Personal Training DVDs

This DVD details a comprehensive workout program for teaching selected motor skills. Employing the same techniques and protocols used by professional athletes, the workout program emphasizes proper form, proven techniques and a diverse array of drills to enhance speed, agility and quickness.

With the epidemic of lower-back pain, anyone who prescribes exercise should understand the relationship of the pelvis to the hips and lumbar spine. This DVD discusses the anatomy and function of the hip-lumbo-pelvic complex.

This DVD explains how to infuse speed, agility, quickness, core strength, power and balance into a single workout to create an exciting, intense and motivating atmosphere that is designed to challenge and inspire the “athlete” within every individual.

Understand the values, skills and processes of coaching psychology. Become more effective in your efforts to help clients navigate the challenging path of mastering health and well-being.

This DVD demonstrates how personal trainers can invigorate their classes with purposeful, functional core training—without performing a single crunch.

Learn Resist-A-Balll® exercises to help your clients tighten their abs, strengthen their back and improve their posture for a healthier lifestyle. This DVD will help you create a workout that is easy to follow but challenging enough to achieve the results your clients desire.

Put together strength training and Pilates mat and you have a fusion class. Introduce core stabilization techniques and you have a Core Adrenaline rush! Experience an entire-body workout by building long lean muscles in a fun group-exercise setting.

On this DVD you'll review the basic concepts and techniques involved in the comprehensive, multidimensional Spinal Stabilization Training (SST) program.

The action of running is predominantly flexion, and many runners complain of stiff ankles, tight hip flexors and pain in the lower back. This Yoga for Runners DVD will guide you through a range of yoga postures that specifically target these areas of discomfort so you can gain release, improved running technique and performance. This Yoga for Runners DVD is excellent for personal trainers, runners, yoga teachers and group fitness instructors. Yoga for Runners DVD Highlights:

102-minute Yoga for Runners DVD

Guides you through a range of yoga postures that target areas of discomfort Perfect for personal trainers, runners, yoga teachers and group fitness instructors This is a live recorded session from the 2008 IDEA World Fitness Convention™.

Tired of endless crunches? Then let’s take the Core Off the Floor! Remove the crunches, get off the mat and put kettlebells, medicine balls and BOSU® Ballast™ Balls in your hand! Learn to swing and clean, lift, shift and shake, or throw and catch while engaging muscles so deep you’ll wonder what your core training has done for you all these years.

 

This DVD presents a comprehensive overview of the basic fundamentals and techniques involved when working with medicine balls. Learn how to design and implement a progressive fitness workout routine featuring a number of full-body partner exercises designed to enhance power, speed and muscle conditioning.

If you or your clients think you are gaining weight and you are in your forties or fifties, it’s probably not all in your head. In this DVD, we will cover the basics of midlife physiology for both genders, as well as how hormones can affect the ability to control weight, metabolism, muscle mass and fat distribution. Get practical recommendations that your clients can immediately apply to their lifestyles, nutrition and daily living.

Learn how to integrate some WOW into your lower-body training for the lean legs and great glutes everyone wants! Get to the trouble zones from all angles and in all positions, using both unilateral and bilateral work and core-integrated exercises.

When done correctly, training two clients at one time can be extremely successful. Partner training is often more economical for your clients and can be very lucrative for you. Review some solid business ideas for partner training; plus, learn how you can effectively handle two clients by organizing and managing a challenging workout, while ensuring a client-centered environment.

Examine the key factors involved in determining the optimal blend of aerobic exercise intensity versus time for recovery. In a manner that is easy to understand and apply, this DVD details how individuals can know whether they are exercising too hard or not enough. The DVD also presents an overview of a physically active individual’s hydration, nutrition program and sleep needs.

This DVD reveals the functional anatomy of the lumbo-pelvic hip girdle and teaches you how faulty movement patterns and/or biomechanics lead to structural malalignments. You will learn how to assess imbalances of the lumbo-pelvic hip girdle, learn an array of corrective exercises, and have the opportunity to create your own.

Break through the misconceptions regarding proper fitness training for older adults and learn solid training techniques for your older clientele. Discover how the same routines that produce excellent results in younger to middle-age clients can prevent functional progress or, even worse, lead to serious injury for older adults.

The fascial system is an important, but often overlooked, system of connective tissue that spreads throughout the entire body. Restrictions in the fascial system can cause postural malalignments, asymmetries and muscle tension—this spells pain! This DVD will help you understand the fascia and how to use specific exercises to keep it healthy so you can improve client fitness and eliminate dysfunction.

Think you’ve seen it all with stability balls?  This DVD will introduce you to new concepts in stability ball training that will help you get more from your core workouts by moving your center of gravity off-center from the ball. 

Working with tubing and body weight, the exercises on this DVD hit all the hot spots for muscle conditioning, focusing on the upper body.

Have fun in this intense class that will put the work back into your workouts! Maximize your time and results with interval training. Learn a variety of interval formats combining strength, cardio conditioning, plyometrics and functional movements that can be mixed and matched to create an intense and innovative workout for your participants.

On this DVD Leigh reviews the anatomy of the hip joint and the knees and discusses postures that are designed to open the hips, strengthen the knees and unify the lower body.

If you have students or clients with chronic conditions, then this DVD is for you! You will be shown a multitude of modifications for exercises that will keep the older population moving.

Postural dysfunction is prevalent in our modern society. Understand what factors and mechanisms have contributed to this and learn new strategies and techniques that can be readily applied today! This DVD includes a hands-on workout as an example of how these postural approaches are put into practice, and how they can help to fight the battle against gravity and enable us to win the postural war.

With this proprioceptive training DVD you will be able to create a peak gluteal contraction with a simple arm motion! Fire your calves with a reach of the foot! Understanding how our body is driven to react to our actions and how we can harness this incredible proprioceptive power is redefining the way we train our clients. Learn how to use proprioceptive training to create functional chain reactions that will increase muscle activation Functional Proprioceptive Training Highlights:

Increase muscle activation with proprioceptive training

Understand how to harness proprioceptive power

Learn how to use proprioceptive training to create functional chain reactions

Experience a workout like no other. This nonstop, nonchoreographed workout brings boot camp deeper into the group fitness world by setting it to music. Then switch gears and use your indoor space for outdoor-style drills. No equipment, no fluff and no whining!

Based on the concept that balance is developed from the inside out, this DVD explains how to train the core for improved overall balance. The DVD details conventional and unconventional methods for strength training the core using tubing.

Creating muscle definition requires a combination of cardiovascular and strength training. This hybrid class achieves the best of both worlds through a non-stop circuit of intense cardio intervals and challenging strength moves using little or no equipment. NOTE: This session was titled Definitions

Learn a medicine ball strength training program that incorporates exercises and drills that can be performed individually or with a partner and are suitable for both group and personal training. This DVD features a hands-on training session that explains and demonstrates the critical body alignment, movement pattern, exercise progression and cuing techniques for each exercise.

Learn this unique teamwork-based circuit training workout in which partners work together to push, motivate and challenge each other utilizing a variety of fitness tools in some creative and innovative ways.

In this DVD, we will explore the delicate balance between science and practical application, and how it relates to the most confusing part of the equation... your clients. Training philosophies, concepts and exercise progressions will be explored in detail.

This DVD will teach you innovative alternative strength-training ideas for any situation or clientele. Whether you train out of a facility or out of your car, this course is for you. Break away from traditional methods of strength training to discover new ways of building muscle using kettlebells, medicine balls, bands and bodyweight drills.

This DVD covers the pathomechanics and functional anatomy of the shoulder, the pathophysiology of shoulder impingement, and common treatment plans. Postrehabilitative training exercises with rationale will also be provided.

The unique and powerful corrective exercises in this video provide a foundation for positive changes in the motor learning process. These corrective exercises will assist you in teaching your clients to recruit the muscles you want them to use for more dynamic exercises and improved postural alignment. (DVD)

Your entire core—shoulders to hips—stabilizes your body, so it’s critical to keep it strong. Core Up reviews the musculature of the core and upper-body muscles, addresses any misconceptions you may have, and provides you with a multitude of training techniques that you can use with your students and clients right away

Limitations and dysfunctions of the hip joint result in a transfer of responsibility to the lumbar spine. The lumbar spine is not designed to work the way the hips do, and the outcome is often low-back pain. 85% of all adults will experience low-back pain, and recognizing the contribution of the hips is key to long-term function and prevention.

Functional training is guessing without understanding functional anatomy. Myofascial slings are windows into a deeper appreciation of true anatomical function. This DVD will help you understand how they relate to functional movement patterns for more effective program design.

This DVD will review the most current information available on core training. In addition, you’ll learn the necessity of cuing and how it is used with our personal training clients and class participants.

NOTE: Session was titled Understanding the Research: The Core

Experience and education are not enough to sustain a successful training business if we are unable to connect to each individual. In this DVD you'll learn how to be infinitely more effective by improving your ability to make a connection to a specific person.

With a special focus on interval training, B.I.T.S. and Pieces (Step Ball Interval Training) features a workshop that combines creative step aerobic choreography with high-intensity, athletic-based drills on the stability ball. The interval training DVD reviews the concepts and assorted physiological benefits of interval training and demonstrates a multilevel class that is designed to challenge and motivate individuals. Includes the first, second and third combinations, as well as a question and answer session.

B.I.T.S. and Pieces (Step Ball Interval Training) Highlights:

Blends creative step aerobics choreography with high-intensity, athletic-based drills on the stability ball Reviews concepts and assorted physiological benefits of interval training and includes a multilevel class Topics include the first, second and third combinations

This workout starts with standing and then moves your whole body through all planes of motion. Challenge your core along with hip and shoulder stability and mobility. You will get a great workout in many different positions that will leave you feeling invigorated.

NOTE: Session was titled Barefoot Core Workout

Using medicine balls, stability balls, Gliding™ discs, the BOSU® Balance Trainer, and the step, Tools for Training the Torso explains and demonstrates a variety of exercises that target the torso.

In this DVD you will learn the recommendations from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) for exercise during the pregnant and postpartum periods. You will also learn about the pelvic floor and core integrity, postural concerns, and how to change up your clients’ workouts throughout the pregnancy and after delivery.

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Includes the following two DVDs:

The Fundamentals of Structural Assessment The Fundamentals of Corrective Exercise  

The DVD explains and demonstrates how to combine self-myofascial release (SMR) techniques with Pilates and physical therapy movement technique on foam rollers and small Myo-Release Balls™ to completely release, align, and renew the body.