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Sherri McMillan's Sessions

Vancouver, WA
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Sherri McMillan's Upcoming Sessions

100: Leadership Skills for Personal Training and Group Fitness Directors

Presented By Sherri McMillan, MSc
2013 IDEA World Fitness Convention™
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 a...

219: Schwinn® Cycling: Rise and Ride!

Presented By Sherri McMillan, MSc
2013 IDEA World Fitness Convention™
Kick-start your morning and RIDE RIGHT™ in this high-energy workout packed with your Schwinn master trainer’s favorite drills, music and coaching cues....

285: Training the Female Client

Presented By Sherri McMillan, MSc
2013 IDEA World Fitness Convention™
Sixty percent of clients who work with a personal trainer are women. Women typically hire a trainer because they want to lose weight, shape up and firm up without bulking ...

438: Four Top Guns Meet Four Top Chicks– A Match Made in Fitness Heaven!

Presented By Douglas Brooks, MS, Amy Dixon, Todd Durkin, MA, Shannon Fable, Sherri McMillan, MSc, Fraser Quelch, Keli Roberts, Peter Twist, MSc
2013 IDEA World Fitness Convention™
For the first time ever, four top male and female conditioning coaches join forces to bring you an unforgettable experience in the IDEA World Showcase Room! Join this elit...

642: Successful Small-Group Personal Training

Presented By Sherri McMillan, MSc
2013 IDEA World Fitness Convention™
Training two, three or more clients at a time may sound like a good idea and allow you the opportunity to make more money while reaching a whole new market, but how do...
Sherri McMillan's Past Sessions

201: Successful Small-Group Personal Training

Presented By Sherri McMillan, MSc
2013 IDEA Personal Trainer Institute™ West
Training two, three or more clients at a time may sound like a good idea and allow you the opportunity to make more money while reaching a whole new market, but how do you pul...

233: Selling to Succeed

Presented By Sherri McMillan, MSc
2013 IDEA Personal Trainer Institute™ West
In this session, you'll learn the words that enhance the selling process, how to overcome the usual objections, and how to develop a first phone call or consultation script. R...

247: Training Eve

Presented By Sherri McMillan, MSc
2013 IDEA Personal Trainer Institute™ West
Sixty percent of clients who work with a personal trainer are women. Women typically hire a trainer because they want to lose weight, shape up and firm up without “bulki...

009: Inspirational Leadership: Critical Skills for Personal Training Directors and Group Fitness Managers (L/WS)

Presented By Helen Vanderburg, Shannon Fable, Sherri McMillan, MS, Donna Cyrus, Nicki Anderson, Vito Lafata, Trina Gray
2012 IDEA World Fitness Convention™
Managing a team of personal trainers or group fitness instructors can be challenging to say the least. This preconference begins with an inspiring opening address that focuses...

181: Core Conditioning Combos

Presented By Sherri McMillan, MSc
2012 IDEA World Fitness Convention™
A strong core is critical to optimal movement. To ensure a balanced and strong core from all angles, you need to incorporate stabilization training, spinal extension, rotation...

340: Top 30 Partner Drills Using Tubes and Balls

Presented By Sherri McMillan, MSc
2012 IDEA World Fitness Convention™
Learn a number of progressive, full-body partner exercises that will improve your clients’ muscle conditioning, endurance, speed, balance and core stability. Take away 3...

436: Creating Outdoor Boot Camps

Presented By Sherri McMillan, MSc
2012 IDEA World Fitness Convention™
Learn how to effectively design an outdoor full-body cardio and muscle conditioning workout, using nothing but a resistance tube and the tools that nature provides. Walk away ...

343: Tools for Training the Torso

Presented By Sherri McMillan, MSc
2011 IDEA World Fitness Convention
Using medicine balls, stability balls, tubing, gliding discs, body bars and the step, learn a variety of exercises to target the torso. You'll walk away with numerous fun and ...

379: Creative Kettlebell Training

Presented By Sherri McMillan, MSc
2011 IDEA World Fitness Convention
Kettlebells rock! Clients and classes love them! Attend this session to learn the history of kettlebell training, the science and correct biomechanics of using this tool, and ...

532: Excellence in Fitness Leadership-Overcoming Challenges

Presented By Sherri McMillan, MSc
2011 IDEA World Fitness Convention
Explore staff recruitment strategies that work and fair compensation packages that are a win–win for your team and your business. Also learn tips for retaining your staff, m...

596: Schwinn® Cycling: From My Class to Yours

Presented By Sherri McMillan, MSc
2011 IDEA World Fitness Convention
This is the ride that's making your Schwinn® master trainer's classes go wild! Come and get everything you need to take it home and teach it as your own. You can e...

107: Clients and Trainers That Play Together, Stay Together!

Presented By Sherri McMillan, MSc
2011 IDEA Personal Trainer Institute
Training your clients doesn't need to be all serious business. In fact, you can still accomplish the task and have a lot of fun in the process. In this very interactive, fun a...

222: Partner Training 2011 (WS)

Presented By Sherri McMillan, MS
2011 IDEA Personal Trainer Institute
This interactive workshop will provide cutting-edge, full-body partner exercises intended to improve your client's muscle conditioning, endurance, speed, balance and core stab...

235: Triathlon Training-Conquering the Triple Challenge

Presented By Sherri McMillan, MSc
2011 IDEA Personal Trainer Institute
Have you or your clients ever dreamed about completing a triathlon or duathlon, or improving performance in either? This lecture will provide you with the information you need...

011: Focus on Fitness Management—Success Through Synergy (For All Program Directors and Fitness Managers)

Presented By Bob Esquerre, MA, Darren Jacobson, Focus on Fitness Management Team, Lawrence Biscontini, MA, PJ O'Clair, Sherri McMillan, MS
2009 IDEA World Fitness Convention™
The most successful clubs and programs are those that successfully manage the total member experience by providing exemplary training and service. In order to do this well, it...

134: Three Canadians and a Step

Presented By Robert Steigele, Lynne Skilton-Hayes, Sherri McMillan, MS
2009 IDEA World Fitness Convention™
Canadian presenters are known for their energetic and user-friendly patterns. Join in on a class that offers a balance between a bit of choreography and a bit of athletic and ...

180: Partner Tubing

Presented By Sherri McMillan, MS
2009 IDEA World Fitness Convention™
This interactive workshop will review the principles of resistance training and teach you a number of progressive, full-body partner exercises that will improve your client's ...

232: Fun Games and Drills for Small-Group Training

Presented By Sherri McMillan, MS
2009 IDEA World Fitness Convention™
Small-group training doesn't need to be all serious business. In this very interactive, fun and entertaining session, you'll learn how to play various games and design simple ...

104: Partner Training With Tubes and Balls

Presented By Alex McMillan, Sherri McMillan, MS
2009 IDEA Fitness Fusion Conference™
This interactive workshop will outline several progressive, full-body partner exercises aimed at improving your client's muscle conditioning, endurance, speed, core stability ...

121: Group Gets Functional!

Presented By Sherri McMillan, MS
2009 IDEA Fitness Fusion Conference™
For several years, the trend in the personal training industry has been to focus programming and movements on functional and/or integrated training. However, few group exercis...

144: Practical Ways to Train Multiple Clients

Presented By Alex McMillan, Sherri McMillan, MS
2009 IDEA Fitness Fusion Conference™
Outdoor boot camps, training clinics, partner and small-group training... Training two, three or more clients at a time gives you the opportunity to make more money while reac...

206: Making Money at Small-Group and Partner Training

Presented By Alex McMillan, Sherri McMillan, MS
2009 IDEA Fitness Fusion Conference™
Small-group training has become extremely popular in clubs and training studios around the world. In fact, some facilities have opted to not offer one-on-one personal training...

247: 12-Month Marketing Plan for Business Owners and Managers

Presented By Alex McMillan, Sherri McMillan, MS
2009 IDEA Fitness Fusion Conference™
Do you always feel you're frantically trying to come up with a marketing initiative that is easy to implement, effective and worth the effort? If you're like most managers, yo...

013: Critical Skills for Personal Training and Group Exercise Directors—Inspirational Leadership and

Presented By Alex McMillan, Mary Bratcher, MA, Shannon Fable, Sherri McMillan, MS, Amy Boone Thompson, Tony Tamules, Nicki Anderson, Linda Freeman
2007 IDEA World Fitness Convention
Managing a team of group fitness instructors or personal trainers can be challenging, to say the least. This preconference offering will delve into the topics that are most co...

171: Case Studies in Personal Training

Presented By Sherri McMillan, MS
2007 IDEA World Fitness Convention
In this session you will review real-life client scenarios and the approach that was taken and programs that were designed for each of them. Come and see how theory is put int...

245: Looking Forward: What’s Next in Personal Training

Presented By Todd Durkin, MA, Greg Mack, Sherri McMillan, MS
2007 IDEA World Fitness Convention
IDEA’s panel of experts will engage in a lively discussion on issues relevant to personal training and what we can expect in the years to come. This session will report on t...

517: Partner Medicine Ball Training

Presented By Alex McMillan, Sherri McMillan, MS
2007 IDEA World Fitness Convention
This interactive workshop will review the basics of working with medicine balls and teach you a number of progressive, full-body partner exercises that will improve your clien...

610: 12-Month Marketing: For Fitness Directors

Presented By Sherri McMillan, MS
2007 IDEA World Fitness Convention
Do you always feel you’re frantically trying to come up with a marketing initiative that is easy to implement and worth the effort? If you’re like most managers, you’re ...
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    How do you handle the situation if one of your trainers isn’t meeting your expectations?

    When a trainer doesn't meet our expectations, our philosophy is to “reprimand with kindness.” Here's what we... read more

    With partner training, how do you handle cancellations if just one person cancels?

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