Douglas Brooks, MS

Douglas Brooks, MS is the consulting exercise physiologist of product research and development for several fitness companies. He is the author of several texts, manuals and articles relating to personal training, exercise physiology and strength training. He coaches high school baseball and works with motocross racers, downhill skiers and other athletes.

Sessions Presented by Douglas Brooks, MS

Time Block C - Friday, 10:30am-12:20pm
Presented By Douglas Brooks, MS
Session Format: Lecture
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!
Time Block D - Friday, 4:30-5:45pm (Special Time)
Session Format: Workshop
Join the entire BOSU® team for a block party that will BLOW your mind. Experience a one-of-a-kind circuit workout loaded with drills, skills and over-the-top fun! Everyone in attendance will receive a limited edition BOSU® t-shirt, and a chance to win a BOSU® Block Party package…plus, a commemorative photo with the BOSU® team! This special workout is limited to the first 250 people and will definitely sell out.
Time Block G - Saturday, 10:30am-12:20pm
Session Format: Workshop
Join us for an enlightening workshop that will provide plenty of new challenges for your students and clients. Learn to create high-energy, athletic workouts using the BOSU® Balance Trainer, BOSU® Soft Fitness Balls and weighted stability balls. Whether you own one piece or all three pieces of equipment, you will take away several exercise progressions for enhanced power torso training, dynamic flexibility, core strength, shoulder stability, proprioceptive skills and hand-eye coordination.
Time Block I - Sunday, 7:30-9:20am
Session Format: Workshop
Experience the next generation of ball training with the BOSU® Ballast Ball. The multidirectional load creates a weighted stability ball that incorporates audible, visual and kinesthetic references to make total body training more versatile, more effective and FUN! Learn new exercises and drills that will keep you and your clients ahead of the rest in functional training. Stability ball training just got better!
Time Block K - Sunday, 2:30-4:20pm
Presented By Douglas Brooks, MS
Session Format: Fun
Performance-oriented cardiovascular training requires sophisticated manipulation of a myriad of training variables to optimize training for very fit clients. Results and injury-free training depend on a blend of consistent progression, with a dash of change mixed in; not to mention training at the appropriate frequency, intensity and duration. Learn how to punch up your cardiovascular programming.
Time Block G - Saturday, 8:10-11:00am
Presented By Douglas Brooks, MS
Session Format: Workshop
Your clients want to gain skills that will have a high level of transfer to their chosen sports, recreations or daily activities. Experience a series of exercise progressions using the BOSU® Balance Trainer, BOSU® Ballast Ball™ and soft-weighted fitness balls that focus on cardiovascular fitness, balance and equilibrium, multidirectional movement, quickness and agility, athletic strength and power, rotary and core strength, as well as dynamic flexibility. This whole-body, integrated approach holds value for functional fitness programs.
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Time Block I - Saturday, 1:10-4:00pm
Presented By Douglas Brooks, MS
Session Format: Workshop
Take your core training to a whole new level of effectiveness and safety using creative floor/mat progressions, the BOSU® Ballast Ball™ (weighted stability ball training) and the BOSU® Balance Trainer. Adopt a new perspective and evidence-based training methodologies for a range of clients. Add fresh elements to abdominal and back training and learn many new core exercises that will effectively challenge your clients’ “power center,” while simultaneously improving overall movement capabilities. If you think that you’ve seen it all with regard to core training, think again!
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Time Block K - Sunday, 8:00-10:50am
Presented By Douglas Brooks, MS
Session Format: Workshop
Experience the next generation of stability ball training using the BOSU® Ballast Ball™. The multidimensional stabilizing load inside the ball creates a weighted stability ball that incorporates both audible and visual references to make total-body training more versatile, more effective—and FUN! Learn new exercises and drills that will keep you and your clients ahead of the rest in functional training. Stability ball training just got better!
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Time Block E - Wednesday, 5:10-6:10pm
Session Format: Workout
Join members of the BOSU Development Team for a block party workout that will blow your mind. Using the BOSU Balance Trainer and the NEW BOSU Ballast(TM) Ball, you will get to experience a one-of-a-kind workout that is loaded with drills, skills and over-the-top fun! This special workout is limited to the first 100 people and will definitely sell out. This is the one party that everyone will be talking about!
Time Block I - Thursday, 2:45-4:35pm
Presented By Douglas Brooks, MS
Session Format: Workshop
Learn to optimally and safely prepare for vigorous activity by using a structured pre-activity warm-up. You'll get the science that supports dynamic controlled warm-ups over static stretching when prepping for activity that requires acceleration, speed and agility. Leave this session with a number of innovative warm-up drills and understand when to stretch and when to prep!
Time Block L - Friday, 10:10am-12:00pm
Presented By Douglas Brooks, MS
Session Format: Lecture
Is integrated balance training effective at improving performance, or is it as some professionals suggest, nothing more than entertainment training used by other trainers? Join what promises to be a spirited discussion that is research based, rather than an emotional rant. Demonstrations, explanations and science will be linked to place this controversial subject into proper perspective.
Time Block N - Friday, 4:40-6:30pm
Presented By Douglas Brooks, MS
Session Format: Workshop
You don't need to be a world-class downhill racer to benefit from this session. Take home new training ideas for various snow sports, including cross-country skiing and snowboarding. This challenging and creative ski conditioning class trains all the elements your clients (or you!) need for a podium finish or a great ski vacation experience. Don't confuse general sport conditioning with ski-specific training!
Time Block O - Saturday, 7:30-9:00am
Presented By Douglas Brooks, MS
Session Format: Lecture
Effective time management and client care that is centered on service is the hallmark of any successful personal training business. This session will hone in on the top 10 time management strategies that are proven to work for the busy trainer. Learn why first-rate customer service will give your business the "intangible edge" it needs to move ahead of the competition. In addition, you will learn six key elements that are closely tied to success over the long haul, how to monitor your business for quality, and how to identify the common traps that even successful trainers may fall into.
Time Block E - Saturday, 9:00-11:50am
Presented By Douglas Brooks, MS
Session Format: Workshop
Athletes and clients of varying abilities want to gain skills that will transfer to their chosen sports, recreation or daily activities. This session will focus on exercise progressions using the BOSU Balance Trainer, the BOSU Ballast® Ball and other equipment that can be utilized for cardiovascular training, balance and equilibrium, multidirectional movement, quickness and agility, athletic strength and power, rotary and core strength, eye-hand coordination, and dynamic flexibility. Discover how to progress, regress and adapt each exercise progression to accommodate most fitness and skill levels.
Time Block F - Saturday, 12:50-1:50pm (Special Time)
Presented By Douglas Brooks, MS
Session Format: Workout
Train for power, dynamic flexibility, balance and cardio in this fast-paced, general sport conditioning class. Add fresh exercises to your abdominal and back training arsenal, train acceleration and deceleration and develop forceful rotary torso power. You’ll also learn to create a competitive, high-energy team atmosphere, whether you’re training one-on-one or in groups.
Time Block I - Sunday, 9:00-11:50am
Presented By Douglas Brooks, MS
Session Format: Workshop
Whether you train seniors, clients or group-fitness participants in their forties, or coach high-level or professional athletes, the benefits of high-velocity resistance training are applicable for individuals of all ages. This session will help you understand when and how to implement high-speed power training into your clients’ training programs. Using smart tubing, BOSU® Ballast™ Balls and BOSU Balance Trainers, you’ll leave this hands-on session “worked” and with tons of resistance training power progressions that are backed by science.