Preconference Sessions
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
The 2013 IDEA World Fitness Convention offers 15 career-changing specialized preconference sessions where you can earn up to 8 additional CECs as well as a certificate of completion.
- 100: leadership skills for personal training and group fitness directors
- 101: STOTT PILATES®: Advanced Matwork™
- 102: Zumba®: Basic Skills Instructor Training
- 103: Zumba®: Basic Skills Instructor Training—En Español
- 104: YogaLean™ by YogaFit®
- 105: ACE®: Group Exercise Leadership Specialty Certification
- 106: RealRyder® Indoor Cycling: Certified Instructor Training
- 107: Schwinn® Cycling: Instructor Certification
- 108: NASM®: The New Group Fitness Is Here!
- 109: TRX®: Group Rip™ Training Course
- 110: Gray Institute: Foundations of Movement Training
- 111: ACE®: Metabolic Training Workshop
- 112: Tabata Bootcamp™
- 113: Reinventing Worksite Wellness—The Forefront of Prevention in Unfit America
- 114: Stability Barre™: Endurance With Music™, Level 1
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9:00am—1:00pm
SHERRI MCMILLAN, MSc Managing a team of personal trainers or group fitness instructors can be one of the most challenging tasks for any fitness director. Dealing with egos, personality conflicts and staff turnover can leave you feeling drained with little energy left to work on enhancing and developing your department. This 4-hour preconference will focus on important leadership skills so you can empower your team and inspire them to work together toward a common vision. This session will help you to clarify your role as a leader and provide you with practical skills to help you grow and develop your leadership potential. After implementing these tools, you’ll see each member of your team perform at levels you never thought possible!
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9:00am-1:00pm
MERRITHEW HEALTH & FITNESS™ FACULTY This compelling 4-hour workshop, developed by the Merrithew Health & Fitness team, presents select exercises from the STOTT PILATES Advanced Matwork repertoire. These high-level exercises are dissected to examine how components of movement essence are elevated. Through demonstration and explanation, the purpose and goal of each move is explored with special focus on stability, mobility, sequencing, balance, endurance and coordination. Individuals are encouraged to perform and observe each exercise with an eye to executing and teaching them safely and effectively. Exercise choices comprise a combination of those that are a progression from the Essential and Intermediate levels and those that are specific to the Advanced work.
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9:00am—6:00pm
ABRAHAM HERNANDEZ AND ELIZA STONE In this course, you will learn the foundation and formula for teaching a successful Zumba class, including the steps to four basic rhythms: merengue, salsa, cumbia and reggaeton. Find out how to put these steps together and how to create your first Zumba class. Get all the tools and resources you need to become a Zumba instructor!
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9:00am—6:00pm
AILEEN PADILLA Y ALFREDO PADILLA Este curso te brinda las bases y la fórmula para dar una clase de Zumba. Aprenderás los pasos de cuatro ritmos básicos: meren- gue, salsa, cumbia y reggaetón. Aprenderás a juntar estos pasos en una canción y a crear tu primera clase de Zumba. Te proporcionaremos todas las herramientas y recursos necesarios para dictar una clase de Zumba. Licencia: Licencia básica de Zumba de un año. Prerrequisito: Ninguno.
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9:00am—7:00pm
JANET LELAND AND BETH SHAW Losing weight is a transformational process that involves the mind, body and spirit. YogaLean is a weight management program designed to work from the inside out, taking into account every student’s unique story, size and shape, and customizing a program that fits their lifestyle. In addition to the latest findings on nutrition, exercise and adherence, YogaLean draws heavily from the yogic practices of breathing, meditation and mindfulness, as well as from YogaFit class sequences created for larger bodies. This 1-day workshop offers an online nutrition and weight management program to give participants the one-on-one expertise and support necessary for safe, lasting success.
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9:00am—6:00pm
LAWRENCE BISCONTINI, MA Designed to supplement the expertise of instructors who are currently teaching prechoreographed programs, this instructor training will cover foundational knowledge of exercise and movement science and how it applies to group exercise class design, implementation and modification. Participants will also learn teaching techniques, strategies for improved safety and other essential instructional skills that will enrich their group classes. Led by Lawrence Biscontini, ACE senior group fitness consultant and award-winning group fitness instructor, fitness professionals who attend this 1-day course will leave with time-tested ACE strategies that will help them take their careers to the next level. Following successful completion of a final online assessment to be completed at home, instructors will hold an ACE specialty certification.
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9:00am—6:00pm
DOUGLAS BROOKS, MS, AND ADAM REID After 20 years of consistent stationary cycle design, the introduction and explosive growth of the RealRyder Indoor Cycle has changed indoor bike technology forever. Riding the RealRyder ABF8 Indoor Cycle encourages, teaches and rewards good form and proper pedal stroke, while riders experience the benefits of leaning, turning, balancing, full-body coordination and core engagement. These key biomechanical advantages capture the functional and fun characteristics of real road riding. The RealRyder Certified Instructor Training Program builds on the history of indoor cycling, using a teaching system that eliminates guesswork, so that planning intelligent and creative workouts is easy. Join a pack of enthusiastic RealRyder ambassadors and become part of a new era of indoor cycling today!
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9:00am—7:00pm
JULZ ARNEY AND JAY BLAHNIK Get certified in the industry’s most respected and progressive indoor cycling instructor training course. In one power-packed day you’ll have the tools you need to become a successful and sought-after instructor on any bike. This critically-acclaimed certification includes bike fit, cycling science, class design, music, and the Schwinn Cycling Coach’s Pyramid, a specialized system that makes teaching simple for you and an incredible experience for your students. Join us for the course that offers continually updated material, making this the one certification worth repeating to refresh your skills and inspire your teaching. This preconference offers two complete workout experiences, a comprehensive training manual, the new Schwinn Cycling Workout DVD and 13 class plans that include music selections, authentic cycling clips and the Schwinn Cycling Intensity Chart.
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10:00am—2:00pm
FABIO COMANA, MA, MS The term “group fitness” was once considered taboo for personal trainers as a respected form of training for their clients. Times have changed. In recent years, group fitness has expanded its reach and has practically exploded out of the group ex room and into just about every venue imaginable. This interactive workshop will enumerate the key benefits of group fitness, and how, when and where to conduct group classes. Through practical application, participants will learn how to make the most of their space, design effective group training workouts with proper regression and progression, as well as demonstrate proficiency in instructing group training workouts utilizing various modalities.
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10:00am—7:00pm
DAN McDONOGH AND FRASER QUELCH This preconference workshop is for the fitness professional who wants to expand their marketability by bringing this fun, versatile, new modality to small- or large-group workouts. This course provides expert instruction and hands-on practice on how to instruct two group workout formats scalable to all fitness levels. Learn Rip Training fundamentals as well as how to incorporate a range of Rip Trainer exercises into client and member workouts. This 8-hour course includes a course manual, two workout videos, a course qualification, continuing education units, product discounts, and an invitation to join the TRX directory.
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10:00am—7:00pm
LENNY PARRACINO Gray Institute is pleased to offer a one-of-a-kind training course. This full-day program comprises individual modules that when combined will take you, the trainer, on an illuminating journey that shares authentic truths, provides transformational strategies and employs powerful techniques that are sure to enhance the lives of those you touch every day. The five modules include: 1) An Overview of Applied Functional ScienceTM (AFS). 2) Applied Functional Science Nomenclature: The Language of Movement. 3) Chain ReactionTM Skeletal: Real Bone Motion Creates Relative Joint Motion. 4) Chain Reaction Functional Muscle Function: Beyond the Anatomical Model. 5) Chain Reaction Proprioceptors: The Organizers of Coordinated Movement.
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10:00am—7:00pm
PETE McCALL, MS Metabolic training is one of the hottest workout styles today. With the success of popular HIIT programs, it’s no secret that high- intensity drills and movements can help clients shed pounds. And while many trainers know what exercises to do, they may not fully understand the physiological principles that support these training philosophies. Learn strategies to help clients overcome plateaus and achieve weight-loss goals with high-intensity metabolic conditioning. This interactive workshop gives you the tools to deliver those sessions in a safe, effective and fun way that keep your clients coming back for more.
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10:00am—7:00pm
MINDY MYLREA Tabata Bootcamp is a sustainable fitness and eating program that truly changes people’s lives. Based on the most current high- intensity interval training research and cutting-edge nutritional information, you will discover how you can lead this amazing total-body transformation program. This course provides participants with information on body assessment, metabolic profiling, eating strategies, and how to create workouts that matter. Unlike any other boot camp program, this course also offers you a turnkey Web business. Come and see how to tap into an income stream by leading your own 8-week total-body turnaround pro- gram. Whether you are an independent trainer, fitness instructor or club owner/manager, see how this revolutionary turnkey boot camp program (that does not require a licensing fee) can help you to make a difference in the lives of your members/clients.
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12 Noon—4:00pm
JULIAN VARELA, MS The evidence is clear! A large segment of our population does not utilize the services of fitness centers and professional trainers. Unfortunately, these individuals are precisely the ones who are driving healthcare costs through the roof! As fitness professionals, how do we incentivize these individuals to start leading a life of health? This preconference session addresses the challenge of how to best engage the unfit. Corporate worksite wellness programs are the perfect platform to inspire people who are on the fitness fence. This enlightening course will: 1) Give an overview of behavioral and psychological principles that lead people to change their behavior. 2) Offer strategies for designing a sustainable and profitable worksite wellness and health management program. 3) Discuss the business of creating a worksite wellness program, from site management to employee incentive programs.
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2:00pm—6:00pm
MERRITHEW HEALTh & FITNESS™ FACULTY Research shows that music can increase coordination and motivation, and improve movement quality. This high-energy new workout is a great opportunity for instructors looking to bring music-inspired movement to their clients. Drawing from the most experienced instructor trainers within the Merrithew Health & Fitness team, this barre program focuses on building strength and stamina, as well as improving balance and flexibility. Learn programming for an endurance-focused Level 1 Stability Barre class, following the class template used within the Stability Barre foundational course. Biomechanical principles are incorporated to help instructors cue effectively and safely to music. Suggested beats per minute will be supplied for the different sections, and close attention will be paid to the importance of modifying exercises for your specific clientele.
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