Most trainers have noticed limited range of motion (ROM) and/or compensation problems in many of their clients’ movement patterns. Limitations in ROM are indicators of muscular weakness. These weaknesses lead to compensation and ultimately to injury and pain. Learn this exceptional assessment/correction system that accurately identifies and corrects muscular imbalances from start to finish! Learn a step-by-step approach to assess and correct each of your client’s individual muscular imbalances. Find out how to follow-up with a specific exercise routine that “jump starts” the weak muscles and eliminates imbalances that exist. Note: This class will emphasize the identification and correction of muscular imbalances in the lower body.

Accurate assessments are the key to designing effective exercise programs and group fitness classes. However, the overwhelming amount of information available about assessment can make the process confusing, and often key components get overlooked. This session will teach you the basics of performing a musculoskeletal assessment and provide you with a step-by-step format to use with every client.

Discover the functional anatomy of the lumbar and thoracic spine and explore useful assessment techniques that can be used to determine the action of the back and its impact upon nearly every movement of the body. Explore the expected biomechanical reactions of movement and common compensations exposed by proper implementation of these assessment tools. Based upon these findings, you’ll learn to create thoughtful strategies that successfully address the issues and goals of each client. Upon completion of this workshop, you will view movement from an entirely different perspective and develop a new planning process for program design and exercise prescription.

If you’re like most personal trainers and group fitness instructors, you often don’t have a lot of equipment to choose from when designing muscle conditioning workouts. Join us in a workout that will teach you a variety of exercises for the lower body, upper body and core using absolutely no equipment at all.

Experience a challenging workout that incorporates upper body conditioning using hand weights, with lower body and core conditioning on the MVe™ Fitness Chair. Get the best of both worlds in this total-body workout guaranteed to make you sweat. BYOM

The reformer is a great way to train for athletic activities of all kinds. The athletic reformer workout will help you improve core stability, upper and lower body strength, balance, coordination and flexibility. BYOM

Get the tools you need to effectively deal with client resistance, barriers and motivation so you can uniquely position physical activity as a means to achieve life goals. This program provides the fitness professional with applicable and practical tools, such as Lifestyle Fitness Coaching’s proprietary MAPS inventory, which can be implemented immediately to achieve client results.

By its nature, personal training is labor intensive at the one-on-one level. Are you ready to expand your income beyond the traditional hour-to-hour billing? If so, we invite you to come learn about how to partner with retail businesses, offer a full range of products, professional services and other non-training related services that create alternative revenue streams. This could be your competitive edge!

This lecture/demo session is geared toward providing a better understanding of the mechanics and function of the shoulder. We will explore several common injuries that affect the shoulder and learn techniques for troubleshooting and planning a sound exercise plan to best meet your clients’ needs.

In this workshop, balance exercises will be taught for the beginning exercise enthusiast to the advanced level athlete. See how to simplify complex concepts of balance development and how they can be transformed into fun, practical exercises that all clients will love to perform. Learn to separate fad from function when it comes to balance training and how to use special equipment to help get results.

Rotation is fundamental to functional movement and especially to activities such as golf, tennis and throwing sports. This workshop will teach you twisted variations on classical and contemporary reformer moves to add spice, fluidity and increased power to your reformer sessions. BYOM

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 into practice.

As trainers, our constant physical presence could be compromising our clients’ mind-body intelligence and negatively affecting their abilities to comply with their exercise programs. They may have learned trainer-efficacy, not self-efficacy. Gain an understanding of how compliance coaching shifts clients from an external focus of control (trainer-efficacy) to an internal focus of control (self-efficacy). Teach them to take personal responsibility and stimulate their internal drive to succeed.

This session demonstrates two distinct ways to gather information on the condition of a client’s physiological motion and functional capabilities via “quick tests” and “joint isolation tests.” Assessments such as these are necessary to determine workload and application intensities for the design of safe and effective exercise prescriptions. This knowledge is critical to determining the appropriate application progression and exercise intensities that best complement the specific nature and severity of each individual dysfunctional movement.

This session is geared toward maximizing benefits and minimizing time while still getting serious results! It is a two-phase program utilizing minimal equipment and focusing on driving the metabolic rate through an energy deficit phase, followed by a high-energy strength-speed phase. This program is not for the faint of heart and could be just what the trainer ordered!

This interactive workshop teaches participants select exercises from the STOTT PILATES Essential Matwork repertoire with emphasis on the goals of the exercises, movement patterns, breath patterns and correct alignment. Cues and corrections for safety and effectiveness will also be covered. Repeated as session #491.

Take STOTT PILATES Essential Reformer exercises to a higher level of intensity and experience variety and a “stepped-up” pace. By increasing the speed and flow of the exercise sequences and modifying the existing repertoire to increase muscular and cardiovascular endurance, you will see how you can inspire clients who may not be ready for an intermediate reformer program. Prerequisite: STOTT PILATES Essential Reformer workshop AND previous experience teaching or studying Pilates reformer exercises.