Sessions from 2009 IDEA World Fitness Convention™ Products

Talk about motivating and exhilarating! This video combines cardiovascular conditioning, functional sports training and conditioning exercises, and calisthenics using body weight and partners, all while singing traditional boot camp hymns. Leave feeling emotionally and spiritually uplifted and proud of the fact that you completed the challenge.

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 video 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.

Small-group training has become one of the fastest growing trends in the fitness industry. Explore several interactive and functional drills that can be used to engage your small-group clients and improve their athleticism. This session will focus on developing core stability and rotary strength, speed, agility, quickness, reactivity, balance and coordination using everyday products found in the health club setting as well as innovative products ideal for indoor and outdoor use.

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.

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.

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.

Take intensity to a whole new level with this advanced training workshop. Learn the scientific foundation behind metabolic training and how to build safe, effective and intelligent sequences using its principles. Using nothing more than the human body and some simple and effective training tools, this session will teach you how to optimally enhance the appearance, performance and functionality of your clients.

This video 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!

Competition + play = hard work and fun! Join in on the fun with some new and innovative balance, strength and movement exercises designed to test your ability to read, react and use manual resistance. A must for personal trainers and group instructors looking for interactive training ideas. If you want to see clients work hard, smile and laugh, we have the recipe!

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.

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.

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.

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.

Yes! You can grow your business and increase profits in a depressed economy! In this enlightening DVD, 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 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.

Review the principles of resistance training and learn a number of progressive, full-body partner exercises that will improve your client's muscle conditioning, endurance, speed, balance and core stability. Whether you teach group fitness or train clients privately or in small-group settings, this video is a must and will provide you with over 20 new exercise ideas and progressions.

Join us for this challenging full-body workout that will leave your muscles pumped, your heart rate jacked, your nervous system taxed and your body SMARTER. We'll focus on integrated dynamic balance and movement with isolation and multijoint prime mover strength. No membership required, no added fees, just a functional workout with endless exercise options using cutting-edge equipment.

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 video is for you.

Props in the Pilates repertoire are truly like having a spice cabinet in your kitchen. Each one provides dimension in a different way, whether on the mat or any of the Pilates equipment. This DVD will demonstrate exercises that you can incorporate your very own "spice" to as we give you a taste of working with rings, balls and bands in conjunction with the reformer.

This DVD 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!

Cardio and core training in the same class? Your students will love it! This total-body workout incorporates aerobic conditioning with balance training, core conditioning and trunk stabilization exercises. Learn a minimum of eight functional core exercises using a variety of equipment, all the while creating a fun and effective cardio workout. Circuit training just got better!

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.

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.

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

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.

Sugar or artificial sweetener! What should you use? This DVD 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.

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.

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.

This video 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.

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 video 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.

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.

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 video is a progressive and contemporary approach to the Pilates system of exercise.

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.

This video is for program managers, directors and business owners. Discover how you can differentiate your enterprise from similar businesses/programs in your area. Get tips on how to spice up your existing programs and fire up your members (and staff) by launching new ones. You will walk away from this session with 10 programs that you can implement right away.

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

Most trainers agree that there is an interdependence that exists between strength and flexibility. This video 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.

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.

As a fitness professional, you know that raising active, healthier eaters is a top priority. This video 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.

Did we get your attention? Join Kim in this session for additional blocks of choreography. Go home with a little more than usual as we will not take the choreography from the top as we do traditionally, but will work each combination independently, thus giving us a bit more time to do more combinations. Go home and put together the combinations that you like best.

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.

When was the last time you corrected your student's posture in any fitness setting that would dramatically change everything that they do! This video 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!

Some are born to sing, some are born to dance and some... are born to step! This video 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 video for you!

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!

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!

This video 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.

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.

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.