The future of water fitness is understanding the basics and effectively utilizing your environment. Learn the 6 basic moves for cardio fitness and how to manipulate these moves for greater and lesser intensity. Take home the ability to teach to a variety of fitness levels in one class.

Purposeful, functional trunk training without a single CRUNCH!! Work with or without equipment to revolutionize your core training classes--curl free!

One of the fastest growing recreational sports in the world is the sprint distance triathlon. In this high-intensity class, you will race in the bike portion of a real sprint distance tri! This class includes age-group competition, timed transitions and a medal ceremony! You’ll be inspired to create cycling classes that encourage your students to enter their first race and prepare them to do their best!

Looking for ways to put more excitement into your cycling workouts? This workshop is designed to provide you with skills, drills and clever tricks of the trade to create more interaction, motivation and teamwork in each class without having to completely change the way you teach. Take away new ideas you can use with your students Monday morning. Repeated as session #507.

One of the fastest growing sports in the world is the sprint distance triathlon. Learn all about the sport, how to prepare for it, where to find coaching resources and how to create cycling classes that not only get your students ready for a race, but get them excited and interested in doing one! You don’t need to be a triathlete to love this workshop, just someone with an interest in the sport.

Water training is not just for the aged and infirmed. It can be a significant form of training for amateur and professional athletes, active boomers who want to step up their training without the impact associated with many forms of land training and former swimmers who want an intensified workout. Learn how to create programming that is a step above the familiar—and watch their fitness take a new direction. This special preconference session truly has something for everyone. IDEA is happy to offer two distinct tracks of study, please read below to find the track that most suits your needs. Experienced Instructors: If you want to challenge yourself and your students, then you have come to the right place. In this 8-hour course of study, you will be exposed to the many methods/techniques that are guaranteed to bring greater intensity to your water fitness classes. Your students won’t have the time, or the breath, to trade recipes and tell stories about their children once you learn new methods for creating productive, progressive class formats. Empower yourself as an instructor, and empower your students to embrace new formats that truly train their bodies and keeps them mentally engaged in the water. Limited to 25 registrants for each track

News flash! Water is different than land. If you are a water (and land) instructor, you have to understand these differences in order to best serve your clients and students who come to you for water fitness programming. Spend time learning or reviewing these differences. Knowledge is power! CEC: ACE 0.2 NASM CGT 0 NASM CPT 0 AFAA 1.5 NSCA-CSCS 0 NSCA-CPT 0.2 AEA 1

It's purposeful, it's functional and it is CURL FREE! Take the Curl Out of your core classes. Redefine core to include more than your spinal flexors and extensors. Learn progressions to better serve your entire class and knock the socks off your front row! CEC: ACE 0.2

Finally, a tool to assist you in developing your water fitness classes! Take this class design sheet back to your club
and reformat your water fitness classes. Add variety and purpose to the classes you teach with this easy-to-use programming tool.

The dynamic medium of water makes balance poses both easier to accomplish and harder to sustain. Learn how to use this method of incorporating balancing yoga poses into a water fitness class. This unique method of utilizing the properties of water for balance and resistance will challenge and invigorate you. Body and mind integration is essential in this workout.