A-Quality Movement

With Jessica Pinkowski
The quality of movement is critical for optimal outcomes at any age. The aqua environment is unique and instructors need a specialized skill set to help active agers achieve success. Learn how to develop this set of “teaching tools” including visual and verbal cueing to promote proper posture and effective movement mechanics.

Time: 82 Minutes

H2O Mixx

With Billie Wartenberg
Make waves in your aqua class with H2O Mixx! This invigorating water class combines multiple fitness styles that will keep your participants wanting more. You will learn various shallow and deep-water exercises along with some fun new ideas to keep your water workouts on the edge.

H2O Luscious Limbs

With Ann Gilbert
Strengthen and lengthen the major muscles of the lower body while adding integrity at the joint as well as increased mobility. Learn how to deliver a safe and effective class format. Practice strategies to use when designing your class format and learn to practice not only professional cueing but postural demonstration techniques. This session also will incorporate new programming options using the toys of our trade.

Beneath the Surface

With Melissa Layne
The lower body contains the largest muscles and now we can introduce choreography that emphasizes what happens under the water. Whether you take all the 32 count combos back home or pick and choose one per class, each original piece will create a stir of turbulence below the surface in rebounding, neutral, anchored and suspended varieties!

Aqua Block Party

With Melissa Layne
It’s a water choreography party complete with dance steps, athletic moves and syncopation. This workshop gives you endless combinations of over a dozen 32-count blocks which you can mix and match dependent on your population and teaching style. The blocks may be introduced in a rebound level and progressed or regressed to anchored, neutral or grounded. The party never ends with all these options!

Poolates

With Lisa Gibson
Poolates takes the principles of Pilates and translates them into the aquatic environment. Class participants learn basic Poolates exercises and how they can be modified. Poolates also demonstrates how the eight Pilates principles apply in water and why Poolates is different from other aqua workout methods.

It’s Raining Men!

With Lawrence Biscontini, MA, Jeff Howard, Yury Rockit & Manuel Velazquez
Enjoy this fantastic workout with our Men of MANIA! The pool will never be the same when you experience this tidal wave of energy and enthusiasm. Each one of our fantastic presenters will focus on one body part – the heart, lungs, legs, arms and abs in this tempest of creativity. Leave with flood of new ideas to make a splash Monday morning!

Aquatic Kickboxing: Out of The Box

With Melissa Layne
Aqua kickboxing doesn’t have to mean standing in one place and throwing repetitive jabs and stationary kicks. How about some combinations to move you through the water and up the calorie burn? Front, side, back, diagonal and even in a circle. It’s past time to take your kickboxing out of the box and into the entire pool!

Spirited Surf

With Yury Rockit
The aquatic version of Yury’s land-based phenomenon, “Spirited®” offers you an aquatic cardiovascular-based movement experience featuring a mix of non-traditional music with movement inspired by African dance, yoga, Pilates, and martial arts to nurture your kinesthetic awareness and entertain your esthetic inner call for harmony.

Exercise & Aging – Best Practice Programming

With Sara Kooperman, JD
By the year 2030, the fastest growing segment of the population with be the 85+ individual. There will be 70 million 65 year olds and older. This staggering shift in societal demographics promises to have tremendous impacts on our economic, social and physical well-being. Both land and water programming for group fitness professionals and personal trainers alike will be addressed.