Continuing Education Credits Products

In this course, you’ll learn how to assess and screen clients, how to place clients in appropriate skill/drill groups, how to select class venues and equipment, safety issues, multiple methods of boot camp training and class formats, and creative, dynamic and challenging drills for your programs.

If your facility is low on available equipment, or you simply don't have the room for all the tools most trainers use with their at-home, in-club and corporate clients, you can still design effective programs using only body weight as resistance. Come get the facts on the many advantages to body-weight training, as well as information on limiting factors, proper progression, maintaining standards and preventing injury. All trainers need to be able to offer a wide array of body-weight-only resistance training options.

In this course you'll learn goal-focused intervals and over 50 dynamic exercises and drills to create extensive and intensive training formats. If your clients are into high-intensity, get-tough workouts, they’ll love this.

In this course, you’ll cover over 40 solo and partner exercises, plus innovative warm-up and cool-down ideas using resistance tubing.

This is a raw, unedited video filmed live at the 2009 IDEA World Fitness Convention™. Cut to the Core is packed full of core-focused exercises that aim to improve the way you look, feel and live. Offering the viewer twice the value, variety and choice, this video offers two 1-hour workouts taught simultaneously both on BOSU and on Stability Ball. Get ready to learn the most effective trunk exercises and why these exercises work so efficiently.

Get immediate online access to 75+ sessions from the 2009 IDEA World Fitness Convention and get all the CECs! Earn all your CECs with over 60 online video courses approved by ACE, ACSM, NASM, NCCPT, NFPT, W.I.T.S and more.

This course will provide trainers with several protocols that will turn their clients into fat-burning machines. To many, long steady distance (LSD) training in the fat-burning zone is an outdated method of fat reduction. Experience the high-intensity circuits JC uses with his fighters, models and fitness clients. Not only do they look good, they outlast the competition!

Zoomers (active Baby Boomers) can expect to live at least another 40 years, if not forever, and they want to have some fun while they're doing it. Learn how to design and implement boot camps specifically for the 50 and over market. Everything you need is included, from targeted marketing to exercise progressions that challenge without injury, to teambuilding activities and more. Zoom in, NOW!

Learn more about nutrition trends, which nutrient-rich foods would be best for clients, and the optimal protein intake for various populations while earning continuing education credits. Articles and test are from the March 2009 CEC Nutrition Issue of IDEA Fitness Journal.

Earn CECs while you learn the latest research on mind-body topics. Learn about cardiovascular disease and the mind-body connection, find summaries of key studies on yoga, Pilates qigong and other mind-body topics, and discover how to create Pilates programs for the overweight client. Articles and the test from the June 2009 CEC Mind-Body Issue of IDEA Fitness Journal.

Come and experience a sensual, hip-swinging, low-impact Latin cardio-movement format. Master teaching techniques that incorporate the Cha Cha, Salsa, Merengue, Afro-Cuban and more will be introduced and practiced. You'll get tips on how to create a sizzling, fat-burning, cardio workout that will inspire your students to keep coming back for more.

Abdominal training has always been a focal point for trainers and participants. In this InTensive, we look at the function of the abdominal and related core muscles in their role as key postural muscles and the center of power. Learn how to determine in which stage your client should be training. Walk away with take-home ideas for core training, all based on a systematic four-step progression model.

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 the older standardized programming guidelines that we still use. Why use maximum heart rate-based programs when MHR offers no correlation to performance? Metabolism is as unique as a fingerprint, therefore cardio programs need to be equally unique. Learn how to use new cutting-edge metabolism-based programs for weight loss and performance based on individual metabolic markers.

In this course, you will review the benefits of strength training, the precautions associated with core strengthening, the unique postural and muscle imbalances that occur during pregnancy, and safe and appropriate exercise selection for this prenatal population.

A Pilates mat work program designed from a progressive perspective. You will begin with three repetitions of the basic modification, then move into four repetitions of the intermediate approach and finish with three repetitions of the advanced version, giving you the ability to adapt your program to all fitness levels as well as challenge the muscles in a variety of ways.

Get up-to-date on the latest research in women's health. Learn information to help empower and educate your female clients, discover how to increase bone health while decreasing the chance for injury or disease, and learn how to help your clients engage their pelvic floor. Articles and the test from the May 2009 CEC Women's Health Issue of IDEA Fitness Journal.

The statistics are well known: 85% of people will experience lower-back pain in their lifetimes. The general public and media perpetuate outdated or inaccurate information regarding lower-back pain. Educating and clarifying the facts for your clients and members can serve them better and generate additional business opportunities for you.

If you teach classes to participants with a limited amount of time, this workshop is for you! This workshop will give you great ideas to create express nonstop circuit/interval workouts. Experience three 30-minute workouts that include warm-ups, workouts and core training. Utilize a different piece of equipment: a stability ball, tubing and the Body Bar®, for each of these sessions and find new ways to get the job done quickly, intensely and safely.

This course will discuss the essential components of older-adult exercise programs and how they can be applied to programming and marketing. Learn how to maximize media coverage and network with the medical community. Take home plenty of low-cost programming ideas and apply customer service tips that will make a difference in retaining your older-adult clientele.

Small-group and partner training is one of the fastest growing segments in the fitness industry. See how this model of training can make a huge difference in your business and career! Learn how to account for different fitness and skill levels and how to make each training feel like a personal session. Participants will also experience several new, dynamic and interactive exercises specifically designed for partners and small groups.

Eating "green" has become synonymous with sustainability, locally grown and a more conscientious way of planning your meals. We will discuss this "slow food" movement, its characteristics and how you can healthfully, conveniently and easily incorporate this green trend into your daily living.

Sugar or artificial sweetener! What should you use? This course will discuss several sources of sugar, including sucrose, fructose, sugar alcohols, artificial sweeteners (like Splenda® and Equal®), high fructose corn syrups, honey and others. Walk away with a better understanding of the composition of sugars and sweeteners, how they are metabolized, acceptable daily intake, and their effects on appetite, weight loss, fat storage and stability.

Yes! You can grow your business and increase profits in a depressed economy! In this enlightening course, you will get tips on how to improve your internal systems to increase efficiency, organization and profitability; create a competitive advantage and raving fans for life; and produce extraordinary results through effective time management. You will also walk away with "out of the box" strategies to create both active and passive income and ideas on how to foster a business culture that attracts clients.

This course will explore, and hopefully get you comfortable with, the art of networking. You will be introduced to a variety of tools and techniques that demonstrate how to use individual styles to communicate, how to put people at ease and how to promote your business. Also, learn why referrals are the best form of business generation and walk away with four tactics to get referrals TODAY!

Now, more than ever, tighter budgets and lighter wallets have forced us to be creative when it comes to marketing our businesses. This course will offer some great, no-cost/low-cost universal marketing ideas so you can keep your name in front of potential customers.

Learn to spot the small problems before they become major liability risks. Whether you're an independent trainer, employee, or manager of a large facility, this overview of legal issues affecting the fitness industry will heighten your awareness and sharpen your risk-management skills so you can spend more time working with clients and growing your business, and less time putting out fires.

Many fitness professionals find out the hard way that there's a lot more to starting a business than just running an ad in the local newspaper and raking in the clients. In addition, there is a vast difference between being an independent personal trainer and owning a business. This lecture examines some of the very basic, yet very critical—and often overlooked—elements that go into opening and running a successful enterprise.

As fitness business owners, we all can agree that you need a good menu of services to draw and retain clients and members. While many fitness facilities offer this, what will set you apart from your competitors is amazing customer service. This lecture will provide many keys to unlocking your business potential through customer service.

Maximize your hourly earning potential, professional exposure and referral streams while saving your clients money. Get tools for creating and running a successful group by finding a target market, offering a quality fitness program, and marketing and advertising in your club or community.

From the time the ancient Greek runner Pheidippides ran from Sparta to Marathon to announce the Greeks' victory in the Battle of Marathon, humans have had a compelling interest in endurance running. With over 300 marathons in the U.S. each year, and a few hundred thousand people running them, it is likely that one of your clients is interested in running a marathon. This presentation will walk you through the process of preparing your clients for a marathon, including tapering and delaying fatigue during the race.

There has been a recent surge in people turning to a vegetarian diet, for both ethical and health reasons. Though this type of diet is ideally optimal in terms of nutrition, it can also fall short of certain nutrients if not approached methodically. This course will delineate how to assure a complete vegetarian diet and describe effective ways to counsel your clients to go "veg" or stay "veg" the right way.

This course will update fitness professionals on post-operative care for specific lumbar spine conditions. Participants will gain insight on how to safely progress their clients based on the body's own healing process. Techniques such as abdominal core and functional training will be discussed. This discussion is for fitness professionals who desire an in-depth understanding of advanced exercise prescription for the post-operative client.

Learn how to use heart rate training in your cycling classes. Use intensity zones to create rides that are based on each participant's training goals and capacity to maintain specified intensities. Three simple yet effective sub-maximal tests will help us to identify maximum heart rate (training zones). In addition, three field tests will be implemented to gauge threshold for the purpose of anchoring these zones.

Do you have the weight of the world on your shoulders? Explore and experience methods for releasing the tension and tightness that we build up in our shoulder girdle. Learn the anatomy of the shoulder girdle and its connections to the rest of our body, allowing us to feel freedom and lightness in our posture. Discover the openness and stability we can bring to our heart and throat chakras.

Pilates has evolved. Join us for this special workshop that will show you how to introduce innovative choreography and sequencing into classes. Explore several ways for taking traditional movements and using modifications and variations to create combinations that can be done individually or linked together to create a complete choreographed class. This course is a progressive and contemporary approach to the Pilates system of exercise.

The core consists of the deep abdominal muscles and the muscles closest to the spine. Boxers understand that to develop devastating strikes, they must use kinetic energy power launched from the ground and channel it up through the body. By integrating selected Pilates techniques, boxers will be able to access the delivery systems that create power. Participants will learn and practice several techniques they can use with their clients and students to improve balance, coordination, rhythm, timing and power.

This is the ultimate collection of water fitness moves. From jogging to jacks and everything in between, experience over 60 exercises to jumpstart your aquatic classes and your aquatic career. The exercises are organized into six categories, making it easy to find, select and create patterns without leaving any exercise out. This "pool" of water exercises is a must for any aqua instructor new to teaching.

Most trainers agree that there is an interdependence that exists between strength and flexibility. This course will explore the 12 main principles involved in establishing a healthy balance between agonist and antagonist muscle groups, opposing (or counter-balancing) muscle groups and the relationship between strength and flexibility. Trainers will walk away with tools to analyze and correct the inconsistencies that exist in range of motion, balance, speed, endurance, core stability and more.

As a fitness professional, you know that raising active, healthier eaters is a top priority. This course shows attendees how to guide parents in their efforts to shape the child psyche so kids embrace fruits, vegetables and a myriad of other healthful foods without constant mealtime battles, bribes and downright coercion. The strategies are based on scientifically-proven strategies, expert advice and real-life examples.

This dynamic step interval workout combines fun, creative choreography with Body Bar strength drills. We will review proven step choreography breakdown methods and progressive strength-training techniques that will address the needs of a multilevel circuit class. Take home three original step combinations, plus 10 fresh Body Bar exercises.

When was the last time you corrected your student's posture in any fitness setting that would dramatically change everything that they do! This course will show you dramatic changes that can be made to help you understand that each and every postural problem can have specific exercises that either stretch or strengthen muscle groups that are working inefficiently. With the use of props, you will be able to provide very specific exercises to change the way your client moves forever!

We will take a look at the reason and rationale behind a unique assessment model and reveal the top 40 exercises used to repair the most common problems clients bring. If you are tired of the complicated assessment strategies and exercises, and just want to know what the best exercises are, this course is for you.

Some are born to sing, some are born to dance and some... are born to step! This course is loaded with creative step choreography, topped with dance moves and broken down using the most up-to-date teaching techniques. If you were born to step, this is the course for you!

The ability to assess a person's movement patterns enables you to understand where a client may experience limitations or compensations when they move. This course shows you how to properly assess movement and how to develop exercises that address a client's movement dysfunctions to help them eliminate pain and reach their training goals.

Gone are the days when all you needed to market yourself online was a website. Now there are virtually dozens of free ways to educate fitness consumers and fish for new prospects on the Web. You can even use cyberspace to strengthen relationships with the clients you see every day. Learn practical ideas for how and why user-friendly, social-media tools like Facebook, YouTube, blogs, micro-blogs, podcasts, forums and social networks can help you move forward in the fitness industry.

Many athletes, as well as weekend warriors, have found that extra edge over the competition through the power of yoga. From football to golf, professional sports teams and Olympic-bound athletes have found that a regular practice of yoga increases flexibility, reduces stress, improves concentration and gives an overall feeling of wellness. Increase your skills and marketability by tapping into this growing market.

How we move during the 165 hours per week that we are not exercising is more important than the 3 hours a week at the gym. We approach the reformer work from the standpoint of how it can be integrated into our daily activities, from standing to sitting at a desk, to moving through our daily tasks. Join us for this innovative, exploratory and informative program.

Let's play with the rhythm, the floor and the step itself, for a fun step challenge. We'll look at planes of movement and how to create flow when adding variety to your choreography. Sometimes we're up, sometimes we're down, but there's definitely fun all around!

The power of touch is an essential part of delivering a powerful experience for your client. When it comes to optimizing flexibility, ridding the body of pain or just making your client feel great, this method will deliver results. We'll discuss how manually facilitated stretching and fascial release techniques can be safely performed by personal trainers.

Over the years, commonly used cues and techniques delivered with the certainty of proven scientific knowledge have been misleading and incorrect. For instance, it is proclaimed that Pilates builds strength, yet often Pilates teachers shy away indignantly from the notion of overloading a muscle or muscle group with resistance, ignoring the physiological principle of overload. This session will introduce the Block System™, a method by which instructors can achieve the maximum from the work and the physiological principles that support it.