110: Gray Institute: Foundations of Movement Training

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Lecture / Workshop presented by: 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 Science™ (AFS). 2) Applied Functional Science Nomenclature: The Language of Movement.

111: ACE®: Metabolic Training Workshop

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Workshop presented by: 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.

112: Tabata Bootcamp™

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Lecture / Workshop presented by: Mindy Mylrea

Tabata Bootcamp™ is a revolution in small-group training designed to generate revenues for you and your facility. Based on cutting edge HIIT exercise, sound nutrition and latest behavioral science, you'll learn how to run 8 week bootcamps that will transform your clients' bodies and their lives. This turnkey program provides you with all the tools you need to be successful.

113: Reinventing Worksite Wellness—The Forefront of Prevention in Unfit America

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Lecture presented by: Julian Varela, MS, MA

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:

114: Total Barre™: Endurance With Music™, Level 1

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Workshop presented by: CC Martin

Bring music-inspired movement to your clients! Following the Total Barre template, discover unique choreography to create a biomechanically well-balanced and fun program. Learn how to incorporate small props such as the Flex-Band®, Mini Stability Ball™ and Toning Balls™ with the barre to give you more flexibility for an hour long endurance-focused class. A recommended play list of music will be provided as well as suggested beats per minute for each segment, so you can create additional fun, invigorating theme based classes.

313: Healthy Aging Survival Kit

CECs/CEUs: ACE 0.15, AFAA 1.50, NASM 0.10

Lecture presented by: Terry Eckmann, PhD

Embrace the many demands of a fitness professional with a perspective that can enhance your professional and personal life! Survive ups and downs with tools and strategies that can help make a positive difference in your life’s journey. This is a humorous and thoughtful presentation based on good health and happiness research.

314: Food as Fuel!

CECs/CEUs: ACE 0.15, AFAA 1.50, NASM 0.10

Lecture presented by: Sarah Mirkin

As a personal trainer it is likely you lead a very active life. To keep your energy at its peak you need to fuel your body properly. In this session, we’ll discuss how to fuel your body so that your energy is even and consistent throughout the day, as well as practical tips for when you are on the go. We will also talk about eating to maximize your workouts, timing of meals and snacks, and what and when to eat after a workout so you feel and look your best.

315: Epic IDEA FitnessConnect Insider Tips

CECs/CEUs: ACE 0.15, AFAA 1.50, NASM 0.10

Lecture presented by: Mike Bannan

It’s time to let our programmers out of the IDEA labs again to share hidden features and the secrets of the most successful IDEA FitnessConnect profiles! In this session, you will learn about 23 factors affecting your search-results rank, discover three hidden features that will help your business, and get started with the new Client Challenges tool designed to help your clients reach their goals and help you increase your client base.

316: STOTT PILATES®: Athletic Conditioning 3 on the Reformer®

CECs/CEUs: ACE 0.15, AFAA 0.75, NASM 0.10

Workshop presented by: John Garey, MS

This high-level workshop, developed by the Merrithew Health & Fitness team, is an intense athletic-based program. Discover how the reformer can function like a traditional fitness tool as opposed to strictly facilitating Pilates moves. The reformer box is featured to assist exercises that reflect sport-specific drills from football, track, swimming, gymnastics, rowing, etc. This programming is perfect for very fit and accomplished sports enthusiasts.

317: Pilates PNF Fusion

CECs/CEUs: ACE 0.15, AFAA 0.75, NASM 0.10

Workshop presented by: Yoav Avidar

During this session, we’ll merge PNF stretching exercises into the Pilates mat repertoire. This body and mind journey will go through strength, mobility, core control, rhythm and more. Come experience one of the most effective stretching techniques coupled with one of today’s most popular training program, Pilates mat work.

318: Pilates Mini Ball for Core Stability and Flexibility

CECs/CEUs: ACE 0.15, AFAA 0.75, NASM 0.10

Workshop presented by: Christine Romani-Ruby, MPT, ATC

This workshop provides an endless list of exercises and ideas to add core training and flexibility exercises to your Pilates mat class or personal training session. This small inexpensive tool can provide a useful prop that your clients can even pack on vacation. Add interest, challenge and excitement with these new moves!

319: Yoga Sculpt

CECs/CEUs: ACE 0.15, AFAA 0.75, NASM 0.10

Workshop presented by: Kathryn Coyle, and Zoey Trap, MSc

Strength is empowering. Sculpt your practice, not just your body, as you deconstruct and reconstruct the ins and outs of a vinyasa practice. Activate new awareness of alignment while building muscular strength and endurance. Experience a different take on a mind-body classic that fuses yoga asanas, fitness and function with yoga philosophy. Help your students take flight and grow in mind, body and spirit.

320: ICG®: World Cycling Tour Challenge/Expedition

CECs/CEUs: ACE 0.15, AFAA 0.75, NASM 0.10

Workshop presented by: Doyle Armstrong

Cycle around the world in one session with Team ICG using our World Tour Challenge and Expedition videos. These uncut videos showcase the countless ways that forward-motion video can impact your class and your students’ experience. Follow just one road, or ride the best roads from beautiful world destinations with Myride®+. New technology creates a ride you’ll never forget. You’ve never experienced indoor cycling like this. It’s total immersion at its best! Repeated as session #624.

321: Schwinn® Cycling: The X Factor

CECs/CEUs: ACE 0.15, AFAA 0.75, NASM 0.10

Workshop presented by: Jay Blahnik

Everyone knows a great cycling instructor should be well trained, motivating, inspiring and a dynamic coach. What are those characteristics that are harder to define that set the exceptional instructors apart from all the rest? Come learn what some of the important eXtras are that can take your coaching to the next level, and how to perfect these skills in your own classes. Be inspired and amplify the X Factor in your teaching and your classes!

322: Keiser® M3: Lights, Camera, Cycle!

CECs/CEUs: ACE 0.15, AFAA 0.75, NASM 0.10

Workshop presented by: Buddy Macuha

See your indoor cycling class like an action-packed movie! You’ll learn new ways to say your

554: Exercise Is Medicine™: Your New Business Partner!

CECs/CEUs: ACE 0.15, AFAA 1.50, NASM 0.10

Lecture presented by: Richard Cotton

Tom Spring, MSExercise is a powerful complement to traditional medical intervention, and in many instances, may result in a significant reduction in a patient’s need for medication. Fitness professionals play an important role in educating clients about the benefits of exercise and how they communicate with their primary care physicians about physical activity. Come and learn about ACSM’s Exercise Is Medicine initiative, a program dedicated to improving the role that trainers and healthcare providers play in their clients’/patients’ lives.

555: The Group Fitness Trifecta

CECs/CEUs: ACE 0.15, AFAA 1.50, NASM 0.10

Lecture presented by: Shannon Fable

Now here is a revolutionary way to determine your worth and influence. Whether you are trying to sum up the worth of your program or the worth of yourself as a fitness manager, there are three metrics that every professional should know. We’ll discuss these key ingredients, determine a strategy for improving in each key area and learn how to influence others to do the same. This must-listen session is primarily designed for group fitness managers, as well as instructors.

556: Use the Glycemic Index to Fine-Tune Your Diet

CECs/CEUs: ACE 0.15, AFAA 1.50, NASM 0.10

Lecture presented by: Lourdes Castro

Many health seekers are decreasing or completely eliminating carbohydrates from their diet. But is that smart? After all, fiber-rich foods are sources of carbohydrates. Learn to use the glycemic index to help you sift through your choices of carb-containing foods and make better decisions to fine-tune your diet.

557: Build a Better Backside

CECs/CEUs: ACE 0.15, AFAA 1.50, NASM 0.10

Lecture presented by: Scott Rawcliffe

Whether you want to run faster, be more powerful, prevent injuries or just look better, you need a strong backside. You will understand how foot placement, load vectors and manipulating the strength curve all play an integral part in training the posterior chain. Also, learn why you need to develop strength using both straight and bent leg variations, as well as the importance of choosing both axial and anteroposterior loading for your client or athlete.

558: STOTT PILATES®: Reformer and Padded Platform Extender

CECs/CEUs: ACE 0.15, AFAA 0.75, NASM 0.10

Workshop presented by: Heather Lawson

Learn to use the reformer as a customizable tool to train and condition exercisers of any fitness level by adding the Padded Platform Extender and Pole. Discover how the extender can be used for sitting, standing or kneeling exercises, in this workshop developed by the Merrithew Health & Fitness team. Also, learn how the pole brings focus to maintaining optimal scapular stability and promoting desired movement patterns.

559: RELEASE

CECs/CEUs: ACE 0.15, AFAA 0.75, NASM 0.10

Workshop presented by: Patrick Goudeau

We run, jump, push and squat until the body is one big knot and tighter than a pair of skinny jeans! If you can’t move to get those jeans on or off, something’s gotta give! This practice will relax and rejuvenate, but don’t be fooled

560: Xtend Barre Workout

CECs/CEUs: ACE 0.15, AFAA 0.75, NASM 0.10

Workshop presented by: Rockell Williamson, Laurie Alfano, and Andrea Rogers

Xtend Barre is a perfect complement to other fitness routines. In addition to sculpting and toning exercises that build lean muscle mass, this program offers cardiovascular movement for a full-body workout. The class is fast paced and focused on utilizing body weight as the ultimate resistance tool. Your clients/classes will experience a stronger core, a lifted derriere, improved posture, greater endurance, overall energy, increased flexibility and enhanced body awareness from this program that combines athleticism and balletic grace.

561: Journey to the Beginner’s Mind (Yoga)

CECs/CEUs: ACE 0.15, AFAA 0.75, NASM 0.10

Workshop presented by: Lauren Eirk

Cultivating a beginner’s mind is critical to developing effective teaching techniques. Learn why progression is halted when the overall integrity of a pose is not experienced. In this workshop, seven different fundamental yoga asanas will be explored, each chosen for its complexity, joint positions and importance. We will cover cuing, altering forces within the pose and modifying the poses. The session will end with a guided meditation.

562: Schwinn® Cycling: Leave ’em Breathless

CECs/CEUs: ACE 0.15, AFAA 0.75, NASM 0.10

Workshop presented by: Amy Dixon

Pair high intensity interval training with high-impact rider interaction and leave your classes breathless and begging for more! This workshop couples the latest research in exercise physiology with proven athletic training psychology to create solo, partner and tribe-based drills to spark off-the-charts energy in any class you teach. Experience six sets you can easily re-create at home and learn the methodology behind them so you can continue to

563: Keiser® M3: Secrets of the Best Instructors

CECs/CEUs: ACE 0.15, AFAA 0.75, NASM 0.10

Workshop presented by: Buddy Macuha

Ever wonder how the best cycling instructors do what they do and have packed classes? In this interactive, informative and humorous workshop, we will go over some of the common mistakes instructors make when teaching indoor cycling, as well as cuing strategies, music ideas, and interactive teaching drills. Learn the secrets to unlocking your potential!

728: Schwinn® Cycling: All-Star MPower™ Workout!

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Workout presented by: Doris Thews, Julz Arney, Jay Blahnik, Gregg Cook, Amy Dixon, Keith Irace, Jeffrey Scott, and Robert Sherman

Schwinn keeps upping the game in indoor cycling with new innovations and education! Come experience our latest breakthrough, the Schwinn AC Performance PLUS bike with the third generation MPower Console, in a ride taught by our most popular master trainers. Learn how measuring wattage, speed, distance, heart rate and calories will motivate your classes and revolutionize your workout.

729: Keiser® M3: The Cyclist’s Toolbox

CECs/CEUs: ACE 0.20, AFAA 0.90, NASM 0.20

Workshop presented by: Krista Popowych

Put away the bike pump, but get out your instructing toolbox! After you experience an advanced bike setup, learn how the effective use of cycling technique, form and muscle activation can ensure your participants take full advantage of their endurance, power and efficiency. Evaluate positioning to maximize results, learn how to use all the cool features of the onboard computer, and experience practical drills that teach your participants to ride with muscles that power the pedal stroke and techniques to optimize their ride!

750: L.A. Adventures: City Tour By Night

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Workout presented by: Starline Tours

Board a luxury coach and enjoy a once-in-a-lifetime experience in an evening of sightseeing. You will tour the Music Center, Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, and see the city from the heights of locations such as Mulholland Drive. Then you’re on your way to the City Walk, the home of Universal Studios for a leisurely walk, fine dining, shopping and entertainment. Next, you are off to Rodeo Drive where the stars shop at boutiques like Chanel, Gucci and Bijan.

828: Yoga in the Round

CECs/CEUs: ACE 0.20, AFAA 0.90, NASM 0.20

Workshop presented by: Denise Druce

Take a different look at the setup of your yoga class. Teaching in-the-round not only changes the feel of your class, it changes the whole experience for you and your students. In this session, we’ll discuss the benefits of this more intimate approach and how this affects student comfort and flow of energy in the room. In addition, we will look at the considerations of teaching in a circle, including class sequencing and teacher placement.

829: STOTT PILATES®: Matwork Strength and Mobility

CECs/CEUs: ACE 0.20, AFAA 0.90, NASM 0.20

Workshop presented by: Heather Lawson

Comprising a series of simple movements that challenge overall strength and mobility with stability, this workshop, developed by the Merrithew Health & Fitness team, uses only the body’s own resistance. Fundamental Pilates principles are added to less traditional moves to focus on mobilization while balancing the musculature around the joints. Particular attention is paid to balancing mobility and muscular balance in the lower kinetic chain.

830: Schwinn® Cycling: Skip Jennings’ RIDE RIGHT™ 2-for-1

CECs/CEUs: ACE 0.20, AFAA 0.90, NASM 0.20

Workshop presented by: Skip Jennings

Every master trainer brings something unique to the bike and the mic. This workshop shines the spotlight on Skip Jennings’s own personal style. Expect a workout filled with world-class coaching, motivation and incredible energy. Then Skip will walk you through two comprehensive handouts: one from the ride you just experienced, and a second, complete class broken down with music, cues, and imagery. It’s the ultimate cycling 2-for-1.