Exercise alone will not help the postrehabilitation client make the lifestyle changes necessary to improve their health. Pain, depression, disabilities and worry can consume your client’s thinking and undermine their belief in their own success. This unique workshop will provide problem-solving approaches to overcoming barriers and essential techniques to help your clients understand and overcome negative internal messaging.
We all know that heart rate monitoring has been a very effective tool for measuring cardiovascular strength and endurance. Most trainers, however, have not considered that heart rate monitoring can provide objective feedback for strength training as well! It’s not enough for trainers to just assign sets and reps anymore. Learn how you can use heart rate monitoring to design strength training programs and individualize them to optimize exercise duration and intensity, as well as recovery.
This is a live recorded session from the 2009 IDEA Personal Trainer Institute™
Working Between the Lines demonstrates how to work “between the lines” with this one-of-a-kind double-step workshop. The DVD features new ideas for developing and successfully teaching combinations utilizing two steps and an “aisle.” The workout is designed to offer exercisers a new challenge as they learn to use an expanded “stage” to achieve a great cardio workout.
Learn how proper breath patterns can enhance movement of the core muscles. This DVD will help you to develop an understanding of dynamic alignment and the effects that breath patterns can have on balancing the spine. Core strength exercises are presented to create more balanced movement patterns. This DVD utilizes the spine corrector, which provides the perfect tool for ultimate rotation of the spine through its varied ranges of motion.
This is a live recorded session from the 2008 IDEA World Fitness Convention™.
Some instructors have it…you can’t put your finger on the quality that elevates their classes from a workout to an experience, yet it obviously exists. It’s What You Don’t Say That Counts provides an introductory overview to NLP, neuro-linguistic programming, and explains how these communication techniques can be integrated to improve client and member retention.
Purposeful management is critical when working with a personal-training team that is made up of several different personalities. Managing With Intention explores five common mistakes that managers make when setting goals and interacting with their staff. In addition, the DVD pinpoints five strategies for identifying risk in training staff, affecting change, recruiting with confidence, and gaining recognition for staff that is consistent and credible.
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. The DVD provides personal trainers with a variety of new exercises and cuing techniques to help ensure that their clients perform the exercises correctly.
Group fitness managers are faced with the toughest job in the world ...motivating a group of part-time instructors that may work as few as one hour a week to meet the goals and objectives of the fitness club. Creating a well-functioning TEAM from this group of Individuals (and yes, that's spelled with a CAPITAL I) is extremely challenging. In this DVD, you'll learn strategies for creating and providing incentives for your group that will lead to improved performance both inside and outside the classroom.
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.
This is a live recorded session from the 2008 IDEA World Fitness Convention™.
Let’s put the personal back into personal training by creating and developing sessions that will keep your clients coming back for more! All too often training sessions end up feeling like the “same old thing.” If a client is bored, chances are his/her trainer is bored as well. So, if you want to increase retention and deliver dynamic training sessions, you have to keep things fresh and focused. This lecture will help trainers develop and maintain a system that takes dull sessions and turns them into dynamic sessions!
