.

How many ways can you BOSU? We promise 101 drills that can morph into double that with very little effort. Explore ideas for using the BOSU Balance Trainer for cardio, strength, core and flexibility drills that are easily scaled down for beginners, or enhanced to challenge veteran clients. Learn building blocks to restructure drills for unlimited BOSU workout options. Whether you’re new to BOSU, or a seasoned trainer begging for more, this workshop will fill your toolbox with more than enough to get you through the next year!

The transverse plane of motion is vital to our daily function, and even more vital in sports and performance training, yet this is the plane of motion that is most often overlooked during our training programs. Unsurprisingly, this is also the plane of motion that injury is most likely to occur. In this powerful presentation, learn how to incorporate rotational movement into your existing training programs and exercises to create more stability and mobility while reducing injuries.

Let’s face it, most of our clients want to shed unwanted pounds and look good in their "skinny jeans.” Now you can guarantee they’ll drop two jean sizes in 8 weeks! This workshop addresses how you can get more compliance and real, measurable results for your clients. Walk away with specific program design strategies, how to build in progressions, and much more. It’s time to take out the guesswork when it comes to designing fat-loss programs for your female clients.

You’ve mastered the art of program design and your small-group training clients are seeing results. Have you ever thought, however, that your group sessions could use a little extra something? In this unique workshop, we’ll introduce some subtle and not-so-subtle elements that are critical to creating great group experiences. We’ll discuss the use of music, vocal coaching and cuing, multitasking tips, and how to manage groups with finesse and ease. Walk away with new tricks and exercises that will give you a leg up on your competition.

Progression strategies are a common topic in training, but very few programs exist that help simplify our approach, yet remain comprehensive. Even fewer incorporate coordinated approaches to regression strategies. In this workshop, we’ll use elastic resistance to address a universally applicable approach to training that will satisfy the needs of clients of all fitness and learning levels. We’ll address assisted concepts for proper pattern development, resisted principles for building strength and stability, and reactive techniques to improve control in unpredictable environments.

The core is responsible for reducing, stabilizing and producing force, and in today’s high-intensity fitness environment, the ability for a fitness professional to design and implement proper core training techniques has never been more important. Whether you are training the weekend warrior or competitive athletes, this workshop will teach you how to train the core in all three planes of motion while giving you the opportunity to experience exercises designed to increase stability, strength and power for clients of all levels!

Osteoporosis is referred to as an old-lady disease, when in fact everyone, regardless of age or gender, is at risk. This enlightening session will provide up-to-date information on the risk factors associated with osteoporosis, as well as treatment options. We’ll also discuss what type of resistive exercise and weight-bearing activities are appropriate. Gain greater insight on why EVERYONE is at risk and learn some of the nutritional components involved in the prevention of osteoporosis.

Your clients want more than just weight lifting and weight loss. They want to be inspired! As a trainer, you have the power to motivate clients by creating engaging workouts that will help them to achieve their goals and keep them coming back for more. This illuminating session will not only help you to identify the many strengths YOU bring to the table as a trainer, but will propose several concepts that are sure to positively impact the client experience every time!

If you are frustrated by a lack of sales and committed clients, you won’t want to miss this session. No fluff. No theory. Just real-world, actionable advice with specific sales and marketing strategies you can implement immediately. Discover how to obtain new clients, improve your retention and results, and build a pipeline of referrals that creates a waiting list for your expertise.

This enlightening session will take you on a sobering trip through the medical literature surrounding exercise and weight loss. From objectively measured metabolism studies, to kids with accelerometers, to carefully controlled and supervised year-long physical activity programs, the data is clear, “energy balance” is a misnomer and it may be time to uncouple exercise from weight. Instead, we should focus on the incredible benefits of exercise to health, and on mitigating the direct risks attributable to weight.

Not your mama’s body sculpt! Total-Body Conditioning with the Kamagon Ball offers a fresh approach to training with this highly effective and fun workout. Learn unique sequences that utilize multijoint, triplanar functional movement patterns. Experience how flowing movement progressions, combined with the Hydro-Inertia™ of the water-filled Kamagon Ball, demand input from the nervous system for motor learning, coordination and equilibrium with a perfect balance between stability and mobility.

Fascia and tensegrity take on whole new meanings for body-weight athletes. From faster joint stability to more efficient transfer of forces, tapping into the fascial system is the linchpin to optimizing performance. Come to this enlightening session and explore concepts in fascial tensioning and fascial elasticity as it relates to both foot and hand strength. After this workshop, you’ll be both barefoot strong and grip strong!

Dive into the mind-body connection through the latest fascial research and its application through breathing techniques, stretching and slowing down movements to explore how they really work. Trainers will learn how the limitations of the big movement rocks of the foot and ankle, hips and thoracic spine can create damaging compensations in other structures of the body. In addition, discover strategies to mobilize the big movement rocks in three planes of motion to allow optimal movement, enhanced performance and reduced risk of injury.

Everyone wants to be fast! Whether your clients need first-step quickness for team sports or MOB™, or they want to turn in a personal best at their next distance race, this course will help you train them for better running efficiency. We’ll explore and define the three phases of running: acceleration, transition and absolute speed. In addition, you’ll experience a new method of speed coaching and walk away with techniques you can apply right away.

While improved fitness is the expected outcome of most youth exercise programs, it can also have a profound effect on learning and behavior. In this dynamic, highly interactive workshop, discover the research and application behind strategic activities and exercises that "prime" children's brains and bodies for better fitness, learning and behavior! Leave with 20 games, activities and other strategies you can use immediately to help develop smarter, fitter kids!

Injuries occur due to the muscles’ inability to tolerate the demands placed upon them. See how you can make an impact on your clients' biomechanical function and injury profile with Myofascial Compression™ Techniques (MCT). This method was created to provide an advanced approach to myofascial release. MCT improves the body's ability to move efficiently as an integrated unit, thus preventing injury and preparing the body to perform at its best. Unlock your body and release with the MCT step-by-step program.

What savvy business owner is not looking for new revenue streams? Ashley will share her two-step process and get you on the path to increased profits. First, she’ll provide insight and step-by-step instructions on how to maximize your existing revenue streams. Next, get some new and innovative ideas you can layer on to your core offerings. By adding strategic products and services, not only will you help your clients optimize their health, but your business will thrive!

All too often we hear about neutral spine without being told what it really is. With any one of the most common lower-back injuries—herniations, spondylolisthesis, stenosis— “neutral” changes depending on what the condition is. In this session, we’ll cover the anatomy and pathology inherent in these conditions and how pelvic positioning, or pelvic bias exercises, can be used to alleviate lower-back pain. Walk away with assessments and strategies/protocols for each condition, and discover what neutral spine really means for clients with lumbar maladies.

If you want to expand your reach, it might be time to build your audience with meaningful and substantial content! In this hands-on session, you will be introduced to a step-by-step system that will help you plan engaging content so every post will boost your brand, build your tribe and entice clients to buy your unique products, programs and services. Break through the clutter and be seen and heard online without having to post a single selfie.

Nutrition seems to change by the day. From the "snackification" of this culture to superfoods, functional foods and "free from" foods, this session will highlight the leading food and nutrition trends of 2017 and cut through the confusing to share what the latest nutrition science says about each trend.

Lack of multiplanar ankle mobility can wreak havoc on the kinetic chain, leading to an increased risk of injury through the knees and lower back. Instead of trying to “fix” our clients’ ankle mobility, imagine a scenario where we empower our clients with the knowledge and solutions to easily self-assess and address their ankle function. This interactive session introduces a systematic approach to assessing and improving ankle mobility, ultimately allowing clients to enhance ankle function on their own.

Functional training continues to be a training buzzword and for good reason. Functional movement patterning is critical to keeping clients fit, healthy and injury free. The ideal training ground starts with a systematic approach and continues with an effective training paradigm. Take away lots of ideas that can be done on a Triple Trainer (you’ve got to try it!), assorted small equipment and the most functional piece of all, your body. Challenge your clients with a functional facelift that will enhance performance and results.

Functional training is still a hugely popular topic. This workshop will break down the elements of functional training, beyond just strength and performance, to include information that supports a complete lifestyle, including off-day recreational and cardio plans, flexibility, recovery and sleep. Participants will learn and practice the concept of movement variability to develop functionally strong clients. Specific functional exercises for warm-ups and workouts will be introduced, along with ways to vary a movement to create a wide array of functional patterns.

Do you want to ensure that fitness is your career and not just a job? In this interactive and introspective lecture, Brett Klika helps you create a roadmap to achieve everything you want to in your fitness career. Do you want to open a gym? Speak in the industry? Write books? Discover how the "secret of small" can help ANYONE create a day-by-day and year-by-year plan to live an extraordinary life while helping others to do the same.

Join us as we explore the latest research on how our feet, fascia and functional movement are even more integrated than we realize. Say goodbye to unstable surfaces, and hello to barefoot fascial training and small nerve stimulation as the most effective means for improving joint proprioceptive awareness. This workshop will prepare you to train your clients and athletes with the latest evidence-based concepts.